Pick a Secret Santa Now Available!

Carol's planning her wedding. What she didn't plan was finding a dead body.

Sherri and Carol have a successful antiques sale at the Paradise Winter Festival, but things go south when they find a dead body later that day.

Can they figure out who the killer is from a cast of characters as diverse as the Secret Santa gifts at the annual Pope County Pickers holiday party?

Pick a Secret Santa is a clean, short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in a small town that feature an amateur sleuth.

Be sure to check out the rest of the books in the Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mystery series, Picked to Death, Cotton Picking Murder, Picked On, Pick a Letter, Fatal Pickings, Pick a Tune, Picked Clean, and Easy Pickings, for more small town fun and crime solving in the close-knit community of Paradise.

Pick a Secret Santa is the ninth short book in the Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mysteries series, and is a complete mystery that you can read in an hour or two. As a clean read, it does NOT contain strong language or graphic violence. Just Sherri and her sidekick Carol. Oh and Sherri's husband Ralph and their sweet cat, Kitty Jo, and of course Leon, Carol's new fiancé.

Time to Cozy Up with 58 Cozy Mystery Books and a Couple of New Novels

Oh, the weather certainly has a nip in the air, at least where I live! How about you? Has fall arrived? I love it. The days are getting shorter and you know what that means. More time in the evening for reading!

I'm happy to announce that I have three of my Antique Pickers short ebooks in the Cozy Up promo that I am lucky enough to participate in. 

You can get any or all of these cozy mystery titles (and some are collections or box sets) for free or just 99 cents! Stock up for the cool evenings ahead.

But this promo only runs through tomorrow (October 9) so grab them now!

And I have a couple of full-length novels published that I need to tell you about. I wrote both of these novels several years ago and recently dug them out and polished them up. 

Same Old Same Old is a departure from my cozy mysteries, but a coming of age novel of sorts that looks at the life of Patty Parks as a young girl and as a woman.

Retreat is a huge departure from my cozy mysteries! I wanted to write about the absurdities of the workplace and "working for the man." It's a humorous novel and not for the faint of heart. (Let's just say the language and situations are rather adult in nature.)

Picked Clean, Book 7 is Here

Check it out! I published Picked Clean, book 7 in the Antique Pickers in Paradise cozy mystery series, recently and am excited to share it with you! This was a fun one to write and I love how the title fits in so well with the story. Love when that happens!



And I'm also excited to share a promo I'm involved in. Check out Make a Splash with Cozy Mysteries through tomorrow (Sunday, July 9) for 30 free and 99-cent books. Yay!

Hook, Line and Stinker FREE Till April 14

Yep, Hook, Line and Stinker will only be free till April 14 then it will once again be a paid ebook. 

So, get your copy now so you don't miss out on the adventures of Lily Thistle, fifth grade teacher who must clear her name when she stumbles upon a womanizer on the beach in her new town. Things smell foul from there.

Click this link and grab Hook, Line and Stinker on all of the major book retailers. Just choose Amazon, iBooks, Nook, and more to get your free copy now! 

Then check out Stored to Death for more amateur sleuth fun in the small Pacific Northwest town of Port Peculiar.

Free Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

If you're like me, you love a good giveaway. Right now I'm part of a giveaway with eight other cozy mystery writers. You can check it out on the Love Kissed Cozies website.

You might just win one of three Amazon gift cards! 

Please follow me on Amazon to enter, and pick up a cozy or two if you need a quick break. My Antique Pickers in Paradise series are all short reads, perfect for an hour or so of fun escape. 

Fatal Pickings, Book 5 in Cozy Mystery Series Is Out!

The latest cozy mystery short read in the Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mystery Series is out! In case you haven't seen it yet, this one, it's another short read that you can devour in just an hour or so. Check out Fatal Pickings on Amazon, iTunes/iBooks, Nook, and more by clicking this link.


When one of antique pickers Sherri Green and Carol O'Brien's best customers dies, they become suspicious. Was the cause of death really an accident? 

After learning that Benedict Joslin's death likely was not an accident as originally thought, the pair begins digging around to find out who killed the old man.The problem is Benedict wasn't very well liked and the suspect list keeps getting longer.

Fatal Pickings is a clean, short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in a small town that feature an amateur sleuth.

Fatal Pickings is the fifth short book in the Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mysteries series, and is a complete mystery that you can read in an hour or two. As a clean read, it does NOT contain strong language or graphic violence. Just Sherri and her sidekick Carol. Oh and Sherri's husband Ralph and their sweet cat, Kitty Jo.

Pick a Letter, Book 4, Is Available

Well, well, where has the time gone!? Do you find it hard to believe it's nearly the middle of February already? I do!

