Shelley Marsh 🐊

Author, DYING TO LIVE HERE, debuts Feb 10, 2026 | Beach-dweller | Certified Guy Harvey Conservation Educator | Bookworm | Estate Sale Junkie | Sister in Crime

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The Estate Sale Mysteries are just getting started.

📕Dying to Live Here—start the series
📗More Than She Bargained For—March 25
📘Everything Must Go—May 5

Emma and Laura thought running estate sales would be fun.

They didn't expect to find murder.

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Rebeccah Makkai's Substack made me laugh so loud, I scared the dog: "You decide to be a morning writer & you last 6 days...Then you try some kind of app where, whenever you work, you get points that keep an animated hedgehog alive. Then you forget the hedgehog." #adhd #writer

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Join me on March 28 from 1-4 at Midnight Moon Books in Saint Augustine for a book signing!

I'll have copies of Dying to Live Here and the brand-new second book in the series, More Than She Bargained For.

If you enjoy coastal cozy mysteries, I hope you'll stop by and say hi!

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In this guest post, I shared a bit about why estate sales inspired me while writing Dying to Live Here.
Many thanks to Salty Inspirations for sharing!

https://t.co/AS4WCvUA7t

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“Murder, romance, and Mother Nature combine in this intriguing Florida-set cozy mystery!”
— Karen Siddal, Guatemala Paula

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This review made my day 💙
”Emma and her longtime best friend Laura are. a. HOOT.”
— Reading is My Superpower
by Carrie (MeezCarrie)

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I had a great time talking with JC Kenney and Sarah Burr on A Bookish Moment, discussing Estate Sale Secrets and Clever Clues! https://t.co/QfCiEwSeiB via @YouTube

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Dying to Live Here is officially out in the world! #book #NewRelease #MYSTERY #cozy

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Thanks to @Christy41970 for hosting Emma Stewart today—she enjoyed stepping out of the book for a moment. 📚☀️https://t.co/HcmLQu06kY

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It's National Escape Day! Books are the best escape, don't you think?
#nationalescapeday #books #writing #writer #mystery #author

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Today is National LEGO Day. Even though I'm all grown up, I still love constructing LEGO sets.
#nationallegoday #lego #author #hobby
Photo by Ben Griffiths on Unsplash

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Laura swiped the photo off the screen, dismissing both it and my idea.
I grabbed her phone. “You know what I think?”
“Billionaires are evil?”
“Well, besides that.”
“What?”
"I think they're in on this together."
#WIP #billionaires #instamood #swipe
Photo by Flure Bunny on Unsplash

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A sample of my corrections to the galley proof of Dying to Live Here:
"What do you do if you hook a shark?"
"Cut the line and throw 'em back"—>"Cut the line!"*
*Author error: Don't throw sharks.

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+ my holiday novella BETTER WATCH OUT
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