Liar liar, pants on fire....
Carlotta Wren is dazed and confused - everything she thought she knew about her life has been a lie. How can she ever trust anyone again? And where does she go from here?
She hopes a business trip out of town will help to clear her head.... Instead, it lands her in the middle of a murder, as the prime suspect! While Carlotta works frantically to prove her innocence, she's also forced to confront the lies she's been telling herself. If she manages to get out of this mess, she'll have to get real about the kind of life she wants, and the person she wants to spend it with.
If you're looking for laugh-out-loud books, check out the Body Movers series! To-date, titles in the series include:
Party Crashers (prequel)
Body Movers
2 Bodies for the Price of 1
3 Men and a Body
4 Bodies and a Funeral
5 Bodies to Die For
6 Killer Bodies
6 ½ Body Parts (novella)
7 Brides for 7 Bodies
8 Bodies Is Enough
9 Bodies Rolling
10 Bodies Lying
11 Bodies Moving On
12 Bodies and a Wedding
Carlotta Wren's life is entering new territory - a new career path, a new direction in her love life, and possibly new family members to uncover. A big part of moving on, though, means leaving people and other pieces of her past behind...which might be harder than she realized. Especially when moving forward means walking through a minefield of mysterious discoveries about the people she loves, the the people she wants not to love.
If you're looking for laugh-out-loud books, check out the Body Movers series! To-date, titles in the series include:
- Party Crashers (Prequel)
- Body Movers
- 2 Bodies for the Price of 1
- 3 Men and a Body
- 4 Bodies and a Funeral
- 5 Bodies to Die For
- 6 Killer Bodies
- 6 ½ Body Parts (Novella)
- 7 Brides for 7 Bodies
- 8 Bodies Is Enough
- 9 Bodies Rolling
- 10 Bodies Lying
- 11 Bodies Moving On
- 12 Bodies and a Wedding
It will be the happiest day of her life…
Carlotta Wren has been looking forward to her wedding day since she was a little girl, and she wants it to be perfect. But even as she plans a blowout wedding, she has other worries on her mind.
In the process of trying to prove her former coworker was murdered, she may have stumbled onto a coverup with national implications—not to mention learning she’s blood related to someone with whom she has, um, unpleasant history.
If she lives long enough to say I DO!
And while she’s pledged her hand to one man, another man is dogging her heels, and her heart. She has the perfect dress, the perfect ring… and the perfect man? If only she could see into the future…
As Carlotta closes in on a murderer, she realizes she’s in the crosshairs of some powerful people who want her dead—if planning the wedding doesn’t kill her first!
Melissa is a divorced single mother teaching in a small village primary school. After she moves to the village to live in the cottage which becomes her home she meets an interesting guest house owner who has a very unusual past. She also discovers that the jam made from the fruit of the strange tree she finds in her garden may have special powers.
Melissa is very much a family person and her grown-up daughter and her mother play important roles in her life, sometimes with unforeseen complications. 17th Century Man is a charming story with an interesting twist, a tale of life's rich patterns and how the unexpected may arise from the humdrum pace of normal life.
A laugh-out-loud mystery!
With fugitive parents, a brother dodging loan sharks, a hunky cop who's made her outlaw family his business, and her ex-fiance back in the picture, Carlotta Wren thought her life couldn't get any more complicated. And then...
Her fugitive parents phone home.
Her identity is stolen by a look-alike.
Her look-alike is found, well...dead.
Under suspicion for murder, Carlotta discovers that her devious double might have been bumped off accidentally - and that she could be the real target! Throw in dealing with her motley crew of family, friends and wannabe lovers, and Carlotta begins to think that jail isn't such a bad alternative after all...
Warning: laughter ahead!
A laugh-out-loud mystery!
Carlotta Wren desperately needs a vacation from her life. So when hunky Cooper Craft invites her to ride with him to Florida for some fun in the sun and a VIP body pickup, it seems like the opportunity she's been waiting for. Until her brother Wesley, eluding an irate loan shark, tags along to play chaperone until they arrive to pick up their VIP body and are greeted by three different men - each one laying claim to the celebutante they've been hired to move.
