A Plot to Die For

Welcome to Bliss, Iowa, where the coffee is strong, the residents are delightfully nosy, and murder has become an unfortunate community event.

After seven years away, Lyssa Jones is back in her quirky Mississippi river hometown with a failed marriage, no job prospects, and absolutely no plan for what comes next. Helping at Bliss’s annual Pen & Pages Book Festival seems like the perfect distraction until a bitter feud between two bestselling authors turns deadly.

Now one author is dead.

Worse, Lyssa’s beloved Aunt Maybee has become the prime suspect.

Maybee is famous in Bliss for her homemade desserts, over-the-top comfort food, and feeding half the town straight from her kitchen table, but Lyssa is certain her aunt is not a killer. To clear her name, Lyssa teams up with her lifelong best friend, Mayor Holly Bliss, and launches an amateur murder investigation armed with little more than caffeine, true crime television knowledge, and determination.

As if things weren’t chaotic enough, Lyssa’s late father has decided death is no reason to stop giving advice. Jimi Jones appears at the worst possible moments with sarcastic commentary, ghostly observations, and entirely too many opinions about the investigation.

Between quirky small-town residents, festival drama, family secrets, a mischievous cat named Trouble, and a growing list of suspects, Lyssa quickly realizes that coming home to Bliss may be more dangerous than leaving ever was.

A Plot to Die For is a funny small-town cozy mystery filled with charming local businesses, found family, amateur sleuthing, and paranormal touches. Perfect for readers who love bookish cozy mysteries, witty heroines, quirky communities, clean mysteries, and small-town murder with heart.

Previously published as Living in Bliss.

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