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For cozy solvers who want to visit Foxglove before committing to the whole postcard trail.
Solve 100 cozy murder-mystery word searches while Pearl Crossley follows the clue that points back to the village case nobody ever finished.
Blue ribbons, prize pies, and a forty-year-old question nobody wants asked.
It's harvest time in Foxglove — the bakeoff is heating up, the fair is in full swing, and Pearl Crossley has a fresh postcard tucked in her apron pocket. Closer now. But some doors don't open easily… Whoever's writing them clearly knows Pearl never could resist a locked door.
Volume 4 serves up 100 cozy murder-mystery word searches with all the warmth of an autumn afternoon: the harvest fair, the bakeoff tent, the orchards, the village kitchens. Ninety-nine standalone cases to solve, plus a sealed finale that hands you the next fragment of the mystery Pearl has been quietly assembling, book by book.
Comfort-read coziness with real stakes underneath. The fair is open. The kettle's on.
Pick up your pencil. Closer now…
One village. One cold case. One hundred puzzles per book — and a string of postcards from someone who shouldn't be writing at all.
For thirty years, Pearl Crossley has built the weekly word search for the Foxglove Gazette. She's warm, she's sharp, and she's spent a lifetime being underestimated — which suits her fine, because making a good grid is the same skill as solving a murder: finding the words everyone else overlooks.
Then the postcards start. One per book, each postmarked from a different town, each nudging Pearl toward the one case Foxglove never finished — the long-unsolved deaths that have shadowed the village for forty years. She knows the hand that typed them. That's what makes them impossible to ignore.
MURDER, SHE SEARCHED is a collectible cozy word-search series with a tender mystery running underneath the fun. Every volume gives you 100 standalone murder-mystery word searches to solve at your own pace — plus a sealed finale puzzle that hides a single fragment of the truth Pearl is chasing. Solve all six books and the whole story assembles in your hands.
Cozy on the surface. A real mystery at the heart. Grab a pencil and start searching.
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