A classic small-town cozy mystery with a duo of buddy sleuths! The Wicked Wick Mysteries feature pals Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch, who run the Wicked Wick candle & tea shop in quaint little Fall Haven. Between coming up with signature scents and creating new loose-leaf tea flavors, they must use their olfactory skills to sniff out clues and solve a myriad of mysteries around their beloved small town alongside a cast of colorful characters.
“This was a fun sensory tease wrapped around a small town mystery.” — Amazon review
Childhood friends Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch left their high-pressure, big-city jobs to pursue a quieter life running the Wicked Wick candle shop in the small town of Fall Haven. Rumors about a giant chain warehouse store moving to town have the mom-and-pop business owners on edge, but the community is stringing up lights, baking pies, and setting up booths in the town square to sell their wares at the annual Winter Festival. When a prominent local businessperson winds up dead in the middle of the festival grounds, Leigh and Paloma realize their little hamlet isn’t as quiet and innocent as they had hoped. Plenty of people have a lot to lose if the megastore comes to town, but are any of them angry enough to kill?
The women of Wicked Wick must sniff around for clues and solve the crime before their business — or their lives — are snuffed out.
Renovations at the old Fall Haven Maple Factory are right on target until an overenthusiastic giant dog reveals a secret long hidden in the historic walls: a body!
The local sheriff is too busy investigating a string of fires to be of much help on this one. As the fires pop up closer and closer to the center of town, Fall Haven residents become more spooked. So amateur sleuths Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch step out of their comfort zone at the Wicked Wick candle shop and into the sticky situation. With their eclectic team of helpers, they must dig into the factory’s not-so-perfect past to determine who the victim was and who did the dirty deed, before the old maple factory or their beloved candle shop go up in smoke.
The impending destination wedding of movie star Hudson Smith-Jones to social media celebrity Song Yu has Fall Haven filled to bursting with fans, families, invited guests, and apparently… a killer.
Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch at the Wicked Wick candle shop have been hired to create a signature “ScentStory” for the extravagant Yu-Smith-Jones affair. When one of the wedding party shows up dead in the middle of town, Leigh and Paloma must follow the olfactory clues to sniff out the killer before someone else is left pushing up daisies.
Fall Haven loves a good festival, especially when it’s fall themed! The Sleepy Haven Farm is going all out this year, with a you-pick-it pumpkin patch, a haunted farm and corn maze, and loads of spooky activities all week long. Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch will be splitting time between their Wicked Wick candle shop on the Fall Haven town square and spending evenings out at the farm selling hot tea and cider. When they offer to help out with some of the haunted activities, they are confronted with something far scarier than vampire jump-scares and fake blood splattered everywhere: a real dead body.
Leigh and Paloma follow their noses and sniff out clues – even when they are super stinky – in this fourth installment of the Wicked Wick Mysteries series.
When a massive snowstorm hits Fall Haven, many residents and out-of-towners alike are trapped out at the Old Maple Inn in the blizzard. Up-and-coming chef Won Shin prepares an extravagant French-Korean fusion meal as the inn’s new chef-in-residence, and course after course, everyone gets a little more than they bargained for. But when someone turns up dead in a snowdrift right outside the inn, all signs point to a certain chocolate sauce as the likely culprit.
Leigh and Paloma and the gang hunt down clues through cabins, kitchens, and the frozen wilderness to figure out who did the delectably dirty deed and why before someone else gets iced. With Arsenic Sauce is book 5 in the series.
As tensions rise and more secrets are brought to light, Leigh and Paloma race against time to identify the culprit before more lives are lost. Along the way, they encounter a web of intertwined secrets, clandestine affairs, and long-held grudges that threaten to tear the community apart.