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Gretchen Rix
Biography
Gretchen Rix--I write Texas cozy mysteries in the Boo Done It series set in Lockhart, the barbecue capital of Texas. Tag line: Where there's more than indigestion brewing.
I've worked as a bookstore clerk, a newspaper writer, and a book reviewer. I've had jobs as a professional typist, a truck dispatcher and a health insurance claims processor. I learned a lot from these jobs. But my true inspiration for these mysteries was our family's stubborn, huge, skittish and always-hungry dog Boo Radley. This dog could drag anybody into an adventure.
My sister and I created and ran an international ghost story writing contest. It lasted four years. Now I no longer ever desire to be a magazine editor. I go to science fiction conventions. I'm a member of RWA. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I take the motto "Keep Austin Weird" seriously even though I live 35 miles away.
"Talking to The Dead Guys" is the first in a series of murder mysteries about a dog, strong women, and small-town living (or is it dying?). Check out all my books at http://rixcafetexican.com and my blog at http://gretchenrix.com.
I've worked as a bookstore clerk, a newspaper writer, and a book reviewer. I've had jobs as a professional typist, a truck dispatcher and a health insurance claims processor. I learned a lot from these jobs. But my true inspiration for these mysteries was our family's stubborn, huge, skittish and always-hungry dog Boo Radley. This dog could drag anybody into an adventure.
My sister and I created and ran an international ghost story writing contest. It lasted four years. Now I no longer ever desire to be a magazine editor. I go to science fiction conventions. I'm a member of RWA. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I take the motto "Keep Austin Weird" seriously even though I live 35 miles away.
"Talking to The Dead Guys" is the first in a series of murder mysteries about a dog, strong women, and small-town living (or is it dying?). Check out all my books at http://rixcafetexican.com and my blog at http://gretchenrix.com.
Where to find Gretchen Rix online
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Books
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 54,540.
Language:
English.
Published: May 19, 2023
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Ghost
Lumen could not move, but she could let her imagination run riot. So far there had been a David who wasn’t really David, and a Sir Bertram who was a tiger, but the tigers weren’t really tigers, not to mention Taylor Finch, with and without his hand. And a ghost of Rebecca. It always came back to Rebecca. Tigers, tigers everywhere. “It’s not really a tiger,” Rebecca hissed. Or is it?
Read Now, Nap Later
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 30,290.
Language:
English.
Published: October 2, 2022
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
Short stories for insomniacs. Most of these READ NOW, NAP LATER stories are cozy-level mysteries, but then you have my vampire tale Things Go Better and what’s maybe a science fiction story Burning Down the Barn. Most of these stories are quirky, some out-and-out funny, a few serious. I hope they don’t put you to sleep, but if they do, sweet dreams.
A Resurrection of Starlings
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 64,170.
Language:
English.
Published: December 16, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Horror » General
A horror novel set in the Piney Woods of East Texas near the town of Palestine where a train has mysteriously stalled .It’s 1885. The snow has finally stopped. The train’s twelve passengers have just begun to realize they’re in deep trouble. There’s something out there and it’s calling up at them to be let in.
The Watermelon Pump
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 45,290.
Language:
English.
Published: May 9, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
An aging and cantankerous small-town newspaper editor who keeps her pet chicken in the office runs The Watermelon Pump. Luling, Texas’ weekly paper, known primarily for its wedding announcements and garage sale ads. High school students do the reporting and photography, and there’s never been trouble before. But they’ve never had an intern like Myron Wesley. A true born sociopath.
Browner
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 59,770.
Language:
English.
Published: December 4, 2020
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural
When an irascible San Antonio P.I. attracts the wrong kind of attention from a family of cops, his whole life changes in an instant. They love him. Think he's cute.
He's not.
At least, he wasn't.
BROWNER, another mystery novel by G.L. Rix, picks up where BROWN started, at a parking lot meeting a new client who has a familiar beef he wants Brown to check out--El Condor, the crime boss.
The Goodall (Books 1-3)
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 151,770.
Language:
English.
Published: March 15, 2020
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
A coming of age adventure set in deep space. A young woman uncertain of her strengths gets the chance to change. Fast paced. Unexpected. Space opera. There’s even a cat in it.
There’s mutiny, murder, and betrayal. There’s rising to the occasion, and there’s failure. And finally, there are pirates
All three books in one volume.
Brown
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 55,750.
Language:
English.
Published: March 12, 2019
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Name: BROWN (just Brown, ma’am)
Physical Appearance/Demeanor: BEAR (that’s grizzly - consider yourself warned)
Occupation: Private Dick
Cases: Find Some Body and return them to their forever home
Find Wife-Beating Boyfriend before Contracted Hitman Does
Perform Background Checks on the Bad Guys
Find Lost Animals
The Cimarron Bride
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 73,010.
Language:
English.
