A Detective's Last Case (Available January 2027)

Coming January 2027

Melissa Kane and Detective Doyle are engaged — and for Jo and Bethany, wedding planning becomes the perfect excuse to stay tangled in Doyle's orbit. Cake tastings, seating charts, venue walkthroughs: for once, the closest thing to a mystery is picking a color palette.

That lasts right up until a murder lands close enough to home that nobody gets to just be a guest.

Ray Sabatini, the straight-shooting owner of the bar service Melissa nearly hired, turns up dead after quietly asking why a rival vendor keeps underbidding every job in town. His numbers didn't add up — and neither did hers.

For Doyle, the case is bigger and stranger than anything he's used to — big enough that it becomes the one that convinces him this should be his last. For Jo and Bethany, still riding the reputation (and the group chat) from their last investigation, it stops being a puzzle and turns into a hit-too-close-to-home fight for answers — one that pulls in a wary new ABC agent, a coworker with her own reasons to dig, and a killer already standing closer than anyone realizes.

A Detective's Last Case is Book Two in the Jo Whitfield Mysteries — a fast-paced amateur-sleuth mystery series about the people who can't stop noticing what everyone else lets go. Now with a wedding, a badge on the line, and a killer closer than the guest list.

📖 Book One, A Stranger's Last Conversation, is available now. Book Three is already taking shape.