Sleuthing in Ocean Alley with Books 7 - 9 of the Jolie Gentil cozy mysteries.
Jolie is not only solving murders but more involved in Ocean Alley. Join Jolie as she investigates the murder of the hospital budget cutter (Vague Images) and solves the many questions involving Java Jolt's owner (Ground to a Halt). In Holidays in Ocean Alley, Aunt Madge and Scoobie take center stage to learn who didn't want the assisted living director around anymore. Add Aunt Madge's heartwarming holiday project, and you really won't be able to put down the book.

Vague Images
Bad enough that Jolie ends up in the emergency room because she tried to avoid hitting a deer. Worse to find a dead woman in the hospital restroom after Jolie gets patched up. As the chief budget cutter at the hospital, Tanya Weiss was unpopular, especially in the Radiology Department, where Scoobie works. In between appraising houses and feeding her pet skunk, Jolie's on the lookout for a runaway teenager and whoever planted the dead woman in her path. Thanks to Scoobie, she's also planning another crazy fundraiser for the food pantry -- this one a Corn Hole Contest. It's sort of a bean bag game for grown-ups, and the polite term is Corn Toss Contest. So of course, Scoobie prepares to name winners in the Harvest for All Corn Hole Contest. Just when Jolie's ready to leave the murder investigation to the police, she gets a surprise -- and it's not a good one. Will her need to know see her hurt -- or worse?

Ground to a Halt
When Jolie Gentil goes to buy a cup of coffee the morning after a storm knocks out power at her house in Ocean Alley, she finds Java Jolt unlocked and minus its owner. A bigger surprise is seeing proprietor Joe Regan a few minutes later, badly injured. It seems a potential killer thinks Jolie has something Joe was hiding. The normal routine of appraising houses and volunteering at the Harvest for All food pantry is interrupted by an SUV that nearly smashes Jolie, a break-in at the home Jolie and Scoobie share, and a terrifying kidnapping. Jolie needs to figure out who's telling the truth and how far the thugs will go to to find what they want. Only solving the puzzle will keep Jolie safe, protect a vulnerable Iraqi vet, and make sure everyone stays alive. But if Jolie keeps searching, her budding romance with Scoobie may grind to a halt.

Holidays in Ocean Alley
Aunt Madge is spending a few weeks in the Silver Times Senior Living apartments. That's what happens when you stand on a stool to hang garland and lose your balance. Her niece Jolie's good friend Scoobie has been known to call the place detention central. Madge's broken wrist and ankle are healing enough that she hopes to join her family at her Cozy Corner B & B for Christmas. The body that falls into her apartment in the wee hours one morning kind of changes things. Does the killer think Aunt Madge knows something she shouldn't? Will Madge follow the advice she regularly gives Jolie -- to accept that she may not ever know all the answers? It's not looking like it.

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