Icy Secrets, Scandalous Lies: A Michelle Kilpatrick Mystery - Softcover

Kay, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1960581120 ISBN 13: 9781960581129

Publisher: Hale & Thornton Press LLC, 2025

Synopsis

Icy Secrets, Scandalous Lies
Book Three • The Michelle Kilpatrick Mysteries • a clean campus-cozy set in the 1970s

Training on thin ice turns deadly.
When an Olympic-caliber coach brings his figure-skating team to the university rink, the town buzzes with excitement—until the coach is found dead and the whispers start to swirl.

Skates, scandals, and small-town secrets.
Assigned to cover the coach, journalism student Michelle Kilpatrick finds rumors of doping, judge bribery, and rivalries sharp enough to cut the ice. The more she digs, the more someone wants her off the story.

A sleuth with a press pass.
With help from her commuter-lounge crew—and a certain grad-student writer—Michelle chases the truth through chilly practices, anonymous messages, and threats that hit too close to home. Because in Petersburg, the cleanest ice can still hide the darkest secrets.

Clean, clever, and cozily nostalgic—perfect for readers who love campus settings, sports-tinged mysteries, and fearless amateur sleuths. No gore. No profanity. Just twists and turns and a mystery that is deeper than it first appears.

Book Four coming 2026

About this title

About the Author

Hi! I grew up in Ohio and earned a degree in photojournalism from Bowling Green State University. Recalling my life as a commuting college student in the 1970s-rushed breakfasts, vending machine lunches, and too many hours spent hunting for a decent parking spot-I began writing The Michelle Kilpatrick (cozy) Mysteries.When I'm not plotting fictional murders (strictly on paper, of course), I enjoy organic gardening, devouring mysteries and historical fiction, and indulging in cheesecake-because life is too short to skip dessert. I have three adult children and have embraced my role as grandma to their ever-growing collection of furbabies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hale & Thornton Press LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1960581120
• ISBN 13: 9781960581129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304