It’s June and many people are heading out for vacations and road trips with kids out of school and summer coming soon! I have a new release this month about a woman who owns an inn on the banks of the Susquehanna River. She’s a bibliomancer (if you like paranormal lite then head on down to The Charmed Inn Mysteries starting with BY HOOK OR BY BOOK) and is hosting a writers’ weekend when she finds one of her guests dead on a ferry. Those writers are a little unstable so figuring out whodunnit is going to have her wading through lies and secrets and red herrings galore.
So in that vein, we’re going to take a trip to some awesome B&B, hotel, and motel cozies that will make you laugh out loud. Grab them up to keep you company while you’re vacationing or just taking a break in the beautiful sun!
First up, we have a super fun and awesome book that you should totally read! A VERY WOODSY MURDER by Ellen Byron kicks off her newest series, Golden Motel Mysteries. We get to meet sitcom writer Dee Stern when she moves to the village of Foundgold to run a shabby motel in a fabulous setting. I adored being along for the ride as she has to dive into solving a murder when all she wanted to do was get out of the fast lane of L.A. With a great cast of characters, Ellen delivers a laugh-out-loud mystery full of twists that were deliciously delightful!
Next, we have Kirsten Weiss bringing us Susan Witsend, owner of a UFO themed bed and breakfast. NIGHT OF THE CUPID: A Doyle Cozy Mystery! So much freaking fun in this book! It’s the seventh in the series so you might want to start at the beginning, but it will totally be worth it to get to this one. I love the setting and the quirky characters as well as the great mystery. It’s Valentine’s Day and Susan would just like things to go right, but that’s not in the cards this time…
Let’s bring it home with Heather Horrocks’ INN-DECENT EXPOSURE a Who-Dun-Him Inn Cozy Mystery #6. This series is a blast! You probably know by now how much I love a good little romance in with my sleuthing and this series delivers! I love it when a book makes you happy at the end and laughing out loud. Surprises and shenanigans abound in this great book so don’t miss it!
Heather Horrocks
So there you have it! Enjoy June and all the hopefully beautiful weather we have to look forward to. Make sure you take time to bask in the sunshine and a good story!
The Charmed Inn Mysteries #1
Roxy Gleason, an innkeeper by trade and a bibliomancer by birth, has lived in the same small town on the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania for her entire life. Tradition is strong here. Roxy understands the rules and is willing to play by them most of the time. She runs the Charmed Inn, which has been in her family for decades.
The inn is all set to host a writers’ professional business weekend that’s been planned down to the very last hand-folded napkin, and Roxy is ready for the influx of creatives. She knows she’ll have a lot of different and sometimes unusual personalities to deal with, but this is a yearly function, so she’s not expecting anything to go awry.
Her expectations are completely tanked when she finds a dead body on her daily walk by the river’s shore. Owen Schultz had checked in for the conference a few hours ago, and she’d last seen him having tea with her aunt in the dining room.
How did he get down here on the ferry, and who killed him?
Mystery Cozy | Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Amateur Sleuth [Rowan Prose Publishing, LLC, On Sale: June 3, 2025, e-Book , / ]
Misty Simon always wanted to be a storyteller - preferably behind a Muppet. Animal was number one, followed closely by Sherlock Hemlock. Since that dream didn’t come true, she began writing stories to share her world with readers, one laugh at a time.
Touching people’s hearts and funny bones are two of her favorite things, and she hopes everyone at least snickers in the right places when reading her books. She lives with her husband in Central Pennsylvania where she is hard at work on her next novel or three. She loves to hear from readers so drop her a line via email.
No comments posted.
© 2003-2026