Andrea Cumbo lives in Virginia's Southwestern Mountains with her young son, old hound, and a bully mix who has already eaten two couches. When she's not writing, she cross-stitches, watches YA fantasy shows, and grows massive quantities of cucumbers. Find her at acfbookens.com.
Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, they find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they're having trouble telling truth from lie. Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it's too late?
Travel to Syria isn’t always the safest choice, but it isn’t the political tension that’s the danger for Poe. No, the danger is linked to her latest book acquisition.
Since she moved into her farmhouse, Paisley Sutton has wanted to convert the old summer kitchen house into an office for herself, and it’s finally time. But when her contractor begins opening up the walls to insulate, they find far more than they expected. Will Paisley be able to solve this time-worn murder, or will someone stop her before she can?
Secrets long held are sometimes secrets best kept, right? When the sweet but reclusive clockmaker in town reaches out to Harvey to ask for her advice about a situation, the bookstore owner finds herself wrapped in a web of tales that leaves her unclear about what’s true and what’s not.
It’s not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you’ll survive the day.
Paisley Sutton’s business is growing so well. Now, if only she could stop finding bodies in the buildings she salvages from. With the help of her friends and family, including her young son Sawyer, she’s always willing to delve into history to help find the killer and uncover the story.
Solving murders was not what single mother Paisley Sutton had in mind when she started her architectural salvage business, but it certainly has become part and parcel of her work. Whether she's claiming glass door knobs from an old church parish house, finding bones beneath the floor of an old school, or discovering a skeleton in an old barn, Paisley and her friends are never short on mystery.
When Paisley Sutton launched her architectural salvage business, she certainly had no idea that finding murderers would be a part of her new line of work.
Snow days aren't supposed to end with dead bodies. Harvey Beckett has just finished a quiet meal after shoveling the sidewalks around Main Street when the body of the new bartender in town is discovered behind the bar.
Book 1 – Fatalities and Folios
Who knew that finding a rare book would also involve running for her life?
Book 2 – Massacre and Margins
She thought she was just going to reminisce, enjoy the Northern Lights, and celebrate an author, but a murderer had other ideas.
Book 3 – Butchery and Bindings
It’s not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you’ll survive the day.
Salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton is doing all she can to run her business and raise her young son, mostly by herself. But every time she goes into an old building to save the historical items there, she finds a new mystery to solve, and her work becomes that much harder. When murder shows up, can Paisley uncover the story of that death and help save the tales those old walls have heard?
When Harvey Beckett moves to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and opens her bookstore in the town of St. Marin's, she has no idea that she's also beginning her "work" as an amateur sleuth.
Soon, Harvey and her friends are embroiled in a series of murders that challenge them to find the killers and come to understand new things about themselves, too.
A series for book lovers, cozy lovers, and animals lovers alike.