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L J Washburn,Livia J Washburn
It’s time for the State Fair of Texas–and cooking contests galore! Fryers are heating up, and stomachs are growling. But Phyllis Newsom had better watch out. Someone’s brought an appetite…
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Livia J. Washburn,L J Washburn
In the latest from the national bestselling author of Trick or Deadly Treat, Phyllis Newsom returns with a festive Christmas recipe that’s to die for…
‘Tis the season in Weatherford…
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Livia J Washburn
Published in 2018 by arrangement with Livia J. Washburn –Copyright page.
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It’s early summer in Weatherford, Texas, and retired teacher/amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom and fellow retiree Carolyn Wilbarger are taking British cooking classes at the local senior center in this suspenseful…
Livia J. Washburn
The chili in Texas is red-hot … and so is murder! Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands…
It’s time for the State Fair of Texas–and cooking contests galore! Fryers are heating up and stomachs are growling. But Phyllis Newsom had better watch out. Someone’s brought an appetite…
Includes an excerpt of: The fatal funnel cake.
Livia J Washburn,Livia J Washburn
In the latest from the national bestselling author of Trick or Deadly Treat, Phyllis Newsom returns with a festive Christmas recipe that s to die for Tis the season in…
All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie–except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis’s fingers more than once. Even as…
At this years school carnival fund-raiser, the obnoxious president of the Parent Teacher Organization is found stabbed through the heart with Phyllis Newsoms own knife, with traces of incriminating frosting…
Includes an excerpt from Murder by the slice.
Phyllis Newsom is playing house sitter to a quaint bed-and-breakfast on the Texas Gulf Coast. But what starts out as a relaxing getaway with her three closest friends soon becomes…
It’s Thanksgiving in Weatherford, Texas, and Phyllis is taking her grandson, Bobby, to the first annual Harvest Festival with hopes of winning the baking contest. But when a decorative scarecrow…
As Christmas approaches in Weatherford, Texas, Phyllis Newsom is decorating her house in preparation for the Jingle Bell Tour. The last thing she expects is that one of her ceramic…
When Phyllis Newsom’s best friend Eve marries the affable Roy, Phyllis bakes a delicious three-tiered coconut wedding cake. But the marriage doesn’t last long past the honeymoon. When Roy’s found…
In the latest from the nationally bestselling author of The Candy Cane Cupcake Killer, Phyllis Newsom returns with a blackberry and blueberry pie recipe that’s to die for…It’s late summer…
Hollywood comes to Weatherford, Texas, as a movie company arrives to shoot scenes for a film based on the novel by Phyllis Newsom’s friend Eve. But movie fantasy turns to…
L J Washburn
HOLLYWOOD IN THE 1920s, WHERE THE GLITZ AND GLAMOR OF THE SILENT MOVIE ERA CONCEALS DARK AND DANGEROUS SECRETS, AND ONE OLD COWBOY USES FRONTIER CUNNING AND GUN-SKILL TO UNCOVER…
A HIGH-FLYING MYSTERY SET IN OLD HOLLYWOOD-A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR NOVEL WITH INTRIGUE.
Given Lucas Hallam’s background, it’s not surprising that he’s easily able to find work as an extra on…
He was a boy when the first shots were fired. By the time he reached the border, he would be a man …
On a hot West Texas night, Hank…
After his hometown turns against him for a crime he didn’t commit, Jacob Travers runs away and joins a gang of bank robbers. When a job goes bad and he’s…
A FAST-PACED MYSTERY SET IN OLD HOLLYWOOD-WITH TWISTS AND TURNS THAT NEVER END.
It’s the 1920’s, and Lucas Hallam is something of a legend: a Texas Ranger turned Pinkerton agent…
A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR NOVEL WITH MYSTERY AND FAST-PACED ACTION.
The glory days of Hollywood westerns-the 1920’s
Lucas Hallam is an actor, an ex-gunslinger, a former Texas Ranger, and tough private…
James Reasoner,L J Washburn
Ransom Valley was previously published in 2012 by The Book Place. NOTE: This story has been revised and edited for this new publication –Title page verso.