Don't miss this entry in the BODY MOVERS humorous romantic mystery series!
Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters' Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline's The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson's mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past-where two women, decades apart, are drawn into a dark game of truth and lies that still haunts the shifting sea marshes.
Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying relationship and a stalled career. Faro is an enchanting town, and the seaside views are enhanced by the company of Nathan Emberlin, a charismatic younger man. But behind the crumbling facades of Moorish buildings, Joanna soon realizes, Faro has a seedy underbelly, its economy compromised by corruption and wartime spoils. And Nathan has an ulterior motive for seeking her company: he is determined to discover the truth involving a child's kidnapping that may have taken place on this dramatic coastline over two decades ago.
Joanna's subsequent search leads her to Ian Rylands, an English expat who cryptically insists she will find answers in The Alliance, a novel written by American Esta Hartford. The book recounts an American couple's experience in Portugal during World War II, and their entanglements both personal and professional with their German enemies. Only Rylands insists the book isn't fiction, and as Joanna reads deeper into The Alliance, she begins to suspect that Esta Hartford's story and Nathan Emberlin's may indeed converge in Faro-where the past not only casts a long shadow but still exerts a very present danger.
One cadaver, two cadaver, three cadaver, four...
Ever had one of those days? A surprise visit from her father--who's on the run from the law--has given Carlotta Wren a lot to think about. Should she join her former fiancé, Peter, in proving her father is innocent? If she does, are her body-moving days over?
And then...
A close friend's behavior begins to spin out of control...
The cops turn up the heat on her father's case...
Carlotta discovers that her brother Wesley's gambling debts are child's play compared to his new vice...
And the Charmed Killer, a serial murderer, unleashes his wrath on Atlanta.
Now the bodies are piling up--and Carlotta's father is the number one suspect!
A humorous romantic mystery! Part of the BODY MOVERS series.
The body count keeps rising...
The Charmed Killer is on the loose in Atlanta and Carlotta Wren is caught up in the terror--especially when her body-moving side business brings her dangerously close to the action.
And then...
She's forced to take refuge in her former fiancé's house--much to the chagrin of other interested parties...
Her brother Wesley begins to behave as if he has his own death wish...
And someone close to her is implicated in the mass murders.
Meanwhile, Carlotta can't shake the feeling that danger is dogging her seemingly cursed family--and that the serial killer's exploits are starting to get personal....
Have you ever felt as if someone else got your life?
Carlotta Wren has always wondered what her life would've been like if her father hadn't been charged with a white-collar crime, and if her wealthy parents hadn't fled town to avoid facing the music, leaving her to fend for herself and to raise her younger brother Wesley.
And now with a twist of fate, she's about to find out...
A killer remains at large...
Carlotta Wren's world is crumbling beneath her well-shod feet. One of her closest friends has been arrested as the Charmed Killer, but Carlotta refuses to believe it. And to prove her friend's innocence, Carlotta goes against her boyfriend Peter's wishes and resumes her after-hours body-moving duties.
And then...
Peter pressures her for an answer to his proposal...
Her troubled brother Wesley goes missing...
And the madman stalking the city strikes again, this time a little too close to home.
But when Carlotta finds herself in the clutches of the Charmed Killer, is she destined for her own body bag?
Carlotta Wren's life has taken a startling turn - she's not sure what's going to happen next. So when her retail job temporarily plants her in the world of wedding planning, she's happy for the distraction - at first. The happily-ever-after setting only heightens the stress surrounding the decisions she faces about her romantic life. The three hot men vying for her attention aren't going to wait forever for her answer.
On the other hand, at least the bridal show gets her away from body moving for a while, right? Wrong. Because when grooms all over Atlanta start dropping like flies, once again, Carlotta finds herself square in the middle of a murder mystery!
