The Winifred Baxter Mysteries

A body on the dock. A brass ring Winifred didn’t ask for. A crow with an agenda.

Winifred Baxter runs the most organized botanical apothecary on the Maine coast and has a crow named Copernicus who is not her familiar. He just happens to collect evidence, rearrange her shelves, and be right about everything.

When a murder lands in her harbor town...

A stranger buys a remedy he doesn’t need. A playing card appears on the counter. And the crows settle on the church roof in a silent row — when the crows sit the roof, the house gives up a soul.
When Pelican Cove’s town historian is found dead the week of the spring festival, the whole town calls it the old Wexford omen. Apothecary Winifred...

An iron key opens a house that’s been shut for thirty-five years — and the girl at the tower window has been waiting all that time for someone to look up.
When the last of the Merricks comes home to sell Harrow House and dies at the foot of the tower stair, Pelican Cove blames its resident ghost, and the town’s beloved old doctor blames a rotten...