A Fun New Mystery for March: Linda Pirtle's Girlfriend Retreat... Cheaper Than Therapy is available now!

First, a quick update: CW Hawes' February 2024 Magnolia Bluff debut, Who Mourns Elektra came out of the gate strong. It was featured in Amazon's top 100 in Religious Mysteries and cracked the top 50 by reaching number 25. Not a bad start for year three of the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles mystery series.

The second book for 2024 is live now. Girlfriend Retreat... Cheaper Than Therapy is the twenty-second book in the series and is penned by Linda Pirtle. This is the third book the author has written set in that murderous town in the Texas Hill Country and it's a good one! 

A group of Caroline McCluskey's lifelong friends all come to Magnolia Bluff for a nice, relaxing weekend at the Circle R Ranch. Caroline, who is the town librarian, has put together an itinerary that promises to deliver a "weekend like none other," and the retreat certainly lives up to her claim. Relaxing may not be the best way to describe the girl's time in town. They end up facing one catastrophe after another--everything from mistaken identities all the way to murder. Will Caroline, who has proven in the past to be a better sleuth than the police and knows her way around a crime scene, be able to protect her friends during their visit? 

This is Magnolia Bluff after all, where there always seems to be a dead body waiting to be discovered. 

What is really fun about this story is that all of the women who are meeting up for this... not so relaxing weekend retreat are modeled after Ms. Pirtle's own real life girlfriends.

This is an awesome addition to the series and is a fairly quick read that packs a lot of punch. And you can get your very own copy of Magnolia Bluff's newest mystery by clicking here: Girlfriend Retreat

Linda Pirtle is a wonderful, award-winning cozy mystery writer. She is one of the founding members of the Underground Authors and has produced three books for the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles series. But she is also the author of the popular The Games We Play cozy mystery series. She is a retired high school English teacher and spent years teaching the art of writing and understanding literature. She also taught Business Communications at Navarro College before becoming not only an author, but a business owner with her husband, the late Calab Pirtle III. Together they created and built Venture Galleries, a book publishing company. She has also served as editor for some great books presently in the marketplace. 

Becoming a full-time cozy author with a female protagonist was the perfect transition for Ms. Pirtle. She's long been a reader and reviewer of mysteries. She finds herself infatuated with the cozy hometown mysteries written by Agatha Christie and Diane Mott Davidson. And she is fascinated with dastardly murder mysteries solved by the lady next door who relies on intuition, instinct, and deductive reasoning. All the perfect ingredients for her to write her own award-winning cozy mysteries. 

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You can find all the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles mystery books by clicking here: MBCC Series

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You can find my books here: The Razzman Mystery Crime Files

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