The Marjorie Corey Files

The Thursday Murder Club if the cozy was hiding something real. Three women inherit the Ginger Mae Coffee Shop on Patchogu Island and start reading the secrets its late owner spent a lifetime keeping. Five warm, twisty island mysteries, best read in order. Start with The Second Shooter (Book 1).

The Second Shooter

The Marjorie Corey Files, #1
From the series: The Marjorie Corey Files

The Thursday Murder Club if the cozy was hiding something real. A short island mystery that opens with a cup of ginger tea and ends at a sixty-year-old photograph no one was ever meant to find.

On Patchogu Island, North Carolina, the Ginger Mae Coffee Shop has opened at seven-fifteen for forty years, long enough to know the regulars, their...

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The Recipe Notebooks (The Marjorie Corey Files, #2)

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A dead lawyer in the dunes. A patent worth four hundred million dollars. And a stack of handwritten recipe notebooks that were never really about food. The second short mystery in The Marjorie Corey Files.

A year after the events that changed everything, the Ginger Mae Coffee Shop is open again on Patchogu Island, and Victoria has set out a small...

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The Sea Captain’s Portrait (The Marjorie Corey Files, #3)

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An old painting in a coffee shop hallway. A four-hundred-thousand-dollar authentication. A lawyer dead on the ferry. And a land deed that reaches all the way back to the Civil War. The third short mystery in The Marjorie Corey Files.

For years no one looked closely at the portrait in the Ginger Mae’s back hallway, the weathered sea captain...

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The Prattler Files (The Marjorie Corey Files, #4)

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Sixteen issues of the island newspaper are missing from the archive. Not lost. Removed. The fourth short mystery in The Marjorie Corey Files asks what a town deletes from its own record, and why.

When the longtime editor of the Patchogu Prattler dies and leaves the paper’s archive to the island historical society, Victoria, Olivia, and Solei...

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The Morning Table (The Marjorie Corey Files, #5)

From the series: The Marjorie Corey Files

The cedar box had a false bottom. Beneath it: a stack of letters and the last answer to the question the whole series has been asking. The final short mystery in The Marjorie Corey Files.

Five years on, the Ginger Mae Coffee Shop is steady, the morning light comes through the same window, and the bell above the door still sounds the same. Then a...

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