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Dead....if Only
(2014)(The fourth book in the Alvarez Family Murder Mystery series)
A novel by Heather Haven
A DETECTIVE AGENCY WITH HEART.
MOM, FAMILY, CATS, BOYFRIEND, AND THE BIG EASY!!
It's a stressful time for the PI firm to the stars of Silicon Valley when their own star, Lee Alvarez, has to track down a nasty, mean bad guy who should be dead but isn't. Was it just a rumor?
Because he's been seen In New Orleans by Lee's pregnant sister-in-law who is there, along with the other members of the Alvarez Clan, to open one of her satellite hat shops. Suddenly the police are accusing Lee's SIL of all kinds of dastardly deeds that should be laid at the feet of the purportedly dead man! But just Who Do the Voodoo?
Lee Alvarez to the rescue. Well, in a minute.
On vacation at a spa in Calistoga with her boyfriend and their two cats, Lee first has to remove herself from a hot mud bath and fly to the Big Easy in her ex-Navy SEAL boyfriend's private plane. Sound romantic? Not really.
She keeps her eyes closed the entire time. Small planes scare her even when the cats tag along.
Once landing in the birthplace of jazz, anything that can go wrong does. Someone breaks into her hotel room and lets the cats out. The magnificent house in the Garden District where the rest of the family is staying is a little short on a hostess who has not been seen for two days. And a woman with the gift of "sight" predicts bad things are about to happen to our ace detective.
And it's all culminated by Lee riding out a hurricane. On a boat. In the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. With a killer. Just what's easy about the Big Easy?
Author Haven brings us another warm and fuzzy fun cozy any fan could wish for - in the form of a funny female protagonist, Lee Alvarez, and her charmingly eccentric, usually squabbling, yet thoroughly loving detective family. Each with his or her special talent, including cool, WASPy mom and matriarch, genius cyber-detecting brother, adoring uncle who lives to cook, and Lee's drop-dead gorgeous ex-Navy SEAL boyfriend.
Fans of PI stories, cozy mysteries, and women sleuths will dig into Book Four, especially if they love sharp funny female protagonists like Sue Grafton's witty Kinsey Millhone and Janet Evanovich's lovable Stephanie Plum. Aficionados of Lisa Lutz's family series, The Spellman Files, will get a special kick out of the Alverez's.
Step right up and meet the Alvarez clan!
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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