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Penning Trouble
Series · 4 books · 2017-2020

Books in series

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#1

Murder, She Floats

2017

It's the end of the summer and Journalist Penelope Trubble has returned home to help her father with the Private Eye business. With a contest prize of ten thousand dollars on the line, the town is full of summer vacationers on the hunt for the rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel that was lost to Bohemian Lake over fifty years ago. With the help of spitfire local, Eve Berns and Cody Lumos, the town's handsome new detective, amateur sleuth Lucky Penny takes the bait and goes diving for the story behind the legend of the million dollar coin. Unfortunately, her dive turns up more bodies than missing treasure. The deeper she digs, the more secrets she finds hidden in the sand, but will she be buried along with them?
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#2

Murder, She Slopes

2017

It's the week before Christmas and Investigative Journalist Penelope Trubble has reluctantly agreed to investigate the Treetop Adventures Resort & Spa in the hopes of exonerating her ex-boyfriend for putting his new bride on ice. But with so many suspicious characters lurking in the trees, Penelope's being strangled by clues, Christmas lights, conjecture, and catastrophe. Christmas in the Laurentian Mountains may seem magical but Penny's still a little frosty with her ex, and even though he doesn't seem like a cold-blooded killer, helping an ex is still a slippery slope and things are going downhill fast. Let's hope Penelope doesn't get strung up for murder?
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#3

Murder, Ye Bones

2018

Private investigator Penny Trubble is all for an island vacation, but warm sand and surf comes at a cost. Her friend, Danior Vianu, is spending the summer working at a relative’s paranormal resort in San Paolo, Brazil, where the paranormal activity that is part of the resorts charm has gotten a bit too real for some; several guests, including a personal acquaintance, have gone missing, and Danior wants Penny to find out why. What she finds is trouble. The vanished guests appear to be victims of a long-dead housekeeper who practiced voodoo using the bones of her victims. The past comes back to haunt them when Daemon Wraith, searches out the mysterious Voodoo Queen. Working together to find a connection and stop the supernatural killer, Penny and Daemon are compelled to research the history of the haunted island. Has the Voodoo Queen found a way to transcend time in her quest for blood and sacrifice or are Penny and Daemon dealing with a copycat?
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#4

Murder in the Catacombs

2020

Penny and the Bohemian lake gang head to the City of Lights for an all-expenses paid Parisian Christmas adventure—but can they survive it? And come to think of it, just who arranged it? After Penny is kidnapped from the infamous catacombs while on a pre-arranged tour, she realizes her prize-winning trip was simply a trick to get her here. Now she must work to locate and rescue the granddaughter of a European Billionaire, who may or may not be involved with an underground Witch Hunters Organization that’s after Sera Popescu.

Authors

DeAnn Howe
DeAnn Howe
Author · 1 books

To find out when DeAnn's next release is coming out, sign up for her newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/gnob5f DeAnn has finished her fourth paranormal cozy co-write with Rachael Stapleton and has embarked on a new adventure, writing her own non-paranormal cozy . She already has the setting (Shh, it's a beach town) and knows who the first murder victim is, stay tuned... DeAnn lives in the Midwest and loves to read and travel. Her favorite destinations are East coast beaches and Europe. You can find her writing her next book, sitting outside at a Starbucks or anywhere with a table and umbrella (at least eight months of the year). Visit DeAnn online: http://Facebook.com/Author.DeAnnHowe http://goodreads.com/DeAnnHowe

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