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Texas-connected mystery roundup<\/p>\n

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Welcome to a new edition of Texas Reads<\/em>. I\u2019m your host, Anita Dickason. I am excited about the opportunity to be part of Lone Star Literary Life. What fun! I so enjoy talking about books, and not just mine. I hope you will join me each month as I share my love of books: ones that tease, tantalize, and intrigue. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/p>\n <\/p>\nI can\u2019t think of a better way to start than with an exceptional, talented group of Texas authors, The Underground Authors<\/em>. Even their name excites my imagination. This innovative group created a small fictitious Texas town, Magnolia Bluff. Each author’s novel brings a different and unique spin on the inhabitants, characters with secrets, hidden agendas, and dirty, double-dealing skullduggery. There\u2019s a lot to like about the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles<\/em>. To date, I\u2019ve read four, and I\u2019m still reading. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nToday, I\u2019m sharing two novels from this remarkable series by Texas author Linda Pirtle. What\u2019s up with the dogs? Find out in these enthralling cozy mysteries. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nDewey Decimal Dilemma: Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles,  <\/em><\/p>\nBook 7<\/em> by Linda Pirtle <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/05a_texas_reads_april_23.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 5px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left; width: 175px; height: 279px;\">\u201cMagnolia Bluff, Texas, is a typical small town in the heart of the Hill Country. Just because it is small and everybody knows everyone\u2019s business, the town isn\u2019t insulated from murder and mayhem. Which begs the questions: Who\u2019s responsible for breaking into houses? How are poodles, ghosts, drug cartels, and Ponzi schemes connected with a serial killer? <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nCaroline McCluskey, the town\u2019s librarian, routinely catalogues books using the Dewey Decimal system. When a black and white poodle puppy arrives unannounced, she calls him Dewey. His arrival creates a challenge for Caroline. Now, she must catalogue events to identify a serial killer in her town. No matter how many murders occur, no matter what kinds of mischief the town experiences, some traditions never vary. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\nCome Monday morning, the early-morning group sits at the coffee shop\u2019s round table to solve the world\u2019s problems. Come Thursday, ladies sit in dim lights with their husbands and\/or escorts in LouEllen\u2019s Lounge and listen to romantic melodies. Come Sunday, all good Christians sit in their pews at either the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, or Catholic sanctuaries to hear the Gospels. The killer may be among them, singing the loudest. Praying the hardest. In Magnolia Bluff, you never can tell.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nThe Dog Gone Diamond Dilemma: Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBook 10<\/em> by Linda Pirtle <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/05b_texas_reads_april_23.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 5px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left; width: 175px; height: 279px;\">\u201cCaroline, sleuth extraordinaire, has grown weary of waiting for the authorities to solve the disappearance of her friend Esther. She organizes a group of friends and creates a mystery club called The Round Table. Caroline, along with Magnolia Nadine, LouEllen Mueller, and Daphne Leigh, are determined to find their missing friend. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\nLooking for clues, the women become cat burglars when they break and enter Esther\u2019s house. Their search is interrupted when they hear voices of two men who have also entered the house. The words diamond stock certificates and the words she still won\u2019t talk even though we stole her dog for her tells the members of the Round Table that Esther is still alive. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\nHowever, where is she being held and by whom? Why would anyone think that Esther, a retired school teacher, could own stock certificates in a diamond mine? Daphne, owner of the Head Case Salon, gathers an important clue. Alas, someone finds out about it, and Daphne becomes another victim. Will the Round Table members be able to rescue Esther from her captors before they, too, become the next victims?\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\nWith a background as an English teacher, Texas author Linda Pirtle and her husband, author Caleb Pirtle III, have devoted their time to connecting readers and authors through their website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calebandlindapirtle.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here Comes a Mystery<\/a><\/em><\/u>. Turning her attention to writing, Linda\u2019s infatuation with the kinds of cozy hometown mysteries written by Agatha Christie and Diane Mott Davidson led her to write cozy mysteries\u2014stories where Linda can indulge in her fascination with dastardly murder mysteries, solved by the lady next door who relies on intuition, instinct, and deductive reasoning. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nMy kind of book! <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas-connected mystery roundup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1311,813,830,839,1416],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anitadickason","tag-lone-star-literary-life","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-mystery","tag-texasreadsmystery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}