Part of Bookstore Cafe Mystery, book 15
First published 2026
Krissy Hancock runs a bookstore café in Pine Hills, Ohio, and she wants to serve Irish coffee for St. Patrick's Day. Without a liquor license, she partners with a local bar owner to make the drinks complete. The collaboration offers a welcome distraction from wedding planning and her concerns about introducing her cat to future canine family members. The St. Patrick's Day celebration proceeds, but the morning after brings terrible news. The bar owner who helped her fell violently ill during the festivities and never recovered consciousness. What looked like typical holiday overindulgence turned fatal. Now Krissy faces a murder investigation while managing her regular duties of coffee brewing and book selling. She also continues house hunting as her life changes approach. The case presents her with multiple potential killers to consider, each with their own motives for wanting the bar owner dead.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, adult-fiction, cozy-mystery
Vibes: cozy, domestic-charm, lighthearted-mystery, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, found-family, life-changes
Setting: Pine Hills, Ohio
Period: St. Patrick's Day
320 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Kensington Cozies
Content warnings: death, murder