The Death of a Maven: A Small-Town Cozy Mystery (The Haunted Farmhouse Mysteries Book 1)

Name: The Death of a Maven: A Small-Town Cozy Mystery (The Haunted Farmhouse Mysteries Book 1)
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Rating: 4.3 (15 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Johnson

by Kathryn Johnson

Mystery Thriller Fantasy

4.3 (15)

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Perfect for you if...

You enjoy cozy mysteries where the amateur sleuth is genuinely stubborn and won't accept easy answers from authority.
You like paranormal elements that feel integrated into the plot rather than just window dressing.
You appreciate small-town settings with real community dynamics and multi-generational secrets.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer your mysteries grounded in pure logic with no supernatural elements whatsoever.
You want a fast-paced, high-stakes thriller rather than something deliberately cosy and leisurely.
You're looking for a standalone novel—this is book one in a series.

About this book

A cozy mystery with paranormal elements in which a widow and two centuries-old ghosts work together to solve a murder that others dismiss as suicide. On the anniversary of her husband's death, Verity Cade plans a quiet evening with close friends. The next morning, one of them is found dead at the bottom of an abandoned quarry. The sheriff rules it a suicide, but Verity is convinced her friend would never have taken her own life. She begins investigating the victim's journals and uncovers a web of lies and secrets. Complicated further by two ghosts—former owners of her struggling Vermont farm from two centuries past—who remain unable to move on, Verity enlists help from both her living friends and her supernatural ones. Together they must solve a murder no one else believes occurred, before the killer strikes again.

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