
Trailbreaker
Amazon Publishing · Print & ebook · January 27, 2026
A Mystery pick for readers exploring Trailbreaker.
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- Who it’s for
- For when you want a mystery pick with family tension and a sharper edge.
- Genres
- Cozy Mysteries, Private Eye Fiction, Romantic Suspense
- Published
- Amazon Publishing, January 27, 2026
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Suspicions that a serial killer is terrorizing a pristine tourist spot draw a single mom and budding private investigator into a twisting and deepening mystery of secrets and murder. Single mom and newly minted private investigator Prairie Nightingale has opened the doors of her Green Bay, Wisconsin, agency and is ready for work.
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She and her crew aren’t quite prepared for their first client, though: Bernie Dubicki, a notorious online journalist and not-altogether-reliable provocateur, who claims the idyllic vacation destination of nearby Door County is home to a serial killer. She’s pinpointed four seemingly unrelated deaths that haven’t raised suspicions for anyone else. But when a college student vanishes, Bernie’s sizable retainer convinces Prairie to help connect the dots. And trusted, flirty FBI agent Foster Rosemare thinks Bernie might be onto something. Prairie never expected her first investigation to be so big—like Dateline big—but she does have an inquiring mind and a knack for seeing things no one else can. In this case she’ll have to look deep—not only into the secrets of strangers, but into Door County’s woods—to solve a mystery decades in the making.
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For when you want a mystery pick with family tension and a sharper edge.
Come here for
- Edgy mystery energy
- Romantic-suspense crosscurrent
Expect
- Women-detective sleuthing
- Author-following appeal
Where it sits
| Private Eye Fiction | 68% |
|---|---|
| Romantic Suspense | 58% |
| Cozy Mysteries | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women Detectives
- Private Eye Fiction
- Amateur Sleuths
- Authors
- Ruthie Knox, Annie Mare
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Published
- January 27, 2026
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Women Detectives