Don’t get married on Christmas Eve, they said.

The holiday will overshadow your special day, they insisted.

Little did they know that a shockingly festive murder would put everything else on hold.

When all signs point to my sometimes friend, sometimes rival, Detective Crenshaw, I’ll need to work fast so that he’s not forced to spend his holiday in the slammer. But in throwing myself feet first into the real crook’s crummy conspiracy, I could be risking so much more than a spoiled day… The future of my forthcoming marriage could very well be on the line too.

Oh, boy… Can Pip and I solve this one in record time so that my fiancé’s and my perfect day can go off without another major hitch?

Releasing August 5th, 2024

Turning thirty can be murder! 

When a body is discovered next to the Little Dog Diner on her milestone birthday, Dani Mackenzie finds herself scooping up a scandal instead of cutting cake.

The prime suspect is the new owner of the Blueberry Bay Grapevine, but the victim’s stepbrother and ex-girlfriend also have means, motive, and opportunity.

With this trio of suspects, it will take a good nose to uncover whodunnit. At least Dani has her best friend—her Jack Russell, Pip—at her side to help sniff out the killer! But in the meantime, her kick-off to her thirties is turning into more of an upside-down cake than a celebration as she uncovers money, a business scandal, and thwarted love at the core of this crime.

It will take the victim’s black Labrador and finding a winning lottery ticket to solve this mystery, but Dani never throws in the towel. Will she and Pip once again use their experience at solving mysteries to bring justice to Misty Harbor, Maine, or will they be caught in the crosshairs of the killer?

Another day, another murder. At least that’s what it’s beginning to feel like in the small coastal town of Misty Harbor.

Who’d have ever guessed that owning the Little Dog Diner would put me right in the middle of deadly plot after deadly plot? No sooner had I put the last big mystery to bed, then another shows up at the diner’s doorstep—literally.

Soaking wet and shaking with fright, this peculiar stranger tells me she and her enormous Newfoundland companion leapt overboard to escape a killer. Helping her stay safe will put me directly in the line of fire, but it’s also the right thing to do. Can my Jack Russell terrier, Pip, and I save our two newest visitors from the already rolling wheels of fate and manage to keep the diner afloat?

We’ve never failed before, but then again we’ve never quite faced a case like this…

Hi, I’m Sunny Shaw, and no good deed goes unpunished.

When a local celebrity offers to raise money for my Kitty Castle, the special event becomes my sole focus. But planning is barely underway when Cupcake Callie, the cat star of the show, goes missing.

Everyone drops what they’re doing, and although we find the famous feline safe and sound, we also find Callie’s owner. And he isn’t as lucky.

I’m too close to the case to stay out of the police investigation, so I start gathering my own set of clues. But the killer stays one step ahead of my sleuthing.

Soon it’s clear that I’m the next target. Can I save myself and bring a killer to justice, or will my act of charity find me permanently removed from the event?

Calico Conflict is a crossover! It brings together characters from three Whiskered Mysteries series: the Little Dog Diner series and the Mint Chocolate Chip Mysteries by Emmie Lyn

You don’t need to have read the other series to enjoy escaping into this cat-friendly cozy mystery. Get your copy and start reading today!

Meet Dani Mackenzie the unfortunate soul who owns said diner. Oops! Looks like business is going to be slow for a little while as the whole town scrambles to find whodunnit again and again.

Discover how she and her Jack Russell Pip bond in Mixing Up Murder after a fake funeral. Follow a quilt show to its deadly conclusion in Serving Up Suspects. And, wonder whodunnit in a wedding gone wrong in Dishing Up Deceit.

If you enjoy cozy mysteries with lovable doggie detectives thrown into the mix, you won’t want to miss this special boxed set. Here’s your chance to binge read a fun series of mysteries filled with twists, turns, and surprise endings. Enjoy!

Releasing September 23rd

I’m Audrey Fernsby, just a ghost of my former self floating around Moonlight Mansion in Frog Hollow, Georgia. My death was ruled accidental… but nothing is farther from the truth.

When my precious black cat, Mocha, returns on the same night that two friends, Tilly and Sunny arrive from Maine, I plan to out my ghostly self and enlist their clever sleuthing capabilities.

Mocha knows the truth but can she help catch the killer before someone else ends up dead in my rose bushes?

 Black Cat Comes Back can be read as a stand-alone. Chronologically it fits as the PREQUEL before Scents and a Suspect in the Accidental Ghost Detective series.

Black Cat Comes Back has characters from the Mint Chocolate Chip Series. Get started with Book 1 Claws of Justice or catch up with the full series.

