Theo Bogart Mysteries

Susan Cox’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winner The Man In the Washing Machine was a charming debut with wacky characters and a wonderfully twisted mystery.

To escape a high-profile family tragedy in her native England, Theo Bogart changed her name and moved to San Francisco, where she runs a soap store called Aromas. But her quiet new life was upended when a murder rocked her neighborhood and dragged her out of hiding. Cox’s award-winning series paints delightful portraits of colorful San Francisco neighborhoods and a woman finding her way through just the kind of scandalous mysteries she was trying to leave behind.