Ruthie East pens cozy mysteries where amateur sleuths don’t take “no” for an answer, especially when the clues don’t add up. Her debut series is set in the fictional upstate New York lake town of Oak’s Rest, where the coffee is strong, the neighbors are nosy, and murder is the only thing not on the itinerary. When she’s not writing, she’s probably staring woefully at all the unread books on her TBR, or scheming up ways to trick her cat into drinking more water.