One gun + two turkeys + three Morgan sisters = One helluva Jeep ride!
It’s Thanksgiving Day in Jackrabbit Junction and the feathers are flying before the food even hits the table.
What starts out as a quick trip to pick up a turkey turns into another messy Morgan sisters’ mystery filled with hijinks and adventure.
Never has Thanksgiving been so wild!
(Note: This is volume 4.5 in the Jackrabbit Junction Mystery series.)
In the lonely mining ghost town of Goldwash, Nevada, Christmas has come early. Unfortunately, the local bar owner must be on this year’s naughty list, because Santa brought her something even worse than a piece of coal on this dark, cold winter night–her old man.
“I laughed (a lot), cried (a little), and wanted to stab a certain family member. This story brings all the feels!” —Renee George, USA Today Bestselling Author
It’s Christmas Eve and Violet Parker has one request on her list for Santa—to make it home to her kids. Unfortunately, “home” is also the lair of her life-long nemesis, her sister Susan (aka the devil’s concubine).
Standing in Violet’s way is Old Man Winter, who slammed the Black Hills with a show-stopping blizzard. However, a little snow isn’t going to ground her sleigh, not with family counting on her to deliver Santa’s goods.
Trying to keep Christmas from turning into a candy cane calamity, Violet battles her demons and struggles through the chaos storming around her.
Can she make it through the holiday without cracking anyone’s nut?
“Keep your fingers crossed this whole holiday doesn’t blow up in our faces.” —Violet Parker
(The audio version will be available via non-Amazon vendors in November 2019.)
“Don’t miss this must-read Deadwood short!” ~Kristy McCaffrey, Author of The Wren and Deep Blue
There’s a real trick to catching a soul-stealing Hungarian devil made of shadow and smoke. Unfortunately, Violet Parker doesn’t know what that trick is and her aunt’s life depends on her figuring it out.
But killing is an old family tradition for her … or rather a fatal tradition.
NOTE TO READERS: When I sat down to start plotting the 11th novel in the Deadwood Mystery Series, I realized that something was missing–a transitional story needing to be told in order to wrap up the previous ten novels and prepare you for the next many books to come. At that point, FATAL TRADITIONS was born.
New Year’s Eve seemed like the perfect time to set this Deadwood Short. Violet agreed with my way of thinking, the only stipulation being that tequila was somehow involved. If she was going to explore her family’s long and blood-filled history, she needed something to make it easier to swallow what she feared filled the pages of the leather-bound book Aunt Zoe had been asking her to read for months.
If you have read the 5th book in my Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series, you know that Natalie, Cooper, and Ol’ Man Harvey are in Arizona over the New Year’s holiday trying to enjoy some sunshine while they work out some kinks. (If you haven’t read IN CAHOOTS WITH THE PRICKLY PEAR POSSE and are a fan of Cooper and Natalie and Harvey, you might want to read that story for some Arizona-inspired “heat” and chuckles.) With these three out of state, Violet and the rest of her crew are left to bring in the New Year with plenty of hilarity and chills.
I hope you enjoy this extra-long Deadwood Short about the past and future for our favorite Scharfrichter.
When “Crazy” Kate Morgan learns that her sisters are the next targets on a killer’s to-do list, she’s hell-bent on chasing down trouble before it rides into Jackrabbit Junction.
The problem: The darn law dogs keep nipping at her heels, tossing her in the hoosegow, and sidetracking her hunt.
The solution: A posse—the pricklier the better.
If Kate can dodge this peck of pickles long enough to catch the killer, she can prove she’s not so “crazy” after all.
Special Guest Stars: Hanging out in Jackrabbit Junction in this book are Natalie Beals (the Morgan sisters’ cousin), Detective Cooper, and Ol’ Man Harvey from the USA Today Bestselling Deadwood Mystery series. You don’t want to miss the heated hijinks happening down in the Arizona desert!
Holiday Recipe for Madcap Merrymaking in Jackrabbit Junction
Start with a bawdy night sprinkled with tinsel tassels and jingle balls, toss in a missing pair of underwear, and top it all off with plenty of sugary shenanigans. Serve with a side of naughty and nice.
A nut-cracking dust devil of a Christmas!
Claire Morgan and her sisters are a tad twitchy. Their father is on his way for their first Christmas in Arizona, but the tidings of joy are few and far between. For one thing, their mother is pissed about her ex-husband flying in to play Santa. For another, their mother is just pissed. Period.
Christmas will never be the same again for the Morgan sisters.
(Note: This is volume 4.7 in the Jackrabbit Junction Mystery series.)
Deadwood Undertaker Series – Book 3.5
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS COMES TO OL’ DEADWOOD!
Catawampus (adj.): 1.) Fierce, savage 2.) Askew, awry (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
It’s a cold and snowy Christmas Eve in the rowdy mining town of Deadwood in the Dakota Territory. Rather than enjoy some drinks in front of a warm fire with her friends, contracted Slayer Clementine Johanssen has her horse saddled and weapons packed to head out into the hills and hunt down some deadly scallywags—alone. When her friends catch wind of her intentions, they set out to waylay her long enough to change her way of thinking … in spite of her mule-headedness.
*****
Reminiscent of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, this catawampus tale will add a heartening dose of fun and camaraderie to your holiday!
