Jennifer Oberth

Jennifer Oberth is a sweet, gorgeous, intelligent gal with a great sense of humor. She likes long walks on the beach.

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Jennifer Oberth is a sweet, gorgeous, intelligent gal with a great sense of humor. She likes to take long walks on the beach where she thinks up delicious ways to murder people and give them motives, means, opportunities and fake alibis.

Don't randomly ask her what she's thinking because she'll tell you. She doesn't want a repeat of that time she was with a group of strangers and she blurted out her frustration at her car. "How on earth am I expected to kill somebody in the woods without being seen when I can't turn off the automatic headlights?"

She didn't know why they shrank back and gave her a wide berth the rest of the evening.

She didn't know why no one offered advice to get around this tricky annoyance.

It's a coincidence she then started writing cozy mysteries set in 1875…

Jennifer Oberth (the sweet, gorgeous, intelligent gal with a great sense of humor) has two cats (Copper & Outlaw). When she's not at work, cursing the computer when it doesn't work, she can be found at home, cursing the computer when it doesn't work.

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Website: http://www.jenniferoberth.com
Twitter: @JenniferOberth
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Blog: http://www.jenniferoberth.blogspot.com/

Anatomy of a Fire
A time-lapsed video of a fire from inception to burn out. (The actual time was about 17 minutes.) Taken in North Carolina at a training facility for firefighters. (The Writer's Police Academy 2011)

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• If I Had A Car on Sep. 02, 2011
  
  How much fun was that?! It's so cute and the illustrations add perfectly to the poem. This is so nicely done.
  
• The Last Cowboy in the East on Nov. 19, 2011
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  Hey, that's not fair. This is in the free eBooks section and the download says full book but it's only a sample with a link at the end for the rest of the book at cost. Seriously, undo this, author. This is a terrible technique that will only make people ban you and your works. Believe in your books and offer a 25% sample for free of your priced novel.
  
• Who Murdered The Ghost? on June 06, 2012
  
  What a fun short story (mystery)! I adore Hazel Cartbell with her razor wit and running commentary on everything from the local nun horning her way into the investigation to her crush on her much older - and oblivious - boss, the chief of police. I had a lot of fun riding alongside Cartbell as she hunts for clues, fields family problems, stops for spaghetti and tracks down the killer. I highly recommend 'Who Murdered The Ghost?'
  
• The Hudson Agency - Chicago Style on June 11, 2012
  
  'The Hudson Agency - Chicago Style' by Ellie Oberth is a fun, straight-forward ride from beginning to end. First we meet Danby, a not-ready-to-retire investigator with a bum knee that everyone calls 'Gramps'. He gets saddled with a newbie, Elmo, and they start the search into a series of near-fatal 'accidents' of a Chicago businessman. We meet a host of colorful characters that Oberth described with quick brushstrokes that keep the story moving forward until it's unusual end. It's told in present tense, which I thought would be awkward to read but after the first few sentences, it flowed beautifully. Besides, by then I was sucked in by the old curmudgeon. 'The Hudson Agency-Chicago Style' is a must-read for Danby's first person narrative alone.
  
• Death by Chocolate on July 08, 2014
  
  I liked the short story despite some problems it had. The punctuation was bad throughout and there was something I couldn't quite put my finger on...I liked the characters but the story read too...too easy, maybe. We're taken from point A to B to C and then it ended with no letdown. One of the reasons I adore cozies is because there's always a bit of a decompression between the characters, after the killer is revealed and life returns to normal. We don't get that from this story. It just ends.
  
• Directed To Death on Oct. 31, 2019
  
  I love this ghost story! It's delightful and so entertaining. I love the voice and the humor. Excellent!
  
• Toast and Strangled Eggs on Feb. 05, 2023
  
  I love this debut mystery and can't wait for more in the series! I adore the characters - Lia and Harris and Lia's family, especially. The town is full of quirky characters with depth and dimension. I also love the humor threaded throughout the mystery. It's cute, funny, adorable, and warm - everything you'd want in a cozy mystery.