Button Up Detective Agency

When Janika Jones' husband is found dead, his death is initially assumed to be suicide. Sam Jones was a detective with the local CID, and Janika is determined to prove he was murdered. Realising she has detective skills of her own, she trains to be a private investigator, and sets up an office above the Button Up coffee shop owned by Abi Wells, a girl she knew at school as Abi Button.Calling her business the Button Up Detective Agency, Janika sets out to find her own cases to investigate, having been warned by the police not to investigate her husband's murder. But that's something she can't resist when the opportunity arises. When things turn nasty, who can she trust?Told by Janika Jones, this is a slightly darker cozy mystery spin-off from the series of six Abi Button Cozy Mystery Romance books, also by Lizzie Lewis. Although mainly about Janika, she interacts with many of the main Abi Button story characters.

Janika and Toby are on honeymoon in Cornwall, staying in an isolated cottage on the coast. They arrived on Sunday, and a massive storm, combined with a full moon on Monday night, brings Janika face-to-face with a tragedy when she ventures down the cliff path onto the beach early on Tuesday morning. If someone had pushed Tom Jago over the cliff, why didn't he tell her before she went to get help? Janika can't stop wondering if someone else was involved in his death.Before long Janika hears the sad story of two brothers who fell out over a large lottery jackpot win. One brother lives in the white Art Deco house higher up the hill, but it seems he is far from happy. When Janika and Toby are invited to the house, Janika is amazed to see a large number of fine art pictures from various periods on the walls. She is fascinated by what seems to be a genuine Impressionist painting.With more than a hint of murder in the air, and Janika's determination to discover if the pictures are genuine, fakes, or stolen, this is far from the peaceful getaway that she and Toby planned. But Janika admits she never can resist investigating a mystery even on honeymoon. She just doesn't want to end up dead!