The Silver Creek Archive Mysteries

History doesn't lie, but people do. In Silver Creek, the dusty archives hold the deadliest secrets. Martha thought returning to Silver Creek would be a quiet retirement. After a messy divorce, all she wanted was the smell of old paper, the silence of the town Archive, and to be left alone. She was wrong. When a skeleton tumbles out of a wall during renovations, Martha realizes that her town's quaint history is built on a foundation of crimes. Armed only with her sharp intellect, a chaotic filing system, and the reluctant help of her tech-obsessed grandson, Dylan, Martha trades her reading glasses for a magnifying glass. From coded messages hidden in antique quilts to poisoned cider at the local rodeo, Martha discovers that the past is never truly dead—it's just waiting to be read. But someone in Silver Creek wants the history books closed permanently. And they are willing to burn the Archive to the ground to keep their secrets safe. Can an old-school historian and a Gen-Z hacker solve the town's oldest mysteries before they become the next entry in the obituary column? Includes all 4 novellas in the Silver Creek Archive Mysteries: The Skeleton in the Mine, The Code in the Quilt, Poison at the Pioneer Rodeo, The Last Page of the Newspaper. Perfect for fans of cryptic clues, small-town secrets, and slow-burn romance.