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CHAPPELL AND LILY WHITE LIE ARE RECIPEINTS OF COMMENDATION FROM OHIO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR LITERARY ACCOMPLISHMENT"Simply brilliant. Descriptiveness around every turn." --The Baltimore SunIn Lily White Lie, engravings on a pocketwatch, cryptic messages, Easter lilies, and sidelined spy Bret Kilmore combine to thrust historian Wrenn Grayson into the mysterious world of symbolism. A worried Wrenn connects the messages to her longtime love Gideon and his father. Contact is impossible. Gideon deer hunts deep in the West Virginia wilderness. His father, a prominent banker, vanished after he uncovered a money-laundering scheme. Bret disagrees with Wrenn's assessment. He believes the messages threaten her. They both agree on the symbolism behind the lilies: Lilies signify death. But can Wrenn trust Bret, the man who coincidentally arrived in concert with the first message? The symbolism here is less clear: Bret is a man of intricacies, of light and dark, and lingering shadows. The pocketwatch ticks off the time Wrenn doesn't have. Danger mounts while every viable solution evaporates into mist. Fans of Sue Grafton, Anthony Horowitz, J.A. Jance, and Louise Penny will love Connie Chappell's gripping murder mystery. BEST THRILLERS The Bottom Line: Fans of cozy mysteries will enjoy Wrenn Grayson in Lily White Lie and the well-crafted investigation at the core of the book. INDIE READER Verdict: Lily White Lie is an engagingly written mystery featuring a capable leading lady that mixes a sense of danger with small-town politics and historical intrigue.Purchase Now All Wrenn Grayson mysteries are standalone books and can be read in any order.

SILVER MEDALIST READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FICTION-MYSTERY-GENERAL "The detective's one-of-a-kind process will have readers flipping pages." --Best ThrillersHistorian-for-hire Wrenn Grayson takes on a difficult client in Kerry St. John. Kerry seeks justice for his great-grandfather's lifelong heartache. Wrenn meets the renowned jeweler through words recorded in his tattered journal. The year is 1946. He writes from the tiny crossroads of Wyatt, Ohio, about the theft of a treasured locket and the identity of three possible suspects. The cold case heats up when Lori Hammond arrives. The stolen locket was discovered among her mother's possessions after her death. Lori refuses to return it to the St. John family, so Wrenn sets out to follow the locket's path through history. Next, Lori is attacked and Kerry accused. If Kerry's not guilty, then who is? That question sends cold whispers from the past down Wrenn's spine. In Designs on Ivy's Locket, Connie Chappell focuses on the theme of parents and children, separated by death, by theft, and by design. Fans of Sue Grafton, Anthony Horowitz, J.A. Jance, and Louise Penny will love this gripping mystery by Connie Chappell. Purchase now All Wrenn Grayson mysteries are standalone books and can be read in any order.

"A nonstop suspense thriller with an amazing cast of characters." --NetGalleyHistorian Wrenn Grayson arrives at the Rosemont mansion expecting to receive payment for her services from the mansion's new owner, Clay Addison. That expectation dies when she and Clay find Trey Rosemont murdered on the foyer floor. Across town, police officers race to Eastwood University. Priceless Egyptian artifacts were stolen from the history department safe. Wrenn's longtime love, Eastwood professor Gideon Douglas, heads the department. Only recovery of the artifacts will save his career. Life in Havens, Ohio, doesn't stop for this crime spree. Wrenn works for Mayor K.C. Tallmadge. He wishes Wrenn would stop searching down clues ahead of the police and pacify temperamental playwright Barton Reed. Barton's play is just days away from opening in the town's historic Baxter Theater. Amid murder, theft, or curtain calls, Wrenn's instincts prove sharp. But it's her stubborn one-woman approach that places her directly in the killer's path. Fans of Sue Grafton, Anthony Horowitz, J.A. Jance, and Louise Penny will love this gripping mystery by Connie Chappell. Purchase now All Wrenn Grayson mysteries are standalone books and can be read in any order.

RECIPIENT OF MAXY AWARD FOR BEST LITERARY FICTION AND READERS' FAVORITE AWARD FOR WOMEN'S FICTIONWhen Callie MacCallum sews her first quilt after the death of her lover Jack Sebring, she doesn't realize she'll be drawn into a Sebring family battle between his wife and daughter-in-law. She simply wants to fulfill her promise to Jack to visit their cabin in the West Virginia mountains, where their long love affair was safely hidden. Instead, her emotionally reminiscent trip becomes crowded with the two Sebring women, a grief counselor, and the massive role Callie assumes. She must speak for Jack in order to protect his four-year old grandson Chad from his stubbornly manipulative and blame-passing grandmother and his recently widowed and power-usurping mother. Callie understands both women grieve the loss of Chad's father. He died when a raging storm split the tree that crushed him. Grief isn't the only common thread running between the four women. One by one, their secrets are revealed on the West Virginia mountaintop. This award-winning novel is a purchase to be read many times over. Fans of Sue Monk Kidd, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Liane Moriarty will love Connie Chappell's new captivating contemporary family drama, filled with romance and emotion. Connie Chappell is lauded "a master writer" by the Orlando Sentinel. "Wild Raspberries artfully captures the struggle to see clearly in the midst of loss, with well-placed comic moments to break the tension. The women's lives are woven into a plot composed of bristling encounters and whip-smart dialogue." -- Foreword Reviews Purchase Now All novels in the Wild Raspberries series are standalone and can be read in any order.

"Dialogue and flow of the story are excellent." -- NetGalleyEvery heart is asked, at some point, to leave something or someone behind while it yearns and aches for a different outcome. Beebe Walker is pulled into a compelling story of lost and found. Inside, she's haunted by a farewell that never came. Her mother abandoned her and her father without a word when she was sixteen. Beebe is surprised by a visit from her ex-fianc , Vincent Bostick. He brings shocking news. Reluctantly, Beebe decides to move back home, to face the past and renew a relationship with her father. Time and again, unexpected sights and sounds invade her memories. They can be both fiends and friends, welcoming and alarming. The first person Beebe meets upon her return is a young man who's new in town. The story Yates Strand tells adds a new facet to Beebe's search for a proper goodbye. Fans of Sue Monk Kidd, Anne Rivers Siddons and Liane Moriarty will love Connie Chappell's new captivating contemporary family drama filled with romance and emotion. Purchase Now All novels in the Wild Raspberries series are standalone books and can be read in any order.