It’s never good when a message begins “Due to circumstances beyond our control.” That said, due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to take a break from writing. During that time, I recorded thoughts about my next Meg Daniels mystery in my phone Notes app, on dozens of stickies, and on random receipts from the bottom of my handbag. The process of turning those notes into a book delayed publication of my next Meg Daniels novel from Plexus Publishing. I wanted Meg to be out and about in bookstores before the end of 2025.

Hence, the Meg Daniels Mystery Weekenders, novellas where all the action takes place in one weekend and the entire story can be read in one weekend. Meg will be visiting her usual haunts, Jersey Shore towns, and finding trouble in every one. With only two days to solve a mystery, she’ll be racing against, and sometimes beating, the clock. She has three weekend trips in the works for this summer and a list of places to visit after that. Her weekend adventures start now in ebook and paperback formats.

Wildwood Daze – A Meg Daniels Mystery Weekenders Novella, Book 1
Genre: Traditional/Cozy Mystery
Release: July 2025
Format: Digital (Print to come)
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Meg Daniels isn’t thrilled with the idea of serving as a replacement bridesmaid in an elaborate 1950s-style wedding in Wildwood, New Jersey. The wedding is thirty-six hours away and bridesmaid, Number 8, has stormed out after a tiff with the bride. Or, so everyone thinks. Everyone but Meg who is convinced she encountered the cold, dead arm of her predecessor in a laundry basket. Her assigned job is to smile and keep the line-up of bridal attendants balanced. Meg doesn’t see it that way. Meg’s best trait, and sometimes her worst, is that she doesn’t give up.

About the author
Jane Kelly is a native Philadelphian but no matter where her career took her – New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago or Phoenix – at least once a year she managed to visit the Jersey Shore where the Meg Daniels mysteries are set. Jane is a graduate of Chestnut Hill College, has an MS from Drexel University in Library and Information Science and an MPhil in Popular Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area where her “Writing in Time Mysteries” and “Widow Lady Mysteries” are set. She is a past president of the Delaware Valley Sisters in Crime chapter and has served on the board of the New York City Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Her fourth and sixth Meg Daniels mysteries from Plexus Publishing, Missing You in Atlantic City and Strangers in the Avalon Dunes won Independent Publishers Book Awards for mid-Atlantic fiction in 2015.