Download or read book Sixty Sassy and Sleuthing written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is determined to put 60 year old Cally Colt out to pasture, but she's no one-trick pony. When Cally finds a dead body by a creek, she assumes it's an accidental drowning, that is, until the overbearing Detective Rick Bronco drives into town. Now a suspect in a murder, Cally must clear her name, keep the horse rescue financially stable, and stay alive. Will she overcome this nightmare, or is she on a foal's errand? The prequel novella to the Paranormal Cozy Mystery series, Colt Calling Horse Rescue Mysteries, from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best. Cozy Mystery with magical elements.

Download or read book Sixty Sassy and Sleuthing written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is determined to put 60 year old Cally Colt out to pasture, but she's no one-trick pony.When Cally finds a dead body by a creek, she assumes it's an accidental drowning, that is, until the overbearing Detective Rick Bronco drives into town. Now a suspect in a murder, Cally must clear her name, keep the horse rescue financially stable, and stay alive.Will she overcome this nightmare, or is she on a foal's errand?The prequel novella to the Paranormal Cozy Mystery series, Colt Calling Horse Rescue Mysteries, from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best.

Download or read book Saddled with Murder written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Ab Fab meets Bewitched in this fun cozy mystery from a USA Today Bestselling author. A volunteer is murdered at the horse rescue, but that's not the only mystery for sixty-year-old Cally Colt. She has just discovered what the overbearing detective has been hiding, and the stray cat is not what he seems. In fact, the cat's secret could be the most surprising of all. Cally is left to investigate. Will she put the cart before the horse, or will she pony up and solve the murder? This is Book 1 in the Colt Calling Horse Rescue Mysteries. The prequel novella, Sixty, Sassy, and Sleuthing, is free and should be read first. Ideal if you like paranormal cozy mysteries with magical cats!

Download or read book There Must be a Happy Medium written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christmas Spirit written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live. Laugh. Lava. Prudence Wallflower is a human volcano, and like Pompeii, she is about to blow. But hot flashes are only one of Prudence's problems. She is a clairvoyant ... who has never seen a ghost. Despite Prudence connecting people with their deceased loved ones through the impressions she receives from the dead, her professional reputation is on the edge of eruption. But when the ghost of a gorgeous detective appears and demands Prudence solve a murder, it's her romantic life, not her reputation, which is about to explode. Christmas Spirit is Book 1 in the Prime Time Crime Paranormal Women's Fiction Cozy Mystery series from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best. All Morgana Best cozy mysteries are humorous, feel-good stories. All are free from bad language, physical intimacy scenes, and all things gruesome.

Download or read book Ghost Hunter written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took Prudence Wallflower 50 years to get her head together... now her body is falling apart. And so is her life as a clairvoyant. When Prudence discovers the ghost of the dashing Detective Levi Grimes is harboring a secret, she only has a short time to save him from complete destruction. The key lies with a murdered police officer. Can she save Levi from a fate worse than his death, or will she too fall victim? Ghost Hunter is Book 2 in the Prime Time Crime Paranormal Women's Fiction Cozy Mystery series from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best. All Morgana Best books are humorous, feel-good stories. All are free from bad language, physical intimacy scenes, and all things gruesome.

Download or read book Hijinks in Ajijic written by Vikki Walton and published by Vikki Walton. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for animals in a Mexican casa sounds delightful, but when Viviane uncovers rumors and scandals, fireworks at dawn may not be the only thing exploding. Turning sixty has Viviane Masters seeking adventure and travel. Against her daughter’s wishes, spunky Viviane resolves to travel the world as a house and pet sitter. Her first sit in a sleepy ex-pat town in Mexico sounds great, but on arrival she senses a disturbing undercurrent in the placid locale. When Viviane finds threatening notes at the casa, are the warnings for her or the homeowner? As she delves deeper into the mystery, will Viviane’s first adventure be her last? If you love travel, animals, and clean cozy mysteries, with a sassy senior sleuth, grab this short read that introduces you to Viviane Masters, a global house and pet sitter. You’ll like this series if you enjoy any of these authors or series:, Blaize Cement (Dixie Hemingway Mysteries), Adriana Lucio (the Homeswappers), Liz Dodwell (Polly Parrett Pet-Sitter Cozy Mysteries), Jennifer S. Alderson (Travel can be murder), Krista Davis (Paws and Claws Mystery), Heather Day Gilbert (An Exotic Pet-Sitter Mystery), or Susan Kiernan-Lewis (Maggie Newberry Mysteries), to name a few. Author promise: This series contains no profanity and no graphic descriptions of sex or violence.

