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Chanel
Chanel
Series · 6 books · 2013-2021
By
Donna Joy Usher
Books in series
#1
Cocoa and Chanel
2013
The New South Wales Police Force Just Got More Fashionable! Cocoa and Chanel is the acclaimed first novel in an exciting new Cozy Mystery Series By The Multi-Award-Winning Author, Donna Joy Usher. Winner of the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards eBook Fiction Category. Winner of the National Indie Excellence Awards Humor Category. Faced with the unattractive options of an affair with her boss' husband or the unknown, Chanel Smith chooses the unknown and unwittingly traps herself into joining the New South Wales' Police Force. More interested in fashion than felony, she staggers through training and finds herself posted to the forces most notorious crime hot spot, King's Cross. There, she becomes entangled in a case of the worst kind - a serial killer targeting young women. As she is drawn further into the seedy underground in her attempt to unravel the truth, Chanel makes new friends, new enemies and attracts the attention of the killer. Can she solve the case in time, or will she become the killer's next victim? This is a light-hearted cozy mystery with plenty of laughs suitable for fans of Janet Evanovich, Deborah Coonts, Jana Deleon and Stephanie Bond.
#2
Goons 'n' Roses
2014
Another novel by the award-winning author Donna Joy Usher. Please note - this is a light-hearted, humorous, chicklit, female sleuth novel in the style of Janet Evanovich. If you are looking for a literary masterpiece with a deep meaning this is probably not the book for you. It’s been 3 months since Chanel’s world fell apart and now she’s ready for a vacation. Unfortunately, her all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas is not turning out as she had hoped. Within hours of arriving her mum, Lorraine, is kidnapped. Then Trent, her boss and Lorraine’s boyfriend, disappears; but not before he imparts information about an Interpol investigation into missing girls in Las Vegas. When Chanel hooks up with local bad boy, the seriously sexy Billy, in a bid to get information, things only start to get worse. As she and Martine search for answers they are thwarted by obstacles and pursued by ruthless killers. Who really kidnapped Lorraine? What happened to the missing girls? Can the delicious Billy be trusted? These are all questions that she needs to find the answers to, before the answers find her.
#3
Tess's Tale
2015
Another book by the multi-award-winning author Donna Joy Usher. Please note - this is a light-hearted, humorous, chicklit, female sleuth novel. If you are looking for a literary masterpiece with a deep meaning this is probably not the book for you. This is Book Three in The Chanel Series and while it could be read alone it will make more sense if you have already read Cocoa and Chanel, and Goons 'n' Roses. It’s been twenty-five years since that hellish night. Twenty-five years of living in denial, and Tess still doesn’t want to think about it. But now her daughter, Chanel, is insisting that she spill the beans. So Tess must cast her mind back to a life of passion and betrayal, to a time of violence and death, and she must face her past to tell us… what really happened to Lou the Brain.
#4
Two Weddings and a Fugitive
2015
Another Novel by the Multi-Award-Winning Author, Donna Joy Usher. It’s been three months since Chanel returned from Las Vegas and she’s done everything in her power to forget about Billy. All that changes the day he shows up asking for her help. Boris Tolokonsky, head of the Las Vegas-Russian Mafia, has escaped, and Intel says he is heading for Australia…and for Matt King. Now Chanel must put her heartache aside and work with Billy to protect Matt and his bride-to-be. In Two Weddings and a Fugitive, The Chanel Series gang meets the characters from The Seven Steps to Closure and all our favourites are back - bigger, better and funnier than ever. PLEASE NOTE - To fully enjoy everything that this story has to offer it is recommended that you read The Seven Steps to Closure first.
#5
Billy
2018
Book Five in the Award-Winning Chanel Series is Here... The fun continues in this laugh-out-loud story by best-selling, multi-award winning author, Donna Joy Usher. The Chanel Series is perfect for lovers of Janet Evanovich, Deborah Coonts, Jana Deleon and Stephanie Bond. Everything seems to be finally perfect for Chanel. Billy has moved to Australia to be with her, her parents are together again, and her boss has taken an extended period of long service leave. So when Billy disappears on a dangerous undercover job her world falls apart. Where is Billy, and what is he working on? Those in power are not sharing anything, but Chanel knows he will need her help. With the aid of her friends she begins her own investigations, eventually uncovering the dark truth that Billy’s cover has been blown. Now she’s in a race to find Billy where the stakes are too high. She’s holding all the pieces but her heart is on the line. Can she save Billy, or will she pay the ultimate price for her failure?
#6
Chanel No. 6
2021
Everything seems to be starting to come together for Chanel. Billy has recovered from his near-fatal gunshot wound and soon they will be off to the Mediterranean for a well-deserved break. So, when Billy is framed for murder, all plans of sipping cocktails on sandy beaches come to a screeching halt. With the detectives hard at work building a case against him, and the evidence piling up, it’s up to Chanel and the gang to prove Billy is innocent. Now, she’s breaking all the rules, and putting her career, and her body, on the line to catch the real murderer. How will it end for Billy and Chanel? A life together, or life in prison?
Author
Donna Joy Usher
Author · 11 books