I have a new short read ready for you in the antique pickers in Paradise cozy mystery series. This one is called Pick a Letter and was really fun to write. 

When antique picker Sherri Green is the winning bidder of a box of ephemera at an auction, she thinks she's just bought just an innocent box of old papers. But a stack of letters from the 1970s grabs her attention and she's off.

With the help of her gossipy antiques picking parter, Carol O'Brien, Sherri tracks down the girl who wrote the letters all those years ago and unravels a mystery decades old. 

Pick a Letter is a clean, short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in a small town that feature an amateur sleuth.

Pick a Letter is the fourth short book in the Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mysteries series, and is a complete mystery that you can read in an hour or two. As a clean read, it does NOT contain strong language or graphic violence. Just Sherri and her sidekick Carol. Oh and Sherri's husband Ralph and their sweet cat, Kitty Jo.

Be sure to check out the first three books in the Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mystery series, Picked to Death, Cotton Picking Murder, and Picked On, for more small town fun and crime solving in the close-knit community of Paradise.

Picked On is Now Available

Book 3 in my Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mystery series is now available! 

In this short read, Sherri and Carol visit Maisy's Miracles, a small thrift shop in a neighboring town. But once there, they find out that Maisy Dupree is missing. Add a creepy doll and Sherri and Carol's sleuthing abilities and this is a fun read.

Check out all three of the antique pickers short reads available right now on all platforms:

Picked to Death, book 1
Cotton Picking Murder, book 2
Picked On, book 3

I hope you're enjoying the winter weather and it's just cold enough to snuggle down with a good book but not so cold that you're miserable.

Happy reading!

Maggie West

Cozy Book Bundle Only 99 Cents!

Check out the new box set of cozy mysteries available today December 27! These are all full length novels and the best part? It’s just $.99 for all of them! 

My novel Hook, Line and Stinker is one of the books in this mystery bundle so head over to one of these retailers and grab it now!

Here are the links:

Amazon US

Amazon UK

Barnes and Noble

Kobo

I hope you get a chance to check out 25 Mysteries to Die For. That's a lot of new authors to read and enjoy!

Cotton Picking Murder Is Here!

Woo hoo! Cotton Picking Murder, book 2 in my Antique Pickers in Paradise cozy mystery series is here!

The first book in the series introduced Sherri and Carol, picking partners, who live in a small Midwestern town called Paradise. The pair solves murders with the help of Deputy Leon Fletcher.

In Cotton Picking Murder, the antique pickers are scouring a farm sale when Sherri literally stumbles upon a body. Check it out on Amazon and see if you can figure out whodunit.

Get caught up and read Picked to Death first then jump into Cotton Picking Murder. I hope you like these books. They're a lot of fun to write!

New Short Cozy Series: Picked to Death

I'm happy to announce that book 1 in my new short cozy mystery series is published! The series is called Antique Pickers in Paradise and the book is called Picked to Death. 

This series features Sherri and Carol, picking partners. They live in a small Midwestern town called Paradise, and between the two of them always solve the murders that crop up as they search for antique treasures.

I hope you grab a copy and enjoy reading about the antiques, the murder, and how Sherri and Carol use their shared knowledge to find the bad buy.

Coming Soon: Book 2 in My Cozy Series, Stored to Death

I'm excited to announce that book 2 in my Lily Thistle Cozy Mystery series is coming soon. Stored to Death is the name, and solving the murder is the game. 

Stored to Death features, what else, but a dead body in a trunk in Lily's storage unit. Oh my! This time Lily's brother-in-law Dr. John Wisdom is suspect number 1 and Lily must clear his name before his dental practice, Wisdom Teeth, gets a bad name in the small town of Port Peculiar.

Check my Amazon author page to see all of my books and to read Hook, Line & Stinker, book 1 in the series.

New Cozy Series: Hook, Line and Stinker, Book 1 is Now Available

I'm so happy to announce that the first book in my new cozy mystery series is now available on Amazon. Hook, Line and Stinker is the name, and for Lily Thistle, clearing her name is the game.

Lily is the new fifth grade teacher at Port Peculiar Primary School. On her first day, she takes a walk along the beach and stumbles upon the body of a local garbage man. When Lily is considered a suspect, she has to find out who really killed the womanizing dude and clear her name so the hot chief of police will think of her as something other than a murder suspect.

Download your own copy and come along for the ride while Lily learns to work around the small town gossip to find the killer. 

I hope you enjoy my new book and look forward to hearing from you!

Hook, Line, and Stinker ~ It's Almost Cozy Time!

For the better part of this year, off and on, I've been writing a cozy mystery novel. What a challenge that is! How in the heck do you write a book and not give away who dun it? Well, it's tricky, let me tell you, but I think I did it. 

