Mystery · Romance · Women’s Fiction · Small-Town Stories
Explore June Whitlock’s books and series, from small-town mysteries to later-in-life romance.
7 books
In Bellweather, the past rarely disappears completely. It waits in old photographs, forgotten letters, theaters, benches, records, and the memories of people who were there. June Whitlock’s Bellweather stories follow ordinary people as they uncover the lives behind those objects — quiet mysteries about community, memory, family, second chances, and the distance between what a town remembers and what really happened.
Book One
A Bellweather Story
At fifty-eight, newly divorced Ellen Mercer takes an unexpected turn into Bellweather and finds a one-screen movie theater that has been dark since 1990. Reopening it may be the fresh start she never planned — until a photograph from 1968 brings an old disappearance back into the light.
Book Two
A Bellweather Story
Bellweather, 1968. Eighteen-year-old Walt Brennan knows every corner of the Starlight Theater and has a camera pointed at a summer he thinks he will remember forever. Then Rose Vale disappears.
Book Three
A Bellweather Story
A photograph on the wall at Bell’s shows Nora’s brother Tommy beside a boy no one seems able to name. Nora starts asking questions — and discovers that sometimes the person missing from a town’s memory is the one who needed to be remembered most.
Book Four
A Bellweather Story
On Sue Keller’s final day at the Bellweather post office, a sealed letter mailed in 1974 slips from behind a sorting case. After fifty-four years of getting the mail where it belongs, Sue has one last route to follow.
Book Five
A Bellweather Story
A routine repair reveals a name and damaged date carved beneath an old Main Street bench. Trish Nolan remembers the troubled man who once sat there — but the deeper she looks, the more another life comes into view.
Book Six
A Bellweather Story
David Mercer only needs a birth certificate for a passport. Instead, one ordinary form opens a question about the story he has believed for fifty-seven years — and draws him back toward Bellweather, Rose Vale, and a past that may belong to him too.
Book Seven
A Bellweather Story
A letter, old photographs, and records nobody thought to look at bring the Bellweather story back to where it began. The town has carried 1968 for a long time — and the people who never stopped asking are about to learn how much of it can actually be proved.
3 books
In Kettle Bend, old buildings have long memories—and the smallest details are often the ones that matter most. The Kettle Bend Mysteries follow careful observers, skilled hands, and the quiet work of noticing what everyone else has overlooked.
Book One
A Kettle Bend Mystery
Piano tuner Gwen Beltram arrives to tune a piano at the Aldermann Opera House, reopening after decades of silence. Verna Krieger, chair of the restoration committee, is dead before the instrument makes a sound. Every tidy explanation in Kettle Bend fails to quite fit — and Gwen keeps circling back to a night in 1978 nobody wants to talk about.
Book Two
A Kettle Bend Mystery
The Kettle Bend Odd Fellows lodge unseals a meeting room closed for decades, and piano tuner Gwen Beltram expects nothing worse than a dusty player piano. Then Evelyn Pike, the town’s retired deputy register of deeds, finds something in the lodge’s old paperwork that shouldn’t still exist — and three days later she is dead in that same locked room.
Book Three
A Kettle Bend Mystery
When Gwen and her fifteen-year-old apprentice, Katie, are called to assess a historic tracker organ, mismatched pipes and altered records suggest that someone has been rewriting more than the instrument’s history. After a local historian dies, careful listening and patient craftsmanship may be the only way to uncover what the old church has been keeping quiet.
3 books
Every house leaves an inventory, and every inventory tells a story. The Estate Sale Mysteries follow seventy-year-old estate liquidator Maren Hollis as missing, misplaced, and altered possessions expose secrets families thought were safely packed away.
Book One
A Senior Sleuth Cozy Mystery
Estate liquidator Maren Hollis knows a house can tell you what a family will not. At a Coldbrook Landing sale, the detail that matters most is not what was left behind, but what is missing.
Book Two
A Senior Sleuth Cozy Mystery
Maren Hollis has learned to notice what disappears from an estate. This time, the clue is something that stayed behind long after it should have been gone.
Book Three
A Senior Sleuth Cozy Mystery
A historic baseball bat is not for sale. Maren photographs it anyway. Weeks later, the bat at the center of the estate is no longer the bat she documented.
Nora Bennett arrives at her new apartment expecting a fresh start. Instead she finds Eli Barrett already living there, holding a lease as valid as her own — and neither of them is leaving.
What follows is one bedroom, one sleeper sofa, and two people building a routine neither of them planned. Then an unexpected connection from six months earlier surfaces, and the arrangement they both called temporary turns into something far more complicated.
A warm contemporary romance about close quarters, unexpected timing, and one very complicated second chance.
1 book
Full-Length Later-in-Life Romance
In the small town of Fairmont, Ohio, some of life’s most meaningful love stories are still waiting to begin. These heartfelt, full-length romances follow men and women navigating second chances, unexpected connections, family, friendship, and the courage to open their hearts again. With richly developed characters, real-life complications, and plenty of romantic chemistry, every Fairmont novel proves that some of life’s best love stories begin when you least expect them.
2 books
Later-in-Life Short Reads
Love doesn’t have an expiration date.
A Hallenbeck Romance
Janine Okafor and Tom Bergeron share a wall, a building problem, and increasingly fewer reasons to stay on their own sides of it. A warm later-in-life romance about two established lives making unexpected room for someone else.
A Hallenbeck Romance
Monica Reyes and Graham Bell weren’t looking to rearrange their lives. But in Hallenbeck, an ordinary Saturday can be enough to start something neither of them planned.
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