\\ Newly Revised \\ When a local girl's body is found brutally stabbed in Maryvale's woods, Sheriff Cas Larkin suspects members of a high-school "club" that smacks of devil worship. Then livestock goes missing, the county judge begins standing in Cas' way at every turn, and local students report being coerced into dark ceremonies. Now Cas must pick up the pace and dig deep before Maryvale gets any stranger... or there may be the devil to pay. THE MARYVALE COZY MYSTERY SERIES, in order The Devil in Maryvale The Nelson Scandal Recipe for Trouble The Mardi Gras Murder ABOUT JACKIE GRIFFEY: Cozy mystery author Jackie Griffey likes to read as well as write mysteries and romantic suspense. She and her family, two cats, a Chihuahua, and a couple of wild bunnies live in Arkansas.

\\ Newly Revised \\ Sheriff Cas Larkin has his hands full running for office again when two homicides, more than 100 years apart, surface. Cas believes the two deaths are connected and his wife, Connie, an amateur local historian and ever the romantic, wants in on the action. While Cas investigates the fresh murder, Connie digs into Maryvale's founding family's records kept in the Library's basement and encounters a classic haunting requiring more than a seance to unravel. As the pair chase hot clues and follow cold trails, the truth behind two murders and a 100-year old love triangle hangs in the balance. THE MARYVALE COZY MYSTERY SERIES, in order The Devil in Maryvale The Nelson Scandal Recipe for Trouble The Mardi Gras Murder "

Mystery about a cookbook author, a secluded cabin, and a friendly sheriff.

Sheriff Cas Larkin and his matchmaking wife, Connie, have their hands full with a missing person not officially reported as missing; a fully clothed stranger drowned in the lake with no ID; and another citizen in jail accused of a bloody red murder after the Mardi Gras parade way down yonder in New Orleans.

Sheriff Cas Larkin of Pine County, Tennessee hears of a bloody mugging in New York ciy with enough horror and high priced jewelry involved to have his local people calling him to tell him about it when they see the news on CNN. Thieves chopped off the hand and lower arm of a jewelry courier and it makes waves all the way down south to Cas. He gets no chance to be glad he's miles from the scene because the victim has a Maryvale address in his identification and they can't find a next of kin for him in New York even to notify of his death. The detective in charge of the case calls on Cas to help locate relatives of the victim in Maryvale. The plot thickens as Hollywood, newspapers, and gossip collumnists get into the act to interfere, and the case is beginning to look like a movie set when even the perps who stole the jewelry get into the act trying to find out the truth about the jewelry that was in the courier's case.