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Pokes the Bear
(2026)(The fourth book in the Troublemaker Club Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Carolyn L Dean
The bear has been dead for years. Someone in Hazenville is about to join him.
Everyone in Hazenville knows Bobo the Bear.For generations, the enormous taxidermied mascot of the Hazenville High Bears has stood in the high school library, watching over students, gathering dust, and becoming one of the town's most beloved institutions. Bobo may be stuffed, but everyone knows one thing:
You don't mess with the Bear.
Then someone does.When Bobo suddenly disappears, Jessica Winters figures the great bear-napping will turn out to be an elaborate prank. Instead, his disappearance sets off a string of increasingly bizarre events. Old stories begin to unravel. Longtime friends and neighbors are keeping surprising secrets. And some people in Hazenville seem far more worried about a missing stuffed bear than they ought to be.
Then someone turns up dead.
Jessica and her fellow Troublemakers are convinced there's more to Bobo's disappearance than a prank. With the library at the center of the action and half the town determined to help, hinder, or hide something, Jessica starts digging into Hazenville's past.
Someone has been keeping secrets for a very long time.
And apparently, they were willing to kill to keep them.
How much trouble can one stuffed bear get into?
In Hazenville? Plenty.
Pokes the Bear is a funny, twisty small-town cozy mystery filled with quirky characters, old secrets, unexpected clues, friendship, and the delightfully meddlesome women of the Troublemaker Club.
Genre: Cozy Mystery