Bøger af Sue Pepper

This ballot box was stuffed with malice...After a grueling campaign, Election Day has finally come to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and baker Sadie Moose is ready for her best friend, Paige, to win the Mayor's race. The promising day starts out on a grim note, though, with an altercation at a sign waving event sending rumors flying across town.Then the fire alarm goes off at the polling place, and in the chaos, Sadie stumbles over a body in the smoke. It's Wade Fisher, Paige's billionaire developer opponent. And he's dead.With Paige the prime suspect, Sadie and her quirky crew set out to solve the mystery. But as they crash press conferences, duck federal agents, question pageant queens, and sober up inebriated lawyers, the evidence continues to pile up against Paige. To complicate matters, Sadie's ex, Merritt, is back, and his fiancé is Sadie's new lawyer, as well as the head of the shady Gotham Enterprises, which has been wreaking havoc on Sadie's life for months.Will Sadie unravel the mystery before Paige gets locked up? Or will the killer pull off a surprise win?

Hey girl! This opportunity could be deadly...Sadie Moose needs a vacation. It's been a long winter, what with a murder investigation, breaking up with her boyfriend, her bakery business booming, and watching her friends go through major life events. A week at an all-inclusive resort in Mexico should do the trick.But she has one last stop to make on her way out of town-delivering desserts to a chalet in the mountains where her college friend, Amy, is attending a retreat for Glamarosa Clothing, the multi-level marketing company she represents.When the road closes behind her, Sadie finds herself stuck at the retreat, her plane taking off without her. Thrust into a world of cutthroat competition, big hair, and wilder leggings, she hopes she can lay low just long enough for the road to reopen.But when a killer strikes and they're further cut off from the world in a late spring blizzard, Sadie must investigate to clear Amy's name, working with a man from her past who's pretending to be someone he's not, a celebrity chef who knows more than he says, and an iron-fisted housekeeper that doesn't like her much.As the killer gets closer, motives and secrets are revealed...showing that this pyramid is about to topple.Boss Babe Murder is a classic mansion murder mystery with a modern multi-level marketing boss babe twist! My not so cozy mysteries feature an amateur sleuth, diverse and quirky characters, and mature language. It's the third book in the Jackson Hole Moose's Bakery Not So Cozy Mystery series, but stands alone.

This trap is murder on more than your wallet...Every summer afternoon the streets of downtown Jackson Hole shut down and the Wild West is real again as the oldest gunfight in the west plays out for gathered tourists. There's no way in or out until after the shootout players have taken their bows and they've passed the hat for tips-the ultimate tourist trap.Sadie Moose usually avoids town square in the height of tourist season, but when her dad asks her to stand in for a player out sick so he won't miss his big debut as an outlaw, she begrudgingly dons the saloon girl costume. Things are going great until the stagecoach screeches onto the scene and the actor inside misses his cue. With a bit of improv, Sadie opens the door...and finds the actor dead inside.Sadie isn't planning on getting involved, no matter how curious she is, but then her dad is named as a suspect. To clear his name, she'll infiltrate the local rodeo, skulk around the Jackson Hole Playhouse, and go from t-shirt shop to ice cream parlor on town square searching for the real killer. As she gets closer to an answer, she faces increasing threats from the killer and rising tension with Police Detective Will Nolan...both because she's in the middle of his case yet again, and because he keeps threatening to take her on a date.Can Sadie clear her dad's name before she's cut from the act?

Things are heating up...Sadie Moose is enjoying a romantic evening in a snowy moonlit hot spring with her new boyfriend when a dead body floating in the pool interrupts their steamy interlude.Yes. Another dead body. But she is absolutely not getting involved this time. She has enough to do with a business expansion underway, her new renters, and her new relationship.Except the chief suspect is the troubled grandson of one of the regulars at her bakery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She promises she'll ask some questions to keep him out of jail. And then her new barista is a neighbor of the deceased, and she's having a hard time sleeping thinking someone in her tight-knit neighborhood is a murderer. So Sadie asks a few more questions.Soon, she's embroiled in the investigation, with danger lurking around every snowy corner. With help from her sexy boyfriend, rowdy bakery crew, a maybe-mob-princess, and her trusty canine companion, Tyrone, Sadie must clear the mist surrounding this mystery, before the killer boils her, too.Hot Springs Murder is a steamy, snowy, not-so-cozy mystery, with an open door scene and explicit language. This is the second book in the Jackson Hole Moose's Bakery Not No Cozy Mystery Series. The books stand alone, but are better when read in order. While there are romantic elements, there isn't an HEA in this book...though there will be eventually over the course of the series.

Not just the view is killer...Rents doubled. No affordable housing. Ten pages of help wanted ads in the paper every day. Tourist town Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is in a housing crisis, and Sadie Moose, second generation owner of Moose's Bakery, is right in the middle of it. Her assistant baker just told her she's leaving because her rent is being doubled. Sloan Brackenridge, local power realtor and her childhood tormenter, is threatening to bulldoze Sadie's childhood home to make room for more multi-million dollar condos. Oh, and her dog, Tyrone, is acting funny and needs to go to the vet. Again.And those are just the start of her problems.Because the night after her childhood crush, Merritt West, mysteriously away for over a decade, moves back in next door, Sadie finds Sloan dead in the alley between their houses. Suddenly the prime suspect, Sadie teams up with Merritt to investigate, sparks flying between them as danger creeps ever closer.Mountain Town Murder is a not-so-cozy and includes language and one open door scene alongside the cozy setting, quirky characters, and mystery we all love in cozy mysteries. It's the first in the Jackson Hole Moose's Bakery Not So Cozy Mystery series.Not just the view is killer...Rents doubled. No affordable housing. Ten pages of help wanted ads in the paper every day. Tourist town Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is in a housing crisis, and Sadie Moose, second generation owner of Moose's Bakery, is right in the middle of it. Her assistant baker just told her she's leaving because her rent is being doubled. Sloan Brackenridge, local power realtor and her childhood tormenter, is threatening to bulldoze Sadie's childhood home to make room for more multi-million dollar condos. Oh, and her dog, Tyrone, is acting funny and needs to go to the vet. Again.And those are just the start of her problems.Because the night after her childhood crush, Merritt West, mysteriously away for over a decade, moves back in next door, Sadie finds Sloan dead in the alley between their houses. Suddenly the prime suspect, Sadie teams up with Merritt to investigate, sparks flying between them as danger creeps ever closer.Mountain Town Murder is a not-so-cozy and includes language and one open door scene alongside the cozy setting, quirky characters, and mystery we all love in cozy mysteries. It's the first in the Jackson Hole Moose's Bakery Not So Cozy Mystery series.