Beth Hamer Miles
Beth Hamer Miles is the award-winning author of the Cousins Cozy Mysteries who hates writing her own bios. With the help of Artificial Intelligence, she learned that she climbed Mt. Everest twice, won the Hackney Literary Award and the Katherine Paterson Award, is a professional tightrope walker, a paratrooper, and a five-star chef. She was very excited to learn this about herself as she’s typically scared of heights and difficult recipes.
Beth lives with her husband at sea level in the beautiful coastal town of Pawleys Island, SC where she writes stories about the South, works as a speech therapist, brags about their three adult kids, worries about alligators and sharks, takes photos of big trees, and asks her husband what he’s making for dinner.
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Cousins Cozy Mysteries
'Bout to Dye in Birmingham
Cousins Cozy Mysteries book #1
It’s March 2020 in Birmingham, Alabama, but Maggie Baxter and her cousin Francis Pinkston are facing problems even bigger than the quarantine. While navigating her home health job , along with shutdowns, face masks, and toilet paper shortages, Maggie stumbles upon a dead man—snipped in the bud with his own set of monogrammed scissors!
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It's a salon scheme gone south, and now, Maggie and Francis are in the midst of a murder investigation. Missing hair salon owners, disappearing patients, destructive raccoons...and why does everyone have purple hair? It’s a mystery fit for Shear-Lock Combs!
Can Maggie and Francis find a killer and survive 2020...or will this be their last bad hair day?
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Scared Sheetless in Birmingham
Cousins Cozy Mysteries book #2
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Creeping It Real
Halloween is only a few weeks away, and Maggie Baxter and her cousin Francis Pinkston are as excited as anyone for the spooky festivities. That is, until everyone in Birmingham, Alabama is shocked by the disappearance of local celebrity and investigative news reporter, Brent Shelton. When his body is discovered disguised as a ghost amongst the Halloween decor in her own neighbor’s yard, Maggie can no longer keep her worry under wraps. Especially after she finds out exactly who he was investigating.
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Teamwork Makes the Scream Work
To make things even more batty, a group of Maggie's home health patients turn out to be real creeps, and her daughter begins dating the victim’s suspicious-acting former intern. And when another ghostly visage appears in the shadows, Maggie and Francis team up to track down clues, costumes, and the killer. Can they catch a murderer before the next victim gets hung out to dry?
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Woofing it Down in Birmingham
Cousins Cozy Mysteries book #3
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Coming in 2025!