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Tail waggin’ mysteries

Trinity’s (and my) favorite dog things.

A Cozy Mystery with charming animals

Trinity Ashford runs Tail Waggin’ Pet Daycare and Store, where she pampers every fur-friend—until murder arrives. In the Tail Waggin’ Mysteries series by Cynthia Hickey, Trinity, her loyal pets, and her determined friends chase clues from small-town pet spas to penthouses and country clubs. From a cat who recoils at a killer’s cologne, to a beloved client turning up dead, to ruined weddings and puppy thieves, danger lurks wherever paws and whiskers roam. Perfect for fans of cozy mystery series, pet owner sleuths, and lighthearted suspense with quirky animals. Dive into sleuthing, friendship, romance, and tail-wagging fun as Trinity strives to prove even cats can be witnesses—and criminals won’t get away that easily.

A cat with a distaste for a certain cologne.
A pet shop owner seeking justice.
A billionaire dead.


Trinity Ashford owns Tail Waggin’ pet daycare and store. Every morning, the kindly Mr. Armstrong brings her coffee. At least until his handsome son, Brad, shows up wanting to change everything.When Trinity finds the elderly Mr. Armstrong murdered, she launches her own investigation and enlists the old man’s cat, Moses, to help prove that his son committed the crime.

The cat hates the scent of the cologne Brad wears. Trinity recognizes the scent and becomes convinced that the killer wore the same cologne that triggered the cat’s reaction. Even though no one believes her, she launches her own investigation and sets out to prove that Moses is a reliable witness.

As she seeks to prove Brad the murderer, she realizes he is far from a killer and the two of them end of teaming together to find out the identity of the real killer. From small town strips malls, to penthouses, and country clubs, they check off suspects one-by-one until they get too close and find themselves facing death. AMAZON PRINT
A nature hike turns deadly.
A dog digs up a body.
Somebody wants Trinity Ashford out of the picture.


After Trinity Ashford’s dog, Sheba, digs up a dead body, danger lurks at every turn. Trinity hadn’t gone snooping for trouble this time. Trouble came for her. Someone has started digging into the crime Trinity solved a few months ago.


Attacks and threats on her life have made Trinity determined to take down a killer before somebody is digging up her bones. Is the killer who she thinks it is or can it be someone she’d never suspect?
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A Corgie and a cat with noses for trouble.
A missing diamond necklace.
A jewel thief with a thirst for secrecy.


When a pet owner leaves her dog and cat at Trinity’s pet daycare and doesn’t return by the day’s end, Trinity takes the animals home. What she discovers there is a ransacked home with no sign of the pet owner. To make matters worse , a new cop of the Waterfall Police force thinks Trinity the main suspect.
She can’t help it if she has a talent for trouble. An ability to solve crime. She also possesses an unfortunate talent for landing in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time.
Will this time be the time she meets her untimely end? AMAZON PRINT
A puppy left on Trinity’s doorstep.
One that has a taste for theft.

When someone leaves a beagle puppy at Trinity’s pet store, Tail Waggin’, with a note branding the little furball a thief, she barely gives it a second thought. Then the mischievous pup steals a Rolex that had already disappeared once. Nevertheless, Trinity refuses to get tangled in another mystery. She knows she’s said that before, but this time she’s serious. Nearly getting herself killed one too many times has taken all the fun out of amateur sleuthing.
Her mother and friend have other ideas, sending the three of them along a path of revenge, murder, and the theft of more than a watch.

Could this be the last mystery for the Waterfall Sleuths? AMAZON PRINT

A Christmas Cozy Mystery

A theft of robberies.

Some too weird to be believed.

The Waterfall Sleuths vow to save Christmas!


Trinity Ashford is happy with the lull in crime around Waterfall. Until someone breaks into her car and steals a box of donations for the local animal shelter. Even then, she doesn’t want to go nosing around, despite the urging of her friend and mother. But when someone breaks the front window of Tail Waggin’ and drags away the Christmas tree, the war is on!

Follow along as Trinity and her crazy friends chase down a thief who, at times, seems little more than a nuisance.

Can they return stolen items in time to save the Christmas holiday? AMAZON PRINT

A Wedding Cozy Mystery

A trouble making cat at a wedding reception.
A murder at a wedding.
Murderous clowns?

Trinity Ashford and her friends are in over their heads this time. When Trinity discovers a murdered man at her best friend’s wedding holding the bride’s missing diamond earrings, she dives into another mystery and sets out to expose the thief preying on the people of Waterfall.

Not only she is trying to solve a mystery, she’s trying to plan her own wedding and renovate the “haunted” house her fiancé purchased for them.

Trinity and her friends decide to spend a night at the house to see why the neighbors believe it to be haunted and find themselves terrorized by three men in clown masks. What are they looking for?

Determined to uncover the truth behind the town’s haunted-house rumors, Trinity and her friends spend the night there and come face-to-face with three men in terrifying clown masks. A loan shark turns out to be the key to the mystery, and Trinity wonders if she’ll live long enough to see her wedding day.

Join this quirky group as they embark on another adventure…maybe their deadliest one yet.
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