Edited Out: The latest Mystery by Rebecca Douglass

Edited Out by Rebecca Douglass

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Edited Out

Who erased the writer?

Winter in Maine is long, dark, and cold, and California transplant Seffi Wardwell is combating the winter blues with a full calendar. Tending the plants at the local bed-and-breakfast, writing reports for the library, and generally keeping an eye on events in Smelt Point barely leaves time for pastry and gossip at Sweet Dreams, the local bakery and heart of the village.

When the participants at an artistic retreat held at the bed-and-breakfast grow combative, Seffi is there to smooth things over, stiffen the spine of the innkeeper, and keep things going. But when a writer turns up dead, Seffi’s called on to wield a different kind of expertise. Then someone lets slip there was poison in a coffee bought at Sweet Dreams, and it looks like Seffi’s favorite source of treats is in real trouble. Can her knowledge of plants save the inn—and the local bakery—before the killer strikes again and tears the heart out of Smelt Point?

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Edited Out (Seffi Wardwell Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – Maine
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 25, 2025
Print length ‏ : ‎ 263 pages
Paperback
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8291865569
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FLVKH7GT
Digital
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FLB4MDN2

Edited Out Character Guest Post

Hello—Seffi Wardwell here, and thank you for inviting me to chat today. I’m more used to teaching science than talking about mysteries, but since I moved to Smelt Point I seem to have developed a knack for solving problems, so I’m learning. My best friend, Nikka, claims I’ve just redirected the energy I used to put into teaching, and I dare say she’s right.

All I really wanted to do when I first came to Smelt Point was get strong and healthy again—I’d been sick for so long, and I hated being tired all the time! The sea air here worked wonders, and pretty soon I had energy to spare. For a while I worried I might get bored, with no classes to teach, but somehow, new opportunities keep popping up—people see that I have some free time and figure I might be able to help them out. That’s how I ended up working at the Beachside Inn during their first Artists’ Residency.

I’d been there a lot anyway, trying to keep their houseplants alive. Chloe and Arden—my bosses—are dears, but you never saw anyone who could kill a plant so fast. Plants are my specialty, so helping out there was the only merciful thing to do. I couldn’t stand by and watch those things die!

With the inn full up for their very first artist’s residency, Chloe realized pretty fast that she couldn’t handle everything herself. Since I was there a bunch anyway, I didn’t mind coming in to serve breakfast.

I was really enjoying meeting the artists and seeing what they were doing—right up until Chloe found the corpse, and the perp tried kill one of my plants, too! Next thing I knew, I was helping our local police once again, because they never have enough people or time, and they needed someone who knew about plants. I don’t like dealing with dead people, but I’m a sucker for the puzzle of figuring out who killed them.

Do I have a personal reason for liking to get involved? That’s my business. I suppose if you read the book, that Douglass person who writes up my cases will tell you all about it, including the stuff I try to keep quiet. A character just can’t get any privacy! But I’m keeping busy and staying useful, and that’s what really matters to me.

Thanks for joining me and my readers, Seffi! Great to have you visit.

Edited Out Author Rebecca Douglass

Rebecca M. Douglass has lived, worked, and hiked around the American West for more years than she’ll admit, while raising two children to adulthood and dreaming up interesting ways to bump people off. Thanks to good friends in Maine, she has also fallen in love with that mysterious coast. Since retiring from work at the library, the author has moved to Seattle, where she is writing the Seffi Wardwell Mysteries.

In addition to her Ninja Librarian series for younger readers and the Pismawallops PTA mystery series, she has had short stories published in a magazines and anthologies. When she isn’t writing, Ms. Douglass likes to go hiking and backpacking, or travels to discover new places or revisit old favorites, including the Sierra Nevada mountains, the desert Southwest, and of course Maine, where so many of the best cozy mysteries are found.

To learn more about Rebecca, click any of the following links:

Blog: https://www.rebecca-douglass.com

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebeccamdouglass/ @rebeccamdouglass

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5755891.Rebecca_M_Douglass

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