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Much to Alanis McLachlan's surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime, a shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis decides to stay and pick up her mother's tarot business in an attempt to find out how she died. With help from a hunky cop and her mother's live-in teenage apprentice, Alanis begins faking her way through tarot readings in order to win the confidence of her mother's clients. But the more she uses the tarot deck, the more Alanis begins to find real meaning in the cards ... and the secrets surrounding her mother's demise. Praise: 2015 IPPY Award Bronze Medal Winner in Mystery/Cozy/Noir 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Gold Winner for Mystery "Cozy readers with a taste for humor will welcome this hilarious series debut .
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As you might have guessed by now, I am a writer. As such, it is my duty to spend large portions of my day sitting in front of a computer in syrup-stained sweatpants while swilling enough coffee to drown a chihuahua. This I cheerfully do. Occasionally, I even write something. Via this time-tested method of sitting, drinking coffee and writing, I have managed to produce several novels. Some people think they're pretty good. I will now fill the rest of my allotted space with quotes from positive reviews. Sorry. To make it more fun for everyone, I've slipped one fake review in with the real ones. See if you can spot it!"Grade: A-...hilarious...delightfully offbeat...." --Entertainment Weekly on Holmes on the Range"Other books and TV series have featured genre-melding cowboys armed with ratiocination as well as revolvers, but Hockensmith's take is quite special. There's his combination of intriguing mystery, breathless action, colorful characters and enough laugh-out-loud moments for the book to fit in the humorous crime category." --The Los Angeles Times on The Black Dove"Hockensmith takes a concept that could have been terrible -- the backstory of the Bennet girls learning to fight the undead, setting the stage for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- and turns it into a gory and gross, wonderful and clever tale...a true delight, really." --Romantic Times on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls"Hulk hate silly things puny humans call 'books.' Hulk smash Gone Girl! Hulk smash puny James Patterson! But Hockensmith books not bad. Hulk no smash. Hulk want more sequels." --The Incredible Hulk on The Crack in the Lens To learn more about me, go to http://www.stevehockensmith.com. To learn more about the Incredible Hulk and his taste in literature, go to http://www.marvel.com.
