Nearly drowning in an icy lake isn't Whiskey Mattimoe's favorite way to celebrate the season. Neither is finding the mayor dead at Magnet Springs' annual Ice Fishing Jamboree. And then there's the problem of locating Chester, her precocious eight-year-old charge, who has run away...or was he kidnapped? This is how Whiskey, an eternally disheveled, mid-thirties realtor, is drawn into another rollicking adventure with her purse-stealing Afghan hound. Other eccentric characters abound in this Michigan resort town, such as the police chief with a gift for tuning into the town's magnetic energy and the adorable vet with an unfortunate speech impediment. Amid the uproar, Whiskey also makes a surprising discovery that -- for the first time since her husband's death -- she's ready to dip her toes into the whimsical waters of love again.

Whiskey Straight Up (The Whiskey Mattimoe Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wright, Nina

Mystery

Midnight Ink

I just might have the worst life in the world. My dad is long gone, and my mom’s crazy gold-digging schemes keep us broke and on the move. I could probably deal with all that, except I’ve started astral projecting. Right in the middle of French class. I never know where I’m going to end up next. Sometimes I land back in my old Atlanta apartment, where a strange blind man now lives. He keeps shouting at me, but he’ll only answer my questions with more questions. . . . 
Traveling through time and space into her own past as well as the present-day lives of her classmates, Easter Hutton struggles to understand why she’s having weird astral experiences and occasional bouts of invisibility. She soon discovers other outcasts with “special talents”―all connected to a mysterious organization called Homefree. As disasters pile up in both the real world and the astral world, Easter must use her unusual abilities to find a place to call home.

Homefree

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Flux

Everybody in Magnet Springs is in on the not-so-secret curse of the Miss Blossom pageant. Everybody, that is, except Whiskey Mattimoe–full-time real estate agent, parttime sleuth, and long-suffering owner of Abra, her willful and sometimes felonious Afghan hound. Any hope that Abra has reformed her purse-snatching ways is dashed when the dog disappears with the bejeweled Miss Blossom tiara, a priceless heirloom insured for more than Whiskey's net worth. That's bad enough, but what Whiskey learns next chills her to the bone: every Miss Blossom must leave town or die. It would be a lot easier to laugh off the curse if it didn't keep coming true. When the new Miss Blossom lands in the hospital and the former Miss Blossom turns up dead, Whiskey's got to catch a cold-blooded killer–before the latest Miss Blossom is pushing up daisies.

Whiskey and Tonic (The Whiskey Mattimoe Mysteries)

Coming right up - a fourth rollicking round of Whiskey Mattimoe! Summer brings some new and familiar faces to her quirky Michigan town. There's MacArthur, the hunky Scotsman whose Glasgow real estate experience could make him an excellent agent at Whiskey's office; self-help author and karma expert Fenton Flagg, who's got Whiskey''s libido boiling over; and her ex-husband Jeb Halloran, who can still send chills down Whiskey's spine, when he's not crooning pet lullabies. But steamy romance is impossible amid the shrill cries of Velcro, Whiskey's new teacup-sized shitzapoo pup. Inexplicable sightings of Gill Gruen, the former mayor who drowned last winter, have the town on edge. But the doggy poop really hits the fan when Whiskey's felonious Afghan hound discovers a murder scene on the shore of Lake Michigan. If it wasn''t the riptide that killed Twyla Rendel, Whiskey's high-risk tenant, who did?

Whiskey and Water (The Whiskey Mattimoe Mysteries)

Whiskey Mattimoe's Afghan hound Abra has many talents: stealing purses, consorting with criminals, and farting, to name a few. Now, Abra's been chosen to participate in the prestigious Midwest Afghan Hound Specialty in Amish country . . . as a Worst-in-Show example of how not to train an Affie. Suddenly, a prize-winning pooch disappears, an owner is murdered, and a handler turns up dead. The sleepy community's rustic charm is replaced by ruthless threats. Then Abra vanishes, too. Back at Whiskey's office, suspicious e-mails circulate. Could her colleagues be involved in the canine crimes? Something doesn't smell right―and this time it's not the dog. Praise for the Whiskey Mattimoe Mystery series: "Sprightly humor, delightful characters (including the animals), and a nicely mixed-up plot make this an entertaining debut." ―Library Review (starred review) ". . . a cozy series as satisfying as a fine single malt." ―Publishers Weekly

Whiskey with a Twist (The Whiskey Mattimoe Mysteries)

