Description
💼🔥 CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE! 🔥💼
Deadlines and Doilies
Codex + Complete Story Outline
If you love cozy mysteries with small-town charm, crafty vibes, and a sharp investigative edge, this package is ready-made for you.
What you get:
– ✅ Complete Codex — detailed characters, locations, objects, lore, and subplots
– ✅ A structured 22‑chapter outline with beats mapped for amateur‑sleuth/least‑likely‑suspect pacing
– ✅ Market-ready tropes: Journalist sleuth, Fish out of water, Small-town charm, Craft circle intrigue, Eccentric side characters, Amateur sleuth–law enforcement cooperation, Quirky animal sidekick, Inheritance responsibility, Secrets in small towns, Red herring, Least likely suspect, Motherly figure as antagonist, Public revelation, Found family, Professional redemption, Community healing, Appearances vs. reality
– ✅ Flexible voice and polish ready for your author brand
Premise:
Disgraced investigative journalist Cora Brightwell returns to Havenwood Creek for a fluff assignment covering the town’s craft fair—only to witness the “accidental” death of its formidable matriarch, Beatrice Holloway. When Cora refuses the official story, the assignment that was supposed to be a career bandage becomes her shot at redemption.
Cora unexpectedly inherits Bea’s storybook cottage—and Jasper, a kleptomaniac ferret with a talent for finding clues—yoking her to a community that would rather keep its secrets quilted tight. Teaming up (reluctantly) with the town sheriff, she follows a thread through craft-circle rivalries, library stacks, and whispers of suspicious 1990s deaths. As red herrings glitter and motives multiply, Cora must choose: protect her second chance or pull the final stitch that exposes the truth and claims her place in a town she never meant to call home.
✨ Genre: Cozy Mystery
✨ Tone: Warm, witty, and twisty; heart-forward with gentle suspense and small-town charm
✨ Length Target: ~55,000 words • 22 Chapters
📦 Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project where a journalist sleuth, a quirky animal sidekick, and a web of small-town secrets collide in a satisfying, public unmasking finale—complete with redemption and community healing.
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