Think Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys reunite, turn sixty, investigate a murder, and meet a ghost.
Welcome back to Willows Creek.
Once upon a time, Penny Blackwell, brothers Sam and Pete Harrison, and a handful of neighborhood kids formed the School’s Out Murder Club, solving small-town “crimes” from a garage headquarters and believing they’d be best friends forever. Then life happened. Careers. Heartbreak. Distance. And one final case that was never truly laid to rest.
Now they’re back.
Penny is a bestselling author with a complicated past, Sam is an aging rock star who never quite learned how to come home, and Pete is a psychiatrist who knows better than to trust his own instincts—but does anyway. When a modern-day murder resurfaces clues tied to their last childhood investigation, the trio reunites in Willows Creek, bringing along their now-grown children and more emotional baggage than a tour bus.
They’re joined by Penny’s Uncle Carl—eccentric farm owner, tech patent holder, and keeper of more secrets than he lets on—plus his lovable bulldog Gizmo, who might be the only one in town not hiding something.
Willows Creek is a rural town with a big heart, a sharp memory, and plenty of gossip. It also has ghosts. Some are metaphors. One is very real.
Meet Silas Blackwell—family legend, reluctant hero, and fiercely opinionated ghost—who guards the Blackwell legacy with unfinished business, buried truths, and a past full of both heroics and sins. He’s not sure he trusts the Murder Club… but he’s not done with them either.
Heartfelt, nostalgic, and lightly paranormal, the Willows Creek Murder Club series is about second chances, family legacies, and returning to the people you were before the world got its hands on you. Expect small-town secrets, midlife sleuths, meddling ghosts, grown children discovering old truths, and mysteries that refuse to stay buried.
Because some cases don’t expire.
And some friendships never really die.
Start with Book One: The Remember Me Murders.
The Remember Me Murders: Willows Creek Cozy Mystery Series
Aging rock stars, family ghosts, and a forty-year-old cold case! Welcome back to Willows Creek.
When Uncle Carl calls and tells her to “get her butt home,” author Penny Blackwell packs her bags, grabs her cat, and goes. She’s not sure why. She hasn’t been home since the ’70s, not since the tragedy that burned her old life to ashes and her bell bottoms too. But when she arrives, a chalk outline stains the sidewalk outside the School’s Out Murder Club office, the same garage where she and her friends once solved “crimes” involving missing felines and shoplifting bulldogs.
Now the stakes are higher. The victim’s death ties back to their final case, and Penny wasn’t the only member Uncle Carl called. Pete has arrived looking like he’s aged as well as a fine wine, but Sam, their once-famous rock star friend, has vanished after his latest concert. Suddenly, their sleuthing trio is down a member, up a body, and tangled in secrets thicker than Aunt Nora’s Halloween fudge.
Has time erased the connection they once shared or dulled the instincts that made them unstoppable? Is Sam’s disappearance rooted in the past or something haunting the present? And is the legendary ghost of Silas Blackwell here to help, or to make Penny regret every life choice she’s ever made?
Armed with her smart, snarky wit and Pete’s steady calm, they must navigate small-town gossip, a Halloween festival full of suspects, and the dangerous questions that refuse to stay buried.
Heartfelt, nostalgic, and lightly paranormal, The Remember Me Murders is Book 1 in the Willows Creek Murder Club series. A supernatural cozy mystery about friendship, legacy, and found family. It’s proof that midlife can still surprise you with murder, mayhem, and the occasional meddling ghost. Because in Willows Creek, every legend leaves echoes, and some ghosts just don’t know when to quit.
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The See Me Murders
Penny Blackwell wants two things. A peaceful Thanksgiving and to open a bookstore, but when internet fitness influencer Mandy O’Shea, founder of Mandy O’Shea Fitness, turns up dead in a roadside ditch, the Murder Club’s cozy holiday plans take a chilling turn. The body is discovered by Linda Ellerton, CFO of Mandy’s company and the niece of the Club’s nosy neighbor, Mrs. Mulberry. Now Linda’s the prime suspect after a very public fight with the victim.
Desperate to clear her niece’s name, Mrs. Mulberry begs Penny Blackwell and brothers Sam and Pete Harrison to step in. But Mandy wasn’t nearly as wholesome as her online persona suggested, and the deeper they dig, the messier the truth becomes. Between smart shoes, dangerous secrets, and a new ghost, the clues pile up faster than Aunt Maggie’s pumpkin pies.
As the Willows Creek Murder Club prepares for its first Thanksgiving reunion since the 1970s, old friendships are tested, family skeletons resurface, and someone in town is hiding a truth worth killing for.
Heartfelt, funny, and lightly paranormal, The See Me Murders is a midlife small-town cozy mystery about friendship, family, and what it really means to come home—perfect for fans of holiday whodunits, meddling ghosts, and nostalgic reunions with bite. Because in Willows Creek, every season brings new reasons to sleuth.
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The Hear Me Murders
When the police fail, the Willows Creek Murder Club take on the case and seek justice for the family.
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