Frozen Felony (The Cruisin in Clues Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)

Cruise Ship, Pastries, and Murder.
She inherited a luxury suite at sea, but she didn’t plan for a murder.
Margaux “Go” Elliston has spent her life being underestimated.
When her billionaire grandfather leaves her a permanent residential suite aboard the MV Aurelia, with the condition she live at sea, Go assumes it’s one last eccentric gesture and a chance to travel the world.
Her family calls it a floating studio apartment. Go calls it freedom.
Fourteen decks above the Atlantic, she’s determined to prove she’s more than a trust fund girl with the last name of the cruise line’s deceased founder. Armed with a marble pastry board, seventy-two layers of croissant dough, and a fiercely loyal toy poodle named Biscuit, Go settles into life among the ship’s permanent residents; retired lawyers, globe-trotting eccentrics, and one devastatingly stoic head of security who insists on calling her Miss Elliston.
Then her cousin Tripp boards for a friendly visit.
Three days later, Go finds him dead in the ship’s walk-in cooler.
The official ruling? A tragic accident.
The problem? The cooler locks from the outside. And Tripp wasn’t wearing shoes.
When whispers turn into suspicion, and that suspicion turns squarely toward Go, she finds herself with two choices: let her family’s lawyers clean up the mess or solve the crime herself before the ship docks in Nassau.
With the help of a sharp-tongued Deck 14 socialite, a dramatic French pastry chef, and a poodle who growls only when she means it, Go starts folding clues the way she folds butter into dough, like her grandmother taught her; patiently, precisely, waiting for what doesn’t fit to rise to the surface.
Because on a cruise ship, everyone is running from something.
And someone is willing to kill to keep their secrets from docking.

A cozy mystery featuring:
An amateur sleuth with a baker’s eye for detail
A highly trained (and highly judgmental) toy poodle
A luxury cruise ship setting with a closed-circle suspect pool
Slow-burn tension with the ship’s head of security
Found family on a permanent residential deck
An inheritance with strings attached
A suspect-turned-sleuth determined to clear her name

Perfect for readers who love cruise ship cozies, food-forward mysteries, clever amateur detectives, and warm community vibes with just enough danger to keep things interesting.
All aboard. The ocean is patient.
The killer isn’t.