Sun City West “Cozy Mystery” author Ann I. Goldfarb, writing as J.C. Eaton, will be at Barnes & Noble, 7401 W. Bell Road, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.  Saturday, June 21, to sign copies of “Puzzled 4 Murder,” the latest release in the Sophie Kimball Mysteries set in Sun City West. This is the 14th book in the series. 

Humorous author C.B. Wilson, known for her Barkview dog mysteries, will also be present.

Soaring temperatures and a giant jigsaw puzzle combine to form a picture of murder ... It’s a blistering hot summer in Sun City West, and members of the retirement community are happy to escape into the air-conditioned bliss of the library to work on a mammoth 40,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. But things begin heating up inside, too, when members clash with the domineering head of the puzzle committee over which puzzle to solve — until someone settles the matter by killing her. Now it’s up to Sophie “Phee” Kimball to put all the pieces of the murder plot together and catch the culprit responsible.

Any number of the jigsaw aficionados could have wanted the victim out of the picture for her personality alone, but Phee suspects there was a more sinister motive behind the murder. Then the chosen puzzle and the library itself are struck by one instance of sabotage after another, and Phee’s convinced that someone is sending a menacing message. But just as she unearths a telling clue and slots it into place, she finds herself in a race against time to finish the puzzle and solve the case—before the killer goes to pieces and finishes her off too.

In addition to “Puzzled 4 Murder,” Goldfarb will sign books from the Sophie Kimball Mysteries as well as “The Charcuterie Shop Mysteries,” set in Cave Creek. 

Wilson will sign the Barkview Mysteries as well.

The event is free and open to the public.