The Crossword Puzzle Cozy Mystery Series
If you like fast-paced, funny whodunits with smalltown adventures, you’ll love escaping into the Crossword Puzzle Cozy Mystery series. Each book can stand alone, but it’s more fun when you binge read them all!
Book 1
I’m Tracy Belden, a single mom on my first solo case as a PI. Instead of creating crossword puzzles, I’m searching for my wealthy ex-husband’s second wife, missing for three days.
I was hoping she ran off with his money. Then, I found her body.
Now, the police are eyeing me as a suspect. To make matters worse, my precocious, 11-year-old son and my geriatric landlady are trying to solve the case without me. If my puzzle solving skills can’t lead me to the killer, I’ll be finishing my crossword puzzle in jail.
Book 2
When a killer strikes, single mom and PI, Tracy Belden and her friends put game nights on hold to solve a case of murder.
Escape to Tahoe. Help a friend. No problems. No pressure.
What could go wrong?
I’m Tracy Belden, a rookie PI with a handful of cases solved, but when a fellow PI calls, I answer. Twelve hours later, my investigator friend is missing, the client is dead, and I’m at the murder scene.
With the police eyeing me as a suspect, I have to find the killer if there’s any hope of completing my crossword puzzle.
Book 3
When a killer strikes, single mom and PI, Tracy Belden puts game nights on hold to solve a puzzling case of murder.
I’m Tracy Belden and I’m getting out of town.
A quick meeting with a client in Las Vegas will pay for a weekend getaway for me and my guy.
But our perfect plan derails when my client is found dead.
Now the police and the perps both accuse me of having a priceless artifact.
The only way to prove my innocence–and finish my crossword puzzle–
is to find the missing object and track down the killer.
Book 4
When a killer strikes, PI and single mom, Tracy Belden puts game nights on hold to solve a puzzling case of murder.
I’m Tracy Belden and I’m hunting ghosts, until a tour through a haunted mansion turns up a murder victim.
When my landlady’s mysterious past is connected with the high-profile murder, I can’t stay on the sidelines.
I know nothing about fine art or million-dollar forgeries.
But I’ve never left a crossword puzzle unfinished,
Will I be able to prove my friend innocent of murder?
Book 5
When a killer strikes, PI and single mom, Tracy Belden puts game nights on hold to solve a puzzling case of murder.
I’m Tracy Belden and I’m hunting ghosts, until a tour through a haunted mansion turns up a murder victim.
When my landlady’s mysterious past is connected with the high-profile murder, I can’t stay on the sidelines.
I know nothing about fine art or million-dollar forgeries.
But I’ve never left a crossword puzzle unfinished,
Will I be able to prove my friend innocent of murder?
Book 6
I’m Tracy Belden and my crazy client just killed her husband.
She told me so when she called me at oh-dark-thirty.
Now his body is in the morgue, my client is the number one suspect, and I’m the main witness.
With the police ready to make an arrest, she changes her story and hires me to find the real killer.
Can I solve the case before my client is arrested for murder?
But if she’s the killer, how can I finish my crossword puzzle with a clear conscience?
Book 6A
Who complains about having too much money?
Answer? My latest client.
I’m Tracy Belden, being a PI is one of my three jobs. My client recently acquired a company which is showing an unexpected spike in profits. Worried about illegal activity, she’s demanding answers.
So, me, my precocious, crime solving twelve-year-old son, and my family are headed to Deadwood, South Dakota. However, the possibility of fraud turns to tragedy when I find one of the former partners poisoned.
Was his death suicide or murder? Either way, to complete my puzzle, I have to find the secret his death was meant to hide.
Book 7
I’m Tracy Belden, PI. I came to Kentucky to see my family not work a murder case.
I planned to show off my son and my new husband. Maybe create a crossword puzzle, not to investigate a mysterious death.
When a wrangler falls off a horse and dies no one believes it’s an accident.
Once on the case, I’m determined to find the killer. But when my brother becomes a suspect will I regret solving the puzzle?
Book 8
All I wanted was some candy at the corner store…
But what I got was an unidentified murder victim. No one knew who she was, how she got into the locked storage room, or who killed her.
I’m Tracy Belden, a P.I. Though I’ve solved a few murders in my first year in the field, this case has me baffled. Within a day, I have multiple missing women with ties to the neighborhood, including my neighbor’s granddaughter, who could either be the killer on the lam or the dead woman.
With my tween son trying to be Sherlock Holmes and my geriatric landlady rousing the neighborhood to help solve the case, my brain is on overload. The last thing I need is to hear from the perky blonde who follows my cases. Unfortunately, she may hold the key that will lead me to the killer.
Holiday Novella
When a killer strikes, single mom and PI, Tracy Belden puts game nights on hold to find a murderer.
After an hour of covering my son’s middle school class, I was thankful the principal called me to her office. I assumed it concerned my threat to glue the tweens to their chairs. Instead, I was handed a case of theft, blackmail, and murder.
In three days, eight teachers will have their careers ruined when fake pictures hit the internet. I have to find and stop the blackmailer. However, unlike the crossword puzzles I create for my side hustle, the clues don’t fit together. And that’s before one of the teachers is killed.
I’m failing people who trusted me. Can I solve this puzzle in time to save Christmas or will the teachers’ lives be destroyed?