It’s Christmas time in Magnet Springs, but nobody feels merry. The weather is unseasonably warm, tourism is at a record low, and Abra has run away again. Six months pregnant, Whiskey Mattimoe worries about her lack of maternal instinct. If she can’t handle an Afghan hound, how can she raise a child? When eight-year-old neighbor Chester asks for help warning his private school headmaster that trouble is brewing in the PTO, Whiskey has no idea she’s about to witness a grisly murder. Then Jeb arrives with an engagement ring--and a rescued French bulldog who thinks she’s a femme fatale. Arrows fly, and they don’t come from Cupid. Whiskey and Abra find themselves on the same side in a battle where the enemy is hard to target

Whiskey and Soda

Martin Brown Publishers, LLC

A grieving widow, an uninvited corpse, and a felonious Afghan hound who bears a grudge. . . Magnet Springs is a quiet little Michigan resort town enjoying leaf-peeping season, at least until a dead body turns up on a massage table and thirty-something realtor Whiskey Mattimoe finds one of her properties has become a murder scene. As her attempts to adjust to a new life as a widow are complicated by a kleptomaniac Afghan hound and her neglected eight-year-old neighbor, Chester, Whiskey becomes ensnared in a complex web of murder, identity fraud, dognapping, and art forgery. An unwitting sleuth in an unlikely scenario of mayhem, Whiskey must find a determined killer before the culprit drives property values in Magnet Springs down for good.

Whiskey on the Rocks

Just when she thought the past was behind her. . . It’s time for Magnet Springs’ annual ice fishing jamboree, but there’s something sinister afoot. Things begin going south as soon as Roy Vickers hits town. Not only did he try to kill Whiskey’s husband, Leo, nine years ago, but it now looks like Roy might have killed Magnet Springs’ missing self-aggrandizing mayor, Gill Gruen, Whiskey’s realtor nemesis. Then Chester, Abra and Prince Harry, Abra’s puppy, are kidnapped and newly deputized Whiskey, hot on their trail, finds herself up to her neck in the freezing waters of Lake Michigan after finding Gil’s corpse in a disserted ice shanty. Add in an ex-husband who shows up at all the wrong times trying to rekindle the sparks between them, the sexy, tempting father of her step-daughter’s twins, and the perverted male nurse imposter, and Whiskey’s life takes more twists and turns than a French braid. Helicopters, mixed up grandparents, murder, and the usual madcap mayhem abound as Whiskey searches for Chester and her dogs while accidently solving three murders.

Whiskey Straight Up

Dealing with the first anniversary of her husband's death would be much easier for Whiskey Mattimoe if the newly-crowned Miss Blossom wasn't scheduled to die on the very same day. It seems everybody in Magnet Springs knew about the not-so-secret curse of the Miss Blossom pageant except for Whiskey–full-time real estate agent, part-time sleuth, long-suffering owner of Abra, her willful and sometimes felonious Afghan hound, and reluctant guardian for the soon-be-deceased Miss Blossom. Any hope that Abra has reformed her purse-snatching ways is dashed when the dog disappears with the emerald-laden Miss Blossom tiara, a priceless--albeit horrendously ugly and gawdy--heirloom insured for more than Whiskey's net worth. Suddenly Whiskey finds herself tangled in a web of deceit and murder that spans centuries and involves her dearly departed husband, for better or worse. When the new Miss Blossom lands in the hospital and the former Miss Blossom turns up dead, Whiskey's got to catch a cold-blooded killer before another generation of Magnet Springs' royalty succumbs to a fate worse than wearing the Miss Blossom tiara.

Whiskey and Tonic

She’s at it again! In this fourth installment in the Whiskey Mattimoe series, Magnet Springs is in a frenzy over multiple sightings of dead mayor Gil Gruen and the self-induced exile of their resident Seven Suns of Solace adviser, Noonan Starr, just when she’s needed most. While opportunity knocks at Whiskey’s door in the form of a sexy Scotsman with real estate agent potential, a charming karma-obsessed self-help author with dating potential, and Whiskey’s ex-husband, who possesses the potential to drive her out of her mind, mayhem abounds. When one of Whiskey’s tenants is found murdered on the shores of Lake Michigan and the children in the young woman’s charge disappear, it’s up to canine-challenged Whiskey to rescue Magnet Springs from a scandal unlike any other it’s ever known. Can Whiskey help the town discover the truth about Twyla Rendel's death and lay Gil Gruen to rest for good before it’s too late?

Whiskey and Water

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