Keep Your Own Paper: A Good People Cozy Mystery, Book 2

By Matthew Robertson

She found the pattern.
Now the town knows where to hide it.

If you love cozy mysteries with:

An amateur sleuth who notices what others miss.A loyal dog with a story of his own.Small-town secrets, buried history, and quiet corruption.A mystery with real emotional stakes and growing danger.A heroine living with anxiety.Clean, character-driven suspense with warmth and heart.

Then Keep Your Own Paper may be your next read.

Amelia thought she had survived the hard part. After the first mystery, she promised herself she would step back, keep her head down, and let life stay simple for a while. But simplicity does not last long in a town where old land, old names, and old habits still shape what people are willing to say out loud.

When a new real estate deal starts running into trouble, Amelia notices something familiar beneath the paperwork: a boundary that does not quite close, a history that does not quite add up, and the same careful silence she has seen before. At the same time, Pepper, a dog she knows well from the daycare, begins showing signs that he is carrying something deeper than stress from home.

The clues do not announce themselves. They arrive in fragments - a sentence at a desk, a line on a map, a dog who is no longer acting like himself. And as Amelia begins to follow the thread, she realizes the town's nicest surfaces may be doing the most to hide what matters.

Keep Your Own Paper is the second book in the Good People cozy mystery series, featuring an observant amateur sleuth, a loyal dog, and a small town where the truth is often buried under courtesy.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9QHM2L1
• ISBN13: 9798188267858
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.5"