Meet Dani Mackenzie the unfortunate soul who owns said diner. Oops! Looks like business is going to be slow for a little while as the whole town scrambles to find whodunnit again and again.

This collection includes Cooking Up Chaos, Crumbling Up Crooks, and Dicing Up Disaster. Read along with Dani and Pip as they work to get to the bottom of murders that threaten to destroy Misty Harbor’s Fall Festival, her own wedding, and a dangerous plot of deception.

April showers bring murder near the lighthouse flowers!

A missing teenager shows up at Dani Mackenzie’s Sea Breeze home on Blueberry Bay, but the runaway is too terrified to reveal anything about herself. The police, however, aren’t the least bit shy when they arrive right behind her, searching for Claire. It seems the teen was hiding at the Kitty Point Lighthouse—exactly where a body was discovered.

There’s a long list of people who are happy this victim, the Misty Harbor town manager, is dead, but Claire’s circumstances make her the prime suspect. Dani hesitates to bring more drama into her world, but after she learns that Claire is related to a dear friend in Misty Harbor, she agrees to hide the young woman to keep them both safe from harassment or worse.

But the evidence keeps coming, whipping everyone’s fear into a frenzy. Dani, along with her Jack Russel terrier, Pip, jump into high gear to unravel a deadly tangle of greed before another body is found.

This time it could be Dani’s.

When Nikki Knight returns home to the majestic Moonlight Mansion in Frog Hollow, Georgia, she’s shocked to discover that her late grandmother’s charming B&B holds more than a few skeletons in its closet.

The next thing she knows, Nikki finds herself smack dab in the middle of a murder mystery! Now, with her loyal dachshund, her band of eccentric friends, and a few ghostly allies at her side, she’ll take on new adventures and confusing cases.

This set includes the first three books in the bestselling The Accidental Ghost Detective series: Scents and a Suspect, Trails and a Traitor, and Hints and a Homicide.

If you enjoy cozy mysteries with lovable doggie detectives and a dash of mysterious magic, and plenty of laughs, you won’t want to miss this special boxed set. Here’s your chance to binge read a fun series of curious cases filled with twists, turns, and surprise endings. Enjoy!

Releasing April 30th, 2025!

Revenge is red.
Berries are blue.
When murder comes to the festival,
Will it be one victim or two?

Misty Harbor’s annual Blueberry Festival gets off to a rollicking start with pancakes, scones, muffins, coffee cake, and so much more. Unfortunately, Dani Mackenzie trips over a body behind the blueberry bushes, and a big hullabaloo begins.

She doesn’t recognize the victim, but spilled vinegar leads Dani and her Jack Russell terrier, Pip, to a vender selling specialty blueberry balsamic vinegar. The problem is, that vendor is Dani’s employee, Christy Golden. Christy reveals that the victim had been harassing her while serving him at the Little Dog Diner, so Dani comes up with a plan to keep her out of the paws of the police, who suspect Christy of revenge.

With scads of people at the festival, Dani is desperate for clues to uncover the killer and throw the scent onto a different trail. Pip scours the scene and digs up details the police overlooked.

Can she save her employee before someone else—perhaps even Dani—is buried under the blueberries?

I’m Sunny Shaw, and regardless of what my name might suggest, my world has become rather dim as of late.

With a bankrupt business to save, homeless kittens that need rescuing, and a new business partner distracting me with every glance, there seems to be a disaster waiting at every turn.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, a murder literally lands on my doorstep—or at least the corpse does. Now I’m struggling to figure out which problem to solve first!

My business partner seems to want to share more than our lease, but I have to take that step very slowly. Of course, I can’t in good conscience leave the kittens to wander the streets. Then again no business means no money.

Decisions. Decisions.

When Nikki Knight returns to her childhood stomping grounds in Frog Hollow Georgia, she realizes life has become nuttier than the pecan muffins at her late grandmother’s haunted B&B. But the only ghost in the Moonlight Mansion is the previous lady of the house, still roaming the halls in her afterlife.

Not ten steps into town, Nikki finds herself with a furry new companion. An abandoned royal dachshund who just might carry the secret to his past owner’s untimely demise. But when Nikki is seen snooping around at one too many crime scenes, the local officer becomes suspicious and begins popping up where she least expects him.

Now, she needs to find out what happened ASAP and protect Prince Dasher Dangerdog Bean from falling into the wrong—and deadly—hands.

Can Nikki and her royal dachshund solve the case? Or will they end up roaming the Moonlight Mansion with her grandmother?