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What's So Funny About Murder
7 complete humorous Mysteries by 7 authors
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What's so funny about murder? These 7 authors prove that humor, from smiles to belly laughs, can delight and entertain while still getting a really good mystery. Some of the books are award winners, and all are highly reviewed authors.
Here's your invitation to enjoy a laugh while you try to discover "who-done-it."
They are presented in this boxed set by Alphabetical Order:
Looking for La La by Ellie Campbell
A DEAD RED OLEANDER by RP Dahlke (#2 in the Dead Red Mystery Series)
Murder Is Academic by Lesley A. Diehl
CHOKE ( #1 in the Imogene Duckworthy Mystery) by Kaye George
A Wedding to Die For by Heather Haven (#2 in the Alvarez Family, owners of Silicon Valley’s successful Discretionary Inquiries)
Grade A Stupid (#1 in the Darcy Walker Y/A Mysteries ) by A.J. Lape
Always a Cold Deck by Robert Bruce Stewart (1st in the Harry Reese
Historical Mysteries)
Looking for La La
Author: Ellie Campbell
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Bored stay at home mother, Cathy, finds her predictable routine upturned as she investigates a lipstick-covered love postcard sent to husband, Declan. Who is this mysterious La La? Could Declan really be having an affair? And - wait - is Cathy actually being stalked?
With all her friends hiding secrets, a sexy admirer igniting long-forgotten sparks, and the stress of organizing the school's Save The Toilets dance, soon it's not only Cathy's marriage that's in jeopardy. Add in the scheming antics of Declan's new assistant and a possible murderer on the scene and the stage is set for a dangerous showdown and some very unsettling, even deadly, revelations.
Author: Ellie Campbell
Author Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance
Website: Ellie Campbell
Author's Blog: Chicklit Sisters
Twitter: @ecampbellbooks
E-Mail: chicklitsisters@gmail.com
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Author Description:
Ellie Campbell is a pseudonym for sisters, Pam Burks and Lorraine Campbell who collaborate across the mighty Atlantic from their respective homes in Surrey, England and Colorado, USA, finding writing together a great excuse for endless phone conversations. Together they have written four novels How To Survive Your Sisters, When Good Friends Go Bad, Looking For La La and To Catch A Creeper. They love any chance to connect with their readers.
A Dead Red Oleander
The Lalla Bains mystery series
Author: RP Dahlke
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"The main protagonists and all the supporting characters, have larger than life personalities, which lend themselves to some great dialogue exchanges and some pretty strange and esoteric action scenes. In preparation for the couple's forthcoming nuptuals, Lalla's relatives have arrived in California, from Texas and now the fun really starts!!"
When a late in the season emergency forces Lalla Bains to accept a greenhorn ag pilot for her dad's cropdusting business, she sighs in relief . After all, he comes highly recommended, his physical is spotless, and with a name like Dewey Treat, what could possibly go wrong?
Then her quirky relatives arrive from Texas and things go south in a hurry: Dewey Treat drops dead, his tearful widow claims he was murdered, clobbers Sherriff Caleb Stone with his own gun, and makes a run for it. Lalla, convinced the widow is innocent, sets out to prove it--against the express wishes of fiancé Caleb Stone.
Feds, local law, suspicious ag-pilots, nutso relatives, and her daddy's new sidekick, Bruce the goat, make life a living hell for Lalla. Will her nosey nature solve the crime and save the day? Or put them all in mortal danger?
Author: R.P. Dahlke
Author Genre: Mystery, Romance, Humor
Website: R.P. Dahlke
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E-Mail: rp@rpdahlke.com
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Author Description:
R.P. (Rebecca) Dahlke was raised on her father’s 80 acres of Almonds & crop dusting ranch south of Modesto, California. She’s been writing since 1994, first with a writing group in the East Bay Area and then when she and her husband went sailing, via the Guppies of Sisters in Crime, National.
When they settled in Southern Arizona, Rebecca started a chapter of Sisters in Crime and A Dead Red Cadillac was published by Treble Heart Publishing.
She was doing the rewrite on her second Lalla Baines Novel, A Dead Red Heart when her son, John Shanahan, died in a tragic crop dusting accident in California. Writing about anything, much less crop-dusting became too painful and she stopped writing until 2010.
I sort of fell into the job of running a crop-dusting business when my dad decided he'd rather go on a cruise than take another season of lazy pilots, missing flaggers, testy farmers and horrific hours. After two years at the helm, I handed him back the keys and fled to a city without any of the above. And no, I was never a crop-duster.
