Author: leighperry

When professor Georgia and her walking, talking skeleton companion go home for Christmas, the last thing they could have expected was the discovery of someone else’s bones in a nearby lot! “Mirth and murder blend beautifully” in this page-turning mystery (Publishers Weekly starred review).

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“Whodunits don’t come much funnier… Fans of offbeat comic mysteries will be richly rewarded.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)   Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she’s renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are … Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn’t recognize the name, but she learns that the person Jen was looking for is actually Sid.  …

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No bones about it, this death is suspicious…“Amateur sleuth Georgia, and her sidekick, Sid, are just plain fun!”–Sofie Kelly, New York Times-bestselling author of the Magical Cats Mysteries   Georgia Thackery, adjunct English professor, has a new job teaching at Falstone College of Art and Design, known as FAD to its students and faculty. Living in a borrowed bungalow during winter in the … a borrowed bungalow during winter in the snowiest part of Massachusetts, Georgia feels her isolation weighing as heavily as the weather. Then she receives a package containing her best friend, Sid, a walking, talking skeleton who has lived…

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Sid the Skeleton bones up on clues to solve a Haunted House homicide in this mystery from the author of The Skeleton Takes a Bow… That’s why Sid doesn’t mind wearing a full-body dog suit and going as Scooby-Doo along with Georgia Thackery’s Velma to the Halloween Howl.Sid can’t wait to go through the Haunted House—but he gets rattled for real when a genuine dead body is discovered. Trapped inside as the police quickly seal off the crime scene, Sid makes no bones about dropping the dog suit and posing as an actual skeleton. This murder is a skull-scratcher, but…

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And the best performance as a skull goes to… After years of hiding in the Thackery family house, Sid the skeleton is delighted to finally have his moment in the spotlight. He’s starring in a high school production of Hamlet. Well, not so much starring in as being a prop. At least part of him has a part—he’s using his head to play Yorick of “Alas, poor Yorick” fame. Every day, Georgia Thackery’s … Georgia Thackery’s daughter, Madison, who’s also in the play, brings in his skull, and every night, she takes him home…Until one night when he’s accidentally left…

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No one in Georgia’s family knows how Sid became a skeleton — but with her on his side, he might finally learn who killed him! “You’ll love the adventures of this unexpected mystery-solving duo” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris).

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