Briar Harbor Mystery · Book 1
Pies & Peril
Maisie Finch traded a cutthroat Boston kitchen for a quiet Maine bakery cottage. Then the town developer dropped dead over her Dutch Apple Cardamom Pie.
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Cozies · $2.99 Coastal Maine · Fiona Dunmore
Briar Harbor Cozies
Warm cardamom pastries, salty Maine sea mist, and fair-play whodunits on Harbor Street with Maisie Finch and her cat Barnaby.
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Romance · $4.99 Penobscot Bay · Maren Cole
Timber & Salt
Working shipyard pride, granite seawalls, cedar sawdust, and the slow-burn chemistry of people who take pride in what they build.
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Suspense · $4.99 Deep Water & Cold Iron · Bram Corliss
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Eight-hundred-foot granite ice faces, subzero blizzard survival, technical rope rigging, and fierce M/M protector romance.
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Briar Harbor Mystery · Book 2
Apples & Alibis
Autumn apple harvest descends on the bay, bringing heritage cider doughnuts, heirloom orchard feuds, and a poisoning disguised as natural causes.
Briar Harbor Mystery · Book 3
Cannoli & Cold Cases
A 1929 brass cannoli mold, a municipal safe deposit box, and a ninety-year-old bank robbery resurface in the November fog of Briar Harbor.
Briar Harbor Mystery · Book 4
Muffins & Mayhem
A winter nor'easter locks the harbor in ice, trapping the town council inside The Salty Whisk with a missing deed and a poisoned batch of blueberry streusel.
Timber & Salt Romance · Book 1
Heartwood
An independent shipwright fighting to preserve her family's coastal yard, and the taciturn deep-water rigger who knows how to hold the tension.
Mountain Search & Rescue · Book 1
Huntington Cut
An 800-foot ice face in Huntington Ravine collapses during a sudden subzero gale. Lead rope rescue boss Gage Walker must execute an impossible high-line rescue to extract field geologist Dr. Nora Vance before armed syndicate trackers close the pass.
The Salt & Fog Thrillers · Book 1
The Ghost Trials
When clinical trial subjects vanish from an East Bay biotech corridor, forensic pathologist Dr. Lucas Keller must confront institutional hospital silence and uncover the lethal data manipulation behind a breakthrough oncology drug.
The Salty Whisk · Harbor Street, Briar Harbor, Maine
The World of Fiona Dunmore
Cardamom, Sourdough & Cyanide.
In Briar Harbor, the fog rolls off the breakwater before the first diesel trawler leaves the municipal wharf. Inside The Salty Whisk, Maisie Finch measures buttermilk by weight and solves puzzles with the same unrelenting precision she uses to laminate puff pastry.
Every volume is crafted under Knox's Commandments of classic detective fiction: fair-play clue placement, authentic forensic culinary science, and razor-sharp Maine banter.
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The Citizens of Harbor Street
Meet the sleuths, bakers, lawmen, and neighbors who bring the cozy world of Briar Harbor to life.
The Pastry Sleuth
Maisie Finch & Barnaby
Former Boston line cook turned coastal baker. Accompanied by Barnaby, a cynical 13-pound tuxedo cat with a shredded left ear.
Chief of Police
Jack Montgomery
Third-generation harbor police chief who knows every tide chart, family grievance, and municipal secret on the peninsula.
Coastal Veterinarian
Dr. Liam Bennett
Charming, kind-eyed coastal vet who runs the seaside animal clinic, drinks black coffee at the counter, and is the only human Barnaby tolerates.
Bakery Manager & Muscle
Chloe Baxter
Sharp-tongued logistics genius of The Salty Whisk who wields an antique wooden rolling pin like an iron crowbar.
The World of Maren Cole
Competence as Chemistry.
In Maren Cole's coastal shipyard series, love isn't built on billionaires or misunderstandings. It is forged on freezing granite seawalls, twenty-four percent timber moisture readings, and the undeniable magnetism of people who take pride in their craft.
Maeve Sullivan carries timber before dawn. Calum Vance knows platform rigging from Houston to Rotterdam. When two immovable forces stand together against a coastal nor'easter, the sparks don't come from drama—they come from raw, earned trust.
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