Wendy Neugent – författare

A light-hearted cruise ship cozy mystery with murder at sea, backstage magic, tropical sunshine, and one scene-stealing parrot.Olivia Morgan’s magician boyfriend has abandoned her at sea.That’s not ideal.Especially since the ship has already left port.For ten years, Olivia has been the assistant in Peter’s cruise ship magic act. Now he has dumped her, vanished from the ship, and left her with a performance looming and Chico, her clever parrot, expecting snacks.Thankfully, her best friend Hayley has a plan.Olivia will become the magician.Hayley will become the assistant.Chico will steal the show, obviously.Then the ship’s photographer is murdered, and Hayley lands on the suspect list.Now Olivia has to save the act, clear her friend’s name, and work out who killed a crew member before her big debut turns into a disaster.The killer is still onboard.The audience is waiting.And Olivia is about to discover that solving murder might be easier than performing magic in heels.Murder Takes a Bow is Book 1 in the Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mystery series. Perfect for readers who love clean cozy mysteries, cruise ship settings, animal sidekicks, backstage chaos, and murder in paradise.___________________________________________________________________Praise for the Olivia Morgan Cozy Mystery Series:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The parrot is a riot, loved him.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cute and cruisey little cozy!★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a fun mystery to unravel. Olivia and Hayley make a good sleuthing duo and Chico is a cute bird with an amazing skill set.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Full of humor, intrigue and great characters.

A cruise ship cozy mystery with backstage jealousy, suspicious accidents, light romance, and one scene-stealing parrot.The show must go on… assuming nobody else drops dead.Olivia Morgan is finding her sea legs as the SS Starlight’s new illusionist, with her best friend Hayley helping backstage and Chico, her rescue parrot, ready to steal every spotlight he can flap into.Then a dancer dies during the cruise.Bad luck? Maybe.Shipboard gossip says otherwise.Accidents start hitting the production cast, the backstage drama gets dangerously dramatic, and someone ends up stuffed inside Olivia’s own substitution trunk. Rude, frankly.Now Olivia has to dodge suspicion, wrangle Chico, and work out who is turning the entertainment schedule into a murder mystery.This killer had better watch out.Olivia knows a thing or two about making people disappear.Pier Pressure is Book 2 in the Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mystery series. Perfect for readers who love clean cozy mysteries, cruise ship settings, animal sidekicks, backstage chaos, light romance, and murder in paradise.___________________________________________________________________Praise for the Olivia Morgan Cozy Mystery Series:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A highly entertaining cozy cruise ship mystery.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I feel like I just took a cruise.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cozy, but so much about cruise life it is just very interesting.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The peek into life on a cruise ship is fascinating.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This story has a little of everything, romance, mystery, insight into cruise life and fun.

A festive cruise ship cozy mystery with missing jewels, holiday magic, tropical sunshine, and one scene-stealing parrot.Christmas at sea should be merry, bright, and preferably crime-free.Olivia Morgan is ready for her first Christmas performing aboard the SS Starlight, with her best friend Hayley by her side and Chico, her rescue parrot, prepared to steal the holiday show.Then Olivia’s mother arrives unannounced.Festive.Very festive.Before Olivia can survive the surprise family visit, expensive jewelry starts disappearing around the ship. A casino jackpot vanishes. A sentimental necklace goes missing. Even the Captain’s Christmas gift is not safe.Now Olivia has a thief to catch, a mother to manage, and a parrot who may or may not understand the seriousness of grand larceny.With holiday cheer running thin and the ship sailing toward Christmas morning, Olivia has to unwrap the culprit before this festive cruise goes completely overboard.Overboard at Christmas is Book 3 in the Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mystery series. Perfect for readers who love clean cozy mysteries, cruise ship settings, animal sidekicks, festive mysteries, backstage chaos, and murder-free mayhem in paradise.___________________________________________________________________Praise for the Olivia Morgan Cozy Mystery Series:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is the best Christmas book that I have read in a long time.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Craziness ensues when things start to disappear starting with Mom’s diamond necklace.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This fun cruise mystery gave me hours of enjoyment.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Olivia and Chico are great at delivering smiles, excitement and mayhem.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Another exciting mystery with a Holiday twist!

