Estella Reede, Cozy Mysteries
The Quinny Sinclair Mapmaker Mysteries

Small-town New Mexico. Big secrets. One very opinionated black cat.

Cartographer Quinny Sinclair can read any trail, survey any ridge, and never once leave a puzzle alone. Cozy mysteries full of red chile, piñón smoke, family, and a map that always holds more than it shows.

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Cover of A Matter of A Piñón: The Baker's Missing Ledger by Estella Reede, showing a black cat beside sopaipillas, honey, and a hand-drawn map outside Panadería Delgado
Cover of A Matter of A Piñón: The Baker's Missing Ledger by Estella Reede
The Prequel Novella

A Matter of A Piñón: The Baker's Missing Ledger

One missing bakery ledger, an inheritance compromised, and a mapmaker who can't resist connecting the dots.

Road-tripping cartographer Quinny Sinclair plans one night in Río Seco, a New Mexican town scented with sage and painted in fuchsia sunsets. Then her car breaks down, a black cat named Mr. Beans adopts her, and a grieving family's missing heirloom draws her in. She never turns back mid-trail.

Part recipe book, part shop ledger, part private diary, deceased baker Paz Delgado's handwritten book holds thirty years of recipes, business records, family history, and secrets about money that was never hers. Now she's gone, and so is the book. That's no accident.

Paz's niece swears it never existed. Her nephew insists it exists, and that it's his to inherit. Half the town wants it found. The rest couldn't care less, until Quinny starts asking questions.

She has two days until her car is fixed and the road pulls her home. Without the book, the bakery closes for good and an embezzler walks free.

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Cover of Murder with Extra Salsa, A Quinny Sinclair Mapmaker Mystery by Estella Reede, showing a black cat beside a spilled bowl of salsa on a hand-drawn map in a cozy bookstore
Coming Next · Book 1

Murder with Extra Salsa

Back home in Corrales, Quinny is helping run her grandparents' bookstore when a rancher brings in an old hand-drawn map. One hike later, a year-old disappearance becomes something much darker, and the whole valley seems to know more than it's saying.

  • Set in Corrales, New Mexico
  • A family bookstore, a taco truck, and a growers' market
  • Mr. Beans returns

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Welcome to Quinny's world

This story is where Quinny Sinclair's journey begins, in the midst of her life taking a detour, and before she realizes just how much trouble a keen eye for detail can stir up. It's the perfect, entangled intro to test Quinny's wits before things turn lethal in Murder with Extra Salsa.

Pour yourself a mug of piñón coffee, let the high-desert breeze pull you straight into the whirlwind, and see if you can trace the paper trail before Quinny does.

Happy sleuthing,
Estella Reede

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About the Author

Estella Reede

Estella Reede writes cozy mysteries rooted in the landscapes, kitchens, and small towns of New Mexico. The Quinny Sinclair Mysteries follow a cartographer who can't leave a map, or a mystery, alone.

She believes every good story starts with a trail someone left behind, and that no case should be solved on an empty stomach.