Elaine L. Orr is the Amazon bestselling author of the Jolie Gentil cozy mystery series, set at the Jersey shore. “Behind the Walls” was a finalist for the 2014 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Awards. The first book in Elaine's River's Edge cozy mystery series, “From Newsprint to Footprints,” debuted in late fall 2015. Elaine also writes plays and novellas, including the one-act, “Common Ground,” published in 2015. Her novella, “Biding Time,” was one of five finalists in the National Press Club's first fiction contest, in 1993. Elaine conducts presentations on electronic publishing and other writing-related topics. Nonfiction includes “Words to Write By: Getting Your Thoughts on Paper” and “Writing in Retirement: Putting New Year’s Resolutions to Work.” A member of Sisters in Crime, Elaine grew up in Maryland and moved to the Midwest in 1994.
Appraisal for Murder
by Elaine Orr
eBook
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BN ID:
2940014094795
- Publisher: Lifelong Dreams
- Publication date: 02/01/2012
- Series: Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery Series , #1
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Sales rank: 71,100
- File size: 179 KB
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First in this nine-book series introduces Jolie Gentil as she moves to Great Aunt Madge's Cozy Corner Bed and Breakfast at the Jersey shore. She and her car Jazz are joining Madge's pair of prune-eating dogs--joyful retrievers who just want to make friends. Jolie does not view her move as a retreat from her embezzling ex-husband, just a smart change. She had no idea her life was about to get even more complicated. Jolie finds work as a real estate appraiser, but a low-life named Joe Pedone demands that she repay some of her husband's gambling debts and she runs into Michael Riordan, her high school crush. She's not sure which one is more trouble.
And then there's the body she finds when she appraises Michael's mother's house. Soon the mundane work of appraising real estate and dodging suggestions that she go to the ten-year high school reunion are mixed with calls from reporters, scary suggestions from Pedone, and requests that she help the local busybody with First Presbyterian's social services work.
Jolie balances her fear of Pedone, conviction that Michael is innocent, and sometimes uneasy friendship with long-ago friend Scoobie. She wants to prove both friends innocent, but someone would rather see her dead.
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