Cathy Rueter
Meet Caribbean, and visit with Ree, Auggie, and Jen again!
Scaring Miss Muffet Away is the second cozy mystery wrapped around the full-length novel series.
Meet Rose and other characters from Lilac Lane Fashion House
Roselyn Turnquist, principal sewist for Lilac Lane Fashions, is in charge of corralling her colleagues to create fashionable fiber accessories for their yearly fundraising auction. A firm believer that with enough hard work and a large dose of the truth, Rose figures everything will all work out.
Or it would if at least a few of her associates knew how to knit and crochet. Or if someone hadn’t swindled them of the top auction prize. Or if Kris Kringle, the ever-watchful llama at God's Free-range Alpaca Farm, wasn’t under barn arrest for assaulting someone and leaving him for dead in the pasture.
When it looks like the owners of the furry critters could lose everything, Rose is determined to discover what the unconscious young man was doing at the farm in the first place and salvage the holiday fundraiser in the process.
Notes: Both the print and ebook feature trivia, games, and more (print book includes one additional game).
Additional information: This novelette is an expanded version of the short story by the same name that first appeared in A Prob-Llama of a Holiday anthology, published by Aconite Cafe in 2023.
It’s Beginning to Look a Llama Like Christmas is the first in a number of mini mysteries wrapped around the full-length novel series.
This is a Christmas (2024) novelette for the Games We Play Mystery series featuring fashion designer, Jennifer Clark, and her Lilac Lane Fashions family.
Is the killer hiding behind a mask of familiarity?
Dallas clothing designer, Jennifer Clark, wants to get through the next show before her style house’s respected reputation is tarnished by further mishaps. But someone is playing dangerous games at the expense of Jen and the Lilac Lane Fashions family. When the scheme turns murderous, beautiful Caribbean Marshall, Jen’s best friend and lead model, falls victim.
Cari’s children, nine-year-old twins, August and January, are caught in the snare. Did they witness their mother’s demise … or worse? Is the killer hiding behind a mask of familiarity?
To complicate matters, Colin—Cari’s brother and Jen’s former crush—arrives on the scene. Devastated that her best friend kept secrets, Jen questions her future with the kids and the tenuous control she’s gained over her own tumultuous past. The one certain thing in her life is her faith … or is it?
When the twisted rules change once again, Jen and Colin must work together to save the twins and win the deadly game of murdered model.
Additional information: Debut novel in the Games We Play Mystery Series, published by Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.
Caribbean Marshall is beyond exhausted after a grueling photo shoot in Hawaii. She can’t wait to return home to Texas and the familiarity of her career as the lead model for Lilac Lane Fashion Showroom. Most importantly, cuddling with her nin-year-old twins, Auggie and Ree.
Getting her life and newfound faith on track, Cari would love nothing more than time to reflect during a quiet flight back to Dallas, free from disgruntled passengers and angelic little cherubs singing “the spider song” on repeat. Certainly, without tangling in the silken strands of a robber gone rogue.
But when a teenage girl is ensnared by her traveling companion’s venomous web of lies, Cari steps in and rescues her from the fiend’s clutches. All’s well that end well … maybe.
Notes: Both the print and ebook feature trivia, games, and more (print book includes one additional game).
Additional information: This novelette is the prequel to the debut novel in the Games We Play Mystery Series, “Murder May I,” published May 2025 by Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.
