A bookstore, a grumpy newspaper woman, and a murder. Quiet St. Marin's has just gotten a little more lively . . . and a little less alive.All Harvey Beckett wants to do is read books, help the residents of St. Marin's find the perfect book for that moment, and snuggle with her hound dog Mayhem. But when the small, waterside town's newest resident discovers the body of the community's persnickety reporter in her bookshop storeroom on opening day, Harvey finds herself bound and determined to figure out the crime. Her task won't be easy, though, since the town is flooded with visitors for the first annual Harriet Tubman Festival to honor the community's most famous resident. Plus, a quiet but charming mechanic named Daniel isn't helping with her concentration at all.Publishable By Death is the first book in the St. Marin's Cozy Mystery Series by ACF Bookens.

A dead dairy farmer, a high-maintenance author, and an amateur sleuth on the case. When bookstore owner Harvey Beckett wanders into the local farm-to-table shop, she isn’t expecting to stumble over the body of the neighborhood’s most-reviled farmer by the ice cream cooler. Soon, she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for his murderer, even when it puts her and her beloved hound Mayhem right in the path of a runaway combine. Harvey can’t let her sleuthing distract her too much though because she has her bookshop’s first author event to manage. It’s good a certain handsome mechanic is willing to lend a hand. Entitled To Kill is the second book in the St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series by ACF Bookens.