Murder Is Academic
Laura Murphy Mystery Series Book 1
Author: Lesley A. Diehl
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Laura Murphy, psychology professor, thinks there's nothing she likes better than coffee and donuts on a summer morning until she says yes to dinner with a Canadian biker and finds herself and her date suspects in the murder of her college's president. Laura's friend, the detective assigned the case, asks her to help him find out who on the small upstate New York college campus may be a killer. The murder appears to be wrapped up in some unsavory happenings on the lake where Laura lives. A fish kill and raw sewage seeping into the water along with the apparent drowning suicide of a faculty member complicate the hunt for the killer. And then things become personal. The killer makes a threatening phone call to Laura. With a tornado bearing down on the area and the killer intent upon silencing her, Laura's sleuthing work may come too late to save her and her biker from a watery grave.
Author: Lesley A. Diehl
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Humor
Website: Lesley A. Diehl
Author's Blog: Lesley A. Diehl
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Author Description:
Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in upstate New York. In the winter she migrates to old Florida--cowboys, scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post office, and gators make golf a contact sport. Back north, the shy ghost inhabiting the cottage serves as her writing muse. When not writing, she gardens, cooks and renovates the 1874 cottage with the help of her husband, two cats, and, of course, Fred the ghost, who gives artistic direction to their work.
She is author of several mystery series, all featuring country gals with attitude: the microbrewing mystery series set in the Butternut Valley of upstate New York--A Deadly Draught and Poisoned Pairings; the Big Lake Murder Mystery series--Dumpster Dying and Grilled, Chilled and Killed; and the Eve Appel Mysteries Series,A Secondhand Murder and Dead in the Water. Untreedreads publishes her short stories as well as a novel length mystery, Angel Sleuth. Her most recent mystery is Murder is Academic.
Choke
Author: Kaye George
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Twenty-two-year-old Imogene Duckworthy has been waiting tables at Huey's Hash in tiny Saltlick, TX, itching to jump out of her rut and become a detective. When Uncle Huey is found murdered in his own diner, a half-frozen package of mesquite-smoked sausage stuffed down his throat, Immy, an unwed mother who has always longed to be a PI, gets her chance to solve a real crime.
Author: Kaye George
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Horror, Humor
Website: Kaye George
Author's Blog: MAKE MINE MYSTERY
Twitter: @KGeorgeMystery
E-Mail: kaye.george@gmail.com
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Author Description:
Kaye George is a novelist, and a short story writer whose story, HANDBASKETS, DRAWERS, AND A KILLER COLD, was nominated for a 2010 Agatha Best Short Story award. It can be found in the collection, A PATCHWORK OF STORIES, available on Amazon and Smashwords as an ebook, and Amazon and Createspace in trade paperback.
She is agented by Kim Lionetti at BookEnds LLC.
The first mystery novel in the Imogene Duckworthy series, CHOKE, received a nomination for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel of 2011. It was followed by SMOKE and BROKE.
EINE KLEINE MURDER, the first in the Cressa Carraway Musical Mysteries was published by Barking Rain Press in the spring of 2013. It was a Silver Falchion Finalist.
DEATH IN THE TIME OF ICE, the first in the People of the Wind Neanderthal Mysteries, is being published by Untreed Reads. It received an Agatha nomination for Best Historical.
The first mystery in the Fat Cat cozy series, FAT CAT AT LARGE, set in Minneapolis and featuring a pudgy but adorable cat named Quincy, came out in September of 2014.
She reviews for "Suspense Magazine" and other articles occasionally appear in newsletters and booklets. Her short stories appear in several anthologies and around and about.
She and her husband live in Knoxville, TN.
A Wedding to Die For
The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries Book 2
Author: Heather Haven
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Global and EPIC Best eBook Mystery of the Year Finalist 2012.
A groom arrested for murder can put a crimp in any bride's wedding, no matter who designed the wedding dress. So when the nuptials of Lee's best friend are threatened by the arrest of the groom for murder, thirty-four-year old Lee Alvarez heads to Mexico in search of the real killer. While there, the half Latina, half WASP, and 100% detective finds herself embroiled in a network of thieves who specialize in plundered Mesoamerican relics. With the help of the rest of the Alvarez Family, and while eating the best tasting tamales ever, Lee stumbles across a few more dead bodies.
But when she smacks into the man of her dreams, Lee tries to follow her own sage advice, 'when Cupid's wings start flapping, take cover'. Ole! A Wedding To Die For is the second novel in the successful humorous murder mysteries involving the Alvarez Family, owners of Silicon Valley's successful Discretionary Inquiries.
