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French Pear Tart – a recipe from author Daryl Wood Gerber

July 12, 2018 By Terry 3 Comments

Agatha Award-winning Daryl Wood Gerber is best known for her nationally bestselling Cookbook Nook Mysteries and CHEESE SHOP MYSTERIES, which she …

My First Mystery Conference

July 5, 2018 By Terry 1 Comment

My First Mystery Conference by Barbara Barrett Have you ever attended a conference featuring writers, either as a writer yourself or as reader? If …

Hero sandwich – a guest post by Kathleen Valenti

May 17, 2018 By Terry 25 Comments

Hero sandwich I’ve been thinking a lot about literary heroes, specifically the nature of their heroism. If you watch blockbuster films—or read …

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Honolulu landlord Wilson McKenna can smell a scam from across the room. So when one of his tenants loses everything in a work-at-home scam involving a new perfume, he’s shocked. With his wedding just weeks away, McKenna has to make a tough decision. Does he evict a woman who’s down on her luck? Or take time out from wedding planning to help his tenant?

Turning the case over to his PI-in-training friend Chance Logan seems like the perfect solution—until Chance tells McKenna he needs a wingman for a visit to fragrance entrepreneur Skye Pilkington-Winchester. McKenna’s sure he can keep everyone happy by helping Chance this one time. But nothing is ever as easy as it seems, and soon McKenna’s up to his board shorts in hot water. His tenant’s simple fragrance scam might involve industrial espionage, Skye’s assistant is murdered, and McKenna’s bride-to-be accuses him of having cold feet.

As McKenna and Chance dig deeper, it seems so much of what they’re being told doesn’t pass the sniff test. And the only way to get his life back is to find the dead girl’s missing boyfriend, unmask a killer, and finish up in time for the wedding. Other than that, it’s just another day in paradise.

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