Bøker av Kay Dew Shostak

Book 6 in the Southern Beach Cozy Mystery series set on an island off the Atlantic coast of North Florida. Enjoy Christmas on the small historical island

Eleventh book in this popular Southern Fiction series set in the small North Georgia town of Chancey.It's graduation time in Chancey......a time for caps and gowns. For Pomp and Circumstance. For magnolias blooming and epic parties.And, apparently, for a growing sinkhole to pop up on Main Street. Years of neglected underground repairs have forced half the shops downtown to close indefinitely. Ruby's Café moves into Blooming Books and Missus, Chancey's new mayor, gives no straight answers on when repairs will be completed.Despite the big hole downtown, Carolina and her husband, Jackson, are doing their best to focus on their daughter Savannah's high school graduation-if only other matters would stop trying to steal their attention. Between their younger son Bryan's girl-crazy phase, friend Laney planning an epic graduation blowout for her twins, Susan's baffling lack of responsibility for her own children, and the sneaking suspicion that Peter Bedwell's not through with his baby mama, Shannon Kinnock, there's a lot of distractions vying for first place. And Chancey has a Peeping Tom?Well, of course it does.Join in the laughter, the celebration, the rumors, and the love in POMP AND CHANCEY, the latest hilarious, heartfelt installment of Chancey, a beloved and bestselling women's fiction series set in the South.

It's a new year in Chancey, and hope abounds.Carolina hopes her daughter, Savannah, will figure out what she's doing after graduation, hopes her husband, Jackson, working from home won't drive her crazy, and hopes being a grandma to her son Will's new baby will be as fun as everyone says.Her hopes for the rest of the small town, however, are less than optimistic.Is Shannon pregnant? Is Peter the father? If he is, what will that mean for his engagement to Delaney? Speaking of engagements, is former wallflower Susan serious about marrying movie star Silas? And then there's the special election to worry about.Missus and Laney both hope they'll be elected mayor.Don't say you heard it here, but most of Chancey hopes someone else runs...

False crawl? Nesting season? Turtle monitors?Jewel Mantelle is just getting used to the humidity in her new Southern home on Sophia Island when turtle season opens way too early. At least it''s too early according to her friends who volunteer with the Turtle Trackers. Have they really found a sea turtle nest, surrounded by garbage, on a stormy April morning?It doesn''t seem likely when a body is discovered, buried where the eggs should be.Jewel has too much on her plate to worry about a false turtle nest. She''s trying to clean up the old house her disinterested, on-the-road husband inherited in Sophia Beach''s historic downtown. But when the body is found to have close ties to one of Jewel''s new friends, her lunch bunch goes to work trying to solve the murder. Between college kids partying on the beach, a senator''s illegitimate child, a lost sketch pad, and warring turtle factions hindering the investigation, it''s a miracle Jewel even has time to try biscuits and gravy.But she finally did... and she''s a fan.The Sea Turtle Did It is a clean and cozy beach mystery set in a historic small town. It''ll keep you turning pages well after bedtime and slathering on more sunscreen to get a few more poolside pages in.

Christmas Novella set in the popular fictional town of Chancey, Georgia. Whether this is your first trip to Chancey, or you're an old friend - Welcome! Missus has called an emergency meeting and this is one meeting you don't want to miss. Christmas is just around the corner and there's a crisis! And you never want to miss a meeting in a small town because you just might end up in charge of the Christmas Parade. Memories surface, tempers flare, and new suggestions get shot down because it's never been done that way before. This novella is a perfect way to sip a cup of hot cocoa and take a quick trip to a small Southern town for the holidays.

Book six in this popular Southern Fiction Series. It's been a year since the Jessups moved to the Georgia mountains to run a B&B for Railroad buffs. Small town living has taken some getting used to after living in the Atlanta suburbs, but even the teenagers feel like it's home. Then the detours, detours leading to good things... and bad.

Growing up as just plain ol' trailer trash in South Georgia, Becca Sue has floated along on a sea of low expectations for 30 years. Now she's washed up on the coast of Florida, but not on the beach. She finds herself in an unfinished luxury subdivsion which her ex-husband dumped when the market went south, just like he dumped her. Her rich, northern neighbors want to get out their mess of a neighborhood, where they have cows as neighbors and no immenities. Becca Sue tries to ignore their plight, and hers, with alcohol and sex. And as usual, it works, but only for a while. When her ex-husband's teen age kids get dumped on her she rallies, just long enough to really mess things up. She ends up with two paths in front of her to choose from. One, a radical idea for a whole new kind of neighborhood which will require a lot of work. A lot of work. And Two, a whole new life in a whole new place, but one she might be too comfortable with already. Decisions have never been Becca Sue's strong point.

Humourous Southern Fiction set in North Georgia Mountains in Railfan B&B.  Carolina is barely surviving the family's move to a small town in Georgia, where they opened a Railfan B&B. She misses her Atlanta suburbs and is finding out holidays are different in a small town. They expect you to cook. And participate. When an ex-spouse shows up no one knows about, it's just one of the secrets hiding under the tree. Like where did all the town's money go? And who is that strange girl no one seems knows? And who is the new man in town flirting with? And just how do you thaw a 24 lb. turkey?