The Groove & Grind Mysteries
Cozy mysteries about small towns, big secrets,
and the music that ties them together.
Each book opens with one song and closes with another. Somewhere in between, somebody dies.
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A Groove & Grind Mystery • Book 1 • Late April
When Cady Reed left Wax Creek, she was the girl who almost made it on American Idol. When she comes back, she's the granddaughter who inherited a record shop and a cat with opinions.
Groove & Grind Records has been the heart of this small Mid-South town for decades. Cady plans to keep it that way. New coffee. Old vinyl. Friday night listening parties, just like her grandfather Walt used to throw.
Then Donald Pratt drops dead at the first one.
The coroner says heart attack. The town says natural causes. But Cady keeps hearing things that don't add up. The gossip at the diner is too relieved. The neighbors are too evasive. And the beloved retired teacher everyone adored? He might not have been so beloved after all.
With no evidence, no badge, and no one who believes her, Cady starts asking questions the town would rather leave buried. Because in Wax Creek, everybody knows your name, your business, and exactly which lies to keep telling.
Every small town has its secrets. Some of them are deadly.
Isabelle Cole writes cozy mysteries about small towns, big secrets, and the music that ties them together.
She grew up in the Mid-South, where front porches were for sitting and record collections were for arguing about. A lifelong music lover and collector, she's the kind of person who will dig through a crate of vinyl for an hour looking for a first pressing she doesn't even need, and consider that a perfectly good Saturday.
Her debut series, The Groove & Grind Mysteries, follows Cady Reed, a former almost-famous singer who comes home to run her late grandfather's record shop and discovers that Wax Creek is hiding more than dusty B-sides.
When she's not plotting fictional murders or debating whether Stevie the shop cat is named after Nicks or Wonder, she's home with three border collies who have strong opinions about her writing schedule.
She believes every mystery deserves a soundtrack.