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The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series
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Praise for Book 1, Dying to Go (Nothing to Gush About) in the Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series:
Susan Reads Cozies: Amazon Vine Voice, “The storyline was a good pace and it kept me guessing. I was laughing and smiling so much.”
Lindzanne1_bookworm: Amazon Vine Voice, “What a delightful cozy mystery. I loved it right from the start. It was so entertaining and had me laughing and smiling so much.”
Jaime_of-gryffindor: “What a delightful cozy mystery! This was a fast-paced mystery with a wonderful cast of characters.”
Thirty-nine-year-old Rosi Laruee—named Rosisophia Doroche after her mother’s beloved Golden Girls—decides that the end of her twenty-year marriage and her dad’s impending knee replacement surgery are all the excuses she needs to visit Tucson Valley Retirement Community. But the drama follows Rosi when she finds the body of local tart and business owner, Salem Mansfield. The information she discovers using her newspaper reporter sleuthing skills coupled with the clues she picks up from lackluster Police Officer Dan Daniel lead to a surprise discovery when the murderer is revealed. Along the way, she meets a cast of characters in her parents’ social circle who leave her questioning her parents’ choices in friends while simultaneously befriending many of the residents, including a handsome landscaper and a brand-new Golden Retriever puppy she names Barley. Rosi’s visit to Tucson Valley proves more than she’d bargained for, but maybe, she realizes, it’s just the kind of change she needs.
Laugh out loud with Rosi, and be prepared to get the happy feels along the way!
Book 1 Dying to Go (Nothing to Gush About)
Book 2 Dying for Wine (Seeing Red)
Book 3 Dying for Dirt (All Soaped Up)
Book 4 Dying to Build (Nailed It)
Book 5 Dying to Dance (Cha-Cha-Ahhh)
Book 6 Dying to Dink (Your Fault)
Book 7 Dying Under the Big Top (Clowning Around)
Book 8 Dying for Music (Hypnotic Harmony)
Book 9 Dying to Wed (Double Trouble)
Book 10 Dying on the Housetop (Ho Ho Ho)
Book 11 Dying to Escape (Swinging into Love)
Book 12 Dying for a Laugh (Coming Up Cold)
The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series
“I absolutely devoured this book! It’s so fun and witty and I love the concept. It gave me Ghost Whisperer vibes if the show was a cozy romcom. I can’t wait to read more of this series.” Goodreads Reviewer
Twenty-four-year old Vivien Belcher–Ms. B, for obvious reasons–teaches a full class of kindergarten students in Southwest Michigan in a Lake Michigan beach town. Trying to maintain control of her overly enthusiastic students while managing life as a fully-fledged adult, Vivien’s life is balancing as perfectly as a gymnast sticking her landing until the scale tips when she receives an unlikely and unwelcome text message from her ex-boyfriend…her dead ex-boyfriend.
Trapped in the Transitional World and having to atone for his many sins in life, Kasper must “make good” by helping to solve the murder of his beloved high school lunch lady. The problem? It’s hard to solve a murder as a ghost. But Kasper doesn’t count on Vivien’s reluctance to help him, not to mention her doubt. And he really doesn’t count on his reaction to Vivien moving on with relationships in her life that don’t include him.
What ensues is hilarity and frustration as Kasper’s time is running out to convince Vivien to help him. Being a ghost is hard. But so is being a new teacher.
The Monthly Murder Movie Club Cozy Mystery Series
Murder: best served with popcorn.
That’s the mantra for the members of the Monthly Murder Movie Club at The Northwoods Movie Theater. Every month, this eclectic group of northern Michigan residents gather to watch a murder mystery movie on the big screen. After stopping the projector in the middle of the movie, the members gather to discuss the crime and suspects, each making a whodunit pick before resuming the movie. The hair dresser with the scissors?The jilted lover with poison?
But nothing is normal on this Monday morning when the club members find the ticket-taking popcorn maker John E. Cash in the lobby of the theater, deader than any actor in their beloved movies. Using their unique talents and eccentricities, the Monthly Murder Movie Club members work collectively to solve the crime before the Northwoods Police force does. Members strive to protect the reputation of their beloved theater–and to protect their Monday meetings–because what each member is discovering is that there is so much more to their Monday club than a good old-fashioned murder mystery.
Found family, new friends, and murder investigations!
The Empty Nest Mystical Cozy Mystery Series
The Empty Nest Retreat was supposed to help Juli find herself.Not question her sanity—or reality.
When Juli Tully’s kids fly the coop and she takes early retirement, the silence in her house is deafening—and not in a calming, spa-music kind of way. At her mother’s not-so-subtle urging, she signs for the Empty Nest Retreat at the Sand Bur Estate, a stately mansion perched on the windswept dunes of Lake Michigan.
Juli nearly bolts when she learns the retreat is phone-free. No texts. No doom-scrolling. No emergency updates from her kids. Instead, she’s stuck with an unusual group of fellow empty nesters: Nelle, a perpetually cheerful optimist; Kimmie, a bubbly influencer convinced the estate is magical; and Jedd, an arrogant dad who fancies himself Parent of the Year—and takes an instant dislike to Juli.
Then things get… strange.
Temperatures swing wildly. Lights flicker. Objects float. Juli can’t tell if her menopausal symptoms have gone off the rails or if rumors about the estate’s supernatural past are true.
Between meditation sessions and awkward financial-planning talks, one of the estate’s employees dies under suspicious circumstances. Thanks to Juli’s increasingly unpredictable “episodes,” she becomes the prime suspect.
With a murder to solve, a reputation to save, and a sarcastic talking cat who knows more than she’s letting on, Juli must uncover the truth—before this empty nest lands her in handcuffs.
If you love:
- Empty nest reinvention
- Midlife amateur sleuth
- Retreat gone wrong
- Isolated estate near Lake Michigan
- Light paranormal elements
- Self-help retreat chaos
- Haunted (or is it?) mansion
- Sarcastic talking cat
- Humor with heart
- Found family friendships
- Wrongly suspected heroine
- Cozy whodunit
You’ll adore this humorous cozy mystery set under along the shores of Lake Michigan!
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