The Chandler's Key

For two hundred years, no Chandler woman has poured a candle in the seventh tube of the 1794 mold.

When Nell Chandler finally opens it, a small black key slides into her hand, wrapped in a riddle written by Abigail Chandler, who founded the family candle shop on the Lantern Cove wharf. Within hours the photo has gone viral. Within a day, three eager strangers have arrived in town, and the key has vanished from the shop, swapped for a cheap brass fake in the middle of a busy morning.

Now Nell must follow Abigail's old verse from a Paul Revere bell to a forgotten gravestone before a clever thief finds whatever the key unlocks. She has help: her upstairs tenant Gaston Phalemon, a retired authenticator with the finest eye in Europe; her old friend Thaddeus Vane, who never met a footnote he didn't love; and Tallow, the shop's enormous gray Maine Coon, who always knows more than he's letting on. And Chief Walt Dorsey has a secret of his own.

From the bitter winter of 1816 to a candle auction where the bidding stops when a pin falls, The Chandler's Key is a clean, cozy mystery full of warmth, real New England history, and a twist you won't see coming.

No graphic violence, no gore, and no bad language. Each Candlelight Mystery is a standalone and can be read in any order.