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I’m excited to announce that Book 3 in my Willows Bend Cozy Mystery Series, is now available for purchase on Amazon in print and eBook.

Death in the Cards

If you’ve been wondering what’s happening in Willows Bend, here’s the scoop:

Heather Stanton and her Aunt Julia are making a home for themselves in the small town of Willows Bend as Julia works to complete her community service hours. But dark secrets from her past are about to catch up to her.

Julia’s unscrupulous ex-partner and former suitor, arrives unannounced with plans to reignite their romance, but Julia and Heather question his true intentions when his associate is found dead at the bottom of their stairs, and they’re thrown into another murder investigation. 

Aunt Julia turns to Cartomancy—a form of Tarot that uses playing cards—for guidance. Does Julia’s old deck, passed down from her grandmother, possess the ability to reveal clues to the killer, and guide her destiny towards riches, or is it the cause of all her troubles?

Featuring Makki, the bookstore cat

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The Crone’s Curse

The Willows Bend Cozy Mystery Series -Book 2 

Heather Stanton’s aunt’s past is slowly catching up to her. Julia had always run away from situations she chose not to deal with, but running these days is impossible since she’s stuck in a small town doing community service.

Ever since Heather ran into her aunt in this speck on the map called Willows Bend, dead bodies have been turning up in the oddest places.

Julia believes the murders, are because she’s plagued with an evil curse, cast upon her by an old crone for a perceived injustice in her past. So she seeks out Madam Z, a dubious occultist, to assist in getting rid of it.

Can Heather convince her aunt there’s no such thing as a curse before Julia becomes so entrenched in her beliefs she’s arrested for a murder she didn’t commit, or finds herself the killer’s next victim?

Besides Heather’s kooky aunt, add an adorable trouble-making black cat, a missing red stiletto sandal the police are after, and an ex P.I. turned bookstore owner who has captured Heather’s heart, for a fun cozy mystery that’s sure to make you smile.

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You Bet Your Life

The Willows Bend Cozy Mystery Series, Book 1

       “Sometimes you have to take a chance.”                             

As a marketing executive, Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind.

Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes when her aunt is suspected of murder.

Putting her own problems aside, Heather teams up with a handsome ex-private investigator to clear her aunt’s name. But will Julia’s innocence be questioned when the odds turn against her in a race to catch the killer?

All the Willows Bend Cozy Mysteries feature Makki, the bookstore cat.

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The Charlotte Ross Mysteries

Murder… Treasure… Romance

The Tarkington Treasure

A Charlotte Ross Mystery, Book 4

  “In the world of logic, it’s always our assumptions that lead us astray.” 

A spooky old house, rumors of a hidden Civil War treasure, a neighbor’s murder, and an ex-fiancé falling unconscious at her feet—Charlotte Ross has her hands full when she’s invited to stay at her friend, Jane Marshall’s home while her apartment is being renovated.

Jane and her new fiancé have sold everything to move to the large estate she’d just inherited near the small town in Illinois, where she grew up. She’s always loved the house, but the cost of living in, and fixing up, a deteriorating old mansion is more than both their incomes combined. If she can’t come up with the money for the next property tax payment, she’ll be forced to give it up.

Charlotte is intent on winning back her ex, but her efforts are stymied when he’s suspected of murder.

The two couples soon discover the rambling old house holds more than one secret when they join forces to find the real killer—and the elusive, Tarkington treasure.

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A Charlotte Ross Mystery, Book 1

Mystery…Romance…Humor

Charlotte Ross sees her world about to crumble when the man she’s in love with–her mysterious boss, John Trent, announces his engagement to someone else.

Charlotte’s best friend, dubious globe-trotter and mystery author, Jane Marshall, arrives back in town only to stumble across the gruesome corpse of the town’s millionaire industrialist. When Jane becomes determined to find the killer, Charlotte joins forces with her friend to ease her heartbreak. In the process, the two self-appointed sleuths turn their small town upside down.

Charlotte is endearingly impractical as her impulsive choices lead her into and out of peril, with only the wry and often-misguided advice of the capricious Jane to guide her. Eldridge Corners is rich with quirky, small town personalities who both aid and thwart the young women’s quest as they discover that people are not always who they seem, and a single error in judgment can prove fatal.

 Reviews:

–“Love, Lies and Murder” by Evelyn Cullet is a fantastic read. I highly recommend this novel! –  Patricia Gligor, author of Mixed Messages and Unfinished Business.

–Love, Lies and Murder by Evelyn Cullet is entertaining, humorous and mysterious. The characters are well-defined and enjoyable, including the villains. I highly recommend Love, Lies and Murder to anyone looking for a mystery to hold their interest and entertain them at the same time. I had a smile on my face when I put this book down. – Marja McGraw, author of the Bogey Man Mysteries and The Sandi Webster Mysteries. 

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A Charlotte Ross Mystery, Book 2

Adventure…Mystery…Romance

Masterpiece of Murder

The sequel to Love, Lies and Murder

Masterpiece of Murder is a madcap, cozy adventure about a heartbroken American art student, Charlotte Ross, who is so intent on locating her errant fiancé that she submits someone else’s painting as her own in order to gain access to a Master art class being held in Bariloche, Argentina—the place her lost love was last seen. When the painting gets her accepted into the class given by a world-famous artist and womanizer, being a novice makes keeping up with the others nearly impossible as she struggles to fake her way though, while trying to win back the man she loves. But her fiancé has his own reasons for being in Bariloche – he’s after a stolen art masterpiece. They complicate Charlotte’s life and could threaten her very existence as she stumbles onto deceit, art forgery, and murder.

When she accidentally comes across the murder victim, circumstantial evidence begins to mount against her and the local police suspect she is the killer. Now she must discover who is really behind the murder before she’s arrested. Not an easy task with a smitten military police officer dogging her every step.

If you love mysteries with a little romance and humor, follow Charlotte on a madcap adventure through the beautiful and sometimes perilous resort city of Bariloche, (pronounced, bah reeh LOH cheh), Argentina, to uncover a Masterpiece of Murder. To see photos of the places mentioned in the novel, I invite you to explore my photos page.

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A Charlotte Ross Mystery, Book 3

Romance…Mystery… Murder

 The sequel to Masterpiece of Murder

A fairy tale to ignite the imagination.

Fleeing her life, for a short break, Charlotte Ross, along with her best friend Jane Marshall, visit her aunt in the sleepy town of Raven’s Caw, Michigan. Charlotte hopes to recover from a break up with her fiancé, and her friend Jane, a new mystery writer, is looking forward to somewhere relaxing. But life has different plans for the two friends as they discover links between a crime that happened twelve years earlier and a recent one.

Risking their lives and hearts, the two friends race against the past in an effort to solve the crimes, and get swept up in a whirlwind of romance, mystery, and murder.

Once Upon a Crime takes two best friends through a maze of intrigue and mayhem. Do they have the skills it takes to solve the crimes or will one of them find herself the next victim?