Cozy Mystery: Plastic House by Tricia Arnold

If you love cozy mysteries filled with intrigue, eerie settings, and unforgettable characters, you won’t want to miss my gripping mystery novel, The Lost Lake Mysteries: Plastic House—a story that will keep you guessing until the final page.

Step Inside Plastic House… If You Dare
Lost Lake isn’t your typical small town. It holds secrets, stories, and mysteries that refuse to be forgotten. One of the most unsettling? Plastic House—part artist’s masterpiece, part local oddity, and part chilling mystery.

When newcomer Phaedra finds a charming, affordable home for sale, she believes it’s her fresh start. But before she can settle in, she learns the truth—the home once belonged to Isla Ocean, an enigmatic artist who vanished without a trace. Inside, the house is frozen in time, packed with Isla’s mesmerizing resin art, each piece hauntingly detailed. Something about them tugs at Phaedra in ways she can’t explain.

Just when she thinks she might be imagining things, Phaedra meets Clarabelle Wilkinson, a retired librarian who remembers Isla all too well. Isla was her best friend, and Clarabelle isn’t ready to let the mystery go. With a catalog of cryptic clues, a suspicious neighbor, and eerie disturbances she can’t ignore, Phaedra is pulled into the puzzle.

Who—or what—is lurking in Plastic House? What secrets does it refuse to give up? And is Isla’s disappearance really what it seems?

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P.S. Step into the mystery—if you’re ready to uncover what Plastic House has been hiding.

Lost Lake is an unusual town with a storied past that affects the future. One of these unsolved mysteries is Plastic House, part artist’s creation, part oddity, part murder mystery.

In this Lost Lake story, Phaedra, who’s new in town, gets swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Isla Ocean, a local artist. When Phaedra finds a small house for sale in a quiet subdivision at a price she can afford, she makes an appointment to see it. Before taking the plunge, Phaedra learns the house has a past. It was owned by a missing artist thought deceased. Though the story is eerie, the price is too good to pass up.

Nicknamed “Plastic House”, the small home, looks normal on the outside, but the house’s outer appearance is deceiving. Phaedra’s new home is filled with the artist’s abandoned resin art. The hypnotic creations have her entranced, but there’s something about the detailed resin pieces that draw her in.

Her neighbor, Mark is the sort of guy she’d like to date. Still, something or someone is disturbing the peace. Who or what is behind it? Above all, who knows what happened to Isla Ocean?

Phaedra is dragged into the mystery when she meets Clarabelle Wilkinson, a retired librarian with a card catalog of clues! The missing artist was Clarabelle’s best friend, and she wants to know what happened to her. She misses their days sipping tea, and coping with life’s challenges.

Clarabelle worries about Phaedra, and doesn’t trust their new neighbor, Mark. With a sharp eye, and attention to detail, Clarabelle tries to put the pieces together. The question is, will Plastic House reveal its secrets?