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Meow Mayhem

(Fancy Cat Cozy Mysteries)

by Lisa Lickel

A Dead Exec Found In A Bathroom. Can Ivy Clean Up This Mystery Before Another Body Turns UpAfter being left at the altar, Ivy Amanda McTeague Preston uproots herself and her cat, an Egyptian Mau named Memnet, from her boring and lonely life to start over at the urging of Mayor Conklin, a fellow pedigreed Mau owner.

Ready to move in a fresh direction, Adam Thompson, accepts the mayor’s invitation and uproots himself and his beloved Mau, Isis, to open a branch of his trendy bookstore and coffee shop in the small town.

When Ivy takes a mysterious message while the mayor is away on business, only her criminology professor mom and Adam believe there’s something rotten in Apple Grove. Then Ivy discovers the community grant money that Adam was allotted to start the store is mysteriously being siphoned off, a dead body surfaces, and the victim’s missing Mau becomes the primary suspect. . .just another day in Ivy’s far-from-boring new life.

In love with Apple Grove and with Adam, Ivy hopes to carry on their romance while saving the town from further mayhem.

The Genesis Experiment

(Peabody High Mysteries Book 2)

by Jeri Massi

Jack Derwood has just won a school-wide contest at Peabody Christian Academy by reading the Bible through in only twelve weeks. Now the high school kids want to beat him up for stealing the prize from the saintly Rachael Holstein. As he’s running away from the Varsity basketball team, Jack is hit by a car. He wakes up in a beautiful and terrifying world. And yet, in the present, his mother is waiting at his hospital bedside with growing fears about the unusual medical treatment he is receiving. Can somebody be in two places at once? Doc Thorson, Scruggs, and Jean try to solve the mystery on their end. But Jack has to tackle the dangers in one world and try to win through to his own time and place. Dangerous enemies and friends in unlikely places meet him along the way.