Author: Heather Haven
Author Genre: Mystery, Humor And Comedy, Historical Fiction
Website: Heather Haven
Twitter: @HeatherHaven
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Heather is a story teller by nature and loves the written word. In her career, she's written short stories, novels, comedy acts, plays, television treatments, ad copy, commercials, and even ghost-wrote a book. Murder is a Family Business, Book One of the humorous Alvarez Family Murder Mystery series, won the coveted Single Titles Reviewers Choice Award 2011. A Wedding To Die For, Book Two, was a finalist for the EPIC and Global eBook Best Mystery 2012. The 3rd book of the series, Death Runs in the Family, won the Global Gold for Best Mystery Fiction 2013. Death of a Clown, a noir mystery about Ringling Brothers Circus in 1942, won the Silver IPPY (Independent Publishers Book Award)Best Mystery/thriller 2014. The Persephone Cole Mystery Series, revolves around a trail-blazing 1940s female sleuth, with a wicked sense of humor and a take no prisoners attitude. "Percy" Cole finds her holiday cheer in solving murders. Heather finds her cheer in writing them!!
Grade A Stupid
The Darcy Walker Series
Author: A. J. Lape
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Fifteen years ago, Darcy Walker's parents thought it was a good idea to give her a unique name: Darcy, meaning "dark walker." Whether that was a stroke of genius or stroke of stupid, they definitely nailed the irony. She lacks direction, her grades stink despite a high IQ, she's boringly average--although flirting admirers claim otherwise--and God help her, she's infatuated with a bad-boy.
A bad-boy that her hottie best friend, Dylan, wishes would get acquainted with his fist.
And, oh yeah, there's that tattoo that was a royally stupid idea.
With her life spiraling out of control, everything changes when she skips class and finds a dead body... in fact, it gets worse. It jump starts Darcy's inner-verb, and her brain hardwired for action gets caught up in a situation she can't let go.
Set in the fictional Cincinnati town of Valley, Ohio, Darcy falls into a world of threats, violence, and gangland exploits chasing down every clue to finger the murderer. When a fellow misfit is fingered for the crime, Darcy goes from zero-to-sixty trying to clear his name--constructing aliases, breaking the law, everything that makes perfect sense to her but reeks of Grade A Stupid to everyone else.
Trouble is … will she live to see sixteen?
Author: A. J. Lape
Author Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller
Website: A. J. Lape
Twitter: @AJLape
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J. Lape is the Amazon bestselling author of the Darcy Walker Series. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two daughters, an ADD dog, a spoiled hamster, and an unapologetic and unrepentant addiction to Coca-Cola--and a lifelong love affair with bacon. If the FBI ever checks her computer, she'll be wearing prison orange due to the various "wiki" articles she looks up. She swears the dead body, mob, and drug related stuff is only career research.
AKA - Ada Miracle Lape
Always a Cold Deck
A Harry Reese Mystery Book 1
Author: Robert Bruce Stewart
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In July 1900, hapless insurance investigator Harry Reese travels to Buffalo to look into a suspicious fire. But when Harry uncovers a smuggling ring, the case morphs into something more sinister, and he’s faced with a new set of questions. What’s become of the notorious ringleader? And was the missing Charles Elwell killed for the insurance money? Or is he alive and sharing in the proceeds? To find the answers, Harry travels to Canada and back in the company of a political boss’s conniving stooge and a curious young woman who seems to be conducting an investigation of her own. It’s a byzantine odyssey, during which Harry can never be sure of anyone’s loyalties, least of all those who’ve hired him.
Author: Robert Bruce Stewart
Author Genre: Mystery, Humor And Comedy, Historical Fiction
Website: Mysteries by Robert Bruce Stewart
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Finding himself misplaced in the 21st century, Robert Bruce Stewart has opted to retire to what he hopes will be a more congenial era for a person of his sensibilities by means of fiction writing.
Meanwhile, his temporal self lives with his wife and cat in a small-town hermitage in western Massachusetts where he spends his idle hours tending to the needs of tadpoles and keeping his ill-mannered bamboo grove in check.
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Thank you James for your awesome post! We hope will enjoy reading these as much as we gals all enjoyed writing them!
ReplyDeleteJames, I thought I left a comment, but I'm not seeing it here. Anyway, thank you for the wonderful posting. I'm so glad you put in our pictures (aren't we gorgeous?). It's nice to have a face with an author's work, I think.
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