The DEAD RED MYSTERY SERIES Boxed Set Books 1-2-3: A Lalla Bains Humorous Mystery

Book 1: The Dead Red Mystery series

by RP Dahlke

Genres: Amateur Sleuth; Female Sleuths

Synopsis

Like Janet Evanovich? Sue Grafton? You’ll love this humorous mystery series!
"Janet Evanovich meets aero-ag pilots." The Kindle Book Review

A DEAD RED CADILLAC: Deeply buried and deadly secrets resurface with a drowned Cadillac
A DEAD RED HEART:What if your beating heart is the reason someone wants you dead?
A DEAD RED OLEANDER: What if quitting your boring job puts you in line for murder?

 

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Release date: November 15, 2019

Publisher: Dead Bear Publishing

Print pages: 808

Sample

A Dead Red Cadillac:

When Lalla Bains’ trophy red Caddy is stolen, police ask why a widowed piano teacher, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, is found in the driver’s seat six feet underwater in a local lake.

Her trophy red Caddy has been hijacked and now police ask how an elderly woman, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, is found strapped into the driver’s seat and six feet underwater.

As Lalla Bains will soon discover, there’s a shocking link between the drowned woman and twenty-year-old murder tearing apart her comfortable life and setting her family into the cross-hairs of a killer.

Unfortunately, drug-running pilots, a cross-dressing convict, a crazy Chihuahua, and the dead woman’s hunky nephew throw enough roadblocks to keep Lalla neck deep in an investigation that links her family to a twenty-year old murder that only she can solve.

A Dead Red Heart: When a troubled, homeless veteran covers her vintage Cadillac with paper snowflakes, Lalla Bains decides a showdown is needed. Unfortunately, she arrives too late for that conversation---he’s lying in a pool of blood, stabbed with his own scissors.

But someone is watching, and now a killer has targeted her for murder.

A Dead Red Oleander:

When a late in the season emergency forces Lalla Bains to accept a greenhorn pilot for her dad's aero ag business, she sighs in relief . After all, he comes highly recommended, his physical is spotless, and with a name like Dewey Treat, what could possibly go wrong?

Then her quirky relatives arrive from Texas and things go south in a hurry: Dewey Treat drops dead, his tearful widow makes a run for it. Lalla, convinced the widow is innocent, sets out to prove it, only to realize her dead pilot lied about everything, including a vicious Las Vegas hitman intent on destroying the evidence, and all witnesses to his crime.

Suspicious Feds, nutso relatives, and her daddy's new sidekick, Bruce the goat, make life a living hell for Lalla. Will her nosey nature solve the crime and save the day? Or put them all in mortal danger?