I previously wrote a blog about the new brozy subgenre of mystery (ie broader cozy). You can take a look at that blog to find out a bit more of the genre.
I was signed up to be part of a multi-author event promoting brozies this month, but that fell through, and I still wanted to invite readers to have a look at some of my newer offerings and what else I have been able to gather together for you!
My December through February releases are all in the Zachary Goldman series. Like with other brozies, you will find them to be clean (little/no swearing, no sex on the page) and gore-free, but a little grittier than my cozy series like Auntie Clem’s Bakery or Reg Rawlins, Psychic Investigator.
If you haven’t read any Zachary Goldman Mysteries, you can get the first book in the series, She Wore Mourning, for free, and the first four books are currently available in a set for $0.99. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone.
She Told A Lie
A missing girl.
Her confused family and friends don’t know what to think about her disappearance.
The police will only put so many resources into the search for a missing teen. They don’t have time and money to spend on runaways and voluntaries. But that doesn’t mean no one cares.
Zachary Goldman is on the case, and he is determined to find out what happened to Madison Miller and to bring her home safely.
If she’s still alive, he’s going to find her.
No matter what danger he might face personally.
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He Never Forgot
When Ben Burton hired Zachary Goldman to help him to find the house he lived in before he was adopted, Zachary had no idea it would turn into a murder case.
But as Ben’s fragmented memories start to fall into place, Zachary is driven to right past wrongs and bring the perpetrator to justice.
But Ben is not the only one who remembers what happened.
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She Was At Risk
Zachary has done his very best to let go of ex-wife Bridget and relegate their relationship to the past. So when her current partner comes to him for help, he is understandably hesitant to help.
But Gordon has always been a stand-up guy and done right by Zachary, so he reluctantly lets himself be talked once more into helping Bridget and Gordon. Zachary struggles with obsessions and self-doubt at the best of times, and this is a case that could break him.
His investigations lead him from one dark revelation to another until Zachary has no idea how he’s going to find his way back into the light.
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And more brozies!
Death on the Boardwalk
The Myrtle Beach Boardwalk is normally an idyllic place. Until death arrives on recently widowed bookstore owner Clark Thomas’ doorstep.
When the body of a local businesswoman and environmentalist gets dumped by the back door of his shop, Clark finds himself in a unique position to investigate the crime. But should he? When it comes to murder, something else drives him he doesn’t want to admit.
As he launches his own search for the killer, Clark comes across a variety of colorful Boardwalk inhabitants who might have had reason to kill an otherwise beloved person.
Can he do it and start putting his wife’s death behind him in the process, or will it open up a fresh wound?
The Incumbent Coroner
There’s another killing in the cozy beach town of Estancia. This time, Coroner Fenway Stevenson needs to solve the murder of one of the most prominent businessmen in town.
But everyone has ulterior motives.
The new mayor is pressuring her to make a quick arrest. Is he eager for justice or does he have something to hide?
Fenway’s relationship with her boyfriend is strained when the investigation threatens to unearth a terrible secret and tear his family apart.
Her father lies comatose after being shot by a bullet meant for Fenway. His company is on the brink of disaster.
The investigation quickly turns into a political and personal battleground. Her friends, colleagues, and family get caught in the web of complicated relationships and contradictory evidence—and as the mayor turns the screws on Fenway, her emotions reach the boiling point.
Roasts & Rumors
Leathers isn’t your typical vagrant.
But the three firefighters who own and run the Red Line Coffee Shop aren’t typical either.
Flipper loves scuba diving.
Smokey loves to race cars.
Grizz, well, she loves most anything that keeps her adrenaline pumping.
Meet them all in this prequel to the Red Line Coffee Mystery Series where chaos and confusion mix with the coffee. Follow along as their friends are attacked, blackmailed, and even murdered. They’ll go over and above to find the real killers, and save their friends.
Killypso Island
“Captain Joe” Thacker didn’t come to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Noel looking for trouble. Just the opposite, the former flying ace turned sometimes-smuggler wants nothing more than to while away his days, smoking hand-rolled Havana cigars and sipping rum as the melodic beat of calypso drums drift through the sultry air.
But trouble has a way of finding Captain Joe.
It begins when the local customs inspector decides, seemingly on a whim, to hassle him over a shipment of booze meant for Jacques “the Candyman” Lagrange–a popular local figure who runs the island’s only candy store, and happens to be both a gangster and a voodoo priest. He’s also the elder brother to the the island’s despotic governor. The long-simmering rivalry between the Lagrange brothers is starting to boil over, making life on the island miserable and posing a serious threat to Captain Joe’s livelihood. To make matters worse, three suspicious figures who just might be Russian spies show up and start nosing around.
Then Joe is accused of murder.
Port of Refuge
Welcome to PORT OF REFUGE – another island mystery steeped in Outer Banks culture, from the author who took you to PORT STARBIRD. Storm ‘Ketch’ Ketchum, a damaged emigre to Hatteras Island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, generally prefers to stay close to home and mind his own business – but he unexpectedly finds himself entangled with a cult-like coven of modern-day Roanoke Island witches when a relative of his paramour meets an untimely end on church property.
Is the High Priestess of the Croatoan Covenant Church really in contact with the departed spirits of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island? Are the members of her church really from both this world and the next? Or is she just a con artist preying on gullible Wiccan acolytes – and is she a killer?
A desire to provide closure for the family drives Ketch to once again call on his amateur sleuthing skills to conjure up answers to these and other questions, in the process risking the physical and spiritual well-being of both himself and the one he loves.
Dive Bar Detective
When bartender Brandy Alexander tells her customers at dive bar Olive or Twist to “pick their poison,” she didn’t mean it literally!
When the entire bar is suddenly gripped by a violent and mysterious illness, chaos ensues.
The police are convinced it was all an unfortunate accident, but Brandy knows her customers and their shady pasts better than that. They harbor conspiracy theories, long-simmering vendettas, and secret assassination attempts. They all seem to have a motive. But who has the means?
With the yuppie millennial bar owner missing and a couple of gossipy real estate moguls waiting eagerly for the bar’s demise, Brandy has to unweave a web that includes an impromptu chicken rescue, a dead man’s foot race, and a kung fu brawl to uncover the answers she seeks. Can she keep the short-staffed and beleaguered bar afloat or will the culprit strike a fatal blow?
Merry Christmas Murder
During a trip to see Santa Claus, journalist Roland “Beanie” Bean and his young sons Ethan and Evan are shocked when Old St. Nick is shot!
Beanie is anxious to cover the story of Santa’s shooting, but his editor at the Palmchat Gazette has other plans for him. Beanie has to investigate the grisly murder of a victim found dead in a car that had been set on fire.
After he learns the man died of a gunshot wound and that the car was torched to cover up the crime, Beanie searches for more information, but his efforts are hampered by the detective on the case, a man who tried to ruin Beanie’s life.
Putting aside his animosity for the homicide cop, Beanie continues to investigate and uncovers a bizarre connection between the gunshot victim and the attack on Santa.
Racing to discover the truth, Beanie is derailed when he’s taken hostage, but the kidnapper’s gruesome demise reveals a new mystery, one that will pit Beanie against a ruthless killer determined to make sure the truth stays hidden.
