I'm pleased to welcome Gabby Wolfe to Cozy Up With Kathy today. You can find Gabby on the pages of the Henry Park Mystery series. COLOR ME CRIMSON is the second book in the series and was released this past summer.
Gabby Wolfe: Artist and Amateur Sleuth
Hi there. My name is Gabby Wolfe, and I’m lucky enough to live in Henry Park, Colorado. I work as an illustrator for children’s books and teach art with my former art teacher Maybelline. Maybelline is more than a teacher to me. She was my mentor in the field of art, and now she is a dear friend who I am closer to than my mother. One thing I’m not crazy about is Maybelline’s new boyfriend, Charlie. They were a thing years ago, but now he has returned to take over her life, along with her art gallery and school. He loves everything about her world except me. He is constantly criticizing my teaching and says things in front of the students like “Watercolor is for people who can’t seriously paint in oils.” The guy gets under my skin.
I was avoiding him one day when I went to the basement to retrieve paint for a class. That’s when I found a door hidden behind an old bookshelf. I didn’t know it was there, and neither did Maybelline. From the surrounding dust, no one had been through that door in decades. It was locked, but then I took a moment to sketch. One thing I don’t share with people up front is I have another gift besides art. I can channel the other side through sketching. It just comes to me. I concentrate, think it’s not going to work, then ten minutes later, I find I’m looking at a sketch of something I didn’t know I was drawing. For the door, I sketched where the key was hidden. That’s where the mystery began.
For an artist, I’m a pretty good detective. Think about my skill set. Artists make a living by seeing things other people don’t notice. It’s all about the details. Like police, we are trained observers. We are taught to see the light and the shadows. In my case, life is heavy with shadows. We also see the stories in a face, a landscape, an uneaten meal, or a half-torn ticket. There’s always more to something than what you see at first glance.
I saw layers of paint on that door that had accumulated over decades. I saw a glass doorknob, the kind that was popular at the beginning of the last century. I saw untouched dust and then wondered why the door had been locked and covered up. Who were they keeping out? What were they keeping in?
Read Color Me Crimson and find out what is behind the door.
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Review
The Second Henry Park Mystery
Teaching classes at the art gallery and creating illustrations for the Adventure Kids books Gabby Wolfe is happy. That is until Charlie comes into town. Maybelline's old flame is taking over the art gallery and walking all over Maybelline. And worse, she's letting him. Not only that, he demeans Gabby every chance he gets. Escaping him momentarily Gabby goes to the basement to retrieve some paint when she's struck by a feeling of dread. Using her psychic abilities she discovers a speakeasy long since shuttered away. Inside she finds bones and what seems like an evil entity. But when the man Charlie calls in to investigate winds up dead Gabby fears the entity is influencing a very human killer. As she looks into the past, Gabby will have to trust herself and her friends to find the killer, before she ends up silenced for good.
What a jerk! I wanted to slap Charlie this way to Sunday. The same could be said for Ryan, albeit to a lesser degree. It was frustrating to see two strong women taken in by these guys, feeling that being with a man was more important that their own integrity, and ultimately happiness. I enjoyed how Gabby and Gigi use their abilities and it was fascinating to see Gabby uncover the truth about what happened in the speakeasy and who remains there. I also like how she tracked down the truth about the despicable Charlie.
The past and present collide in COLOR ME CRIMSON creating turmoil and a shocking confrontation in this captivating mystery.
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Color Me Crimson (Henry Park Series) by Teresa Trent
About Color Me Crimson
Setting - Colorado
Publisher: Harbor Lane Books, LLC.
Publication Date: August 25, 2026
Print Length: 248 pages
Gabby Wolfe is having enough trouble getting along with her boss’s new boyfriend, who has no problem telling her exactly what he thinks of her art. Desperate to escape his criticism, Gabby retreats to the basement of the art gallery—where she stumbles across a secret door that was never meant to be opened.
Behind it are buried secrets, a connection to the other side, and a restless spirit who has been waiting a very long time for someone carrying as much anger as Gabby.
Now Gabby may have unleashed something far more dangerous than a bad temper. If she can’t uncover the truth behind the hidden door, she might not just lose her way back—someone could lose their life.
Can Gabby solve the mystery before the other side claims its next victim?
About Teresa Trent
Teresa Trent has been writing and publishing mysteries since 2011, starting with the Pecan Bayou Mystery Series and followed by the Piney Woods Mystery Series. She presently writes the Swinging Sixties Mystery Series and the Henry Park Paranormal Series. When Teresa isn’t writing novels and short stories, she spends her time creating narrated excerpts on her podcast, Books to the Ceiling, where she gets to use all that community theater experience from her teens and twenties along with a little audio editing she learned from her daughter. Teresa is a former English teacher, but also spent many years teaching music to preschoolers, working with children of all abilities. Teresa makes her home in Texas with her husband and son.
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