The first book in my Lily Thistle Cozy Mystery series will be available mid-November. There, I've said it publicly so I have to publish it by then! 

The series is set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest where Lily Thistle, an elementary schoolteacher, resides. She's new to town and that town is Port Peculiar, Washington. When she finds a body on a walk along the beach her first day of school, her new life is turned upside down when she's a suspect in the local garbageman's murder.

Stay tuned for Hook, Line, and Stinker!

In the meantime, check out my other books on Amazon. 

Back in Time, Book 3 in Time Travel Series

I recently published the third book in my time travel series, Doorways to the Past. This book, Back in Time, is a short read, just 52 pages, so it's perfect for when you have an hour or so and want to finish a story in one sitting.

Back in Time has its first review on Amazon:  

"I really liked this story. It was a short, feel-good read. Interesting plot with likeable characters."

Check it out on Amazon today and see if you agree!

And Now for Something a Little Different -- Time Travel Short Reads

Earlier in July I published two time travel short reads, and now I'm working on the third story. These are really fun to write with the suspension of disbelief. I mean, time travel! Really? Yes, really! Wouldn't that be fun if we could take off on some travels? I think so, just so we could come back to the here and now!

In this new series called Doorways to the Past, Ali Cummings enters, what else?, doorways and is transported back in time. In each book a different doorway leads Ali to the past.

In book 1, Abandoned in Time, Ali meets an old family friend. In 1944. He is a young man during World War II, and Ali must convince him that she is who she is, despite the consequences that will follow.

In book 2, Caught in Time, Ali once again meets friends of her family. This time she travels back to the 1970s, and it's her parents close friends she runs into one lazy summer day at the lake. The couple, who are younger than Ali, help Ali with a mission she realizes she is there to remedy.

I hope you get a chance to take a look at these books. They're both free if you have Kindle Unlimited and are just 99 cents to buy.

The Marriage Deadline, chick lit/romance/humor all rolled into one!

I'm excited to let you know that I published The Marriage Deadline earlier this month. It's a fun look at one woman's desire to get married, online dating and the highs and lows that come with that, and life in general and what it means to be happy.

Here's the book blurb:

Jill Johnson, 33, wants to get married, but she has no hot prospects on the horizon. Heck, she doesn't even have any cool prospects in her life. After attending yet one more co-worker's wedding, Jill decides she too will be married within a year.

If you get a minute, take a look. I think this story is a fun read, and it's a bit longer than my other books at nearly 160 pages. 

The Marriage Deadline is available on Amazon. If you're a Kindle Unlimited member, you can download it and read it for free! I'd love to hear what you think.

Thanks for stopping by!

Free Western Ebook April 15 and 16

Today and tomorrow you can download book 1 in my Rocky Mountain Romance short story series. 

Find Prompted by Desire on Amazon. It's free through midnight Thursday.

Hope you are able to grab it and enjoy reading it!

Truth on His Side by Maggie West

Truth on His Side is book 2 in the Rocky Mountain Romance short story series. This story continues where book 1 Prompted by Desire leaves off. 

Tyler and Beth are in love, but their long distance relationship makes it hard for the romance they each desire. Beth is finishing her last semester of veterinary school in northeastern Colorado and Tyler is busy shoeing horses in the southwestern part of the state. 

Will the rancher's wife who Tyler had a fling with before he met Beth come between the new couple? She'd like to and threatens to tell all to Tyler's new girlfriend. 

With truth on his side, Tyler tells Beth of his indiscretion, but when his plan of being honest backfires, their lives are upset. Is their blossoming relationship over before it even had a chance? 

Free Romance Today and Tomorrow - Seduction in Riverside

Today and tomorrow (April 1 and 2) download book 1 in our Riverside Romance short story series for free!

You heard right! You can read the first of our three books for free! Click this link:  Seduction in Riverside if you'd like to check out this short read, perfect for when you have a few minutes here and there or want to finish a book in less than a few hours.

Luke says Callie has his heart. But sultry Victoria is back once more to reclaim his heart as well as his body. Now Callie must decide for sure if lies or love is his game. 

What started as a normal day for Callie Rogers ended as one that made her doubt the man she loved. 

For six months, Callie has been living with Luke Sullivan, her seemingly perfect man. But after having lunch with her friend Heather, Callie sees Luke with another woman. 

When Callie confronts Luke about this mystery woman, he brushes it off as if nothing happened. But Callie knows what she saw. When Callie’s friend Heather sees Luke with this woman the next day in a compromising position, Callie doesn’t know what to think. 

Can their relatively young relationship survive?