Welcome to adventure in the high north country.

McIntyre's Gulch is a mysterious place. But Butterscotch Jones is a mystery herself. She thought she was safe in Manitoba, but trouble has found her again.

Fun and exciting, sometimes dark and brooding, the Butterscotch Jones Mystery Series represents a new genre of cozy thillers. Begin your journey with Due North.

And for you cozy mystery fans, don't miss The Chloe Boston Mystery Series in print and eBook formats.

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Due North
Melanie Jackson, March 2011, 41k words, $3.99 eBook Price

Butterscotch Jones thought that living in the far north provided enough peril to contend with until a private plane crashed outside her hometown of McIntyre's Gulch, Manitoba, Canada. The treasure inside the plane soon attracted both the RCMP and the Russian Mafia. For a town built upon isolation and secrecy, the doors were about to be blown off their hinges.

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Big Bones
Melanie Jackson, May 2011, 23k words, $3.99 eBook Price

When the mafia plane exploded, that should have been the end of troubles for McIntyre's Gulch, but the government only became more interested in The Gulch and RCMP detective, Chuck Goodhead. Butterscotch Jones has other woes besides. A giant skeleton has been discovered outside of town and Sasquatch Watch is on the way with reporters and an anthropologist. Can she get rid of them before someone ends up dead?

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Gone South
Melanie Jackson, August 2011, 29k words, $3.99 eBook Price

Butterscotch receives a call from the states informing her that her father is dying. But is it a genuine deathbed call for reconciliation or a trap? In either case, Butterscotch solicits the help of Detective Chuck Goodhead to sneak over the border to see her father. From that point on, chaos reigns. This latest installment in the series sees Butterscotch grow in unexpected ways.

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Home Fires
Melanie Jackson, November 2011, 11k words, $2.99 eBook Price

Christmas is coming to McIntyre's Gulch, unfortunately Butterscotch's boyfriend, Mountie Chuck Goodhead, is not. Instead, he's stuck in a snow storm with his father, who he doesn't get along with. But it is the season for miracles, and maybe one will happen for Chuck and his father.

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pointsWest
Melanie Jackson, February 2012, 25k words, $3.99 eBook Price

McIntyre's Gulch has had it's share of misadventure and close calls with the law, but this time disaster looms large. A corrupt Mountie has staggered to Butterscotch's doorstep and then dropped dead. Chuck Goodhead is able to identify the policeman as a traitor who is a purveyor of secrets. Dark and powerful enemies are converging on the town and Chuck and Butterscotch must work quickly to find out why a dying man used his last moments of life to come to them.

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