Cozy Mysteries, also referred to as "cozies", are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off-stage. The detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
Deadly . . . as a Walk in the Park is the second book in the Brentwood Women Mystery series with three generations of Houston women work with their fur buddies and friends to investigate mysteries they believe the police can't solve on their own.
Hildy Brentwood must defy her university bosses and the police to find the real killer and prove her friend innocent of murder-suicide before the murderer adds her to the list of the dead.
Jeffrey, an overlooked black cat at the Rescue Center, is over two years old and has never been adopted. As Emily and Jeffrey formed a bond and started helping their neighbors, life changed in 2020 at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
Fall turns frightful in Olivia Penn's hometown when a child’s drawing implicates her as the key to solving a mysterious murder at a lake. Motives abound, suspects are plenty, and the only witness to the crime is a boy who doesn't speak.
