Josiah “Jo” Reynolds is a beekeeper in Kentucky’s Bluegrass region. She survived a near-fatal attack that left her physically scarred and financially strained, and she rebuilt her life around her honey bees and her farmhouse. The problem is that people in her orbit keep turning up dead, and she keeps getting pulled into the investigations.
The character is drawn from Abigail Keam’s own life. Keam is an award-winning beekeeper who spent years selling honey at Kentucky farmers’ markets, and the beekeeping details in the books come from that experience. Jo is stubborn, opinionated, and not always likeable, which makes her more interesting than the typical cozy mystery protagonist. She does not play amateur detective by choice. The trouble finds her.
Read the Josiah Reynolds Mysteries books in order.