The Estate Sale Mysteries

At seventy, estate liquidator Maren Hollis has spent years learning how to read a house before anything moves.

At one Coldbrook Landing estate, an ordinary inventory begins to point toward something that should be there and is not. Family memories conflict, old possessions raise new questions, and Maren's careful records become more useful than anyone expected.

Everything Must Go is Book One of The Estate Sale Mysteries, a senior-sleuth cozy built around the things people keep, discard, hide, and leave behind.

A new estate brings Maren Hollis another house full of objects, paperwork, and family explanations that do not quite agree.

The deeper she works through the contents, the more one old household object refuses to fit the story around it. What was kept, when it was kept, and why become the questions that matter.

Sold As Is is Book Two of The Estate Sale Mysteries, a fair-play senior-sleuth cozy where ordinary possessions can preserve the truth for decades.

At Emmett Teague's house, one object stands apart: a historic baseball bat tied to Coldbrook Landing lore for more than sixty years.

It is not for sale. But Maren photographs it anyway, measures it, tags it, and records exactly what was there. Weeks later, the bat at the center of the estate is no longer the bat Maren documented. Then a man connected to its value is found dead.

The family has its version of the truth. So do the collectors and appraisers. Maren has something better: an inventory. Final Offer is Book Three of The Estate Sale Mysteries, a fair-play cozy about provenance, old promises, and what happens when an object is not what it was before.