Jolie Gentil Mystery series by Elaine Orr (#0.5-7)
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Overview: Elaine Orr wrote plays and novellas for years and graduated to longer fiction. Biding Time was one of five finalists in the National Press Club’s first fiction contest in 1993. She is a regular attendee at conferences such as Muncie’s Midwest Writers Workshop and Magna Cum Murder, and conducts presentations on electronic publishing and other writing-related topics. Elaine grew up in Maryland and moved to the Midwest in 1994.
Genre: Mystery
0.5 Jolie and Scoobie High School Misadventures (2013)
PREQUEL – When Jolie Gentil’s parents leave her with Aunt Madge for her junior year so they can "work things out" in their marriage, she’s angry. She knows no one at Ocean Alley High School. Some kids snub her, but she makes friends with the irreverent Scoobie. He’s quirky and fun, but he’s skipped school and smoked pot in the past, so people avoid him. Jolie learns how to shoot a squirt gun from under the boardwalk and tries not to flunk geometry. She also learns that the family she babysits for has a secret, one that puts Jolie in danger.
1. Appraisal for Murder (2011)
Jolie Gentil returns to her roots in Ocean Alley, a town so small it doesn’t appear on any map, but it’s on the Jersey Shore. She comes back for convalescence following the sudden and surprising financial betrayal (read "theft") by her estranged husband. She interacts with the inhabitants of Ocean Alley with wit and verve, brings along her cat, Jazz, and stays with Aunt Madge and her two dogs. Jolie reacquaints herself with the community, including some former classmates, and earns pin money by doing real estate appraisals. When one of Aunt Madge’s friends is murdered, the police are quick to point to a suspect, but Jolie sets out to prove them wrong.
2. Rekindling Motives (2011)
Jolie Gentil is appraising the vacant Tillotson-Fisher house and finds the skeleton of Richard Tillotson hidden in an ancient attic wardrobe. He vanished just after his sister married his business partner in 1929. Jolie sees a link to the Fisher family’s Prohibition era business and works with friends Scoobie and Ramona to gather clues from old photo albums and ledgers. The present day murder of Richard’s former girlfriend, Mary Doris, tells them they’re on the right track. Did the secret she kept all these years finally kill her? Between running the food pantry at Christmas time and escaping a burning building, they hope to figure out who the modern-day killer is before someone else gets hurt.
3. When the Carny Comes to Town (2012)
Jolie never liked the idea of sitting on the plank above the dunk tank for the food pantry’s fundraiser at the carnival. Even so, she never dreamed what Scoobie saw that day would leave him battling for his life. Scoobie’s ex-con mother shows up, and there’s a murder to add to the mix. Soon Jolie is doing a lot more than appraising real estate, though even that is complicated by home burglars. Jolie reluctantly seeks help from her nemesis—reporter George Winters—and tries to stay a step ahead of a kidnapper and murderer so she can take charge of her world again. The police wish she’d butt out, and Aunt Madge is furious that Jolie insists on talking to a couple of shady characters on her own. Soon even the guests at Aunt Madge’s Cozy Corner B&B are in the way. Can Jolie keep her friends safe, and will Scoobie recover enough to say what happened to him and plan another silly fundraiser?
4. Any Port in a Storm (2012)
touches on the Talk Like a Pirate Day fundraiser for the food pantry and trying to figure out who’s breaking into some of the houses Jolie appraises. When she realizes a new face in town is leading high school kids into trouble in those houses, she’s mad and lets him know it. But Hayden offers to help her mind her own business, and a lot of people at the fundraiser hear her give him what for. A hurricane’s on the way to disrupt the fundraiser, and when a corpse turn up under the pirate ship the next day, someone wants to be sure Jolie looks like a suspect.
When her car gets run into a ditch, Jolie knows someone is seriously mad at her. Soon she’s getting less work. Who wants a possible murder suspect appraising their house? Scoobie’s pirate limericks can’t solve a crime, so Jolie and her sometimes buddy local reporter George Winters look for the murderer and try to figure out who’s trying to frame Jolie. They need to stay ahead of whoever’s mad at her and off the radar of the local police who tell Jolie—for the hundredth time—to butt out.
5. Trouble on the Doorstep (2013)
From Hurricane Sandy to Cozy Corner B&B repairs to Aunt Madge’s wedding in three weeks—if Jolie can handle that, surely she can deal with a sobbing woman who shows up at midnight playing a scary message on a cell phone. Pooki’s now-missing husband has told her to hide, and she is at the B&B to do just that. A shady deal for storm repairs at the Ocean Alley Senior Complex seems to be at the root of a hit-and-run death and missing business partner, Pooki’s husband, Eric. When Eric ends up dead at the B&B, Jolie’s digging for clues in between burning muffins and appraising houses. But when she doesn’t share all that she learns with her sometimes-boyfriend, reporter George Winters, he’s grouchy. Jolie is convinced she needs to find the murderer and expose fraudulent repair bids. Not everyone shares her views—not the police, not her friend Scoobie, and certainly not the murderer.
6. Behind the Walls (2013)
There’s something hidden behind the walls of the hurricane-damaged house Jolie bought in her New Jersey beach town—something someone seems willing to kill for. After Jolie and Scoobie find a small sack of jewelry, as they do a mold attack on her bungalow, Jolie is pursued by a purse thief and a burglar. But the guy she’s most worried about is the one who left an elderly auctioneer dead on her porch swing. In between appraising houses and planning a fundraiser for the food pantry, Jolie tries to figure out if there is more stolen bounty around town. Is the feared killer the same person who burned some vacant houses or the as-yet unmasked Peeping Tom? And are they willing to kill again to get to the hidden riches?
7. Vague Images (2014)
Bad enough that Jolie ends up in the emergency room because she tried to avoid hitting a deer. Worse to find a dead woman in the hospital restroom after Jolie gets patched up. As the chief budget cutter at the hospital, Tanya Weiss was unpopular, especially in the Radiology Department where Scoobie works. In between appraising houses and feeding her pet skunk, Jolie’s on the lookout for a runaway teenager and whoever planted the dead woman in her path. Thanks to Scoobie, she’s also planning another crazy fundraiser for the food pantry—this one a Corn Hole Contest. It’s sort of a bean bag game for grown-ups, and the polite term is "Corn Toss Contest." So, of course, Scoobie prepares to name winners in the Harvest for All Corn Hole Contest. And just when Jolie’s ready to leave the murder investigation to the police, she gets a surprise—and it’s not a good one.
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