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Michelle L. Cullen

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Book cover of A Field Guide to Murder

The First Harry & Emma Mystery

A cranky widower and his spirited caregiver team up to solve his neighbor’s murder in this charming and original whodunit that explores themes of aging, found families, and second chances.


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Once a globe-trotting anthropologist, Harry Lancaster is now certain that all his grand adventures are behind him. Recently widowed and suffering from a fractured hip, Harry spends his days and nights behind a pair of binoculars, nose-deep in his neighbors’ affairs. His Gen Z caregiver, Emma, is determined to get him out of his armchair and back into the world. 


Fate intervenes when Harry’s mysterious neighbor Sue phones, pleading for help. But instead of rescuing her, Harry and Emma find Sue dead: poisoned, days after a break-in at Sue’s house. Harry resolves to find out what happened, and Emma insists on going along for the ride. Together, they discover motives and suspects abound in Harry’s quaint condominium community—putting them both in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded killer.


Readers of Richard Osman and Benjamin Stevenson will be charmed by this quirky, cross-generational murder mystery.

Coming September 15th, 2026!

Widower and anthropologist Harry Lancaster and his Gen Z colleague Emma Stockton are back for more murder and mayhem when they stumble upon a dead farmer in A Field Guide to Death and Deceit.


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When an odd request leads Harry Lancaster to agree to meet his former sweetheart Willow at a farm on the outskirts of town, Emma’s suspicions run high, and she insists on joining him. Instead of Willow greeting them when they arrive, they discover the farm's owner dead, with a corn rake embedded in his back.


After being interrogated by the police, Harry and Emma return to his home to find a bereft Willow, who admits she lost her life savings in a real estate scam involving the farm. Worried Willow will become the main murder suspect, Harry decides to help her, despite Emma’s concerns.


To bring the swindlers—and murderer—to justice, Harry recruits his potentially shady, financial-whiz brother and a neighborhood teenage hacker. Then Willow’s realtor is declared missing, and Harry’s brother is caught up in the fray.


As Harry, Emma, and team unearth clues, they increasingly dodge the police, stalkers, and danger in their race to save Willow and Harry’s brother before anyone else turns up dead.

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