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Hang Ten... or die? It's 1986, and the Big Wave Open Surfing Championships have finally come to Wahoo Beach. Tiffany Sloan has her hands full enough running the Putts & Stuff arcade and mini-golf complex. But when a mega gnarly wipeout takes down the championship's frontrunner and totally harshes the tournament vibes, Tiffany must grab a cold Tab and pound sand to determine if the death was a tragic accident or something more majorly sinister. Mega Gnarly Wipeout is a historical clean mystery and is book 2 in the Major Bummer Murders series.

Cinnamon, pumpkin spice, and hints of something really rank. Fall Haven loves a good festival, especially when it’s fall themed! The Sleepy Haven Farm is going all out this year, with a you-pick-it pumpkin patch, a haunted farm and corn maze, and loads of spooky activities all week long. Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch will be splitting time between their Wicked Wick candle shop on the Fall Haven town square and spending evenings out at the farm selling hot tea and cider. When they offer to help out with some of the haunted activities, they are confronted with something far scarier than ...

A duo of amateur sleuths must follow their noses to solve a murder in the first installment of this small-town cozy mystery series. Childhood friends Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch left their high-pressure, big-city jobs to pursue a quieter life running the Wicked Wick candle shop in the small town of Fall Haven. Rumors about a giant chain warehouse store moving to town have the mom-and-pop business owners on edge, but the community is stringing up lights, baking pies, and setting up booths in the town square to sell their wares at the annual Winter Festival. When a prominent local ...

Welcome to Wahoo Beach, where there is always plenty of sun, surf, sand… and murder! Gag Me with a Spoon is Book 1 in the Major Bummer Murders series. The year is 1986, and all Tiffany Sloan wants to do is listen to her favorite jams, catch some rays, and have a totally awesome opening weekend for her extreme new mini-golf course. But when a random dead dude is discovered nearby, Tiffany must put down her can of Aqua Net and pick up some clues to figure out what happened -- and why -- before her business is mega destroyed. Join Tiffany, her preppy ex-boyfriend, and a punk kid named Zero ...

It's 1986 and the Wahoo Beach Police Department has its sights set on some mega-sweet Apple IIGS computers. But when an art thief strikes the big fundraising event out at the Country Club, the town's hopes for that cutting-edge technology are dashed. Just as arcade owner Tiffany Sloan, officer Dylan Spencer, a punk kid named Zero, and a colorful cast of Wahoo Beach residents join forces to hunt down the stolen art, they find more than they bargained for. The art doesn't turn up, but a dead body does. Can Tiffany and the gang hunt down the killer and the missing antiquities before tragedy ...

Something borrowed, someone dead? The impending destination wedding of movie star Hudson Smith-Jones to social media celebrity Song Yu has Fall Haven filled to bursting with fans, families, invited guests, and apparently... a killer. Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch at the Wicked Wick candle shop have been hired to create a signature "ScentStory" for the extravagant Yu-Smith-Jones affair. When one of the wedding party shows up dead in the middle of town, Leigh and Paloma must follow the olfactory clues to sniff out the killer before someone else is left pushing up daisies.

A sledgehammer, a corpse, and a maple-scented mystery... Renovations at the old Fall Haven Maple Factory are right on target until an overenthusiastic giant dog reveals a secret long hidden in the historic walls: a body! The local sheriff is too busy investigating a string of fires to be of much help on this one. As the fires pop up closer and closer to the center of town, Fall Haven residents become more spooked. So amateur sleuths Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch step out of their comfort zone at the Wicked Wick candle shop and into the sticky situation. With their eclectic team of helpers, ...