Marla A. White | Ellwyn Autumn

When Mel O’Rourke traded in her badge for a spatula, she had no idea baking could be so hard…or deadly.

The Starlight Mint Surprise Murder

By Marla A. White

Genre: Holiday Cozy Mystery Audiobook

After injuring herself on the job as a Los Angeles cop, Mel O’Rourke leaves the force battered both physically and mentally.

Looking for a fresh start, she moves to a quiet mountain town and opens the Babbling Brook Inn.

Excited for her new life, Mel decides to participate in the town’s holiday cookie contest, but her newfound joy crashes when one of her guests turns up dead in her lobby.

Mel is tempted to attribute the death to natural causes, but when another guest dies, her cop sense kicks in.

The local Sheriff tells her to stand down, but with her own life in danger, Mel won’t back off. With everything on the line, she has to push through her own fears to catch the killer before more bodies drop, perhaps even her own.

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Audiobook Excerpt:

Excerpt:

While Mel booted up her computer and opened the file he’d sent from his phone, she nervously noticed Jackson scrutinizing the pictures on her wall of herself and her family.

She felt they gave away far too much intimate information about her. Then again, she’d never expected anyone to enter her personal domain to see them.

“See something you like?” she growled, hoping he got the message.

He just kept studying her wall.

Finally, he turned around with eyebrows furrowed. “That’s a picture of you and a man wearing Six-Pack of Peaks T-shirts. I’ve read about this challenge, there are some tough climbs involved.”

“That’s my brother, Liam.” She got lost in the picture for a minute, remembering the day like it was yesterday

She and Liam toasted the camera with a beer in one hand, arms draped around each other, and grinning from ear to ear with pride.

It was physically painful for her now, remembering how much fun climbing used to be. She forced herself to shake it off. “Somebody had to go with him or the idiot might have fallen off.”

“But you’re terrified of heights?”

“Would you believe I consumed a ton of edibles?”

Shaking his head, he moved closer to her desk. “There isn’t enough CBD in the world for the person I saw almost pass out from a panic attack today to climb those mountains, not to mention smile like that.”

Mel didn’t dare risk meeting his gaze, so she turned back to study her computer, jaw clenched. “Apparently heights didn’t always bother me. Congratulations, Sherlock. Now can we just drop it?”

“What happened?”

Apparently, they weren’t dropping it, so she chose the mature route and ignored him.

Jackson would not be deterred. “Mel, I’m no psychologist, but I’m not an idiot. Obviously, something traumatic happened to turn this woman—” He pointed at the beaming smile on her face in the photo, then waved directly at her as she sat at her desk. “—into this.”

She made a sweeping head to toe gesture at her body. “Hey! What’s so wrong with this?”

“Not a dang thing on the outside, but you clearly have some serious trauma, and talking about it is the first step in controlling it rather than letting it control you. And nobody keeps secrets like a Cajun,” he added with a small, crooked smile.

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About The Author

Marla White is an award-winning novelist who prefers killing people who annoy her on paper rather than in real life.

Her first full-length mystery novel, “Cause for Elimination,” placed in several contests including Killer Nashville, The RONE Awards, The Reader’s Favorite, and finishing second in the Orange County Romance Writers for Romantic Suspense.

Originally from Oklahoma, she lived in a lot of other states before settling down in Los Angeles to work in the television industry.

She currently teaches at UCLA Extension and gives seminars about the art of script coverage.

When she’s not working on the next book, she’s out in the garden, hiking, cheering on the LA Kings, or discovering new craft cocktails.

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