Beach Blanket Homicide (Whispering Bay Mystery)
February 26, 2019 - Comment
The first book in a fun, quirky chick-lit mystery series featuring Lucy McGuffin, world’s best muffin maker and amateur sleuth.Everyone agrees that Lucy McGuffin bakes the best muffins in Whispering Bay, but she’s got another talent, one that she’s tried her whole life to hide. Lucy can always tell when a person is lying or telling the truth. Being a human lie detector isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially when you don’t really want the answer to the universal question: Does this dress make my butt look too big?When Lucy is hired to cater the grand opening celebration of the city’s new community center, she stumbles across the dead body of Abby Delgado, a prominent member of the Sunshine Ghost Society. Lucy’s brother, Father Sebastian, a local priest, is the last person to have seen Abby alive. Convinced he’ll be breaking a confidence, Sebastian refuses to cooperate with the police, forcing Lucy to put her skills to the test to save her brother’s good name.Enter the town’s new hotshot deputy, Travis Fontaine. Travis doesn’t want an amateur like Lucy snooping around his turf, so he offers her a deal. He’ll stay out of her kitchen if she’ll stay away from his crime scene. But Lucy isn’t about to let her brother’s fate rest in the hands of an arrogant cop. Good thing she has her best friend Will and her new little rescue dog, Paco, to back her up, because its up to Lucy to figure out what everyone in the quaint little beachside town is hiding.
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Fun with a few twists I love coming back to Whispering Bay. Lucy McGuffin makes the best muffins around and ever since she can remember, she is a human lie detector. Everyone tells lies but to what degree. How does she stay sane in this world? She doesn’t tell anyone. So when Abby Delgado turns up dead, all her senses are on alert. She knows people are lying and the hunt is on. She has to find out who killed her. There is a new deputy in town. Travis Fontaine has decided he had enough of Dallas PD and decided to…
Lighthearted mystery Lucy McGuffin is a co-owner of a Bistro and she makes the best muffins in the world. She also has a talent for knowing when someone is lying to her. A frequent customer turns up with a dog in her purse and Lucy knows sheâs lying abut where he comes from. Then Lucy stumbles upon the body of that customer.Lucy isnât content to let the police solve the murder. She gets herself involved in the investigation and in the process, she meets all sorts of people, many of whom are lying to her…
A Fun Twist on a Murder Mystery Welcome back to Whispering Bay where the senior group, Gray Flamingos, are fit, spry and ornery. You also have the Sunshine Ghost Society and in the middle of it you have Bistro on the Beach with co owner Lucy McGuffin with her own special talent. Lucy is known for her awesome muffins but her talent of being a human lie detector it’s something she keeps hidden. When she discovers the dead body of one of her patrons her life is turned upside down. Her brother is the last to see Abby alive but…