JT Webster

Oakridge Harbor Mysteries & Bellhaven Ledger Mysteries. The muffins are illegal. The dog is a very good girl. The cat has opinions.

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Thirty days of the Ledger. Start with Book 1, Dead All About It. Stay as long as you like.

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Between the mysteries there are ordinary days. Harold and the sardines. Mrs. Lessard and the rain. Reagan at work. Sarah on a snow shift.

All the short visits:
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Complete case.
No cliffhanger.
No gore.
A Thursday paper.
A town you can stay in.

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Start in Oakridge Harbor with READ AND BURIED: a rare book, a locked bookstore, and one thing Jess Hollis cannot make fit.

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Order and shorts: https://t.co/B9COw75xBQ

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Corrections belong on page two. What belongs on page one is an argument. Discuss.

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I don’t really write puzzle boxes. I write towns full of people who know 80% of what happened and are spectacularly unwilling to contribute the remaining 20%.

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As Previously Reported is Book 2. October, and a notice the paper already ran. Not out yet.

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Oakridge Harbor and Bellhaven are different towns on the same invented Maine coast. One notices through books. The other notices through newspapers. Neither is particularly good for your life expectancy.

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From this week’s imaginary Ledger:

HARBOR COMMITTEE DELAYS VOTE AGAIN
Missing folding table located in Grange Hall.
Mrs. Pelletier would like it noted that it was never missing.

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A copy editor who will not concede an apostrophe is not comic relief. She is why the correction column is short.

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One thing I love about Oakridge: the mystery matters, but so does whether Sarah is working Saturday, whether Jamie brought coffee, and whether Reagan has claimed somebody else’s chair.

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Choose your amateur: 📚 bookseller or 📰 newspaper editor?

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Bellhaven is twenty-five minutes down the coast from Oakridge Harbor. Same weather. Different paper. Both series close the case inside the book.

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Sarah’s shift. First real snow. Jess does a thing Sarah doesn’t understand until later.

Snow Day — free on the site. (Winter story. The novels are not snow books.)
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Oakridge Harbor mystery logic:
“That’s probably nothing.”
Reader: absolutely not.
Jess: probably nothing.
Detective Fletcher: Jess.

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If you want a harbor, a weekly, and a death that will not sit neatly on a blotter.

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Nobody warns you that writing a mystery series eventually turns you into the municipal records department for a town that does not exist.

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A weekly editor should be: 1) first 2) accurate 3) kind 4) still standing on Thursday.

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Nora runs the newspaper. Jack runs the flower shop. Kate has pink hair and would rather be playing video games. Bellhaven is developing a personnel problem.