JL Collins Publishing LLC
A Winifred Baxter Mystery
by Jessie Clark
The Winifred Baxter Mysteries, Book 3 | Paranormal cozy mystery
An iron key opens a house that's been shut for thirty-five years - and the girl at the tower window has been waiting all that time for someone to look up.
When the last of the Merricks comes home to sell Harrow House and dies at the foot of the tower stair, Pelican Cove blames its resident ghost, and the town's beloved old doctor blames a rotten step and enough of this nonsense.
Apothecary Winifred Baxter knows it's murder. She's seen the Harrow Hill girl. She's watched her point. But you cannot put a ghost on the witness stand - and the killer has spent thirty-five years teaching a whole town not to believe its own eyes.
To catch the most reasonable man in Pelican Cove, its own skeptic must do the one thing she's never done: trust what she sees, and then prove it.
A fair-play paranormal cozy mystery. Sweet, closed-door, off-page violence - and deeply suspicious of anyone who's quite that calm.
Perfect for readers of Vicki Delany and Simone St. James who like a dry, clever sleuth, a real haunting, and a clue chain you can solve alongside her.
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JL Collins Publishing is a small independent press built by storytellers, for readers. Under one roof you'll find several distinct voices — thrillers that won't let you sleep, romance and romantasy that pull you under, and nonfiction that actually meets you where you are. Different names, one promise: books worth staying up too late for. Find the voice that's yours and start reading.
A retired CIA case officer. A body on the dock. A cipher only one other person in the world can read.
When a body washes up in a small Vermont town with a classified cipher carved beside it, a retired CIA case officer must hunt the only other person alive who could read it — before a twenty-one-year-old conspiracy finishes its cleanup.
The antiques remember everything. They just can’t tell you when.
The antiques in Addie Wrent’s shop witnessed a murder. Two of them, actually — sixty years apart, the same room, the same hour. Her new Victorian desk remembers both and can’t tell which is which. With a historian dead in the archive and her late great-aunt’s handwriting turning up where it can’t be, Addie has a spreadsheet, a gramophone, and a very bad feeling about the nicest family in town. Book Two of the Crabapple Antiques Mysteries.
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A Winifred Baxter Mystery
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Where love defies the order of eternity.
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Forty-five, starting over, on her own terms.
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In a city that sells true names, Lira spends everything to buy a stranger's so no crueler hand can hold it. Now she owns the deadliest man alive, and refuses to use the leash. The bond has other ideas. Slow-burn, closed-door romantasy. Book One.
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Some things are worth more than their tag says. So are some secrets.
Addie Wrent runs an antiques shop full of objects that talk back, so a cash register with opinions is not the strangest thing on her counter. Then the register starts screaming at an auctioneer's cheapest lots, a plain writing box vanishes from a locked hall, and the man who catalogued it turns up dead.
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When cryptocurrency markets crash 26% in forty-three seconds, FBI Special Agent Alexandra Morgan sees what others miss: coordination. Her investigation leads to Dominion Labs, a tech company that hasn't just built infrastructure to prevent financial crises. They've built infrastructure to create them.
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The markets are stable. The crisis is over. The lie is perfect. FBI analyst Alex Morgan discovers microscopic anomalies in the global financial system: patterns that suggest Silas Sterling's AI-driven Aegis protocol isn't just preventing crises, it's orchestrating them. With hacker Kael Reed and an alliance with the Yakuza, she uncovers a conspiracy to seize control of the world's infrastructure through algorithmic manipulation. But exposing the truth may be impossible when the system has already won, and stability itself has become the ultimate weapon.
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Justice isn't blind. It's corrupted. When attorney Maya Reeves receives evidence that eight women were wrongfully convicted, she has forty-eight hours to follow the trail before it disappears. The files point through prosecutors, judges, and the powerful law firm that built her career. To expose the truth, Maya will have to risk everything the system has given her.
An Exclusive Mystery Chronicles Short Story
Some stories are better left untold. Investigative journalist Emma Hartwell arrives at Blackwood Manor on a stormy night to interview Lady Catherine Blackwood about the locked-room disappearance of her husband forty years earlier. As midnight nears and the house closes in, Emma realizes the old mystery has only been waiting for someone curious enough to open the wrong door.
The Silent Code Series
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A device-free wellness retreat on Raven Island turns into a trap when software engineer Maya Chen realizes the guests were chosen for what they know.
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A Christmas Eve 911 call sends Detective Maya Chen through a blizzard to Pinewood Lodge, where a family reunion has become a locked-house mystery.
The Silent Code Series, Book One
A Secret Service agent uncovers a cyberattack inside the White House and a conspiracy hiding in the systems she swore to protect.
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Before Emily Jensen became a Secret Service agent, she was an Army Ranger drawn into the fight that would shape the Silent Code series.
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Emily Jensen faces a destabilizing cyber-conspiracy where one line of code can bring a nation to its knees.
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A wave of inexplicable breakdowns strikes the world’s most secure intelligence systems. NSA analyst Emily Jensen uncovers a terrifying pattern: someone is using code to fracture human minds. To stop a threat that can turn trust into terror, she must confront the hidden architect before the reckoning becomes irreversible.
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After destroying the rogue AI Dominion, Emily Jensen and Jack Carter are drawn into a new global cyber crisis. A self-learning threat built on Dominion’s code is collapsing critical infrastructure and targeting anyone who can stop it. As the shadowy organization Phaedra closes in, Emily and Jack must face the ghosts of their past before the world falls silent.
Emma, Lily, and Sophie Holloway have one rule: keep the magic small. Willow Creek is a town with a long memory—and a new history teacher who sees patterns where others see coincidences. When whispers turn toward witch, the sisters choose gentler magic, quieter beauty, and a community that says yes before it’s afraid. To stay, they must turn spectacle into service and fear into courage—one rosemary cup, one planted shrub, and one small light at a time.
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