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Murder Most Owl, December 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Murder Most Owl, April 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Baking Spirits Bright, October 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Six Sweets Under, February 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Through the Liquor Glass, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Claret and Present Danger, December 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
A Wrinkle in Thyme, August 2021
e-Book
A Room With A Roux, January 2021
e-Book
The Malt in Our Stars, November 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
An Ale of Two Cities, December 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Wine and Punishment, December 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Yeast of Eden, November 2018
e-Book
Of Spice and Men, November 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Death in A Major, January 2016
e-Book

Mystery Private Eye | Mystery Cozy

There's some shady business in Shady Creek, Vermont, this spring—in the third mystery by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox featuring pub owner and amateur sleuth Sadie Coleman . . .

Sadie is delighted to have booked famous romantic suspense novelist Linnea Bliss for an event at The Inkwell, her literary-themed pub, housed in a renovated grist mill. The author and her personal assistant Marcie are staying at Shady Creek Manor, a grand historical hotel that was once a private mansion and is rumored to still hold hidden treasure somewhere within its walls.

But the hotel's storied past is nothing compared to its tragic present when Marcie plummets to her death from an open window on the third floor. After Sadie discovers signs of a struggle in the room, it's clear that someone assisted the assistant out the window. But Marcie is new in town—who would have a motive to kill her?

In between pulling pints and naming literary-themed cocktails, Sadie takes it on herself to solve the case, wondering if the crime is connected to the vandalized vehicles of a film crew in town to do a feature on local brewer Grayson Blake, with whom Sadie shares a strong flirtation. Or could the poor woman's defenestration have anything to do with the legendary treasure? As Shady Creek Manor prepares for a May Day masquerade ball, Sadie is determined to unmask the killer—but when she uncorks a whole lot of trouble, will she meet a bitter end?