Candle Island Cozy

Be careful what you wish for-it could lead to murder.Kindergarten teacher, Gwen McPhail, is teaching children of former students with her eyes closed, wishing something would happen… Change roars in on a tidal wave when Vance Jones dies and names her his beneficiary.A stunned Gwen comes to Candle Island to check out her inheritance, but the clannish Islanders hate her guts, the widow tags her as "the other woman," and the dead guy who left her the mansion was a creep.Gwen's up to her neck in inconsistencies and can't swallow the "accidental death" line. Her rugged care taker, Scotty, is protecting her from someone. Is it his cousin, Dot, the bitter widow? The bullied son, Ron, who's hamstrung by his father's will? Or is the murderer Scotty, himself? The truth may kill her, but she's dying to find out.Gwen has lost her heart to Candle Island but knows she's rubbing elbows with a murderer. She faces the heartbreaking choice of doing the right thing and being hated for it, or protecting a fragile soul in trouble. Life on the playground never got this serious, and this time a kiss on the boo-boo won't make it all better.Blind Man's Bluff is a clever cozy mystery packed with sarcastic humor, salty characters, and plot twists. Set in the pressure cooker of a coastal island community, it'll keep you guessing until the very end.

On Candle Island there's always a storm brewing. Gwen McPhail moves to the island, ready for a life change … but is she ready for murder? When her ne'er-do-well nephew, Nate, is accused of scuttling a lobster boat to kill his boss, the captain, so he can shack up with the merry widow, Gwen gets into tiger-aunt mode.With no body and no boat, and Nate in the hospital from exposure, there's no evidence to go on. But Gwen's a digger. She discovers a marriage on the rocks, a conniving wife, a jealous best friend, and a little girl and her grandmother suffocating in the scuffle. The trouble is, Gwen's an outsider fresh from the mainland, and the hostile Candle Island clan protect their own.Gwen's no stranger to her own brand of family loyalty. To clear her nephew, she'll risk shipwreck, alienate her one true island friend, and ally with a woman who scares the pants off her. In her quest for justice, Gwen unearths the bitter truth that good gals sometimes get caught in the rip tide of manipulation perpetrated by one of their own-in this case, a selfish shallow wife and a turncoat friend. True to her heart, Gwen stands by the grandmother guilty of manslaughter, her heartbroken granddaughter, and a plan to bring down the ones responsible for the tragedy.