Discover the Mystery behind jane elzey
Jane's Journey
Let's start with a confession from the best new series cozy mystery author: I kill husbands. Well, not really kill them kill them. I just pretend. All my life I have wanted to write murder mysteries and husbands make great victims. Especially the awful ones. And who hasn't had at least one of those? Hence, the hashtag: #TheHusbandAlwaysDies
A retired career journalist and editor, I now write cozy mysteries without much regard for the truth. Making stuff up is way too much fun. Friends say I am a mischief-maker, a story-teller, a bender of the facts. I own it. And I love writing about friendship and crime.
Born and raised a wild child on Florida’s sandy beaches, I now live in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas in The Natural State with my feline family. Yes. I am a cat lady.
I love traveling and enjoy sharing far flung destinations with readers on the hunt for whodunit. The Cardboard Cottage Mystery series is set in Arkansas but every other book the sleuths travel to a bucket list destination. The Cardboard Cottage sleuths––Amy, Zelda, Rian and Genna––have solved murders in Hot Springs, the Galapagos Islands, the Arkansas Wine Country, and Ireland. Where are we going next? Readers want to know!
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The Writing Chair
From this very chair in my writing studio looking out at the beautiful Ozark Mountains, usually with at least one cat in my lap, I write cozy mysteries about four best friends, the games they play to win, and the crimes they work to solve.
I love to play games, too, so it was easy to plug old-fashioned games in my murder mysteries. The game is always afoot at Tiddlywinks Players Club at The Cardboard Cottage, a rambling old building in a cozy little Arkansas tourist town called Bluff Springs. It reminds me a lot of the town I live in, but the initials are BS, so you can judge for yourself!
Small town life always has its surprises. So, when Amy, Zelda, Genna and Rian come face to face with a crime, they put their amateur sleuthing skills into play. Now over 40 and full of mischief, the Cardboard Cottage sleuths hunt the clues to the puzzle: Who killed the husband?
Whether traveling dusty back roads or enjoying one of their bucket list destinations, the four best friends manage to solve the crime even with their high drama misadventures. This best new mystery series is all about playing games, women with southern sass that's anything but cookie-cutter sweet, set in a ride-along tale of friendship (and murder).
Readers like these characters, their camaraderie, road trips, and nosy sleuthing. Come along for a 5-star ride with your new friends in the Cardboard Cottage Mystery series!
Jane's books and travels
Dying For Dominoes
Four women play to win... while the husband dies trying in this best new mystery series. It’s all fun and games until Amy’s best friend wants her husband gone and then he’s found dead. A love of dominoes and three great friends gave author Jane Elzey this story arc for her murder mysteries that feature friendships and crime. You'll love the Cardboard Cottage Mystery series!
Dice on a Deadly Sea
When four friends dive into murder while celebrating Zelda's big Five-Oh, the birthday cruise in the Galápagos Islands is anything but a smooth sail. The idea for this story in the Cardboard Cottage Mystery series came about from a press trip to the Galápagos Islands on a small ship. All twenty-two fellow journalists and photographers (and crew!) were safe on that cruise, but Jane Elzey writes murder mysteries, so a husband had to go! The trip was the perfect setting for a dicey book 2 in this best new mystery series.
Poison Parcheesi & Wine
Did you know Arkansas has a wine country? Truly. And what better setting for murder mysteries! The Natural State is home to some of the largest wine producers in the country. That was all the "must"Jane Elzey needed to frame a murder for her Cardboard Cottage Mystery series. What happens when four friends are steeped in mystery and murder in the Arkansas Wine Country where somebody poisoned the wine? A trip to the annual grape stomp was the seed for this story in Jane Elzey's best new mystery series.
Killer Croquet on the Emerald Isle
A trip to Ireland from top to bottom and east to west served as the background for book #4 in Jane Elzey's murder mysteries. After winning a trip to the Emerald Isle, the Cardboard Cottage sleuths dream of castle ruins, fairy houses, and the hunt for family roots. But when a wedding ends in murder, they befriend the Garda Síochána to solve the crime before one their own takes the heat. Every other book in the Cardboard Cottage Mystery series is a bucket list trip, making for high-drama adventure in this best new mystery series.
Ouija & Haints in the Silent City
Frequent walks through our local cemetery is fodder for the imagination and the start of many good murder mysteries, When vintage game store owner Amy Sparks and her three best friends volunteer to play women from history in a fundraiser, their stage becomes the graveyard—also known as The Silent City. But when a necklace drops in Amy’s lap, she realizes she holds the key to a cold case in book #5 in the Cardboard Cottage mystery series. Readers are touting Jane Elzey's best new mystery series!
