The CEO Came DOA: A Fun Detective Cozy

Book 5: The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries

by Heather Haven

Genres: Hispanic & Latino; Animal Cozy Mysteries

Synopsis

A DETECTIVE AGENCY WITH HEART.
AND LEE’S VERY OWN CHRISTMAS WEDDING!

It’s only six am and on-the-job, ace detective, Lee Alvarez, is staring up a man hanging from the center beam of his boardroom wearing nothing but his baby blue undershorts. And she hasn’t even had her coffee yet.

And this is just one more thing that might get in the way of her very own Christmas Wedding. Especially as her drop-dead gorgeous Navy SEAL groom is nowhere to be found. A covert mission to where?

But Lee just can’t leave the young teenage girl who is now fatherless, and is looking to Lee to prove her father didn’t commit suicide. So our star sleuth in on the case. Who has time to think about getting married or bridal gown fittings?

But don’t say that to her formidable boss and mom, the elegant Lila Alvarez, who’s planning every aspect of her daughter’s wedding, big time. No matter what, Lee will have the wedding of Lila’s dreams.

– And as Lee keeps stumbling across more dead bodies – it’s just as well her wedding is out of her hands.

Then Lee uncovers a little known drug of lethal proportions and is facing dangers she never signed up for. But is she up for a near-death experience? Well! Bring it on!

Meanwhile, her adoring chef uncle is creating the wedding cake of the century for his niece while Lee's genius bro’ – who made the firm famous with his brilliant cyber-detection – now awaits the birth of his first child at any minute.

Just in time the soon-to-be groom shows up a little the worse for wear but still as willing as ever. Now if she could only remember where she’s put those handwritten wedding vows. What was she going to say? Hmmm.

Author Haven enchants us again with all the warm and fuzzy thrills a cozy fan could wish for—in the form of a delightfully eccentric and thoroughly loving detective family, each with his or her special talent, from its matriarch. Lila, to her computer genius brother, Richard, to Tio, the adoring uncle everyone loves (he’s handsome and he cooks!), and Lee’s new drop-dead gorgeous former Navy SEAL soon-to-be hubby.

Fans of PI stories, cozy mysteries, and women sleuths will love Lee Alvarez, especially if they love sharp funny female protagonists like Sue Grafton’s witty Kinsey Millhone and Janet Evanovich’s lovable Stephanie Plum. Aficionados of Lisa Lutz’s family series, The Spellman Files, will get a special kick out of the Alvarez clan. Back again is the colorful and loving detective family, gearing up not just for murder but Lee's Christmas wedding!

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Release date: September 1, 2016

Publisher: The Wives of Bath Press

Print pages: 330