The first three Dusty Deals Mystery series novels in one box set. Read along as Lucy Mathews, her Alaskan malamute, Kiska and a cast of quirky characters find love and mystery in Montana.
Loose Screw
Lucy Mathews, crime reporter turned antiques dealer, avoids confrontation like a home perm. She even lets a cat shove her around.
When Lucy trips over the body of a buckskin-clad relics trader, … body of a buckskin-clad relics trader, her ex-boss asks her to cover the story. She tries to tell him no, but old habits die hard and soon she finds herself directly in the path of a killer and the exasperating, if attractive, detective in charge.
Can Lucy catch a killer or is this the last confrontation for her — period?
Cut Loose
No one’s perfect.
At least that’s what Lucy Mathews tells herself. Except faced with her boyfriend’s rodeo queen ex-wife and perfectly trained Australian shepherd, she has to wonder if maybe this whole ‘no one’s perfect’ thing was made up by someone like… Lucy.
Lucky for Lucy though, things are hopping around Helena. It’s rodeo season, and she has a booth. It’s a great opportunity to expand her clientele and maybe even snag a cash prize for Kiska as the world’s first sheep herding malamute.
Except Kiska can’t herd, Lucy loses her wallet, and oh yeah… there’s that dead rodeo queen Lucy just stumbled over.
Good thing her boyfriend’s a detective. Except that’s not going so well either. A new detective is in town, and he’s convinced Lucy’s involved in the rodeo queen’s murder. Her boyfriend is no help at all and worse he’s spending a little too much time with his ex-wife.
Lucy finds herself out of money, out of love, and maybe this time, out of luck.
Loosey Goosey
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. You can though move two thousand miles away and hope they don’t come to visit. Unfortunately, for Lucy Mathews that only works for so long.
Lucy has a perfect week planned. The kind of week that includes a romantic dinner with her cowboy detective boyfriend, big dollar sales to the visiting Beef Ranchers Association and their wives, and maybe a relaxing holiday weekend at home with her Alaskan malamute, Kiska.
What she doesn’t have planned is a visit from her animal activist brother, his pet goose, Pauline, and his neon yellow van.
Lucy’s plans quickly go to the birds. First, her date is interrupted by brother and goose. Second she discovers a dead body, under her brother’s van. Then, when her brother gets arrested for the murder, the worst thing imaginable happens, Lucy’s mother finds out.
Not only is Lucy is left in charge of babysitting the recalcitrant goose, but her mother is threatening to come to Montana herself to solve the murder. Lucy has no choice but to dive into the investigation, and find the real murderer before her brother is put away for good.
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I like the characters and the story is entertaining, what I call “bubblegum for the eyes” or good airplane reading.
I would read another but find it annoying when authors do not seem to know how to use the subjective, i.e. “If I were…. not If I was…, especially when the character should know better.
In my opinion Rae Davies did a good job with the mystery part of the story. She did a good job of hiding who did what. There were two mysteries in one. I kind of figure some of it out, other parts I could not figure out. The problem I had was with the self-deprecating that Lucy resorts too. I understand insecurity, but it got to the point that I …
If you like Janet evanovich you will like this series
I love this series. Why has she not written anymore lately?
These are such great books! I loves mysteries! They’re easy to read & have a great story line. They’re hard to put down! I really enjoyed them!
couldn’t put it down. keep telling myself one more page and before I knew it I was done reading the book
A page turner
I really enjoy the first three book series. The writer holds your attention with her story and character building. Endings are surprises, not predictable! Good series, looking forward to more!
I liked the first three books, and it’s interesting to read about that geographical area. My biggest issue is that the main character has that personality where you know she’s going to do the exact wrong thing in almost every situation–it’s very much like telling characters in a horror movie to not split up the group, and nobody go to the …