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Sometimes it takes more than soap to clean a name …

Everything is going great for thirty-two-year-old Violet Oleander — she lives in the idyllic cozy beach town of Cape Flower, runs a boutique soap shop with her best friend, has the most adorable puppy in the world, and is finally getting over her philandering ex-husband.

Everything’s going great, that is, until town millionaire — a man who just so happens to be Violet’s ex-father-in-law — is found dead in her shop, Bubbles Boutique. And even worse, Violet is the top suspect in the crime.

With a quirky cast of villagers getting in her way and a mystery that deepens every moment, Violet attempts to clear her name all while keeping her bubbly business afloat.

If only owning a soap shop weren’t so dirty …

Suds and Slayings is the first book in Jemma Bard’s Bubbles Boutique Cozy Mystery Series. All books are fast-paced, clean, mysterious, and can be read in under a few hours. If you like cozy mysteries with quirky characters, feisty heroines, cute pets, and sweet treats, then the Bubbles Boutique mystery series is for you! Bonus recipes for pampering body products are also included with your book, courtesy of Bubbles Boutique!

It’s Halloween in Cape Flower, and Violet Oleander has never been one to believe in ghosts or ghouls or anything of the sort. Even still, Violet’s aunt Loretta convinces her to take a haunted trolley tour around town, culminating in a séance at the oldest and “most paranormally active” home in all of Cape Flower—the Hugh Physik Estate. 

But when one of the tourists participating in the séance ends up unconscious, Chief Richard Odoom enlists Violet’s help to figure out who … or what … is responsible for the crime.

Violet’s search of the estate for clues reveals ghostly images, secret societies, and haunted passageways that have Violet second-guessing her stand on all things supernatural.

This is a bonus Halloween novelette in the Bubbles Boutique cozy mystery series. If you’re new to the Bubbles Boutique series, Soaps and Séances is a festive holiday novelette to get you started. And if you’ve already read book one—Suds & Slayings—you’ll love this fun installment.

All books in the Bubbles Boutique cozy mystery series are fast-paced, clean, mysterious, and can be read in under a few hours. If you like cozy mysteries with quirky characters, feisty heroines, cute pets, and sweet treats, then the Bubbles Boutique cozy mystery series is for you! Bonus recipes for pampering body products are also included with your book, courtesy of Bubbles Boutique!

For the past twelve years, thirty-three-year-old Talbot Meadows has thrown herself into her work as a rare materials appraiser at the prestigious Library of Congress in Washington D.C., forgetting the small-town life she left behind years ago. But when Talbot is called back to her perfectly charming hometown of Willow Creek at the request of crotchety Harold Ellerton — village millionaire, mayoral candidate, book connoisseur, oh, and grandfather to her ex — to appraise his newest acquisition, Talbot gets more than she bargained for once finding Harold murdered and his mysterious rare book nowhere in sight. And to make matters worse, Talbot’s own mother is at the top of the suspect list.

If finding a dead guy wasn’t bad enough, an unexpected layoff from her coveted job has Talbot starting over in Willow Creek — taking residence in the room above her mother’s garage and acquiring a part-time job as a barista at Cafe Prose, her best friend Piper Stone’s café-slash-used bookstore. 

Armed with a mysterious note left by Harold, her adorable Yorkshire Terrier Romeo, and a penchant for research, Talbot vows to get to the bottom of Harold’s death no matter how many ex-boyfriends, inept police officers, town gossips, or gorgeous men get in her way.