Bidding On Death
by Joyce Harmon
Price: $2.99 USD. 47580 words.
Published on May 30, 2012. Fiction.
Cissy Rayburn finds a body again. Someone bashed in Rose Jackson’s head, and left her obnoxious chihuahua an orphan. Now Cissy is stuck with Paco the chihuahua and convinced that the murder is connected with the estate auction Rose just went to. Others at the auction include Cissy’s friend Julia, and Cissy herself. What was the killer looking for, and how ruthlessly will he continue the search?
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Member Since: July 20, 2011
Joyce Harmon
Biography
Joyce Harmon is a retired Navy officer with degrees in Psychology and Information Systems. Since retiring from the Navy, she has worked as a winery tour guide, a journalist for a local newspaper, selling collectibles on eBay, and making candles.
Joyce blogs at http://joyceharmon.wordpress.com/
Joyce blogs at http://joyceharmon.wordpress.com/
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Died On The Vine
by Joyce Harmon
Price: $0.99 USD. 44960 words. Published on January 6, 2012. Fiction.
(4.67 from 3 reviews)
Cissy Rayburn and her husband Jack own a small winery in rural Virginia. One day, MIA chaser Obie Winslow shows up at the winery and tells Cissy that he believes that her first husband, shot down and killed in Viet Nam, is still alive. Three days later, Cissy finds Winslow dead in the vineyard, stabbed with Jack's pruning shears. Can she find the real murderer before the sheriff arrests Jack?
Price: $0.99 USD. 44960 words. Published on January 6, 2012. Fiction.
(4.67 from 3 reviews) Cissy Rayburn and her husband Jack own a small winery in rural Virginia. One day, MIA chaser Obie Winslow shows up at the winery and tells Cissy that he believes that her first husband, shot down and killed in Viet Nam, is still alive. Three days later, Cissy finds Winslow dead in the vineyard, stabbed with Jack's pruning shears. Can she find the real murderer before the sheriff arrests Jack?
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- Death of an Old Git
on March 26, 2012
Best Of The E-Books, English Village Cozy Whenever someone asks me what a ‘cozy’ mystery is, I tend to say it’s a mystery with an amateur sleuth. Turns out that’s an over-simplification. Oh, all right – it’s not true. Sure, a lot of cozies have amateur sleuths, but not all. So what makes a mystery ‘cozy’? I’m still working on that. What they’re NOT, as a rule, is ‘gritty’. Or ‘noir’. Or hyper-violent. There’s a focus on people and the relationships between them. There is often humor. A good example of a mystery with professional sleuths that I would classify as a ‘cozy’ is this one – Death of an Old Git. It’s set in an English village, a good hint that it’s going to be cozy. The sleuthing pair is humorously mismatched, and the large suspect pool of village characters keeps you intrigued. The titular ‘Old Git’ is Reg Morley, the most irritating man in Castle Farthing. Morley is a petty thief, a peeping tom, and a quarrelsome troublemaker whose hobby is making life miserable for as many people as possible. So when he turns up drugged and strangled, the problem for the authorities is – too many suspects! Assigned to unravel the mystery is Detective Inspector Harry Falconer, well-educated, smooth and proud of his sartorial elegance. A manpower shortage teams him with well-meaning bumpkin Acting Detective Sergeant Carmichael. The assignment puts Carmichael in plainclothes for the first time in his career, and his garish, mismatched, and generally horrible attempts at plainclothes is just the first of the crosses Falconer must bear. There are two more Falconer and Carmichael mysteries, which I’ve added to my Must Read list. And they’re all just 99 cents apiece!