Other Stories and Novels
Short Stories
PUBLISHED APRIL 1
"Follow Your Nose" by Cathy Wiley
Lauren Chase has finally found a sport to tire out Tigger, her energetic Copper Husky. But training takes an odd turn when a teenager is kidnapped. Tigger to the rescue!
PUBLISHED MAY 9
"Go Big or Go Home" by Barb Goffman
A low-earning spendthrift, who's the only living relative of a rich, elderly woman, friends her on Facebook. He plans to drive her crazy with unsolicited advice so she'll have a heart attack and die and he can inherit all her money. Does he succeed?
"The Devil’s in the Details" by Shawn Reilly Simmons
PUBLISHED MAY 20
"For Bailey" by Barb Goffman
Sixteen-year-old Jocelyn's city council is scheduled to vote on barring residents from setting off fireworks. Tired of seeing how they scare her dog, Jocelyn is all for it. When it looks like the ban might not pass, she and her friends try to change the mind of one of the councilmembers through an unconventional approach.
Novels
A Dickens of a Christmas turns deadly…
In Peppermint Barked, the 6th Spice Shop mystery from three-time Agatha Award winner Leslie Budewitz, Seattle Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece investigates when a young woman working the Christmas rush in her friend’s Vinny’s wine shop is brutally attacked, on the busiest shopping day of the year. (Coming July 19, 2022, from Seventh St. Books; available for pre-order now.)
COMING OUT JULY 26!
The second book in Meri Allen's (aka Shari Randall) Ice Cream Shop mysteries