/ Award-winning author Elizabeth C. Bunce has earned lots of recent recognition for the first book in her Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series. Author Elizabeth C. Bunce's cozy Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series is having a moment. Accolades are rolling in for writer Elizabeth C. Bunce, of Lenexa, Kansas, and “Premeditated Myrtle,” the first book in her Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series. “As an author, we never really know how our books are going to be received,” Bunce says. “You always think somebody's going to find it and love it. And then you dream that a lot of people are going to find it and love it and spread the word.”