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Happy Never After

60s Music, Vendettas, Girl Bands, and Murder Author: Kathy Hogan Trocheck In Happy Never After, Callahan Garrity, a retired (read failed) police investigator and owner of House Mouse cleaning service, takes on a case in her free-time. It’s not her usual side-case, but friends and family want her to find out whatever happened to the long-missing member of the 60s girl group, VelvetTeens, so that they can participate in a successful (and lucrative) reunion. When a missing person’s case becomes a murder case, however, Callahan is going to need all the help (and not-entirely-legal schemes) she can get. Will the crazed [...]

2025-05-13T03:42:44-07:00July 24th, 2021|Tags: , |

Riptide

A New Case, An Old Hurt Author: Dawn Lee McKenna I’m deeply missing my yearly family beach vacation time, so a return visit to the Forgotten Coast Series during this seemingly endless pandemic was a must. We left Maggie in Low Tide, down-and-out about her failure to save a needy woman and conflicted about the suspicious suicide of Gregory Bourdreaux, a man who once raped and nearly killed her when she was a teenager. The investigative buzz around Gregory, despite a strange apology letter, had started to slowly go away, but after a grisly new find Maggie is once again chasing a possible [...]

2025-11-01T14:31:56-07:00November 23rd, 2020|Tags: , , , , , |

Low Tide

The Beginning of an Atmospheric and Powerful Mystery Series Author: Dawn Lee McKenna On a beautiful beach as the tide swells and the sun bronzes the water a lone man stares contemplatively over the ocean and then shoots himself in the head. Hours later, there are police, a body bag, shards of brain fragments, and finally, the phone call that sets it rolling. For all of these years, Maggie has tried to forget Gregory Boudreaux even though he keeps coming back to her in dreams, startling her awake, making her scream and reach for her gun. Now, while the town wonders [...]

2025-11-01T14:31:16-07:00February 1st, 2020|Tags: , , , , , |
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