J.J. Dakota writes the Mended Marvels Mysteries, a cozy mystery series where forgotten objects, hidden histories, and small-town secrets have an inconvenient habit of becoming murder investigations.

Fascinated by antiques, curious inventions, and the stories old objects carry with them, Dakota's mysteries explore what can happen when something long forgotten suddenly has a story left to tell.

The series begins with The Unfinished Pirouette, in which antique restorer Greer Tolliver encounters a century-old mechanical ballerina that plays a melody it shouldn't—and discovers that some things from the past were forgotten for a reason.

When not plotting Greer's next mystery, J.J. can usually be found somewhere between an old book, an unusual object, and the question that starts every good mystery:

How did this get here?