When a rare book order leads me right to a homicide, somehow I’m the one investigating… I’m Dakota Adair, owner of Tattered Pages, a bookstore specializing in cool and quirky books. I inherited a grumpy Persian cat named Poppy who loves to make her displeasure known around the store … loudly. Things are good until I deliver a special order only to stumble over a body. Suddenly all eyes are on me. Now I have a handsome detective and an annoying reporter on my tail, hounding me about the case. All I want to do is crack open my favorite paperback, grab a cup of coffee, and chill, but with a murderer out there and suspicion falling on me, I have to do a lot more than read. I have to find out whodunnit and quick before I become the next subject of a murder mystery…

When a shady business owner reneges on her part of the deal and winds up dead, I’m once again under the investigative spotlight of a handsome detective with nowhere to run… After sitting in on a lecture given by a rare book trader, I’m excited to look into expanding Tattered Pages. But when the trader winds up dead the same day we met for lunch, all eyes are on me. Of course, I’m too busy running a store and caring for my grumpy Persian cat to murder anyone, but no one believes me and now I have to put on my investigative hat and find out whodunnit. Turns out that business owner had dealings with the town’s handsome and very eligible news reporter, Cole. And Cole isn’t too happy about her leaving him in the lurch after promising him a scoop for the ages. But Cole couldn’t possibly be guilty. Right?

In my next case, imitation isn’t the sincerest form of flattery when it leads to murder… Mary Ruth Steinman is a magnet for controversy, but she’s good for business. At least until my grumpy Persian meets her and tries to bite her. Soon, it’s all I can do to keep my business running and my cat happy. But when the author is found dead in the bushes outside my bookstore after a signing, Tattered Pages is thrust into the news once again. And as much as I’d like to blame my cat, Poppy is no murderer. Plus, she doesn’t have opposable thumbs. So … who in Silverwood Hollow held a grudge big enough for murder this time?

Dakota and Poppy are back in this next cozy installment of the Shelf Indulgence series, but this one might be a case even their book smarts can’t handle! When a man drops dead in the middle of town, no one expects foul play. Except Poppy. My grumpy Persian won’t stop yowling about the murder until I agree to take a quick peek into it. Nothing seems out of the ordinary, so I’m having trouble finding anything hinting at foul play until a slip of paper floats out of the book the man had just purchased. A book from my shop. The paper has a name and a phone number scrawled across it. My name and phone number. Soon I’m hip-deep in a mystery with so many dangling threads I feel like I’m trapped in a yarn store. But this one might end up with me all tangled up with a murderer.

When a crime resembles the one in the newest cozy mystery release at Dakota’s store, she’ll have to team up with Poppy to catch a killer! Dakota and Poppy are enjoying some much-needed vacation time, but when a body turns up in her best friend’s shop, she’ll have to put her amateur sleuth hat back on to solve the crime. The killer seems to be a local and knows where Dakota lives. When she receives a threatening note on her kitchen table, Dakota is forced out of her home … and into Hardy’s. Being a sleuth won’t be easy under the eagle-eyed gaze of the local detective, but living in his guest house might be even worse. Can Dakota and Poppy solve the crime before Hardy figures out what’s she up to? And with their tense relationship, can they ever hope for a reconciliation? Find out in the next laugh-out-loud adventure of a quirky bookstore owner and her mystery-solving cat!