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Author
Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume Book One
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One crazy old lady. Two gin and tonics. Three derelict beach-bum friends. Will Val's fourth stab at starting over add up to a big fat zero? St. Pete Beach attracts weirdos like mosquitoes to a bug zapper. But when thrice-divorced native Val Fremden feels the tug to fly back to her old stomping grounds, she finds everyone and everything she knew squashed under the heels of change. With nothing to go on but her own dry sense of humor and the life coach...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Midlife Meltdown ... with a Side of Fries. Val's long-suffering life as a patient daughter, dutiful wife and reliable workhorse has turned her into a snarky, miserable nag. She has the house, the husband and the career. The only thing missing is the happy. Before she's set out to pasture, Val wants one more go around the track. Unbridled. In Italy. La dolce vita or bust. Will Val find her happy ending abroad? Or someplace she never thought to look?...
Author
Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Val's always been unlucky at love - and a whole bunch of other things. But she's never actually felt cursed. Until now. When Tom gives Val an engagement ring for her fiftieth birthday, she wants to fly the coop. But it's Tom who skips out on the romantic getaway he planned. When he can't make the trip, one of Val's pals goes instead. On the first day, her friend entangles Val in a prank that ticks off the wrong tourist. On the second day, she gets...
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Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume Book Three
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They say three's the charm. But charming isn't Val's style. Val Fremden is a lot of things. Quirky. Jaded. Disaster prone. But more than anything, she's afraid of commitment. When boyfriend Tom tells her he loves her -- then trades away her mom's ashes for a tiki hut -- Val's just not feelin' it. On the warpath with Tom, Val's forced to rely on her oddball friends to help track down her mom's cremains. But three botched stakeouts and two disasters...
Author
Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume Book Two
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's moving day for Val. And, as usual, anything that can go wrong does--beginning with her new boyfriend, Tom. When he shows up at her doorstep with an unwelcome delivery, Val becomes the unwitting center of attention for a whole new world of weirdos... Whack-jobs whose antics could pin Val for human dismemberment. Plagued with a hot cop on her tail and a mean one on her trail, Val is forced to turn to old friends and new ones in her attempt to point...
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Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume Book Four
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Most definitely contains nuts. All Val Fremden wanted was a quiet holiday away from her oddball family. But that just ain't gonna happen. When Val and her boyfriend arrive at her mother's "country estate" in Hicksville, Florida, the annual family fruitcake competition is well underway. And there's more than a few fruits and nuts in the running. But the biggest contest is between Val and her mom. As their battle of wills heats up, unexpected ingredients...
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Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Change happens. Even when it doesn't make any cents. Planning for a rainy day has never been Val's forte. But when a storm brews up right in her own backyard, Val's forced to get off her lounge chair and spring into action. A shady, ham-fisted developer's threatening to knock down Val's favorite beach haunt, along with all the precious memories held within its shabby walls. With the owner's signature on the bill of sale, the plan seems like a done...
Author
Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Old habits die hard. But old lounge chairs die harder. Val can't solve all the world's problems, so she's settled on two: smashing every tacky figurine on the planet ... and ridding the universe of her boyfriend's hideous Barcalounger. During a neighborhood yard sale, the fate of Tom's beloved chair comes down to a wager. But what Val puts up as an ante proves hard to live without, and soon has her wrestling with the demons she keeps locked inside...
Author
Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
You can't fix stupid with duct tape. But you can muffle the sound. When Val tries to revive her old writing career, story ideas prove as elusive as a moment alone without her boyfriend Tom breathing down her neck. Tom's moved in, and Val's itching to move out - at least temporarily. A last-minute getaway to the country seems like the perfect solution for dissolving her writer's block. But a fateful fish fry ends up inspiring a whole different kind...
Author
Series
Val Fremden Mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
I got a dog for my boyfriend. It was a good trade. When Val's forced to take up dog-sitting as a second career, she runs into one tiny snag. She's afraid of dogs. In fact, the only thing she's more afraid of is Tom moving in and wrecking her Sweatpants Saturdays. With neighbor Laverne facing the same impending doom, the two women decide sabotage is the perfect solution to change the plans of their cohabitation-minded boyfriends. But their scheme soon...
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