Jayne Brewster is the cozy mystery pen name of a sci-fi and paranormal romance writer, who has written 40+ romance novels and spent thirty years behind the chair as a hairdresser. Turns out, thirty years of cutting, coloring, and listening to people's secrets makes you pretty good at plotting murders.
A lifelong reader of cozy mysteries and romance, she's now writing the kinds of stories she's always loved — small towns, big personalities, and the occasional dead body.
Her debut series, The Monet, Kansas Mysteries, follows hairdresser Blair Cole as she solves crimes, navigates her ex-husband, and proves that nobody knows a town better than the person holding the scissors.
Jayne Brewster is the cozy mystery pen name of a sci-fi and paranormal romance writer, who has written 40+ romance novels and spent thirty years behind the chair as a hairdresser. Turns out, thirty years of cutting, coloring, and listening to people's secrets makes you pretty good at plotting murders.
A lifelong reader of cozy mysteries and romance, she's now writing the kinds of stories she's always loved — small towns, big personalities, and...
Blair Cole had one rule about Monet, Kansas: she was done with it.
Six years gone, a life rebuilt, a past left exactly where she left it. Then her mother calls from a hospital bed, and Blair's back in a town that still calls her by her married name.
She's barely off the highway before she's in a screaming match with Claire Harmon — the woman Blair...
On Friday morning, somebody called the salon to cancel Twila Byers' next appointment. Twila had been dead since Wednesday.
For forty years Twila kept the Water Lily Society's telephone tree — a rotary-era gossip network that still outruns the internet — along with every secret the line ever handed her. The last time she sat in Blair Cole's chair,...