New New Providence, Rhode Island. A small harbor town on the New England coast — the kind of place where everyone waves to everyone, the bakery opens before dawn, and the body count is unreasonable for the population size.
Book One · Traditional Publishing · Querying Literary Agents
Murder He Bakes
Maddox Blight, a sharp-tongued New York medical examiner, fled the city with a broken heart and ended up in the impossibly small town of New New Providence — where he promptly finds himself entangled in a murder investigation alongside the local sheriff, who bakes at midnight when something is wrong. The bread is extraordinary. The situation is considerably less so.
A dark cozy mystery about found family, slow-burn queer romance, and the unsettling discovery that small towns have long memories, short fuses, and an unusual number of bodies.
Book Two · In Development
Untitled Book Two
Maddox is settling in. New New Providence is not. The next body turns up before he's finished unpacking — and the found family he didn't ask for is already too involved to step back. More soon.
The plan is ten books.
New New Providence has more to say. The found family has more to become. Maddox has more bodies to stand over, more truths to excavate, more midnight baking to decode.
The possibilities? Endless.
Screen Adaptation · In Someone's Excellent Imagination
Crumbs & Crimes — The Series
A prestige streaming adaptation. Shot on the New England coast. Fog, harbor light, amber kitchen glow at 3am. Immaculate casting. A midnight baking scene in episode two that is completely, entirely justified. Coming to a platform near you — the moment one of them develops taste.