The Music Box Mystery Blitz

(The Cook and Inspector Mysteries Book 8)

Cozy Mystery

Date Published: April 8, 2025

A music box, a murder, and a message from the grave…

When would-be gourmet cook Angie Amalfi takes a seemingly ordinary music
box to be repaired, a series of grisly murders begins, each one inching
closer to her and her fiancé, San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo
Smith. As she and Paavo race to uncover the truth, they discover the music
box isn’t just a relic—it’s a key to unraveling secrets
that someone is willing to kill to protect. The discovery leads to dark,
emotional chapters from the past—chapters that everyone believed would
be buried forever.

For readers of the Inspector Rebecca Mayfield mystery series, this story
takes place soon after Rebecca and Angie’s cousin Richie meet (in the
novella, The Thirteenth Santa). Richie has a minor role in this story.

NOTE: The main characters in this story appear in an early mystery series
by the author which is being completely reimagined and updated.

The Cook and Inspector Mysteries

Death on a Silver Platter, Book 1

A Quiche Before Dying, Book 2

The Marinara Murders, Book 3

Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind, Book 4

Death by Devil’s Food, Book 5

Blind Date’s Bitter End, Book 6

The Taverna Affair, Book 7

The Music Box Mystery, Book 8

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About the Author

Joanne Pence is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling author of the
Inspector Rebecca Mayfield mysteries, The Cook and the Inspector mysteries,
the Donnelly Cabin Inn series, and the Ancient Secrets supernatural suspense
novels (writing as J.M. Pence), as well as contemporary romance, historical
fiction, romantic suspense, and a fantasy. Her novels present a variety of
times, places, and reading experiences from mysterious to thrilling,
emotional to lightly humorous, as well as powerful tales of times long past.
Her books have won or been nominated for a number of high honors, including
the Willa Cather Literary Award for Historical Fiction; North American Book
Award for Mystery; Idaho Top Fiction Award; The Golden Quill, RWA’s Rita and
Golden Heart Awards, Daphne du Maurier Award, Independent Bookseller’s
Golden Scroll, and Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and Best Amateur
Sleuth Award.

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