WELCOME TO BUTTERNUT COVE
A seaside town of cherished traditions, historic secrets, and mysteries that refuse to stay buried.
Twenty miles north of Boston, Butternut Cove is a place where weathered houses overlook the harbor, neighbors remember everything, and the past is never quite finished with the present.
At the heart of town is the fine yellow-brick Heirloom Table Café, where Faye Harper serves comforting food and discovers that listening carefully can reveal far more than people intend. With her remarkable Great Dane, Tiny, beside her, Faye is drawn into mysteries woven through the town’s homes, families, and history.
The Butternut Cove Mysteries are traditional cozies filled with culinary comforts, seaside charm, unforgettable animals, and fair-play puzzles readers can solve alongside Faye.
Traditional Cozy
Faye and Tiny
Fowl Play & Figgy Pudding
One historian. Forty years of silence.
And a body ten days before Christmas.
Faye Harper opened The Heirloom Table Café to serve comfort food and holiday cheer—not to find one of her patrons dead. But Margaret Ellis is gone, and Butternut Cove’s meticulous town historian was definitely not a woman who died by accident.
Margaret spent the autumn cataloging the Historical Society’s oldest records. Somewhere among the faded files, she uncovered a secret a local family spent forty years keeping quiet. She was on her way to tell someone what she’d found, but she was silenced before she ever got the chance.
Now the Victorian Christmas Ball is just days away, and half of Butternut Cove has a reason to want those records buried forever.
Flanked by Tiny, her delightfully oversized Great Dane, and Ebenezer, an opinionated goose with an eye for trouble, Faye starts digging into the questions the police won't touch. But in a town where everyone knows everyone, finding the truth means exposing secrets someone would kill to keep hidden.
A charming, festive seaside whodunit filled with holiday treats, eccentric pets, and small-town intrigue.
Open House, Closed Case
Lydia Bell promised Faye Harper a remarkable discovery. She never lived to explain it.
Christmas is coming to Butternut Cove, and café owner Faye Harper has a candlelight opening to cater and a gingerbread replica of the newly restored Verity Doyle House to finish. Then the Historical Society’s archivist is found dead beside her cottage hearth. The papers she wanted Faye to see have vanished.
An old deed. A private letter. A connection to Faye’s own family—and a stretch of coastal land the Society is about to sell.
Determined to discover what Lydia found, Faye follows the trail into a sealed room and a history the town has quietly forgotten. But someone has been choosing which pieces of that history survive. And the approaching sale gives Faye little time to recover what is missing.
With her devoted Great Dane, Tiny, close beside her and detective Luke Grayson working the case, Faye begins asking questions that reach uncomfortably close to home.
Can she uncover the truth behind Lydia’s discovery before another life is lost—and someone makes the past disappear for good?
Open House, Closed Case is a warm-hearted Christmas cozy mystery of historic houses, small-town loyalty, and secrets kept for love—and for worse reasons. A standalone holiday installment in the Butternut Cove Mysteries, perfect for readers who like their crime gentle, their towns snowy, and their geese suspicious.
