Sonia Parin Livres

Humorous small town, clean cozy mystery with a cast of entertaining characters.A carousel. A body. An inheritance. Eden's local café owner, Joyce Breeland, has issued Abby Maguire an ultimatum - the small-town newspaper reporter must find the identity of the Eden Bloggess or be banned from Joyce's café. Functioning on limited coffee rations, Abby Maguire goes in search of this elusive blogger only to stumble upon a body and a mysterious inheritance. There's a killer on the loose and he might be working his way through a list...A Dear Abby Cozy Mystery1. End of the Lane2. Be Still My Heart3. The Last RideA Deadline Cozy Mystery1. Sunny Side Up2. Snuffed Out3. All Tied Up4. The Last Bite5. Final Cut6. Sleeping With the Fishes7. A Kink in the Road8. The Merry Widow

Abby Maguire's Iowa based travel phobic mom is coming to visit... virtually. Abby will give her the grand tour via a video link to prove Eden is a safe town. All goes well until her mom joins a tour group and one of her fellow passengers dies. There's enough circumstantial evidence to warrant looking into the death and while Abby's focus is on keeping her mom in the dark, it doesn't take long for her mom to suspect Mr. Howington is not just camera shy, but is in fact dead. Other books in the series1. End of the Lane2. Be Still My Heart3. The Last Ride

The entire town is buzzing with excitement and counting down the days to the most significant event of the year - Charles Granger's Venetian Ball. Everyone is excited, everyone except Abby Maguire. She hasn't received an invitation... Gate-crashing the event is the only way she can think of being included. When one of the most prominent guests suddenly dies, Abby can't help wondering if she'd been deliberately left out of the guest list. With a town hungry for news and gossip, Abby and Faith set up their crime-board at Charles Granger's mansion. This is the perfect setting to kick back and relax while Detective Joshua Ryan carries out his investigation. However, even when Abby Maguire takes a back seat, she somehow manages to stumble on a significant piece of information that leads her straight to the killer and to danger.

Abby Maguire is lagging behind with her scoops. As a reporter for the Eden Rise Gazette, she needs to be first in with the news but Eden is a small town and, even on a bad day, nothing much happens… And even then, the local café owner has shown a talent for beating her to the latest news.After witnessing an altercation between two Eden thespian rivals, Abby hopes the annual Eden picnic fundraiser will be the perfect venue for her to witness some more fireworks. Everyone has turned up, and everyone is dressed in 1920s costumes. Everyone including the dead body she finds. The police claim it was death by natural causes. No one in Eden believes this, and everyone expects Abby Maguire to get to the bottom of the unexpected death. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make the death look like an accident. When she's staring down the barrel of a gun, Abby knows she finally has her scoop.This Cozy Mystery is a clean read, with no graphic violence, sex, or strong language but full of lots of fun, quirky dialogue and characters.