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!

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

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.