Journaled to Death
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Journaling vlogger Mandy Meadows strives to preserve her hyper-organised life while searching for her cousin’s killer in this twisty mystery: first in a brand-new series.
Divorced single mom Mandy Meadows scrapes by working as a barista and receiving payments from her cousin, Ryan, who rents her basement apartment. At night, she and her teenage daughter Vellum run a successful home business creating journaling content on their popular social media channels.
But Mandy’s carefully organized world is about to come crashing down. While filming their latest journaling tutorial, Mandy and Vellum hear a loud noise on the basement stairs, and Mandy is horrified to find Ryan dead on the landing. The police quickly start to treat the death as a murder – with Mandy and Vellum as chief suspects. Why would someone murder Ryan? Determined to clear their names and find Ryan’s killer, Mandy soon discovers he wasn’t the man she thought he was . . .
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Divorc e Mandy Meadows, the narrator of this good-natured series launch from Redmond (Grave Expectations), makes ends meet by working at the coffee bar of the University of Seattle Hospital, producing how-to vlogs with the help of her teenage daughter, Vellum, and renting out her basement to her amiable if trouble-prone cousin, Ryan, a maintenance worker at the hospital. One evening, their recording of a vlog on journaling is interrupted by mysterious sounds coming from the basement. Mandy investigates and finds Ryan lying dead at the bottom of the stairs, smelling of alcohol. Good-looking Det. Justin Ahola arrives and quickly ascertains that Ryan has been murdered. As Mandy digs deeper into Ryan's professional and private life, she realizes that she didn't know her cousin as well as she thought she did. The plot meanders along, buoyed by a steady stream of musings on nasty neighbors, her overbearing former mother-in-law, her lousy ex-husband, Ahola's attractiveness, and the trials of child rearing, plus tips on journaling and vlogging. This is an easy-going, undemanding cozy.
