I’m so happy to announce the newest release in the Seffi Wardwell Mysteries by author friend Rebecca M Douglass.

Series Blurb

Retired science teacher Seffi Wardwell is making herself a new home on the Maine coast. She has a flower garden to keep up to the stiff local standards, a tough job ahead breaking down the locals’ suspicion of outsiders and making friends—and a distressing tendency to find herself in the middle of murder investigations.

About the Book

Edited Out (Seffi Wardwell Mysteries #3) by Rebecca M Douglass

Who erased the writer?

Winter in Maine is long, dark, and cold, and California transplant Seffi Wardwell is combating the winter blues with a full calendar. Tending the plants at the local bed-and-breakfast, writing reports for the library, and keeping an eye on events in Smelt Point barely leaves time for pastry and gossip at Sweet Dreams, the local bakery and heart of the village.

When the participants at an artistic retreat held at the bed-and-breakfast grow combative, Seffi is there to smooth things over, stiffen the spine of the innkeeper, and keep things going. But when a writer turns up dead, Seffi’s called on to wield a different kind of expertise. Then someone lets slip there was poison in a coffee bought at Sweet Dreams, and it looks like Seffi’s favorite source of treats is in real trouble. Can her knowledge of plants save the inn—and the local bakery—before the killer strikes again and tears the heart out of Smelt Point?

Check it out on Goodreads.

Publication Date: 25 August 2025

Pre-order price is $3.99—a short-time special offer ending Oct. 1.

Purchase links: Amazon | Universal Book Link

About the Author

Rebecca M. Douglass has lived, worked, and hiked around the American west for more years than she’ll admit, while raising two children to adulthood and dreaming up interesting ways to bump people off. Thanks to good friends in Maine, she has also spent time on the other side of the country and has fallen in love with that coast. Since retiring from work at the library, the author of the Ninja Librarian series for younger readers and the Pismawallops PTA mystery series lives in Seattle, where she is writing the Seffi Wardwell mysteries. She has also had short stories published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. When she isn’t writing, Ms. Douglass likes to go hiking and backpacking or to travel to discover new places or revisit old favorites, including the Sierra Nevada mountains, the desert Southwest, and of course Maine, where so many of the best cozy mysteries are found.

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My Review

An enjoyable mystery of who had killed the most condescending writer in the artist residency taking place at the inn in Seffi’s small town. When everyone had reason to kill the victim, Seffi has to figure out from which plant the poison came from and who had the means and opportunity to kill the snippy writer.

The blossoming friendship/romance between Seffi and the ME is sweet.

I like that the mystery kept one wondering and guessing right until the end.

There’s a definitive environmental care theme throughout the story (re-useable cups at the bakery, cloth napkins, etc.) that added a nice touch to the storyline as the entitled victim insisted on clean linens every day.

Seffi taking walks in the cold, dark, icy outdoors made me feel cold on her behalf. LOL. She has so much gumption. But I am worried about her: every psychokiller who comes to town wants to kill her at some point.

An enjoyable book that had me reading it in one sitting well into the wee hours of the morning.

Highly recommended to fans of cosy mysteries with LOL moments and great worldbuilding.

*I received an ARC from the author and this is my honest opinion.

Yes, I love this series 🙂 Have you read anything by this author? Do you enjoy cosy mysteries? Any questions for Rebecca?