Sage Wisdom Mysteries

From lemonade to murder...The heat isn't the only thing that's killer at Saxon Lake's annual Summer Fest.Herbalist and mini-farmer Bryony Taylor knew she couldn't pick a better place than this small Colorado town to open her shop, Sage Wisdom, and care for her menagerie of goats, chickens, and a cat named Beryl. She just never expected to add "small-town sleuth" to her list of titles.When the town's beloved lawyer suddenly drops dead at the summer's biggest event, the local gossip mill kicks into high gear. They say Barry was being blackmailed, but by who? The handsome county sheriff seems at a loss for answers and reluctantly enlists Bryony's help.Bryony suddenly finds herself inheriting more than Barry's cat. She never could resist a good mystery, but can she unravel this tangled case before more bodies turn up?

A haven of last resort for Saxon Lake's neighbors.Herbalist and small-town sleuth Bryony Taylor finds herself with a new case when a distraught wife comes to her, asking for help finding her missing husband. When Bryony does a little digging, she discovers that Sadie's husband mysteriously left his brokerage firm to work for a ski resort developer who's trying to clear out the residents of Bard Creek Canyon.The plot thickens when Sadie's home is ransacked, and Bryony suddenly has a new houseguest. Sadie seems to fit right in with Bryony's quirky friends and her small menagerie of animals. But the more Bryony and her boyfriend, Saxon Lake's sheriff, dig into the mystery of Sadie's disappearing husband, the more questions arise about just what he was into and what Sadie might be hiding.Bryony must move quickly to solve this mystery before everyone in Bard Creek Canyon ends up homeless.

The corpse who died twice.While visiting her father's grave, Bryony Taylor stumbles upon the body of a woman left in an unlocked mausoleum in Saxon Lake's local cemetery. Bryony is haunted for days by the oddly tranquil smile frozen on the dead woman's face. Finally she decides she must know more about who this woman was.When Bryony digs for more information, however, she makes a startling discovery: Charlotte Stone and her twin brother supposedly died twenty years ago! Now it's up to Bryony to unearth what really happened to Charlotte during that faux family tragedy and who killed her now.

Someone has given Bryony and Dean the finger!After a romantic Valentine's Day dinner, Dean Jensen is poised to ask Bryony Taylor a very important question. But he's interrupted by a grisly discovery--someone amputated a woman's finger with her engagement ring still attached and sent it to him the mail!Not long after, a woman's body--minus her finger--is fished out of Saxon Lake, and two more fingers are sent to both Dean and Bryony.Will they be able to figure out who's killing newly engaged women before another body is found? And will Dean ever get around to asking Bryony that important question?