The Monet, Kansas Mysteries
Everybody tells their hairdresser everything.
In Monet, Kansas, that can be murder. Meet Blair Cole—the stylist who came home to cut hair, untangle secrets, and solve the crimes her neighbors would rather keep buried.
The Blair Cole Cozy Mysteries
Every appointment comes with a story.
Start at the beginning, then follow the gossip through Monet.
Welcome to Monet, Kansas
Where the grain elevators are painted and the secrets aren’t.
Monet may look like a Kansas town full of colorful landmarks, familiar faces, and salon chairs that never stay empty. But everyone has history—and everyone tells Blair more than they meant to.
“You can leave Monet. Getting Monet to leave you is another matter.”
The Monet appointment book
Meet the usual suspects.
Everyone in Monet has an appointment. A few of them have motives.
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Notes from the styling chair
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Meet Jayne
Thirty years behind the chair is excellent training for plotting murders.
Jayne Brewster is the cozy mystery pen name of a sci-fi and paranormal romance writer who has written more than forty romance novels and spent thirty years as a hairdresser.
A lifelong reader of cozy mysteries and romance, she writes stories about small towns, big personalities, and the occasional dead body.