Secrets of the Blue Moon (A Marnie Putnam ~ Lake Gardner Mystery Book 1)

Ten years ago, two women died under a blue moon. This year, Marnie Putnam can't stop asking why. She came to Lake Gardner for space from a marriage quietly unraveling — not to inherit a decade-old mystery. But a simple assignment documenting the town's haunted history pulls her straight into the unsolved deaths of two women who died under sinister circumstances, under the same rare lunar event that's approaching again. As the next blue moon grows near, Marnie digs even deeper for the truth. Yet the closer she gets to answers, the more dangerous her questions become — and the more she starts to wonder if she’s next to face the same fate? For readers of Karen White, Barbara Davis, and Diane Chamberlain: a Southern mystery where the ghosts are real. And so are the truths that Marnie’s been avoiding. “I held my breath in multiple scenes.” 🟊🟊🟊🟊🟊 “I loved Marnie—a smart, strong, introspective woman ready to shed the past and take charge of her life.” 🟊🟊🟊🟊🟊 Recognized as an Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in Women’s Fiction (2026) and an American Book Fest Finalist for Cross-Genre Fiction (2025), Secrets of the Blue Moon is Book One of the Marnie Putnam – Lake Gardner series of cozy-dark Southern mysteries blending small-town secrets, suspense, and whispers of the supernatural.