Murder in the Mud
(2026)(The third book in the Pip & Nora Paranormal Cozy Mystery series)
A Story by Caroline Ashby
She recorded what they wanted forgotten. Someone made sure she couldn't tell.Oral historian Laurel McFarland arrived in Turtlehead Gap, Virginia with a recorder and a fellowship to document the voices of the valley's elders before those voices were gone. She was good at her work. And she was making people nervous.
She was found dead at the bottom of a frozen slope at dawn.
Nora Callahan, who runs Pearl's Old Curiosity Shop and reads the history of objects through touch, knew Laurel for forty minutes before she died. That's long enough to know the recorder she left charging on the counter holds something dangerous.
Three suspects, none of them simple:
The one who threatened her in public and claims it didn't mean anything. The one who's been lying about where she was — not to protect herself, but to protect someone she loves. And the one who has been circling the shop and the town's history with careful questions.
Nora's ferret Pip has opinions about all three. The antique shop's objects are paying attention. And the frozen mud at the crime scene has preserved details the killer didn't plan on.
Murder in the Mud is the third book in the Turtlehead Gap Mysteries — a cozy series set in Virginia, where every antique has a story and a ferret named Pip is never wrong.
Fans of Ellery Adams's enchanted pies, B I Skinner's rearranging shelves, and Aleena Vale's talking cat will feel right at home.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
She was found dead at the bottom of a frozen slope at dawn.
Nora Callahan, who runs Pearl's Old Curiosity Shop and reads the history of objects through touch, knew Laurel for forty minutes before she died. That's long enough to know the recorder she left charging on the counter holds something dangerous.
Three suspects, none of them simple:
The one who threatened her in public and claims it didn't mean anything. The one who's been lying about where she was — not to protect herself, but to protect someone she loves. And the one who has been circling the shop and the town's history with careful questions.
Nora's ferret Pip has opinions about all three. The antique shop's objects are paying attention. And the frozen mud at the crime scene has preserved details the killer didn't plan on.
Murder in the Mud is the third book in the Turtlehead Gap Mysteries — a cozy series set in Virginia, where every antique has a story and a ferret named Pip is never wrong.
Fans of Ellery Adams's enchanted pies, B I Skinner's rearranging shelves, and Aleena Vale's talking cat will feel right at home.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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