Cozy 1970s campus mysteries filled with friendship, secrets, romance, and amateur sleuthing.
Nancy Drew meets Friends—1970s college edition
Warm nostalgic 1970s campus mystery filled with friendship, secrets, romance and amateur sleuthing.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Michelle Kilpatrick is a journalism student at the University of Petersburg in the 1970s, where college friendships, campus secrets, and murder collide. The Michelle Kilpatrick Mysteries are clean cozy mysteries featuring an amateur sleuthing, nostalgic small-town atmosphere, retro college life, and ongoing friendships readers can return to again and again.
BOOK SERIES
Book One: The Peculiar Case of the Petersburg Professor
When journalism student Michelle Kilpatrick discovers her professor’s dead body on campus, she’s drawn into a mystery filled with secrets, suspicion, and hidden ties within Petersburg.
What begins as a single campus murder may be connected to something far larger beneath the town’s charming surface.
Book Two: Fashionably Fit, Fatally Flawed
A fitness center opening turns deadly when a beauty pageant contestant collapses during the celebration.
Michelle soon discovers that dangerous secrets are hiding in plain sight.
Book Three: Icy Secrets, Scandalous Lies
Olympic dreams turn deadly when a famous skating coach is murdered in Petersburg after bringing his team to train at the university’s ice rink.
As her investigation deepens, troubling connections between the town’s mysteries begin to surface.
Book Four: A Royal Ruse (COMING SOON)
A royal visit brings excitement to Petersburg—until Prince Alexander’s aide is murdered and long-buried secrets from Mae Emerson’s past begin resurfacing.
For the first time, Michelle realizes that someone quietly manipulating events in Petersburg may have been nearby all along.
Perfect if Readers Who Love…
- nostalgic cozy mysteries
- clean mysteries with romance and humor
- amateur sleuths
- vintage 1970s settings
- college campus mysteries
- friendship centered mystery series
- classic Nancy Drew-style adventures
