Cozy Cat Press Welcomes Four New Authors

AURORA, Ill. - Sept. 17, 2016 - PRLog -- Today, Cozy Cat Press publisher Patricia Rockwell announced four new mysteries from four new authors. Rockwell noted that, "We are delighted to add these excellent writers to the over forty other cozy mystery authors at CCP."

D. Ray Pauwels, from Canada, pens the Cisco Maloney mystery series, with the first entry being Who Iced the Snowman?  The book tells a satirical tale of an ex-cop turned private investigator, who's staring down a pile of unpaid bills, a dissatisfied client, and a wrathful land lady. When word gets around that millionaire children's entertainer Plotzky the Snowman has been found melted under suspicious circumstances, Cisco and his sidekick Carmine set out to investigate, spurred by the promise of a $1,000 reward. The trail leads them through the fantastical underbelly of Wurstburg, USA, populated by roving gangs of second-class snowmen out to avenge their fallen brother, and shadowy figures like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, who run the city's rackets. Everyone's got a motive. Everyone's a suspect. But only one of them knows Who Iced The Snowman?

Linda Crowder's mystery is entitled The Deadly Art of Deception, the first in her Caribou King mysteries and takes place in tiny Coho Bay, Alaska, one of many stops on the itinerary for some major cruise ship lines. Cara King, owner of the local art gallery is thrown out of her daily routine when an old school pal Taylor shows up asking for refuge. Cara is cautious; Taylor is the widow of one of Alaska's most renown artists––John Snow, who was mauled to death by a bear the previous year. Why would his widow want to return to the place of her dead husband's demise? Seems Taylor may be hiding a secret––along with hiding herself. Will Cara help her old friend Taylor, or will doing so just get her in a heap of trouble? When a headless body is discovered in the bay, the latter seems the most likely, and Cara suddenly wonders just who she can trust in this tiny village.

Ms. Crowder is best known for her Jake and Emma mystery series, set in her adopted home town of Casper, Wyoming. Crowder a and her husband fell in love with Alaska on their first trip there in 2014. Her love of the Alaskan Inside Passage led her to place the Caribou King mysteryseries in the mythical cruise ship town of Coho Bay, Alaska.

The Press's third new author, Kenn Grimes, produces historical mysteries. His first in his Booker Falls series is Strangled in the Stacks. In 1919, Myrtle Tully, recently returned to America from serving as a "Hello Girl" in Europe during World War I, takes a job as assistant librarian at Adelaide College in Booker Falls, Michigan. The discovery of a cache of letters received by a student who held the same position that Myrtle now holds, Yvette Sinclair, shortly before she was found strangled to death in the same library some twenty-eight years earlier, a crime never solved, sets Myrtle off on a quest to uncover the killer's identity. Information she finds results in the trial and conviction of Yvette's boyfriend at the time. But Myrtle is not convinced he is guilty. Further investigation eventually results in Myrtle's life being put in jeopardy by the real killer.

Grimes is both an author and a screenwriter, with two published books to his credit: a collection of short stories, Camptown . . . one hundred and fifty years of stories from Camptown, Kentucky, published in 2005 by Arbutus Press; and The Other Side of Yesterday, a time travel novel published in 2012 by Deer Lake Press. A retired Lutheran minister who served congregations in Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, Grimes later owned and operated Simply Married, the largest wedding service on Maui, Hawaii. During his ministry, he officiated at over 4,200 ceremonies. He and his wife, Judy, also a retired minister, now split their time between their homes in Louisville, Kentucky, and Lower Northern Michigan, where they continue to do weddings.

Finally, Carmen Will is the author of Doubly Departed, the first in her Amanda Winters mysteries. Ms. Will is a freelance writer and editor whose novel, A Practicum for Murder, was a finalist in Poisoned Pen Press' 2013 Discover Mystery contest. In April, 2015, Will's short story, Please Don't Pick the Lemons, was featured on Mash Stories, a website that promotes fiction writing and publishes selected short stories. Will, who earned a B.A. in Professional Communication with a specialization in writing and editing, lives in Sun Lakes, Arizona, with her husband Wayne.

In her book Doubly Departed, young Nathan Reynolds drowned in the Salt River near Arizona's Tempe Town Lake, but someone shot him in the head before he died. Amanda Winters, Nathan's godmother and best friend to Nathan's mother Dinah, believes that his murder may be linked to the ten-year-old disappearance of Nathan's father––corporate attorney Tom Reynolds. While fighting a debilitating panic disorder, Amanda sets out to help local homicide detective Roy Staatz solve Nathan's murder. With help from her son, husband, and quirky Aunt Sally, Amanda charts a course that leads her group of intrepid mystery hunters on a wild chase across the Mexican border, into an abandoned mine, and even onto a pilotless plane soaring high above the mountains.

Readers who would like more information about these or any Cozy Cat Press book, may visit the company's website at: www.cozycatpress.com. All Cozy Cat Press mysteries are available in both print and ebook formats on Amazon.com.