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Overview: Judith Ayn, a retired attorney, resides in Southern California along with two unique rescue cats, the models for Fred and Ethel. Her mystery series is set in the fictional town of Cheater’s Lake, Washington.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery /Thriller
#1 – MURDER AT THE NO-KILL ANIMAL SHELTER
The story is set in the fictional town of Cheater’s Lake, Washington. The main character is Homicide Detective Mark Walsh, who relocated to the town from Phoenix, Arizona, (after catching his ex-wife in bed with his ‘supervisor’). Mark now works with Officer Sharon Laskey, a former bartender, and is also assisted in his cases by his best friend (from Phoenix) retired San Diego Homicide Detective Greg Hogan (in a wheelchair due to a gang shooting), who is in the process of opening a PI practice in Seattle and LA.
Mark arrives at the Cheater’s Lake Animal Rescue (a no-kill shelter), where he’s informed by Laskey that the two kennels were set on fire and the elderly caretaker (Carson Butts) found dead. The shelter’s director is DM (Daisy Marigold) Collins, a wealthy widow who lives on 60 acres of wooded land in Cheater’s Lake. Why would somenone set fire to a no-kill shelter and murder a kindly old caretaker? As Walsh investigates, he finds DM has some secrets and so did Butts. Walsh is attracted to DM, but she’s all business, guarded by her German shepherd, Henry. Her history with animals includes setting up a prison program with rescue dogs to be trained for companions, as well as developing an area near her home for training security dogs.
Along the way in his investigation, Mark finds two terrified cats and ends up adopting them. He names them Fred and Ethel (after the Lucille Ball show). They’re terrors and he’s not a cat person, but they add humor to the story and manage to teach him about the world of rescue — his and theirs. Mark eventually comes full circle from the messed up guy who fled Phoenix to a more relaxed citizen of the small town of Cheater’s Lake.
#2 – DEAD LAWYERS
Agnes Perkins had never seen her boss naked.
And so begins DEAD LAWYERS, the first full-length book in the Pacific Northwest mystery series set in the fictional world of Cheater’s Lake, Washington.
Not only is Attorney Frank Ferris naked, he is also very, very dead.
Soon, more lawyers begin dropping like flies, bodies turn up in unlikely settings, and others connected to the legal biz mysteriously disappear.
Cheater’s Lake is rocketed into national news and dubbed "The Town That Kills Its Lawyers!" Could there be a serial killer at work, one who specializes in offing lawyers?
Homicide Detective Mark Walsh heads up the investigations. Still considered a "new" transfer from Phoenix, he must weather small town politics and decades old secrets in his quest for the truth.
In addition, top of the suspects list are three legal assistants who meet each Friday for dinner and to plot the demise of their hated attorney bosses. One of them has killed before.
Can Walsh get to the bottom of the pile of dead lawyers and find their killer or killers?
Can he clear the three women?
What about his love life?
And where does the Delite family, founders of Cheater’s Lake, fit into the picture?
Discover why Mayor Delite wanted to hire Detective Walsh and Police Chief Riley didn’t, as Walsh chips away at what is really going on in Cheater’s Lake.
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