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New Corpse in Town (Secret Seal Isle Mysteries Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Lucy Quinn (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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FBI agent Cookie James is enjoying her extended leave from the agency on Secret Seal Isle, managing her quaint inn and flirting with the oh-so sexy-handyman, Dylan Creed…until her sixty-year-old mother goes skinny dipping and is almost drowned by a corpse.

A phone call to the sheriff should mean the end of Cookie’s involvement, but when it’s clear the sheriff has no interest in the investigation, Cookie calls in reinforcements…her ex-partner Hunter O’Neil. Suddenly it’s like old times while the pair questions the residents of Secret Seal Isle. Except it’s not. Now she has both Hunter and Dylan vying for her attention, a wayward hippy mother, and a potential killer on the loose.

With her love life heating up, her mother lighting up, and all signs pointing to the most unlikely suspect, Cookie does the only thing she knows to do—focus on solving the case.
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Lucy Quinn is the brainchild of New York Times bestselling author Deanna Chase and USA Today bestselling author Violet Vaughn. Having met over a decade ago in a lampwork bead forum, the pair were first what they like to call "show wives" as they traveled the country together, selling their handmade glass beads. So when they both started writing fiction, it seemed only natural for the two friends to pair up with their hilarious, laugh-out-loud, cozy mysteries. At least they think so. Now they travel the country, meeting up in various cities to plan each new Lucy Quinn book while giggling madly at themselves and the ridiculous situations they force on their characters. They very much hope you enjoy them as much as they do.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01IFSDRW6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seaside Story Productions (July 13, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 13, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
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Lucy Quinn is the brainchild of New York Times bestselling author Deanna Chase and USA Today bestselling author Violet Vaughn. Having met over a decade ago in a lampwork bead forum, the pair were first what they like to call “show wives” as they traveled the country together, selling their handmade glass beads. So when they both started writing fiction, it seemed only natural for the two friends to pair up with their hilarious, laugh-out-loud, cozy mysteries. At least they think so. Now they travel the country, meeting up in various cities to plan each new Lucy Quinn book while giggling madly at themselves and the ridiculous situations they force on their characters. They very much hope you enjoy them as much as they do.

Deanna Chase, is a native Californian, transplanted to the slower paced lifestyle of southeastern Louisiana. When she isn’t writing, she is often goofing off with her husband in New Orleans, playing with her two shih tzu dogs, or making glass beads.

Violet Vaughn lives in coastal New Hampshire where she spends most mornings in the woods with her dogs, summer at the ocean, and winters skiing in the mountains of Maine.

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SC BookLover
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story.
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2019
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Cookie and her hippie Mom, Rain move to a small island looking to start a new life. Cookie, a former FBI agent is running away from a violent mob family. Rain looking for a place she can let her free, wild side take over. Enter Dylan, the handsome jack-of-all-trades who is helping fix up the coastal inn Cookie now owns and runs. Life is great until Rain is almost drowned in the Atlantic ocean by the dead body of a local bully. This leads to a murder investigation led by Cookies old partner, two very different men viewing for the heart of the same inn keeper, some special brownies baked by Rain and Rain's close friend, and several quirky characters you'll be sad to say goodbye to.
Colorful story. Exciting. Fun. Never dull.
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Irishnotfur
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2016
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On leave FBI agent hiding from the Philly mob. A mom who's a major pot head and a former partner still in the FBI come to help with a dead body in the middle of no where off the Main cost. A very different story line but well worth a read.

There are some story gaps I saw with the mob part of the story I'm hoping will be filled in by book 2 and is why the 4 stars but other wise it flows very well. I relate best with the sandwich shop owner which makes me think I need to work harder on my tough outer shell. I love the mother and her mood switches going from screaming about being almost drowned by a dead body to flirting with the handy man her daughter is talking too in the next breath then back to screaming. Also the fact she dopes the girl brought in to take care of her.

