The Carnation Murder: An Early 20th Century Mystery (Adele Gossling Mysteries: Book 1)

Tam May

Mar 2022 · Adele Gossling Mysteries Book 1 · Dreambook Press

About this ebook

If you’re looking for a humorous historical small-town cozy who-done-it series featuring a smart and sassy amateur woman sleuth, you’ve come to the right place!

Can a forward-thinking woman help the police solve a murder in a backward-thinking town?

California, 1903: Smart, inquisitive, and a firm believer in the new progressive reforms, Adele Gossling seeks a new life after the devastating death of her father. She flees San Francisco for the small town of Arrojo, planning a life of peace and small pleasures with nothing more exciting than selling fountain pens to the locals in her stationery shop and partaking in the town’s favorite pastime: gossip.

Peace is exactly what she doesn’t get when she discovers her neighbor’s dead body in her gazebo. The police think they have a firm suspect: the young man who was secretly engaged to the victim. But Adele and her clairvoyant new friend Nin Branch suspect he’s innocent. In spite of the raised eyebrows from Arrojo’s Victorian-minded citizens, they set out to prove the young man didn’t do it. But if he didn’t, who did?

Can Adele and Nin solve this puzzling case involving a striped carnation, a diamond ring, a note, a muddy pair of boots, and a broken promise?

If you love historical mysteries, comfy cozies, amateur detectives, female sleuths, small-town mysteries, humorous whodunits, and early 20th-century fiction set in America, you’ll love this series!

Fans of Lee Strauss, Rosie Hunt, Sonia Parin, and R. A. Wallace will love these books too!

Pick up your copy of The Carnation Murder for a fun, absorbing mystery set in Northern California at the turn of the 20th century.

What early reviewers are saying:

"Really well paced and researched appropriately for the era.”

"The story comes alive.”

"Great new series, the time period details are interesting and the mystery intriguing."

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Don't forget to check out the other books in the Adele Gossling Mysteries!

Ratings and reviews

This is the first book in the Adele Gossling Mystery series. I love reading historical crime and I love cozies. Although this story is classed as a cozy, I would not class it as such - However, it did not impede my enjoyment of the book at all. I love the fact that Adele is very ahead of the times. Highly recommended to all crime fiction lovers. I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

fantastic, first time reading anyof the authors book and it won't be last. I only guessed when the book was nearly finished. Will look for more of the authors book and hope they will be free as I can't afford to buy new ones, it's a case of eating or reading, and eating wins. thanks again for a great read

Wonderful reading experience. Very good English and a great story.

About the author

As soon as Tam May started her first novel at the age of fourteen, writing became her voice. She writes engaging, fun-to-solve historical cozy mysteries featuring sassy suffragist Adele Gossling. Her mysteries empower readers with a sense of “justice is done” for women, both dead and alive. Her fiction is set in the San Francisco Bay Area because she adores sourdough bread, Ghirardelli chocolate, and San Francisco history.

Tam is the author of the Adele Gossling Mysteries which take place in the early 20th century and feature amateur sleuth and epistolary expert Adele Gossling, a forward-thinking young woman whose talent for solving crimes doesn’t sit well with her town’s Victorian ideas about women’s place in society.

Tam has also written historical women’s fiction. Her post-World War II short story collection, Lessons From My Mother’s Life, debuted at #1 in its category on Amazon, and the first book of her Gilded Age family saga, the Waxwood Series, The Specter, remains in the top 10 in its category.

Although Tam left her heart in San Francisco, she lives in Texas because it’s cheaper. When she’s not writing, she’s devouring everything classic (books, films, art, music) and concocting vegetarian dishes in her kitchen.

For more information about Tam May and her books, check out her website at www.tammayauthor.com.