Download or read book Deception in Devon written by Vikki Walton and published by Vikki Walton. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturesque Devon, England. A quaint bed and breakfast. And a corpse. When 60-year-old global adventurer, Viviane, travels to picturesque Devon on her way to a London housesit, she gets all the beauty and British hospitality she wanted, and more. The more being a murder. For one of Viviane's new friends at the charming Kingswear Bed & Breakfast is not what they seem. When the police believe the death to be a tragic accident, inquisitive Viviane steps up to investigate. Will Viviane solve the mystery before she has to leave, or worse, will the killer comes calling for her? If you enjoy travel, sassy sleuths, and mysteries that keep you guessing, you'll love the Viviane's Adventures Mysteries series. Grab this book and start traveling the globe with Viviane now! Deception in Devon is book one in the Viviane's Adventures travel mystery series. Clean as a cozy, but with an undertone of psychological suspense, each book is a stand-alone mystery with a satisfying conclusion. However, if you enjoy getting to know the characters in the books you read, you may want to read the short prequel, Hijinks in Ajijic, which introduces you to Viviane, her new friend, Perry, along with a worry-wart daughter. You’ll like this series if you enjoy any of these authors or series: Blaize Cement (Dixie Hemingway Mysteries), Adriana Lucio (the Homeswappers), Liz Dodwell (Polly Parrett Pet-Sitter Cozy Mysteries), Jennifer S. Alderson (Travel can be murder), Krista Davis (Paws and Claws Mystery), Heather Day Gilbert (An Exotic Pet-Sitter Mystery), or Susan Kiernan-Lewis (Maggie Newberry Mysteries), to name a few. Author promise: This series contains no profanity and no graphic descriptions of sex or violence. ◆◆◆ Vikki Walton is also the author of the cozy mystery Backyard Farming Series and the Taylor Texas mystery series. To learn more about the author, and to find out when the next Viviane's Adventure will be released, sign up for her newsletter at vikkiwalton.com.

Download or read book Gone for Good written by Joanna Schaffhausen and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up. The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he’s gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods that he hunted in, and if she can figure out how he selected his victims, she will have the key to his identity. Detective Annalisa Vega lost someone she loved to the killer. Now she’s at a murder scene with the worst kind of déjà vu: Grace Harper lies bound and dead on the floor, surrounded by clues to the biggest murder case that Chicago homicide never solved. Annalisa has the chance to make it right and to heal her family, but first, she has to figure out what Grace knew—how to see a killer who may be standing right in front of you. This means tracing his steps back to her childhood, peering into dark corners she hadn’t acknowledged before, and learning that despite everything the killer took, she has still so much more to lose.

Download or read book Shoes to Die For written by Laura Levine and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny. --Joanne Fluke If clothes make the man, then what do Jaine Austen's elastic-waist pants and T-shirts make her? A fashion nightmare, according to her neighbor, Lance. She doesn't expect Lance--who works in the designer shoe department at Nieman Marcus--to understand. . .which is how she ends up visiting his favorite boutique, Passions. While the couture is definitely not for Jaine, the staff's gossip is. Tiny orange-haired clerk Becky starts complaining about her co-worker Giselle--a.k.a. "Frenchie"-- a brittle blonde who, when she's not making fun of customers behind their backs, adds extra-marital notches to her Chanel belt. Though Jaine doesn't land a new look, she does land a new job when Passions' owner gives her a chance to write their new magazine ads. But when Jaine arrives the next morning to pitch her ideas, she finds Frenchie pitched over, stabbed in the neck by one of her own stilettos. Now all Jaine has to do is figure out who hated Frenchie the most, in a case of death by designer knock-off. . .

Download or read book The Whale and the Cupcake written by Julia O'Malley and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fish and fiddleheads to salmonberries and Spam, Alaskan cuisine spans the two extremes of locally abundant wild foods and shelf-stable ingredients produced thousands of miles away. As immigration shapes Anchorage into one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the country, Alaska’s changing food culture continues to reflect the tension between self-reliance and longing for distant places or faraway homes. Alaska Native communities express their cultural resilience in gathering, processing, and sharing wild food; these seasonal food practices resonate with all Alaskans who come together to fish and stock their refrigerators in preparation for the long winter. In warm home kitchens and remote cafés, Alaskan food brings people together, creating community and excitement in canning salmon, slicing muktuk, and savoring fresh berry pies. This collection features interviews, photographs, and recipes by James Beard Award–winning journalist and third-generation Alaskan Julia O’Malley. Touching on issues of subsistence, climate change, cultural mixing and remixing, innovation, interdependence, and community, The Whale and the Cupcake reveals how Alaskans connect with the land and each other through food.

Download or read book Vampires on the Run written by C. M. Surrisi and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the months after Quinnie Boyd cracked the mystery of her missing teacher, she expected life in her small Maine town to snap back to normal. But two writers from New York City have arrived in Maiden Rock, and there's something not quite right about them. Sure, Ceil and Edgar are pale. And they dress in all black. And they don't go near the sunlight. But could they really be vampires? To find out, Quinnie turns to Dominic—a new kid in town who's an expert on everything geeky. Together, they'll risk their necks to find an answer . . .