A cruise ship cozy mystery with a missing youth counselor, chaotic Kids Club duty, tropical hijinks, and one scene-stealing parrot.Olivia Morgan can handle magic tricks, murder, and one very dramatic parrot.Forty-seven children may be pushing it.Olivia’s cruise ship life is busy enough with evening magic shows, shipboard romance, and Chico, her rescue parrot, acting like he owns the spotlight.Then the ship’s youth counselor vanishes.Before Olivia can say “absolutely not,” she, Hayley, and Rachel are recruited to run the Kids Club. Goodbye cocktails by the pool. Hello toddlers, tantrums, pirate games, and ball-pit warfare.Then Olivia finds a body.Worse, it disappears before handsome security officer Alex Ballas arrives.Now Olivia has a missing crew member, a possible murder, and a room full of children with more energy than the ship’s engines. And when another body turns up in the theater, this cruise stops looking like kid duty and starts looking like killer duty.If Olivia doesn’t untangle the case fast, someone onboard may make her vanish next.Afraid Knot is Book 4 in the Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mystery series. Perfect for readers who love clean cozy mysteries, cruise ship settings, animal sidekicks, backstage chaos, light romance, and high-seas hijinks.___________________________________________________________________Praise for the Olivia Morgan Cozy Mystery Series:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Olivia and Chico quickly became two of my favorite amateur sleuths.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A fun cruise ship mystery with three great friends, an amazing parrot and murder.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hilarious reading.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cruise ship, mystery and humor.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This series gets better and better with each book.

A cruise ship cozy mystery with strange accidents, backstage drama, a creepy ventriloquist dummy, and one snack-loving parrot.Olivia Morgan finally has her own headline act.Naturally, the ship starts falling apart.Freshly signed as a headlining illusionist aboard the SS Starlight, Olivia should be celebrating. Her best friend Hayley is by her side, Chico the parrot is ready for snacks and applause, and her ex-boyfriend is no longer blocking the spotlight.Then the cruise goes sideways.A crew member dies. The lights go out. The ship hits the dock. And someone decides Olivia’s magic trunk would look better covered in rotten eggs.Rude.The new assistant cruise director is ready to blame Olivia for everything, which is annoying enough before she turns up dead in the cabin of a very odd ventriloquist.Beside a knife.And a dummy named Bob.Now Olivia has a murder to solve, a contract to protect, and a parrot who is probably judging everyone. With Alex fighting to keep the ship under control, Olivia has to work out who is sabotaging the Starlight before this cruise becomes her final curtain call.Berth Mark is Book 5 in the Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mystery series. Perfect for readers who love clean cozy mysteries, cruise ship settings, animal sidekicks, backstage chaos, light romance, and high-seas mayhem.___________________________________________________________________Praise for the Olivia Morgan Cozy Mystery Series:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A light-hearted story that never takes a breath.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A fun, fast read cozy★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A wild ride on a cruise ship★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cruising Can Be Murder★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I feel as if I’m good buddies with Olivia and her friends, even Chico.

A cruise ship cozy mystery with arson, backstage sabotage, shipboard romance, and one very chatty parrot.Nothing wakes you up quite like a fire alarm at sea.Olivia Morgan would not recommend it.One minute, she is asleep aboard the SS Starlight. The next, she is fleeing through smoke with Chico, her rescue parrot, and stumbling into a cabin with a dead crew member inside.Not ideal cruise behavior.Security chief Alex Ballas suspects arson, and Olivia would very much like to leave the investigating to him this time.Honestly.Probably.But then another crew member dies, her magic act is sabotaged mid-performance, and Olivia wakes with a concussion, a patchy memory, and the horrible feeling she saw something important before she hit the stage.Now the ship has a killer onboard, Chico has opinions, and Olivia has to piece together the clues before someone decides her next trick should be permanent disappearance.Stern Warning is Book 6 in the Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship Mystery series. Perfect for readers who love clean cozy mysteries, cruise ship settings, animal sidekicks, backstage danger, light romance, and high-seas mayhem.___________________________________________________________________Praise for the Olivia Morgan Cozy Mystery Series:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Olivia is a delightful caring amateur sleuth.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fun & relaxing, with just the right amount of tension. I ‘sailed’ through this book.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A cruise adventure filled with exotic locations, mystery and magic.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s so much fun listening to Olivia converse with her parrot.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Full of mystery and adventure.