Ivy Bloom Mysteries Box Set 1

About this book

Three complete cozy mysteries. One small Vermont town. One matchmaker who keeps asking the questions nobody wants answered.

Ivy Bloom came home to Clover Lake with four boxes, a cat and a law career she does not discuss. Her grandmother's matchmaking agency keeps its entire method in a shoebox of index cards, alphabetized by first name. In a town of three thousand, everybody knows everybody, and at least one of them is lying.

FILED UNDER MURDER
A developer dies at the agency's own welcome-back party, forty yards from the pavilion, with an auto-injector in his hand that did not work. The answer is in a town clerk's cash book, and it costs twenty cents to find.

REGISTERED FOR MURDER
Verna Beaudry has done the flowers for every wedding in Clover Lake since 1988, and she writes it all down. When her own book remembers a wedding differently from the town, she tells one person she is going to put it right. A week later she is found in a hired refrigerated trailer, and the rental agreement has the name of Ivy's closest friend on it.

CATALOGED FOR MURDER
A rival matchmaker from Burlington tells a gym full of hopeful singles that two of them are family, and promises to say which two when the lights go down. In the morning a retired surveyor finds her from his canoe. The last person Ivy saw with her, holding her hard by the arm on the dock, was Chief Nash Calloway, and Nash will not say one word about it.

🔍 What you are getting
Three full-length novels, more than 250,000 words.
Fair-play puzzles. Every clue is on the page before the reveal.
A town you could find your way around in the dark, and a cast that grows with every book.
Warm, wry and closed-door. No gore. No spice.

⚠️ What you are not getting
The cat solves nothing, in any of the three. He is, however, sold at auction for forty dollars.
The romance moves at roughly the speed of a dog walk.

Start with a shoebox of index cards. Finish with Thanksgiving in a barn for forty.

Ivy Bloom Mysteries, Books 1–3.