Elizabeth Spann Craig

There's some shady business at the garden club event. Spring has sprung in Bradley, North Carolina, and the town is buzzing as the local garden club...

This is one doctor who's permanently booked up. Dr. Victor Wilson was one of the most popular physicians in the small town of Whitby, North Carolina....

Sometimes a novel idea can turn out to be a bad one.  Sally Simmons was rather misunderstood in the small town of Whitby, North Carolina. An awkward...

Learn Spanish with Myrtle: In this easy-reader mystery, Spanish students will be able to increase their vocabulary while solving mysteries with amateur...

There are no renewals when you’re permanently checked out.  When librarian Ann Beckett finally reluctantly agrees to being set-up on a blind date by...

Diners can prove hazardous to your health. Although Palmer Baxter hasn’t lived in the small town of Bradley long, she’s already become a force to...

This is one book club meeting that doesn’t go by the book. When octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover discovers Naomi Pelter’s dead body during a book club...

Extreme gardening often involves gnomes and planted bodies… It’s just an ordinary day for octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover—until her yardman discovers...

It's hard keeping secrets in small towns.   At first, librarian Ann Beckett is delighted her director hired another full-time staff member. The...

Unintended snooping can mean getting into someone's bad books. The Whitby Library has been a busy place lately, between book clubs, children’s...

If you can't beat them, join them.   Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is so annoyed by the infighting at tiny Bradley, North Carolina's town council...

No good deed goes unpunished . The Whitby Library is a hive of activity. The basement of the old building is under construction and there are smaller...

The course of true love never did run smooth. According to Myrtle, Eloise Crane set her cap for Miles long ago. Although Miles is now dating Eloise,...

ForeWord: "The treat here is Myrtle's eccentricity, brought to life with rich humor and executed ...with breezy skill." This Myrtle Clover sampler,...

Food for thought: seasoning with these berries results in a dash of murder. It's been a quiet autumn so far in the small town of Bradley, North...

Someone will be getting coal in his stocking . . .    It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the small town of Bradley, North Carolina....

Parke Stockard was certainly sitting pretty. Blessed with good looks and business sense to boot, she should have been content. Instead, Parke makes trouble...

When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern...

Playing Bunco may be fun…but murder proves a game-changer. Octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover has never heard of the dice game Bunco. Regardless, she...