Elsie Hargrove Mysteries

Her new restaurant’s first course? Murder on ice.

Elsie Hargrove left town to find adventure. Murder found her when she came home. After ten years of adventuring around the world, Elsie returns to her hometown of Cascade Bay with a plan: transform the town’s abandoned riverside restaurant into an upscale dining destination. But when a local...

Some solos end with a standing ovation. This one ended with murder.

When the Cascade Bay Festival launches, Private Detective Elsie Hargrove expects a week of pure musical magic. But after rising star trumpet player Tommy Grayson collapses during his band’s performance, she discovers that some of jazz’s smoothest riffs hide the sharpest dangers.

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In fashion, revenge never goes out of style.

Elsie Hargrove expected drama when she agreed to be a model in Fleming’s prestigious Designer Showcase, but not murder. When rising star Lucy Reeves is found strangled with a vintage scarf moments before being crowned winner, Elsie must navigate the cutthroat world of high fashion to catch a killer.

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Travel tip: Pack light and don’t get framed for murder

When America’s most beloved travel expert Nick Palmer invites Elsie Hargrove to speak at his European guides convention, she expects to share stories of her international adventures. But after Italian museum director Carlo Rossi crashes the party with accusations of theft, the atmosphere...

The slopes are treacherous. The guests are worse.

When Elsie Hargrove arrives at an exclusive ski resort for a much-needed winter vacation, she’s surprised to find Detective Jack Goodman already there—undercover as a ski instructor. He’s investigating the resort’s ultra-wealthy clientele, and he didn’t expect company.

When the resort’s owner...

Death blooms where greed takes root.

When a decades-old skeleton is unearthed during the opening of the Cascade Bay Tulip Festival, the annual celebration turns into an excavation of the town’s darkest secrets.

Working alongside Detective Jack Goodman — their relationship blooming despite the case’s thorny complications — Elsie digs through...

A classic race turns deadly when small-town rivalries accelerate into murder.

The Cascade Bay Classic has pitted three coastal towns against each other in a fierce vintage car competition for over a century. When the mayor hires private investigator Elsie Hargrove to look into rumors of cheating, it seems like small-town politics and bruised...

Lights, camera, murder.

When the hit television show Fog Harbor shoots its new season in Cascade Bay, the whole town turns out to watch — including Private Detective Elsie Hargrove, who has personal reasons for wanting to be near leading man Adam Blade. But when two people connected to the production are murdered, Elsie discovers that on a film...

‘Tis the season... for murder.

Someone is trying to kill Santa Claus.

Not the real one, of course — but Chris Keller, Cascade Bay’s beloved department store Santa, might be the next best thing. When threatening letters lead to poisoned cookies, Private Detective Elsie Hargrove takes the case and goes undercover as an elf at Fleming’s — bells,...

Love can be murder.

Cupid’s arrow isn’t the only thing drawing blood this Valentine’s Day.

When an anonymous website called Cascade Confessions begins posting photos of prominent citizens in compromising positions — one fabricated affair per day, counting down to Valentine’s Day — the whole town starts turning on itself. Marriages fracture....

Every game has a final move.

The cat has claws. For years, Roxane Fournier has operated in the shadows of Cascade Bay—a criminal mastermind hiding behind her flawless croissants. But Elsie Hargrove has gotten too close too many times, and now Roxane is done playing nice.

When a calculated campaign threatens to destroy everything Elsie has built—...