Mystery Writer
Pamela Rose
Books by Pamela Rose
A Tantalizing Recipe for Mystery Comedy…Southern Style:
Start with a generous serving of down home comfort…
Justin Thyme is fighting her way back to a sense of normalcy, taking a sabbatical in the wake of her stunningly failed marriage. A woman of action and now dumpster-diving queen, she is reinventing her life…one reclaimed and refurbished treasure at a time – herself included. But, on her latest dumpster-diving excursion, Justin stumbles onto a dead body, just as surely as she tumbles headfirst into the Humpty Dumpster where it has been deposited.
Add a heaping cup of sizzling hot murder…
Abracadabra, the enormous tattooed corpse magically vanishes, but when it promptly rematerializes miles away where it is discovered anew in a shallow grave by bream fishermen, Justin Thyme needs more than magical incantations to explain to the State Bureau of Investigation – and its handsome Special Agent in Charge – just why she didn’t report her gruesome discovery in the first place.
Sprinkle with a dash of Thyme…
Justin sees this latest adventure as just the most recent speed bump in a lifetime of eccentricity; as she puts it, “with a name like Justin Thyme, how could my life be anything but irregular?” But, soon another death occurs and it becomes more than mere speculation that illegal drugs are infiltrating the sleepy Southern burg of Frog Bottom where the quest for a prizewinning bream is the holy grail, the local grapevine floats rumors the size of weather balloons and claims of family long in residence below the Mason-Dixon line are everything.
Stir with passion, and voila…
When old family friend, Sheriff Moe Lumpkin, is suspended pending investigation for both murders, Justin goes after the real killer with a vengeance…a move that puts her on a confrontation course with a crafty murderer who practices his own impressive brand of hocus pocus. It will take all of Justin Thyme’s quirky ingenuity and support from an unlikely roundtable of friends to thwart the murderer and not, alakazam, disappear into an early grave herself.
Sherlock's Home & the 221b Bakery are large and in charge!
Sample the mystery humor at Sherlock’s Home Mystery Bookstore & the 221b Bakery dished out by the one and only Finn Sherlock!Life imitating art? That’s Finn Sherlock’s first bizarre thought when she stumbles across a dead body within the Civil War era hiding place inside Sherlock’s Home Mystery Bookstore. Thinking that it’s her gnome-like Uncle Oz costumed to play the part of a fortunetelling druid for ‘All Hallows’ Eve,’ she is relieved when she learns that the hooded figure is not her favorite uncle, but the town’s favorite outcast, Odds Bodkins.F=FunnyI=InspiringN=NuttyN=NaughtyUnfortunately, murder suspects abound due to the fact that the mystery bookstore and its adjoining 221b Bakery were the first stop on the Leapers Point’ Halloween circuit and any number of people were on the scene for the annual ‘Fright Night’ tour. More than that, Odds Bodkins was almost universally detested; far too many would agree that the assisted demise of the loathsome little witch was more treat than trick…possibly even a community service.Time for the “Finn” to circle.With a little help from Uncle Oz and her identical twin sister, Echo, Finn sets out to discover who amongst the congenial southern townsfolk had the audacity and plain bad manners to murder the contentious crone right under the Sherlock family noses. Was it the fire and brimstone preacher Willie Ping? ‘Blooming Idiots’ talented but slightly mental florist? Or what about fluffy nonagenarian Eula May Binks…can anybody really be that sugary sweet? But, when the local Sheriff, Wavy Davey, learns that it was Uncle Oz’s Halloween prop – a bona fide hangman’s noose – that was the murder weapon, there’s more heating up inside the 221b Bakery than just the ovens.Become a “Finn” –atic.
LIFE HAS SUDDENLY
BECOME TORTUOUS FOR
DR. GABRIELLA RAYMOS
Overcoming a lifetime of insecurities, newly-minted San Francisco physician Gabriella Raymos believes that she has finally arrived at the threshold of a rewarding life. Swiftly, Gabriella is blindsided times two by the bewildering exit of her lover, seismologist Don Luis Gregorio, and the death of her cherished mother and only relative, Inocente. Already gravely off-balance, she discovers a letter from Inocente divulging that she lied about the death of her own mother and insists that Gabriella return to her grandmother the purloined ‘eyes of the jaguar,’ priceless emeralds stolen long ago from an Aztec temple idol in Mexico, and that Inocente secreted away. Completely at a loss about this revelation…Gabriella has neither seen nor heard of the alleged jewels existence. Deciding that this is an unwarranted demand, Gabriella vows to disregard her mother’s plea. But, when she finds herself ill and pregnant with Don Luis’ baby, she is forced to abandon her medical center residency. Now there’s nowhere else to go but to the grandmother whom she thought long dead.
Plunged into a volcanic vortex of events…natural and supernatural…
Desperate to escape from her personal world gone mad and to honor her mother’s final wishes, Gabriella brings to light the stashed emeralds and heads south of the border. But, instead of the haven she seeks, there she finds herself at odds with a preternatural world of smoke and mirrors. She learns that her grandmother, Fortunata, is the sovereign healer in the pre-Columbian village of Tecuani. Moreover, Fortunata is a curandera…some say a witch…who demands that her granddaughter be tutored by Horatio…a laughing, out-of-this-world crystal skull.
A tipping point is reached within a country now threatened by events triggered by the return of the accursed emeralds
―a ‘people-eating’ jaguar
―violent seismic contractions
―a murderous volcano
When help finally comes, it’s too little, too late. Or...is it?
Anguished by her lack of options, Gabriella accepts her grandmother’s mission to unearth the jaguar idol and return the blighted gemstones. Fortunata has convinced her that failure to do so puts at risk everything Gabriella now holds dear: her rediscovered family and her newly adopted homeland.
The FINN is Definitely IN at Sherlock's Home!
A much deserved Caribbean Cruise over the Christmas holiday has left the Sherlock family relaxed and ready for anything…or so they think. That’s until they come home to discover that the town’s favorite son, Sheriff Wavy Davey, and Finn Sherlock’s favorite hunk has met his maker beneath the waves of Lake Loveless…a name which now seems only too appropriate to the grieving Finn Sherlock. Indubitably, the well-laid plans of mice and women have gone awry at Sherlock’s Home Mystery Bookstore and the 221b Bakery. As the one-year anniversary looms ahead nothing is as it should be. The Sherlocks’ other personal relationships have gone askew in a similar fashion. Echo has become particularly adept at aborning the new before the old has barely set sail into the Caribbean sunset, taking on a definite international flair as she gets involved first with a Norwegian ship’s officer but soon appears to rebound, ooh-la-la, into the equally enticing arms of a delectable French chef. Even the newly reinvented Uncle Oz has turned himself into the dashing man about town, or so it appears as the flashy red Corvette would seem to indicate and the even flashier redhead on his arm. Unbelievably, Oz might be abandoning bakery treats to brainstorm treatises at a magazine dedicated to all things spooky and strange. If the Sherlocks’ personal upheaval isn’t enough, another death occurs and Finn is called in to determine if somehow the newly deceased might just not be linked to the demise of her personal sheriff. Throw in the capers of the decidedly bacon-flavored zaney Maneys and the hot-to-trot nonagenarian, Eula May Binks, and the Sherlocks, individually and collectively, just might be in danger of losing their grip in Sherlock’s Home: The Adventure of the Indigo Inkster.