Advice Column Mysteries

The complete Advice Column Mysteries series — three cozy mystery novels, one download.

Dr. Rebecca Butterman dispenses sharp relationship advice to the lovelorn readers of Bloom! Magazine. She's got a snappy answer for Dazed in Dayton and Anxious in Anchorage. Her own life is where the wisdom runs out — and where the bodies start turning up.

This box set collects all three of Roberta Isleib's Advice Column Mysteries, set in small-town Connecticut and starring a psychologist and amateur sleuth who psychoanalyzes as readily as she investigates.

Deadly Advice (Book 1) — Rebecca's husband has just double-crossed her, and now her next-door neighbor is dead in an apparent suicide. While reporting a column on the modern singles scene, she traces her neighbor's steps into a dark dating world she never knew existed. Can she trust what she's seeing? Or does dating really turn deadly?

Preaching to the Corpse (Book 2) — It's Christmas in picture-postcard Guilford, and someone's draining the joy out of the season with murder. A midnight call pulls Rebecca into the case: her own minister sits in custody after finding a parishioner dead. He begs her to take over the dead woman's church search committee — which means walking straight into a killer's path, all while fighting an inconvenient pull toward a very married detective.

Asking for Murder (Book 3) — When Rebecca's friend and fellow therapist Annabelle Hart is found beaten and left for dead, nobody wants help from an advice columnist playing detective. Not Detective Meigs. Not Annabelle's sister. Rebecca digs in anyway — covering her friend's patients, decoding cryptic messages left in a sand tray, and working to name the culprit before the killer strikes again.

Suspenseful mysteries with a therapist's eye for what people hide. Fans of female sleuth series like Diane Mott Davidson's Goldy Schultz culinary mysteries, Cleo Coyle's coffee shop mysteries, and Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles novels will settle right in with Rebecca Butterman. Start the series today.