Kiera McCoy
Hello — I'm Kiera McCoy. After many energetic years as a middle school teacher, I retired and finally gave myself permission to stop only reading mysteries and start writing them. Who knew that teaching twelve-year-olds would turn out to be excellent preparation for cozy crime fiction? I imagine my stories in the small, fictional towns — the kind of place where neighbors wave, secrets travel fast, and the occasional ghost behaves politely. Most of my plot twists come to me during long walks with my dogs. Something about steady paws on gravel helps untangle fictional crimes before I've even made it home. My husband of forty-seven years is my first reader and most honest beta critic. If he guesses the ending too soon, I quietly go back and make it slightly harder. I adore animals, treasure my two grandchildren, and believe a sharp mind is the best detective tool of all. My mysteries are warm, clever, and twisty — with heart, humor, and never a need for gore. Welcome here! There's always another puzzle waiting.
The Good Boy Witness: A Pet Psychic Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Paranormal Cozy MysteryDarcy's fresh start just got complicated. Fifty, divorced, and driving in circles through the Upper Peninsula in a teal rust bucket called The Pampered Paw, Darcy Walsh was, by any reasonable measure, doing fine. Then the cat started talking. Rinse, the tuxedo cat who came with her late grandmother's mobile grooming van, is telepathic, sardonic beyond reason, deeply unimpressed with Darcy's life choices, and apparently her problem now. Her grandmother, it turns out, was a pet whisperer—a gift that passes down whether anyone consents to it or not. Most animals just want to complain about late dinners and the mailman. But one is a grieving golden retriever who remembers the sound of his owner falling down a flight of basement stairs. He heard the argument that came before it. He watched a person walk out of that house like it had been an ordinary Tuesday. Lorraine Nordgren didn't trip. She was pushed. And the family she worked for has been burying secrets far uglier than a servant's bad luck. Now Darcy has a killer to name, a supernatural community she didn't know existed pulling her in, two traumatized German shepherds who need a home, and a soft-spoken local veterinarian who keeps turning up at the worst possible moments looking unreasonably good in a barn jacket. A warm, witty paranormal cozy with a sardonic cat, a midlife heroine finding her second act, and a small-town murder where the truth comes from four-legged witnesses—and the people who finally learn to trust them.
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The Critic's Last Cup: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery
Releasing May 2026
A coffee shop. A dead critic. A witch with too much to hide. When a notorious food critic drops dead in Sylvie Gable's coffee shop, she becomes suspect number one. Her shop is condemned. The town is watching. And the real killer is still in Elderberry Cove.