Pickpockets & Promises

Somebody is picking pockets at the Winter Festival. Every empty purse comes home to the reformed thief.

Clem Rook gave up stealing to keep the magical Lost & Found on Lantern Street. Now all of Copperbell is out on the ice for the Winter Festival, a riddle hunt sends the whole town racing every morning, and purses are vanishing in the crush.

In Copperbell, lost things always find their way home, and every emptied purse lands on the reformed thiefs counter. The town is starting to wonder. A complaint is waiting to be signed the morning after the parade. And Captain Abel Hart, who finally asked her properly, is keeping a letter from Saltgate folded in his coat.

To keep her name, her home and the man she loves, the Keeper will have to catch a thief better than she ever was, with help from a very opinionated barn owl and a town that is about to find out what it really saw.

Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Spellshop. A warm, funny cozy fantasy mystery with a fair-play puzzle, a found family and a winter festival youll want to visit.

A cozy fantasy mystery with a closed-door, slow-burn romance (no spice): kisses on the page, the door stays closed, no profanity. About 86,000 words. Book 2 of The Lantern Street Lost & Found; it can be read on its own, but is best after Lockpicks & Lost Things.