Louise Jane Watson
The Humboldt County Mysteries Series
A cozy mystery series set in Humboldt County, North California.
These books revolve around the townsfolk of Blue River. Blue River is an odd town. The population includes a lot of retired loggers, weed growers, clown students and people who are just wanting to escape from the rat race.
Sadie Simpson is the owner of Patrick's Palace, a costume shop that supplies a lot of costumes for the theatre school next door.
The first Humboldt County Mystery is out in December 2022
SHEARS OF A CLOWN
A hippy, a logger, a pot grower and a clown walk into a bar…and you know you are in Blue River.
Sadie Simpson has not had a good month. Dumped by both her employer, and boyfriend, she then learns her Portland home is being demolished to make way for a new on-ramp. Taking a road trip to figure out her future, Sadie plans to visit her daughter at college, then go stay with friends in San Francisco.
But these plans get derailed by an anonymous text.
Her estranged sister, Samantha, has been arrested for murder.
It looks like Sadie is going to have to take a detour off the 101 to her old hometown of Blue River. This is where her sister lives, and this is where Cara Armstrong, failed mayoral candidate and local busybody, lived—and died.
Cara’s body was found on the community garden compost heap. She’d been killed by a pair of cannabis trimming scissors.
And those scissors belong to Samantha.
Shears of a Clown is the first book in The Humboldt County Mysteries Series.
A contemporary cozy with a tiny hint of edge! This quirky cast of characters is sure to win your heart. For lovers of Agatha Raisin and Virgin River alike.
Shears of a Clown - “Like Virgin River, only funny!”
ONCE UPON A MIME
Sadie Simpson is getting to grips with her new life in Blue River. She has her new business, her new boyfriend, and her new dog.
All is well in Blue River—until it suddenly isn’t.
A madness has overtaken the town; wanton vandalism and mindless destruction is happening nightly, and that’s not the strangest thing. What’s really weird is the people who are behind all this chaos.
It looks like Sadie is going to have to get to the bottom of another mystery, with the help of her costume shop staff, Flora Baggett and Rocky Murgatroyd, but first she has to figure out how to make a BigFoot costume…
Once Upon a Mime is the second book in The Humboldt County Mysteries Series.
A contemporary cozy with a tiny hint of edge! This quirky cast of characters is sure to win your heart. For lovers of Agatha Raisin and Janet Evanovich alike.
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DOUBLET OR NOTHING
"It's all 'Hey Nonny Nonny' until the screaming starts..."
Costume shop owner Sadie Simpson has enthusiastically embraced the surge in business brought to her store by a visiting Renaissance Festival. After all, the Ren Faire is a celebration of the peculiar and the eccentric—a sentiment that holds a special place in Sadie's heart.
However, the town is thrown into shock when the Chief of Police, a long-standing thorn in Sadie's side, is struck by an arrow during the archery tournament. Was this truly an accident? And if not, who had Chief Duckett in their sights?
Furthermore, why does it seem that some of Sadie's friends possess information they are hesitant to disclose?
The third installment in the Humboldt Mysteries Series is a captivating choice for connoisseurs of cozy mysteries set in enigmatic, Twin Peaks-inspired small towns.
