Stamped In Deception
(2026)(The fourth book in the Claire Mitchell Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Bentley Reece
When the Midnight Mocha Mystery Tour rolls into town, café owner Claire Mitchell expects caffeine-fueled fun—not a body in the gazebo.
Event mastermind Lionel Pryce is found dead inside a locked room, the key placed just so, the scene arranged like the final act of one of his elaborate puzzles. But Claire knows puzzles. And this one doesn’t add up.
A counterfeit batch of clue cards. A hidden compartment beneath a loose plank. A USB that vanished before she could reach it.
As suspicion settles neatly on the town handyman, Claire sees what others miss: someone staged this crime to look solvable.
In a town where appearances matter and secrets brew just beneath the surface, Claire must untangle illusion from intention—before the wrong person pays for a killer’s carefully crafted deception.
Because this puzzle wasn’t meant to be solved.
It was meant to point in the wrong direction.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Event mastermind Lionel Pryce is found dead inside a locked room, the key placed just so, the scene arranged like the final act of one of his elaborate puzzles. But Claire knows puzzles. And this one doesn’t add up.
A counterfeit batch of clue cards. A hidden compartment beneath a loose plank. A USB that vanished before she could reach it.
As suspicion settles neatly on the town handyman, Claire sees what others miss: someone staged this crime to look solvable.
In a town where appearances matter and secrets brew just beneath the surface, Claire must untangle illusion from intention—before the wrong person pays for a killer’s carefully crafted deception.
Because this puzzle wasn’t meant to be solved.
It was meant to point in the wrong direction.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Visitors also looked at these books
Used availability for Bentley Reece's Stamped In Deception