


Books in series

#1
End of the Lane
2018
Abby Maguire’s luck is about to change. She’s looking for a sea change and starting a new job in a new town. With any luck, she should be able to put her past behind her in no time. Her first assignment working for the Eden Rise Gazette will be to cover the weekend’s bake sale. Within a short time of arriving in town, there is a slight change of plans and Abby finds herself giving a statement to the police. Now her new job and her new life hang in the balance…
Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language but lots of fun, quirky dialogue & characters.

#2
Be Still My Heart
2018
Abby Maguire is lagging behind with her scoops. As a reporter for the Eden Rise Gazette, she needs to be first in with the news but Eden is a small town and, even on a bad day, nothing much happens… And even then, the local café owner has shown a talent for beating her to the latest news.After witnessing an altercation between two Eden thespian rivals, Abby hopes the annual Eden picnic fundraiser will be the perfect venue for her to witness some more fireworks. Everyone has turned up, and everyone is dressed in 1920s costumes. Everyone including the dead body she finds. The police claim it was death by natural causes. No one in Eden believes this, and everyone expects Abby Maguire to get to the bottom of the unexpected death. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make the death look like an accident. When she's staring down the barrel of a gun, Abby knows she finally has her scoop.This Cozy Mystery is a clean read, with no graphic violence, sex, or strong language but full of lots of fun, quirky dialogue and characters.

#3
The Last Ride
2018
Humorous small town, clean cozy mystery with a cast of entertaining characters.A carousel. A body. An inheritance. Eden’s local café owner, Joyce Breeland, has issued Abby Maguire an ultimatum - the small-town newspaper reporter must find the identity of the Eden Bloggess or be banned from Joyce’s café. Functioning on limited coffee rations, Abby Maguire goes in search of this elusive blogger only to stumble upon a body and a mysterious inheritance. There’s a killer on the loose and he might be working his way through a list…A Dear Abby Cozy Mystery1. End of the Lane2. Be Still My Heart3. The Last RideA Deadline Cozy Mystery1. Sunny Side Up2. Snuffed Out3. All Tied Up4. The Last Bite5. Final Cut6. Sleeping With the Fishes7. A Kink in the Road8. The Merry Widow

#4
The Last Stop
2018
Abby Maguire's Iowa based travel phobic mom is coming to visit… virtually. Abby will give her the grand tour via a video link to prove Eden is a safe town. All goes well until her mom joins a tour group and one of her fellow passengers dies. There's enough circumstantial evidence to warrant looking into the death and while Abby's focus is on keeping her mom in the dark, it doesn't take long for her mom to suspect Mr. Howington is not just camera shy, but is in fact dead. Other books in the series1. End of the Lane2. Be Still My Heart3. The Last Ride

#5
The Last Dance
2018
The entire town is buzzing with excitement and counting down the days to the most significant event of the year - Charles Granger’s Venetian Ball. Everyone is excited, everyone except Abby Maguire. She hasn’t received an invitation…Gate-crashing the event is the only way she can think of being included. When one of the most prominent guests suddenly dies, Abby can’t help wondering if she’d been deliberately left out of the guest list.With a town hungry for news and gossip, Abby and Faith set up their crime-board at Charles Granger’s mansion. This is the perfect setting to kick back and relax while Detective Joshua Ryan carries out his investigation. However, even when Abby Maguire takes a back seat, she somehow manages to stumble on a significant piece of information that leads her straight to the killer and to danger.

#6
Merrily Murdered
2019
There’s no dashing through the snow for Abby Maguire who is experiencing her first Christmas in the small town she now calls home and having a hard time dealing with the sweltering heatwave, made worse by the fact there’s no ice at the local café - her home away from home. When she accompanies the local antique store owner, Bradford Mills, to collect the lights for the town’s annual Carols by Candlelight, she meets Harold Moorhead, a retired electrician. The only way she can convince him to fix the local café owner’s refrigerator is by listening to one of Harold’s long-winded stories. It’s a small price to pay. They now have ice but they also have a murder victim. With no murder weapon, no witnesses to the crime and no obvious motive, Abby and the local detective, Joshua Ryan, deal with one dead-end after another. It’s up to Abby to find clues where none appear to exist.Humorous small town, clean cozy mystery with a cast of quirky characters.
Author

Sonia Parin
Author · 44 books
I write Cozy Mysteries: humorous historical (1920s), contemporary and paranormal. All my books provide a 'clean' read - no swearing and no graphic violence. These fun cozy mysteries are intended to provide lighthearted entertainment for those who enjoy quirky characters and humorous tales.