As to the murder story it fits a small town well. It kind of reminds me of a "Murder She Wrote" story line where you love everyone in the small town while they claim it this person or that person who killed the guy and in the end it's the person no one pointed at that did it. A very fun read and I look forward to the next book and will be looking at V. Vaughn's stories as I already read Dena Chase (not good at remembering names sorry).
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Savannah Jean billingsley
3.0 out of 5 stars This was such a cute read!
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2024
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I thoroughly enjoyed this read. While there wasn't much to it, it was a nice palate cleanser. I was apprehensive about the whole cozy mystery genre but this book makes me want to read more just like it. I thought the low stakes would get boring but it really didn’t. The book was still very intriguing and i really enjoyed the splash of romance that was thrown in. I’ll definitely be reading more like this.
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Customer Cathy
5.0 out of 5 stars Humorous Mystery and Romance
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2017
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This is a very good mystery with humor and a double romantic interest. FBI agent, Cookie, gets on the bad side of a mob and subsequently moves to a little island town with her mom to hide. Rain, her hippy mom, finds a dead body in the ocean, so cookie calls her ex-partner, Hunter, to help her investigate the murder when she realizes the local police have no idea how to investigate. Cookie has a relationship with a handy man but when hunter shows up they both want her. Cookie misses her FBI life, but enjoys the island life too. The characters are interesting, the mystery fun, and the humor brings the story together.
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Alan Chaput
4.0 out of 5 stars A Whimsical Murder Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018
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Cookie Jame's mother finds a corpse in the ocean outside their inn and the local deputy has no interest in pursuing an investigation. Not to be deterred, Cookie, an FBI agent, starts her own investigation.

Set on a small island off the coast of Maine, "New Corpse In Town" artfully blends an intriguing murder mystery with some romance and a cast of unusual secondary characters.

An enjoyable, whimsical read. Recommended for anyone who likes cozy mysteries.
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Joan Koko
5.0 out of 5 stars Completely enjoyable.
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2017
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Cookie James and her Mother Rain have moved to Secret Seal Isle, population hovering around 400. They also bought the Secret Seal Inn and are running it as a B&B. Dylan Creed is the Handyman on the Isle and doing some work at the Inn. He is a cool drink of water on a hot summer day. Now from the title of the book you can tell we will have a body on our hands, the Sheriff lives in Hancock, and only Deputy Swan is on the Isle, and has no plans to investigate the death. So Cookie decides to call her friend Hunter who works with the FBI, and he also turns out to be another Hunk. So we have romance and mystery rolled up into one.
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L. Difronzo
4.0 out of 5 stars Not too shabby for a first book
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023
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I wasn't sure what to expect with this one.

The book moved pretty fast. Cookie's mother annoys the heck out of me though.
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Baroness Book Trove
5.0 out of 5 stars Guest Baroness' Review of New Corpse in Town by Lucy Quinn
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
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Scintillation new series.

Cookie James is fabulous. She seems to have it all together with her new life, B&B and good looks. Yet, she worries about her looks, which guy to date, her Mother and the corpse of an unknown man and you have this wonderful story.

Hunter is sweet on Cookie but he is like the forbidden fruit or is he? Cookie has always wanted him, but if she ever returns to the FBI she doesn’t want to sample that deliciousness. Dylan is a “local”. He is mysterious, and has these hidden talents and baggage, but he is also on the sweeter side. Should Cookie even try with this one?

Cookie’s Mom, Rain is the ultimate hippy. Cookie feels like she needs to constantly chaperon her. Rain does the craziest things. She is a great cook and seems to run the B&B but don’t eat the brownies…

The mystery was good. The clues were there if you pay attention. I enjoyed the red herrings and that Rain found some of the biggest clues. I liked that even though she seems out of it, she has her head on.

