Join widowed library assistant and amateur sleuth Lexie Starr on her first three encounters with mayhem, murder, and a potential suitor.Book 1: Lexie Starr accidently discovers that her new son-in-law may be guilty of murdering his first wife. Then Lexie’s daughter, Wendy, disappears.Book 2: At the Grand Opening of a local B&B, the Historical Society’s president is found murdered in the inn’s … president is found murdered in the inn’s grandest suite, and Lexie, much to the owner’s chagrin, horns her way in on the investigation.
Book 3: Lexie Starr has converted her boyfriend’s B&B into a haunted house for Halloween. But when a young college student is found truly dead in the makeshift coffin in the parlor, Lexie fears for her boyfriend’s business and sets out to solve the murder.
REVIEWS:
”. . . rapidly paced tongue-in-cheek humor provides plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.” ~Booklist
“The Lexie Starr mysteries have just the right hint of romance.” ~Jill Churchill, author of the Jane Jeffry and Grace and Favor series
“I love Lexie Starr. She can get into more trouble. . .” ~Alice Duncan, author of The Daisy Gumm Majesty Mystery Series
THE RIPPLE EFFECT MYSTERIES, in series order
A Rip Roaring Good Time
Rip Tide
Ripped to Shreds
Rip Your Heart Out
Ripped Apart
THE LEXIE STARR MYSTERIES, in series order
Leave No Stone Unturned
The Extinguished Guest
Haunted
With This Ring
Just Ducky
The Spirit of the Season (A Holiday Novella)
Cozy Camping
Marriage and Mayhem
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What a great set of books. The stories are exciting, thrilling, suspenseful, scary but funny, sweet and romantic. I enjoyed them so much. Love the characters, especially Lexie. Great mysteries, excellent writing. Ready to continue the adventure.
couldn’t get past the first chapter.
The first book was good but the next two were too predictable on what the main character was going to do. Usually she did something stupid and I became irritated with her.
It was nice to read a book with older characters.
I loved the 3 book collection as the story line kept going. Very good mysteries.
Love her books!
Good stories but sometimes seem a bit saccharin sweet.
Kept my interest. Down to earth people. Enjoyed it.
fun reads–very relaxing
Christy and her daughter Noelle were being kicked out of the Jamieson mansion, forced to move to a small Vancouver townhouse because the trust had been emptied by the missing Frank. So begins the first book in this series. But it turned out that Frank was sort of dead, murdered. Why “sort of”? The family cat, Stormy, had sneaked into Frank’s car so was present when Frank was murdered. Frank’s spirit was alive and well inside Stormy. And it turned out that Christy’s townhouse was two doors down from father and son writers Roy and Quinn. Eight-year-old Noelle, Christy, and Roy can telepathically communicate wit Frank, which sets the tone for the whole series. As usual in this type of mystery, the police are not finding the facts they need to arrest the murderer, so Christy and Quinn decide to start their own investigation. The books were interesting and entertaining though sometimes a stretch to believe.
Easy, light reading
Just a smooth read! Funny mystery my kind of book
Fun murder mystery, entertaining with laughter.
I loved these books, great easy reads and very entertaining.
Meh. Unmemorable. Poor editing.
I started off liking Lexie but as the books went on I found her selfish, stubborn and pretty irritating. She had guests staying at her boyfriends inn she was cooking for and she considered feeding a vegetarian a dish with bacon fat thinking she’d never know. She never considered doing some research on special diets. She keeps putting herself in situations where she gets poisoned and maimed and almost dies. She lies to everyone around her and doesn’t consider the consequences of her actions and how it affects others. In real life, she would get killed.
It is predictable but ok.
Horrible
Loved the comical interchange between characters.
I’ve discovered a “new” writer for my cozy mystery appetite. Good story that left me wanting to spend more time with the characters, thus my purchase of a whole collection. I’ve not been disappointed.