Download or read book Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines written by Jennifer J. Chow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a local teacher is found dead, LA’s newest pet groomer Mimi Lee finds herself in a pawful predicament—with her younger sister’s livelihood on the line. Mimi Lee is on top of the world. She has a thriving pet grooming business, the sweetest boyfriend, and a talking cat to boot. When she arrives at the elementary school where her sister Alice works, she's expecting a fun girls' night out—but instead finds a teacher slumped over in her car, dead. Alice was the last one to see Helen Reed, which instantly marks her as the prime suspect. Unable to sit quietly and let the authorities walk all over her sister, Mimi starts snooping and talks to Helen’s closest contacts, including one jumpy principal, a two-faced fiancé, and three sketchy teachers. With the help of her sassy but savvy cat, Marshmallow, and a cute kitten named Nimbus, the clock’s ticking for Mimi to get to the bottom of yet another case before her sister gets schooled.

Download or read book Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna written by Mario Giordano and published by Auntie Poldi Adventure. This book was released on 2021 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif . . . or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily's sultriest sleuth. Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace--a nun leapt to her death shortly after participating in a seemingly routine exorcism. But when a priest clad in Gammarelli and a Vatican commissario with an almost unholy level of sex appeal turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Who is the woman being exorcised, and where has she disappeared to? And why in the world does she claim, in perfect Bavarian, to be Poldi, Isolde Oberreiter, of Torre Archirafi? Poldi will need all the help she can get to clear her name, but her nephew has been distracted by a love affair gone sour, someone in the town has been spraying graffiti death threats on her front door, and her local friends seem to be avoiding her. And even Vito Montana balks when Poldi discovers that the case hinges on a lost Madonna statue, stolen years ago from the pope himself. Forza, Poldi! With a pair of mysterious twins dogging her every move and a mandate to maintain sobriety, will Poldi be able to unmask her mysterious doppelgänger, find the lost statue in time, and survive her sixty-first birthday?

Download or read book The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club written by Susan McBride and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Kendricks is back in the third sassy and irresistible installment in Susan McBride's Debutante Dropout series … and this time she's teaming up with her high-society mama to catch a killer who's targeting rich, lonely widows. Wealthy Texas widows need loving too … which is why Bebe Kent joined a dating service for "discriminating" seniors soon after relocating to the swanky Belle Meade retirement community. Unfortunately, Bebe didn't even live long enough to meet "Mr. Right." And though doctors declared her death totally natural, extravagant blue-blooded Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks believes her old friend's demise was hastened—and she's ready to check herself into Belle Meade incognito to prove it. Cissy's rebellious, sometimes-sleuthing daughter, Andrea, wants no part of her mother's crazy schemes—yet she's anything but pleased that Cissy is going off on her own, playing a highbrow Miss Marple. So she has no choice but to join her mom in search of the truth—especially when more well-heeled widows start turning up dead …

Download or read book One Hot Mess written by Lois Greiman and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In southern California it’s raining crime—and psychologist Christina McMullen could use an umbrella. Her clients are crazy, her on-again-off-again relationship with LAPD lieutenant Jack Rivera has just started heating up again, and now Rivera’s womanizing dad has come calling—asking Chrissy to investigate a mysterious death that might haunt his next campaign: for president of the United States. Soon Chrissy is investigating not one “accidental” death, but two—until she stumbles on a trail of bodies littering Senator Rivera’s distinguished career. As she untangles a web of high-stakes lies, Chrissy believes that she’s found the secret to a serial killer’s underground campaign. The killer has a list, a motive, and the perfect disguise—the only question is: who’s next?

Download or read book J is for Judgment written by Sue Grafton and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next in the Kinsey Millhone Alphabet mystery series from bestselling author Sue Grafton. "J" is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. "In truth, the facts about Wendell Jaffe had nothing to do with my family history, but murder is seldom tidy and no one ever said revelations operate in a straight line. It was my investigation into the dead man's past that triggered the inquiry into my own, and in the end the two stories became difficult to separate." Five years ago, when Jaffe's thirty-five-foot Fuji ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast, it seemed a sure thing he'd gone overboard. The note he left behind admitted he was flat broke, his business bankrupt, his real estate gambit nothing but a huge Ponzi scheme about to collapse, with criminal indictment certain to follow. When the authorities soon after descended on his banks and his books, there was nothing left: Jaffe had stripped the lot. "Given my insatiable curiosity and my natural inclination to poke my nose in where it doesn't belong, it was odd to realize how little attention I'd paid to my own past. I'd simply accepted what I was told, constructing my personal mythology on the flimsiest of facts." But Jaffe wasn't quite without assets. There was the $500,000 life insurance policy made out to his wife and underwritten by California Fidelity. With no corpse to prove death, however, the insurance company was in no hurry to pay the claim. Dana Jaffe had to wait out the statutory five years until her missing husband could be declared legally dead. Just two months before Wendell Jaffe was sighted in that dusty resort bar, California Fidelity finally paid in full. Now they wanted the truth. And they were willing to hire Kinsey Millhone to dig it up. As Kinsey pushes deeper into the mystery surrounding Wendell Jaffe's pseudocide, she explores her own past, discovering that in family matters as in crime, sometimes it's better to reserve judgment. "J" is for judgment: the kind we're quick to make and often quicker to regret. "J" Is for Judgment: Kinsey Millhone's tenth excursion into the dark places of the heart where duplicity is the governing rule and murder the too-frequent result. "A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"