The Cookie Monster Was Me

Lauren and Zoe sign up for advanced latte art class. What they didn’t bargain on was… murder!

Cat café owner, Lauren Crenshaw, and her cousin, Zoe, attend their first advanced latte art class, excited to learn intricate designs. But when their world-famous instructor is murdered, they decide to investigate!

Annie, Lauren’s gorgeous Norwegian Forest Cat, helps in the sleuthing department as well.

Zoe is also busy crocheting a coffee cozy to sell online, and Lauren continues to knit her never-ending scarf.

While Lauren’s romance with Mitch, the police detective, blossoms, Zoe despairs of meeting ‘the right guy’.

But when Annie finds a clue in the café, everything is put on hold while the trio investigate the murder.

Who is the killer? One of the other students? The barista’s business partner? Or a mysterious vagrant that one of the students claim they saw?

This is a humorous, clean, cat cozy mystery with female amateur sleuths – and a gorgeous Norwegian Forest Cat!

‘The perfect fusion of history, suspense and high romance.’ The Times

1933. War is in the air. And in Berlin one woman is torn between love, loyalty and duty…

Clara Vine is young and ambitious, and determined to succeed as an actress. A chance meeting at a party in London leads her to Berlin, to the famous Ufa studios and, unwittingly, into an uneasy circle of Nazi wives, among them Magda Goebbels.

Then Clara meets Leo Quinn who is undercover, working for British intelligence. Leo sees in Clara the perfect recruit to spy on her new acquaintances, using her acting skills to win their confidence.

But when Magda Goebbels reveals to Clara a dramatic secret and entrusts her with an extraordinary mission, Clara feels threatened, compromised and desperately caught between duty and love.

Todd Norman, cleared of his wife’s murder, returns to her small Connecticut hometown to build their dream house by the lake. Eager for a fresh start, Todd finds hopes dashed when a young woman’s body washes up on the neighboring beach.

When Tracy Somerset, a divorced mother from Covenant, CT, encounters a handsome stranger late one night inside Wal-Mart, she’s unaware she’s talking to Todd Norman, dubbed “The Banker Butcher” by the New York tabloids. The next morning, another body surfaces near Todd’s under-construction lakehouse.

As Sheriff Duane Sobczak’s investigates, troubling ties emerge between a local psychiatrist, a radical preacher, and a now-closed girls’ home. Set over New England’s four seasons, The Lakehouse delves into forbidden love and buried secrets within an insular community where everyone has a story to tell and a past they prefer stay buried.

Cosy in with the first book in Susan Buchanan’s Christmas Spirit series – a small-town, feel-good festive romance with lashings of community and goodwill – not to mention Christmas Spirit!

For fans of Sarah Morgan, Philippa Ashley, Jenny Colgan and Milly Johnson.

‘Sprinkles happy Christmas fairy dust over people who need it most.’ ?????

‘The Christmas Spirit is a wonderful book, full of sugar and spice, snow, kindness, and everything else that makes for a magical Christmas.’?????

‘Reading this book was like being wrapped up in a giant, squishy hug, and was just what I needed as the stresses of the festive season begin to kick in.”I loved how Natalie was able to sense exactly what it was that was missing from the lives of each of the people she interacted with, and felt that the whole book served as a timely reminder that life is not just about the material things. Just through tiny kindnesses, and being present and aware of what is going on around you, you can make a huge impact on someone else’s life.

What would you do if you were mistaken for Santa?

Amish Bishop Christopher Stoltz had no idea a shopping trip with his fraa could change his life. But when young Jaycee Parker mistakes him for Santa Claus, his heart is moved with compassion for the boy and his family. Will this unlikely pair discover more than just a holiday filled with food and gifts?

At eighteen, Englischer Shannon Parker is left the sole caretaker and provider of her three younger siblings. All she truly wants for Christmas is to be able to provide a happy holiday and decent gifts for each of them. Not an easy feat, given that her low-paying waitressing job is their only source of income. When a handsome stranger walks into the restaurant offering kindness, she has a feeling her life will never be the same again.

FBI Special Agent Bradley Holman has been hand-picked to investigate the mother of all cover-ups: a three-hundred-year-old meteorite fragment, sealed away in Fort Knox, was stolen from under the government’s nose. The more he digs, the more he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy kept secret by every president since the formation of the United States.

As Holman draws closer to finding the thief, it’s clear he’s out of his depth — both in terms of the powers at play and his understanding of the very fabric of the universe. Thrown into a race to save all life on Earth, Holman must unravel the mysteries of time itself — and not lose his mind in the process.