In 2022 I tried my hand writing contemporary stories with a touch of mystery and romance, starting with the First Kiss series.
In 2023 I started a cosy mystery series—The Maggie and Marple Mysteries.
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Meet Maggie and Clara in two prequel stories.
The Love Letter Mystery
A Special Book. A Love Letter. A Mystery to be Solved.
Big changes are happening in Clara's life, is now really the time to be helping her friend Sassy find the owner of a mysterious love letter?
Her boyfriend Tyrone wants her to concentrate on their future, but solving the mystery is just too intriguing to ignore.
Will Clara find the owner of the letter? And will she still have a boyfriend if she does?
The Soho Nights Mystery
London’s Soho in the seventies is all glitz and glamour masking a sinister underbelly.
Having grown up in small town New Zealand, Maggie Thompson leaps at chance to live and work there. When she runs into her childhood crush, Daisy, she becomes a part of the Soho scene in a way she could only have dreamed of.
Excited and exhilarated by the bohemian culture, she thinks life can’t get any better, and that’s when her world crashes around her. In a single night Daisy rejects her, their friend Duke goes missing, and Maggie is introduced to the darker side of Soho.
Can Maggie help Daisy track down Duke while nursing a broken heart? And can they do it before he is lost to them forever?
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A hidden diary. A scrap of paper. An abandoned puppy.
Could these three clues mean that Maggie’s friend Lawrence didn't die from natural causes? Maggie believes so and intends to investigate—even if her broken ankle is slowing her down.
Fresh from heartbreak, Clara travels from Sydney to country New Zealand to look after her injured great-aunt, only to find Maggie set upon investigating her friends death.
As the two women dig into how Lawrence died, they uncover a not-so-wholesome side to the township of Waiawa, one which Sargent Richardson would rather they stayed away from.
With help from her Mystery Book Club, will Maggie find out the truth about Lawrence’s death? And will Marple the dog find her forever home?
Releases 30 June 2024
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A hidden body. A silk ribbon. A bouquet of flowers.
When a body is found in the walled up recess of her bookshop, Maggie’s dead father falls under suspicion for murder. Determined to find the truth about the unidentified victim, Maggie starts her own investigation against the wishes of the local police.
When Marple uncovers a bouquet of flowers and a ribbon in the debris of the demolished wall, Clara is happy to track down their origin to help clear her great-grandfather’s name, and to distract her from worsening relations with her ex, Tyrone.
Then Marple reveals some more disturbing evidence and old wounds are reopened. Can the Mystery Book Club solve the puzzle before a long-buried feud tears the town apart?
Releases May 2025
No Christmas parties. No big family meals. No dramas.
When Kayla's parents decide to take off to Fiji for Christmas, Kayla decides wants for Christmas is a sea-side break from her demanding job, and some time to herself. That's what Kayla needs—but it's not what Kayla gets.
Soon after arriving at her beachside rental sh