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A Nosy Neighbor Mystery
Series · 5 books · 2014-2015

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#1

Anything for a Mystery

2014

Stormi Nelson, best-selling romance author, moved into her huge Victorian house in the private community of Oak Meadows Estates. When her agent tells her that her characters are becoming too cardboard and that she needs to get out and mingle with people, she comes up with the idea of a Neighborhood Watch Program. The only problem is … she’s the only member. On her first night of patrol, she stumbles over a dead body, meets a hunky detective, who happens to be her neighbor and clearly frustrated with her, and her mother, sister, niece and nephew arrive to shake up Stormi’s peaceful life. As she is immersed ever deeper into the mystery surrounding a neighbor’s murder, she decides to change writing tactics and write a romantic mystery based on her experiences. What follows is a frolicking good time as Stormi finds herself the nosiest neighbor of them all. Can she find the killer before she becomes the next victim?
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#2

A Killer Plot

2014

ANOTHER FAN WANTS THEIR MOMENT OF FAME AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET IT. After Stormi Nelson's first mystery hits the NYT Best-Selling List, Stormi begins receiving threatening emails and is stalked by a clichéd person in a trench coat and hat. Her stalkers requests are straightforward; Finish writing her next book quickly, or face the consequences. When nothing Stormi does satisfies this unknown stalker, she and her best friend concoct a plan guaranteed to draw the stalker out of the shadows. While Stormi's boyfriend, Matt, isn't excited about the plan, he knows things must come to an end before the stalker makes good on one of their threats. Accidents, threats, and mishaps keep the reader turning the pages. Who will suffer the consequences of Stormi's plan first?
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#3

Skin Care Can Be Murder

2014

A Skincare Party turns to murder and Stormi is called to save the day! When Stormi is roped into attending a party her sister is having in her latest string of "get rich quick" scheme, Stormi has no idea the night will result in one woman's death. When her sister is devastated, she pleads with Stormi to help her clear her name. Not wanting to be involved in another murder, Stormi balks, until she receives threats warning her to keep her nose out of the murder. Anyone who knows her, knows Stormi isn't one to back down when her life is threatened through no fault of her own. She would never have suspected that someone dear to her heart would be behind the rash of crimes. Her investigations result in her trying to lead a young gang member and a group of prostitutes from their lives of crime—while fighting to save the lives of her and her family.
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#4

Death by Baking

2015

When a dead body is found face first in a vat of chocolate inside Stormi's mother's bakery, what's a nosy neighbor to do other than find a killer? Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out and they will kill to make that happen. Stormi is determined to keep her idyllic town the quaint place it is. Her neighbors are not what they seem, evil encroaches ever closer, and the little old woman across the street wants nothing more than to run Stormi out of town. Full of the same quirky characters, Cynthia Hickey's readers have come to expect, Death By Baking doesn't disappoint in either her humorous who-dunnit style or in the romance department.
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Jogging is Bad for Your Health

2015

A new neighbor brings Stormi’s most challenging mystery yet! Girl's are in danger... Death waits around the corner... When Stormi's nephew asks her to help him stop the abuse to a friend of his, Stormi is more than willing to step in. What she finds is worse than anything she imagined. No amount of research prepared her for a group of men so evil, Stormi must dig deep inside herself and call on God to rescue the man she loves. This small town cozy mystery by a best-selling, award-winning author will have you up all night turning the pages as evil is unfolded in a small Southern town. Full of the same quirky characters, Cynthia Hickey's readers have come to expect, Death By Baking doesn't disappoint in either her humorous who-dunnit style or in the romance department. Fans of Christy Barritt will enjoy this small town cozy mystery by a best-selling, award-winning author.

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