Welcome to Butternut Cove & Sycamore Harbor
Welcome to Butternut Cove, a seaside town where cafés are warm, secrets run deep, and every friendly smile may be hiding a clue.
Naomi Greer’s cozy mysteries blend coastal charm, fair-play puzzles, heartfelt friendships, and unforgettable animal sidekicks —
with just enough intrigue to keep the kettle on.
A Cozy Mystery Filled with Heart, Humor, Holiday Charm & Coastal Atmosphere
In the seaside town of Butternut Cove, Christmas arrives wrapped in Victorian traditions, harbor fog, twinkling lights, and the quiet weight of history. Here, holiday celebrations run deep, secrets linger beneath the surface, and even a peaceful Christmas can turn complicated.
When the town's historic researcher, Margaret Ellis, is found dead just days before the annual Victorian Christmas Ball, café owner Faye Harper finds herself pulled into a mystery she never wanted to solve. With the town on edge, suspicion weaving through familiar faces, and the truth buried beneath layers of local history, Faye must rely on her instincts—and the loyal presence of her Great Dane, Tiny—to uncover what doesn't add up.
Fowl Play & Figgy Pudding is an atmospheric Christmas cozy mystery filled with small-town charm, festive food, memorable characters, gentle suspense, and a touch of danger—served warm, with heart.
Perfect for readers who love culinary cozies, amateur sleuths, loyal pets, richly drawn settings, and mysteries that linger long after the final page.
Stollen Secrets
A Butternut Cove Christmas Mystery - 2026
A candlelit Christmas at the historic Verity Doyle House.
A letter missing since 1892.
And a café owner whose gingerbread has one window too many.
When the Historical Society opens the Verity Doyle House for its first public Christmas, Faye Harper has simple plans.
Honor a promise she made to Kent Blake last Christmas.
Perfect her grandmother's stollen.
Look forward to another Thursday dinner with Detective Luke Grayson.
Simply enjoy Christmas.
Instead, the volunteer cataloguing the Doyle archive is found dead beside a cold hearth.
Nothing is disturbed.
Nothing is missing.
Well, except the one letter the volunteer called remarkable.
As Christmas draws near, Faye follows a trail into a sealed attic.
To a locked sugar chest.
And finally, to a bundle of 1892 letters exchanged between two women who kept a secret out of friendship.
With Tiny, her Great Dane, at her side and Ebenezer the goose standing sentry over a forgotten stone, Faye begins to uncover a truth someone is desperate to keep hidden.
But someone in Butternut Cove is keeping a secret out of fear.
Includes two Christmas recipes from the story:
Faye's First-Snow Stollen
and
December Wassail.
Charming, Clever, and Deliciously Cozy.
January 2027
Silent Deed, Book 1
A Butternut Cove Mystery
A cozy mystery wrapped in art, secrets, and coastal charm — where silence passes for peace, old property records hold buried truths, and a winter storm can change everything.
When a nor’easter forces café owner Faye Harper out of her beloved Heirloom Table Café and into the grand Gilded Lily Hotel, she expects to ride it out serving chai and grilled cheese — not discover a body in the service corridor.
Now her best friend Callie may be the real target, a twenty-year-old secret is surfacing through old property records, and the charming coastal town Faye calls home would very much prefer she stop digging.
As Valentine’s Day approaches and the town gathers for its celebrated art show, Faye — with her Great Dane, Tiny, at her side — follows a paper trail someone has spent two decades trying to bury. But in Butternut Cove, every smile hides an opinion, and every favor comes with memory attached.
Silent Deed is a cozy Valentine’s mystery steeped in small-town atmosphere, artistic intrigue, gentle suspense, and secrets that won’t stay buried — served with warmth and a quietly addictive pull.
Perfect for readers who love atmospheric settings, amateur sleuths, memorable pets, and mysteries where the town itself keeps secrets.