Welcome to Lifnos Island

Here, cozy mysteries simmer with secrets, ghosts refuse to stay quiet, and old-world corners hide surprises at every turn.

If you love:

Amateur sleuths who care as much as they snoop

Medium-stress mysteries with a whisper of the supernatural

Rustic tavernas, tight-knit communities, and irresistible food

…you’re in the right place.

BOOK ONE

Spirits and Whine

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A frustrated taverna owner.

An entitled influencer.

A murder that binds them.

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Meet Lisa

I write because stories are how I make sense of the world — and because the questions that won't leave me alone tend to involve a wrongdoing, one of three complicated people, and a few hundred pages before they'll quiet down.

Even though I'm a loud (and proud) person, what goes unsaid fascinates me: the glance that carries a whole history, the loyalties we'd never name aloud, the near-misses we keep turning over long after we should have set them down.

Lifnos came out of that. It's an island where nobody's belonging is ever quite settled, where the past keeps its receipts, and where justice, when it finally arrives, always sends a bill.

I also write contemporary urban fantasy and sci-fi thrillers as Elena Lyra