My rating is 5 stars. I am definitely looking forward to the second installment Life in the Dead Lane. I truly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

This is a Guest Review for Baroness’ Book Trove. Thank you for the opportunity to review this book for your site. ~Jen

To read other reviews like this one please visit my site: baronessbooktrove.com
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfectly Cozy
Reviewed in Canada on February 26, 2019
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What a great and silly "who done it?" .
Cookie thinks she has chosen the best place to hide from a mob boss, but when a body washes up, old habits come rushing back.
With her former FBI partner and her crazy mother hilarity ensues while they try to solve the murder.
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Chrisby
5.0 out of 5 stars Super unterhaltsam
Reviewed in Germany on December 21, 2018
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Kurzweilig lustig gut spannend und so weiter bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
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Toots Sullivan
5.0 out of 5 stars entertaining
Reviewed in Australia on April 4, 2023
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Well, this was an interesting and entertaining book. If you like to read a lot of sexual innuendo both verbalised and thought, from an older woman, who likes being naked and having sexual in a garden shed and loves using dope, with a crime thrown in and unrequited feelings, well this book is just a bit of fluff, funny, also wacky. Unsure I’ll read the other book I have in this series.
No bad language.
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SFF Dragon
5.0 out of 5 stars What a terrific start to a new series. This book had me totally hooked and laughing from start to finish. I loved it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2016
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New Corpse in Town (Secret Seal Isle Mysteries Book 1)

Welcome to the wonderful world of Cozy Mysteries, the multi-author, multi-genre series of stand alone stories for the mystery buff with an open mind and a sense of humour as a new author name joins an illustrious group of writers - Hello Lucy Quinn. And hello to a brand new contemporary series under the Cozy banner as 'New Corpse in Town', the first book in her Secret Seal Isle Mysteries starts out with some serious flirting followed almost immediately by the screaming. This is a terrific start to the new series, and although I'm a confirmed Cozy addict, the series and authors are all different to each other so I had no idea what to expect from this book, but I was hooked and laughing from beginning to end as the long-suffering heroine and her former partner at the FBI, investigate the death of the local 'wannabe' whilst trying, not particularly successfully, to reign in the antics of a totally off-the-wall born-again hippy in the form of our heroine's mother. Embarrassed doesn't even begin to cover it...

Having moved to Secret Seal Isle (Pop. 347), somewhere remote (think 'plane, smaller 'plane, helicopter, boat, car, walk) off the coast of Maine, in an effort to protect her mother and herself from mob retribution, Cookie James (not her real name) is taking a long, and probably permanent, leave of absence from the FBI, has bought the Secret Seal Inn and settled down to a life of non-crime. Unfortunately, it doesn't last long. Cookie is admiring the view... of the handyman Dylan, and indulging in a little hot but harmless flirting when the peace is shattered by screaming and the appearance of Cookie's mother, who renamed herself, I love it... Rain Forest, running up the hill from the cove below, wet, completely topless and horrified that she'd almost been drowned... by a dead man. And that's just the beginning....

I'm not giving spoilers here, and I absolutely loved this book with it's humour and terrific cast of characters from salty old sea dogs to the local drug dealer as well as some whacky individuals including Rain and her old friend Winter Sage, the book is simply overflowing with suspects and was laugh out loud funny. There's lots of sizzling chemistry between Cookie and the men, as well as some serious testosterone fuelled rivalry, but if you're hoping for hot and steamy bits, you're not going to get them. At least not from Cookie, and she has a choice to make....

I loved it. Well written in the third person, the story moves along at a good pace so it's easy to keep up with all the twists and turns, as well as building up the character's backgrounds and personalities. It had me in stitches and I was still chuckling at the end. I'm really looking forward to reading the next book in this terrific new series. I can't wait.
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lma
4.0 out of 5 stars Quick and easy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2017
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Quick and easy read that has all the right ingredients to get you hooked on the series. Skilled to be able too pace the plot in such a small physical space and timeframe, only felt a bit forced occasionally. Look forward to more adventures with Cookie.
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