Reading Challenges

 Gearing up for 2023 Reading Challenges.

I'm participating in:

My own Reporter's Challenge on Goodreads 

The Alphabet Challenge

Yvonne's Cozy Challenge

New Cozy Mystery

 Be sure to check out Renae Janecek's 1st cozy mystery.

Murder is on the ticket, and the order’s up!

 Reggie Bore was a rotten egg. Almost everyone in the small Texas town had a negative interaction with him. However one encounter turned deadly…

 When the body of the grumpy town blackmailer is discovered behind Lia’s family diner, her father becomes the prime suspect. Now Lia and her best friend, Harris, need to sift through the eccentric locals to find the real killer. Their hunt for clues is full of twists and turns and false accusations. To make matters worse, a no-nonsense detective demands Lia stop interfering in the investigation.

Can they solve the case before the culprit dishes out another serving of murder? And this time it’s Lia’s name on the menu… 

November 1st is the release date, but you can preorder now!

https://www.amazon.com/Toast-Strangled-Short-Diner-Mystery-ebook

 RELEASED IN APRIL 2022

Carl Danby returns to tackle yet another unusual case.

Dennis Bernard is thirty years old. He believes in the family curse—many relatives never live to see their thirty-first birthday. Worried about Dennis’ well-being, his girlfriend hires the Hudson Detective Agency. The case is assigned to Carl Danby, but how does one investigate a curse?

Danby hits the streets with his tag-along sidekick, Junior. To make matters worse, the boss has also assigned a famous mystery writer to dog their footsteps so she can observe how a private detective operates.  

To Danby’s dismay, the mystery writer doesn’t quietly sit back and watch Danby and Junior at work. Instead, she throws herself into the investigation with various theories and explanations.

As Dennis’ birthday fast approaches, will the detective trio be able to keep him alive?

This story is 19,968 words with additional material at the end of the book.