Pumpkins, Pranks & Peril: A Claire Winters Cozy Mystery
By Neela Snow
A lantern-lit graveyard. A poisoned genealogist. And a town of secrets meant to stay buried.
Claire Winters is used to serving coffee, pastries, and gossip at The Cozy Nook—but not murder. When visiting genealogist Simon Vale collapses during Millfield’s Halloween Lantern Walk, Claire learns his fatal fall was no accident.
With journalist Sophie digging through old records, Deputy Mark Benton at her side, and Max—her perceptive tabby—turning up clues humans miss, Claire follows Simon’s trail through generations of guarded family history.
Cora Templeton had every reason to despise Simon for dredging up her midwife grandmother’s “witch” legend. Helena Crane openly threatened him after he targeted her vulnerable father with a family scandal. Both had motive. Neither is telling Claire everything.
As Halloween pranks blur the timeline and buried secrets surface, Claire realizes someone has turned Millfield’s past into the perfect cover for murder.
If she can’t separate truth from legend, an innocent woman may take the fall while a killer walks free.
A lantern-lit graveyard. A poisoned genealogist. And a town of secrets meant to stay buried.
Claire Winters is used to serving coffee, pastries, and gossip at The Cozy Nook—but not murder. When visiting genealogist Simon Vale collapses during Millfield’s Halloween Lantern Walk, Claire learns his fatal fall was no accident.
With journalist Sophie digging through old records, Deputy Mark Benton at her side, and Max—her perceptive tabby—turning up clues humans miss, Claire follows Simon’s trail through generations of guarded family history.
Cora Templeton had every reason to despise Simon for dredging up her midwife grandmother’s “witch” legend. Helena Crane openly threatened him after he targeted her vulnerable father with a family scandal. Both had motive. Neither is telling Claire everything.
As Halloween pranks blur the timeline and buried secrets surface, Claire realizes someone has turned Millfield’s past into the perfect cover for murder.
If she can’t separate truth from legend, an innocent woman may take the fall while a killer walks free.