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Four USA Today bestselling authors are back with your favorite female sleuths in a hilarious new mystery!Hot on the high heels of a rather strenuous trip to NOLA, Merry invites Valentine, Kate, and Franki to strap on hiking boots in the middle of Iowa for a glamping weekend! Unfortunately, downtime underneath the starry skies, with s'mores and mint-cookie cocktails, turns deadly when an unpopular glamper is murdered.The suspects seem to outnumber the mosquitos when it turns out nearly everyone bore the victim a grudge. So who did it? One of the wealthy snobs? The trashy drunks? Or the fanatic former scouts?Go camping with:Valentine Beaumont ~ Boston sleuth and gutsy beauticianKate Connolly ~ San Francisco part-time crime-solver and sleep-deprived new momMerry Wrath ~ Iowa ex-CIA operative turned Girl Scout leaderFranki Amato ~ New Orleans PI and victim of a serial-matchmaking Sicilian nonna…and find out who killed the glamper!**This murder mystery series contains no profanity or graphic descriptions of sex or violence.**

Four USA Today bestselling authors team up to bring you your favorite female sleuths in a special collection of their orginial mysteries!The 4 Sleuths are a funny killer foursome whose exploits include dodging killers at a sketchy bachelorette party, mud wrestling ancient burlesque dancers, and glamping with grownup Girl Scouts, to name a few. Meet the 4 Sleuths before they teamed up and check out their first mysteries in this box set, the Origin Stories!Get your glamor on in Boston with gutsy sleuth and beautician Valentine Beaumont in MURDER, CURLERS & CREAM!Race through the streets of San Francisco with part-time crime-solver and sleep-deprived new mom, Kate Connolly in BUNDLE OF TROUBLE!Find out if there's a scout badge for sniper training in Who's There, Iowa with ex-CIA agent turned Girl Scout Leader Merry Wrath in MERIT BADGE MURDER!Chase cocktails and crooks in the Big Easy with New Orleans PI (and victim of a serial-matchmaking Sicilian nonna) Franki Amato in LIMONCELLO YELLOW!

"e;Laugh-out-loud humor & top-notch mysteries! Absolute MUST-READS!"e; —Darynda Jones, New York Times/USA TodayBestselling Author of the Charley Davidson Series"e;Smart, entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny!"e; —Liliana Hart, New York Times Bestselling AuthorMeet gutsy beautician, part-time sleuth, Valentine Beaumont. Quick thinker? Check. Risk-taker? Check. Catching killers with her beauty tools has never been so much fun!MURDER, CURLERS & CREAMValentine Beaumont is a beautician with a problem. Not only has she got a meddling mother, a wacky staff, and a dying business, but now she's got a dead client who was strangled while awaiting her facial.With business the way it is, combing through this mystery may be the only way to save her salon. Until a second murder, an explosion, a kidnapping, death threats, and the hard-nosed Detective Romero complicate things. But Valentine will do anything to untangle the crime. That's if she can keep her tools of the trade in her bag, keep herself alive, and avoid falling for the tough detective.In the end, how hard can that be?MURDER, CURLERS & CANESValentine Beaumont is back in her second hair-raising mystery, this time, trying to find out who had it in for an elderly nun. Only trouble is there are others standing in her way: hot but tough Detective Romero, sexy new stylist Jock de Marco, and some zany locals who all have a theory on the nun's death.Making things worse: the dead nun's secret that haunts Valentine, another murder, car chases, death threats, mysterious clues, an interfering mother, and a crazy staff.Between brushing off Jock's advances and splitting hairs with handsome Detective Romero, Valentine struggles to comb through the crime, utilizing her tools of the trade in some outrageous situations. Question is, will she succeed?MURDER, CURLERS & CRUISESIn her third fast-paced mystery, beautician Valentine Beaumont and her madcap crew sail the high seas on a Caribbean "e;Beauty Cruise."e; When a bizarre murder takes place onboard, Valentine finds herself swept into the middle of the investigation.If things aren't bad enough, her mother is playing matchmaker, a loved one is kidnapped, drug smuggling is afoot, a hair contest proves disastrous, and a strange alliance between tough Detective Romero and sexy stylist Jock de Marco rubs Valentine the wrong way.Will this impulsive beauty sleuth comb through the catastrophes and untangle the mystery, or will this voyage turn into another fatal Titanic? With Jock and Romero onboard, it's destined to be a hot cruise!

Four USA Today bestselling authors team up to bring you your favorite female sleuths in a hilarious new mystery series! Tonight is Babette Lang's bachelorette party. Problem is, there's no bachelorette, only an unusual group of disgruntled guests—a wannabe hand-model bartender, a chain-smoking talent agent, the bride-to-be's cheapskate boss, plus the sloshed fiancé and his furious sisters.  It's not a party until there's a body! When one of the guests drops dead, four women with a tendency for trouble join forces to catch a killer.  Valentine Beaumont ~ Boston sleuth and gutsy beauticianKate Connolly ~ San Francisco part-time crime-solver and sleep-deprived new momMerry Wrath ~ Iowa ex-CIA operative turned Girl Scout leaderFranki Amato ~ New Orleans PI and victim of a serial-matchmaking Sicilian nonna Will these sleuths untangle this double mystery and save the party? Or is it already too late?

Four USA Today bestselling authors team up to bring you your favorite female sleuths in a hilarious new mystery series!After a murderous bachelorette party in Niagara Falls, Valentine, Merry, Kate, and Franki decide it's time to relax and have some fun in the Big Easy. New Orleans turns out to be anything but easy when the killer foursome stumble across the body of a formerly famous, elderly burlesque dancer—who dressed as a dolphin. To make matters worse, NOLA's finest arrest Kate's husband Jim as the prime suspect!The four sleuths jump into action to catch the killer in a race against time that takes them to the seedier side of the French Quarter where they tussle with strippers, mud wrestlers, and dubious all-you-can-eat crawfish buffets.Between cranky Cajuns, mysterious Spanish dignitaries, and a bizarre running of the bulls, these four sleuths don't have time to laissez les bons temps rouler before Jim takes the fall for the dolphin dancer's murder!Get reacquainted with:Valentine Beaumont ~ Boston sleuth and gutsy beauticianKate Connolly ~ San Francisco part-time crime-solver and sleep-deprived new momMerry Wrath ~ Iowa ex-CIA operative turned Girl Scout leaderFranki Amato ~ New Orleans PI and victim of a serial-matchmaking Sicilian nonna ...and help them solve this crime!**This murder mystery series contains no profanity or graphic descriptions of sex or violence.**