Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Radio Interview: Trish Esden on Vermont Viewpoint


 

Here’s a photo of me talking with Bradley Ferland at WDEV yesterday.
If you’d like to listen to the podcast about Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery series, antiques, writing, and more. My interview starts at 53 minutes. 
The entire podcast is worth a listen, by the way. Listen here. Enjoy!

Friday, April 18, 2025

Whisper of Treasure and Lies, a Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery


  

Some secrets die with their owners. Others hide in silence, waiting to be set free. 

 

Edie Brown despises the bigwig antique and art dealer Felix Graham. She even suspects he had a hand in her mom being set up for the art forgery charge that sent her to prison. However, when Graham is drugged and robbed after purchasing a valuable antique bottle and a box of local historical items, Edie agrees to hunt down the thieves for him. In payment, she wants one thing: everything Graham knows about her mom being set up—who was involved, how they did it…all the information that could lead to her mom’s freedom. 

 

But the number of possible thieves is as plentiful as the potential motives. Graham’s womanizing ways and slippery business practices barely outweigh the stolen pieces’ rarity and value. As Edie, her uncle Tuck, and enigmatic employee, Kala, dive into the dangerous search, evidence that the crime is tied to the stolen pieces’ history surface. Both the bottle—known as the Glass Widow—and the box of ephemera are related to a tragedy that occurred the night before the grand opening of a Victorian-era hydropathic resort, a shocking fragment of Vermont history that involved a peculiar dowry, concealed murder, and a fire that claimed lives and gutted the lavish resort. 

 

With her mom’s mental health rapidly declining in prison, Edie must fight against the clock to expose the thieves by untangling a mystery with roots that stretch from the Victorian-era to the recent robbery, and perhaps into Edie’s own past as well. 


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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Cover reveal! Whisper of Treasure and Lies by Trish Esden

 

Cover reveal! 

I’m excited to share the cover of the next book in the Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery series, Whisper of Treasure and Lies, designed by Melody Simmons, of Book Covers By Melody. Preorder your copy today at online and local bookshops.

Signed Paperbacks: Call Eloquent Page 

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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Cover Reveal Coming Soon!

And by this I mean super soon! 

And the pre-order will go live at the same time. 

#ScandalMountainAntiquesMysteries #CoverReveal #Mystery #BetterThanBiscuits #MysteryNovel

 

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Coming Soon...Whisper of Treasure and Lies


 Whisper of Treasure and Lies
Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery #3
Coming soon...

Friday, February 21, 2025

Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery--IS and IS NOT




 Danger, art, and a touch of romance collide in Trish Esden’s second exquisitely crafted Scandal Mountain Antiques mystery, 
perfect for fans of Jane K. Cleland and Connie Berry.

 

Some people are willing to die for their art. Others are willing to kill for it.

When Vermont antique and art dealer Edie Brown discovers an unsettlingly dark collage by the famed and reclusive “outsider” artist known only as Vespa, she opens a Pandora’s Box of deception and danger.
 
Edie teams up with Uncle Tuck and Kala to look into the background of the collage, but only uncover secrets that are more unsettling than the artwork itself. As Edie tracks down the validity of the piece, she stumbles into a darker world where some people are willing to kill to keep their schemes a secret.  

Monday, January 20, 2025

IPNE Silver Award Winner!


 So excited! 

A Wealth of Deception is a IPNE Silver Award winner. 

Thank you to Independent Publishers of New England for this honor.