Published: August 27, 2018
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Western, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure
The Cimarron Bride is a western romance set against the backdrop of the very last Oklahoma Land Race. It’s 1895, and the rich young cowboy who’s fallen in love with his older brother’s Chinese mail-order bride has finally caught up to her. In a whorehouse. That she refuses to leave. Even forcing a younger, more innocent girl on him as a replacement. There the adventure begins.
The Goodall Marauders
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 44,900.
Language:
English.
Published: July 26, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
All that stands between Captain Carmady and an exceptionally ugly death is his First Lieutenant Joan Chikage.
And she will not budge.
The Goodall Marauders, book three in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries.
Ill Met By Moonlight
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 24,510.
Language:
English.
Published: February 20, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Trees don't walk. But here they do. In Ill Met By Moonlight they walk, they kill, they eat people, and they--Nope. Telling you more would spoil the fun. Welcome to this horror collection about the walking macadamia nut trees of Hawaii. Believe it or not, you're going to laugh. A new addition to the humorous horror genre.
The Goodall Manifest
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 51,010.
Language:
English.
Published: July 8, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
She'd commanded a small troop of men since then. Led the survivors to safety. Quelled the mutiny. Discovered the murderer. She'd even brought in Van der Ryn so he could pay for his crimes. Accidently or not, it didn't matter. The captain must know all of this by now. She'd kept everyone alive when they probably should have died. She'd saved the cat, damn it! The Goodall Manifest.
The Goodall Mutiny
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 56,330.
Language:
English.
Published: March 3, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
Marooned, with failing systems and inexperienced officers, the dangerously dysfunctional crew must fight to survive. All the normal sounds usually reaching the lower decks of the USS Goodall during routine subspace flight have just been cut off. As if someone at the controls suddenly wants the crew isolated. Is this the Goodall mutiny everyone expected? Or is it something even worse?
Baby Sings The Boos
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 25,700.
Language:
English.
Published: January 17, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
In each of these original Boo and Baby stories from the author of The Cowboy's Baby and Talking To The Dead Guys, something always goes wrong. These tales introduce you to two of the quirkiest animals that Texas has ever seen. There's singing involved here somewhere. It says so right in the title. You're going to enjoy their screwball adventures, and you're going to laugh.
Tea With A Dead Gal
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 73,010.
Language:
English.
Published: December 21, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
How can you run a successful annual Writers' Tea party when your guest author turns up murdered, and when your choice for a substitute speaker might be the prime suspect? Think old timey British mystery novel, but set it in Texas and put some barbecue in it. Add the unruly American mastiff Boo Radley into the mix and you get chaos. Funny and quirky. The second in the Boo Done It mystery series.
The Safari Bride
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 54,270.
Language:
English.
Published: November 20, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Historical » General, Fiction » Historical » Victorian
Cannibals. Man-eating lions. Crocodiles.
Pygmies. Monkeys. Lost Cities.
Lots of naked people.
Mr. Bryce, the best Great White Hunter of them all, rues the day he ever met one Miss Gafford from Texas. Darkest Africa may never be the same.
Little does he know, but Miss Gafford's safari trip spells his doom. And that of his men.
A steamy adventure romance set in the end of the 19th century.
The Cowboy's Baby Goes To Heaven
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 78,310.
Language:
English.
Published: October 24, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Fairy tales
Former diplomat Leona Robin wonders if she made a mistake moving to rural Texas. Her son loves it here, but in a place where it's normal for a prize bull to have his own pet pig and hay bales are raining from the sky, Leona wonders how she'll ever fit in. That is, until she'd thrown right into local preacher Ralph Maybeath's arms. Second in The Cowboy's Baby series. A romantic comedy.
Talking To The Dead Guys
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 92,710.
Language:
English.
Published: January 11, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
A Texas mystery about a dog, strong women, and small-town living (or is it dying?). Shoot! I'll cut right to the chase. When me and my sister's mastiff Boo Radley drags me off my feet during the damned cemetery tour right onto a dead corpse, the dog poop hits the fan. And that's just chapter one. Welcome to Lockhart, the barbecue capital of Texas, where's there more than indigestion brewing.
Arroyo
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 90,050.
Language:
English.
Published: November 16, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
An angel of God who can't remember his purpose. Two legendary lovers. Three strangers, battling one another and the ancient menace one carries unknowingly on her back into the West Texas arroyo. Their bond takes them from the flying saucers of Marfa to the vampire temptress of San Antonio, and then clear across mythical 1893 Texas to their fiery end. Arroyo--not your grandfather's sort of western.
The Cowboy's Baby
by Gretchen Rix
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 63,130.
Language:
English.
Published: August 5, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Western, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
The Cowboy's Baby is a short, contemporary western romance blended into Texas tall tale tradition and slapstick. It's a Texas tale full of quirky and memorable characters about accepting love where you find it. (And about having lots of bathroom paper on hand.) "Sleeping Beauty meets Louis L'Amour. A fun read. Not the same old baby. You won't be disappointed. This is one you shouldn't miss."
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