Author: rachelwoods

Trick or Treat? Palmchat Gazette reporter Roland “Beanie” Bean is excited to take his kids, Ethan and Evan, trick-or-treating, but his excitement turns to concern when he discovers a human finger among the candy the boys collected! Days later, Beanie learns that the finger belongs to someone he knows—Joshua Howard, a missing student who was interning at the Palmchat Gazette before he … Palmchat Gazette before he disappeared. Beanie plans to find the intern, but soon he’s assigned to a shocking murder–a dead body in the jungle. Beanie heads to the crime scene and realizes he recognizes the victim as…

Who shot Santa Claus?During a trip to see Santa Claus, journalist Roland “Beanie” Bean and his young sons Ethan and Evan are shocked when Old St. Nick is shot!Beanie is anxious to cover the story of Santa’s shooting, but his editor at the Palmchat Gazette has other plans for him. Beanie has to investigate the grisly murder of a victim found dead in a car that had been set on fire.After he learns … that had been set on fire.After he learns the man died of a gunshot wound and that the car was torched to cover up the crime,…

Can you figure out who the killer is before the guilty culprit is revealed?During an Easter egg hunt, Roland “Beanie” Bean and his two-year-old son Evan are searching for eggs when they find a woman sprawled in the dirt beneath a hibiscus bush. Little Evan thinks the lady is just sleeping, but Beanie knows better. The nasty gash on the woman’s forehead might not have killed her, but the stab … forehead might not have killed her, but the stab wounds in her chest appear to be fatal. As an investigative reporter at the Palmchat Gazette, Beanie is the perfect…