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My Mother is a Murder Suspect
Seventeen-year-old Clark Yates is surrounded by people, fifty-thousand followers to be exact. Until they’re ripped away….
After her father was murdered, Clark patched her life together by becoming a fashion influencer by day, and a true crime junkie by night. The positive feedback loop of her online world stands-in for the broken relationship with her mom, a forensic science researcher, who hides her grief and values academics above all else.
And they definitely don’t talk about the only murder Mom has never been able to solve.
When Mom accepts a residency at a secluded writer’s community famous for a string of decades-old deaths, Clark’s online world disappears. There’s no internet, no cell service, and no followers—only a profound sense of unease and loneliness.
Then a fellow resident is murdered and Mom is the prime suspect. As Clark finds the skills of the police hideously lacking, she embraces the glass half-full side of things. This is a chance to prove that frilly dresses and glossy hair don’t cancel out brains. To solve the murder and keep her only parent out of prison, she must team up with the victim’s handsome nephew, learning what it means to truly understand your own self-worth.
Starla Blue and the Waffle Hut Murder
In the mountain town of Nonsense, KY, the people are rarely as they seem. The Laceys have a knack for manipulating emotions, the Dovers are a magnet for animals, and then there’s the Blues who can communicate with the dead—but only through senses, not words, and only while being in touch with their own emotions. No one in Nonsense talks about any of it. Complicated conversations are best avoided.
When seventeen-year-old Starla Blue’smother was murdered, the flowers all but died with her. Now Starla simply wants to be left alone to squash down all feelings, particularly the guilty ones regarding the murder. Then her medium abilities awaken and she finds Mama’s ghost hanging around The Waffle Hut—the breakfast diner where Starla works.
Then the hauntings kick up a notch. Mama’s spirit will soon turn into a full-blown haunting, the scary kind with Mama’s soul lost forever, unless Starla can find the killer. But first, she’ll have to solve a current missing child case entwined with the murder and embrace emotions she’d much rather ignore. And of course, there’ll be lots of waffles.
