This is a stand-alone cozy crime mystery to delight readers who love a good whodunit laced with humor, action, and plenty of intrigue….Meet respected author Charlotte Watson, who’s penning a new modern-day murder mystery series inspired by an old-fashioned Agatha Christie heroine, Ariadne Oliver. Funny and feisty, Charlie is known as ‘The Book Doctor’ at Wrentham Imprints, where she helps to tweak the books of celebrities and non-fiction authors to make them more appealing to a wider audience of readers.
Dr. Finnegan Holmes is a respected criminologist, known nationally for having identified and tracked down a dangerous serial killer. His ‘people skills’ leave a lot to be desired, even if he is ‘easy on the eyes’. Sparks fly at their first meeting, and not in a good way. His prickly, puzzling personality grates on Charlie’s nerves. Does the man even have a sense of humor?
Forced by their editor-in-chief, Jayne Ingalls, to work together on his lengthy ‘true crime’ book, the pair of crime-solvers suddenly find themselves in danger when someone tries to kill Dr. Holmes. Forced to go into hiding to avoid a second attempt on his life, Finn becomes a cat sitter for Charlie’s neighbor, Marco, who has a Maine Coon cat known as ‘the generalissimo’, a feline dictator who can eat his weight in tuna and get rambunctious with the catnip.
But things get even hairier when Charlie unexpectedly stumbles upon a dead body. And not just any dead body. The decedent is a gossiping troublemaker who’s been shaking down residents of Charlie’s community, threatening to expose their dirty little secrets unless people pay up. Whose secret is worth killing for?
A second murder puts a fine point on the necessity of getting this case solved quickly. Dr. Holmes is scheduled to testify in a major federal case involving prison corruption. Luckily, he’s protected by Dolph, Gary, and Dinty, the men of Wolf Security. When Charlie is menaced because of Finn’s federal case, things quickly spin out of control. That’s when the expert criminologist finds out that Charlie has a dangerous secret of her own, one that needs protecting. How many secrets can one community have? Yikes!
Drawn together by books and dead bodies, ‘Dr. Watson’ and Dr. Holmes burn those ‘little grey cells’ to identify a ruthless killer before anyone else dies, and in the process, their crime-solving partnership quickly solidifies, much to the delight of their editor-in-chief, Jayne Ingalls, who is salivating at the prospect of publishing their ‘bestsellers’ the moment these murders are solved.
Genre: Mystery
Dr. Finnegan Holmes is a respected criminologist, known nationally for having identified and tracked down a dangerous serial killer. His ‘people skills’ leave a lot to be desired, even if he is ‘easy on the eyes’. Sparks fly at their first meeting, and not in a good way. His prickly, puzzling personality grates on Charlie’s nerves. Does the man even have a sense of humor?
Forced by their editor-in-chief, Jayne Ingalls, to work together on his lengthy ‘true crime’ book, the pair of crime-solvers suddenly find themselves in danger when someone tries to kill Dr. Holmes. Forced to go into hiding to avoid a second attempt on his life, Finn becomes a cat sitter for Charlie’s neighbor, Marco, who has a Maine Coon cat known as ‘the generalissimo’, a feline dictator who can eat his weight in tuna and get rambunctious with the catnip.
But things get even hairier when Charlie unexpectedly stumbles upon a dead body. And not just any dead body. The decedent is a gossiping troublemaker who’s been shaking down residents of Charlie’s community, threatening to expose their dirty little secrets unless people pay up. Whose secret is worth killing for?
A second murder puts a fine point on the necessity of getting this case solved quickly. Dr. Holmes is scheduled to testify in a major federal case involving prison corruption. Luckily, he’s protected by Dolph, Gary, and Dinty, the men of Wolf Security. When Charlie is menaced because of Finn’s federal case, things quickly spin out of control. That’s when the expert criminologist finds out that Charlie has a dangerous secret of her own, one that needs protecting. How many secrets can one community have? Yikes!
Drawn together by books and dead bodies, ‘Dr. Watson’ and Dr. Holmes burn those ‘little grey cells’ to identify a ruthless killer before anyone else dies, and in the process, their crime-solving partnership quickly solidifies, much to the delight of their editor-in-chief, Jayne Ingalls, who is salivating at the prospect of publishing their ‘bestsellers’ the moment these murders are solved.
Genre: Mystery
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