A Mysterious Mix Up (An Allie Cobb Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Publisher: Lyrical Press (January 7, 2020)
Paperback: 190 pages

Synopsis

Murder hits the stacks when literary agent Allie Cobb investigates a fatality in the local library . . .

Allie Cobb returns home from a book conference armed with hugs for her cat and her boyfriend, and dreams of a long, hot bath. She’s also getting ready to take the plunge by hiring an intern for her expanding literary agency. But it’s one for the books when Allie finds the town’s librarian—and her longtime role model—seconds away from death on the library floor.

Who would want to poison Vicky Napier—one of Rushing Creek’s most beloved citizens—on the eve of her retirement? But it seems there were toxic people in her life, like the handyman with an obsessive crush, and a wood carver with a hair-trigger temper. The list of suspects includes Allie’s boyfriend, Brent, who’s in the running to take over as town librarian. Avenging her friend’s murder could be a trap as she goes up against a killer determined to write Allie’s epitaph . . .

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Guest Post

New Year, New Decade, New Hopes

Hi, friends and Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. As I write this, I’m still trying to get my head around the fact that we’ve entered a new decade.

As I look back on the previous ten years, I’m blown away with the changes we’ve all seen and experienced. The growth of social media. The ubiquity of smartphones. The meteoric rise of ebooks. The interconnectedness that technology has brought about sure has made the world a smaller place, hasn’t it?

If you’re like me, you’ve gone through a lot of personal changes, too. Some were good, like both of my kids graduating from high school. Some were not so good, like the development of my oldest kiddo’s chronic health problems.

The past decade was also when I became a writer. In August 2011, I began writing my first novel. Since then, I’ve written almost a million words and published ten books and one short story.

Not too shabby, I like to think.

I consider my first decade as an author a smashing success. But that begs an important question.

What next?

For starters, I have three more books in The Allie Cobb Mysteries I’m contracted to write. I hope more readers get a chance to spend time with Allie and the Rushing Creek gang. I have a bunch more story ideas in my head, so hopefully, I’ll be able to report in a decade from now that I’ve published another ten books. Or maybe even more!

I have other hopes, too. Ones that, in the grand scheme of things, are much more important than my writing career. I hope Shea gets their health issues under control for good, finds a career that is as enjoyable as it is fulfilling. I hope Aidan graduates from college and gets a job in his major. I hope ten years from now, Nancy and I will be celebrating forty years since our first date.

Anything more than that and I run the risk of sounding greedy.

As we embark on a new decade, I’m filled with hope. I hope we’re all happy and healthy. I hope we’re all safe, that maybe the challenges our world faces won’t seem so tough to solve. I hope that, in January 2030, we’ll all be able to look back on the 2020s and say that was a pretty good decade.

For all of us.

How about you, Reader Friend? Do you have any hopes, goals, or dreams for the next decade? Tell me about them. Maybe we can compare notes.

About the Author

J.C. Kenney grew up in a household filled with books by legends Agatha Christie and Lilian Jackson Braun, among many others, so it was no surprise when he found himself writing mystery stories. When he’s not writing, you can find him following IndyCar racing or listening to music. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife, two sons, and a cat who is the inspiration for Ursula in the Allie Cobb Mysteries.

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