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Death of a Six Foot Teddy Bear Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Sharon Dunn/ Multnomah Reviewed by Susan SleemanDeath of a Six Foot Teddy Bear is as fun and quirky as the title suggests.In book two of Sharon Dunn's Bargain Hunters series, we find all the loveable bargain hunters from book one as they arrive in Calamity, Nevada to attend the Invention Expo and the world's largest garage sale. Ginger, Kindra, Suzanne, and Arleta begin their stay at the Wind-Up Hotel where trouble starts even before they check in. They are plagued by lost luggage, non-existent air conditioning, loss of Ginger's husband Earl's booth at the Invention Expo, and a runaway feline. If this isn't enough to ruin their day, they must also share the hotel with the Squirrel Lover's Convention, which has limited the hotel rooms available for the shopping quartet. This is just the beginning of a zany ride that our Bargain Hunters travel on through the book. Kindra meets and falls for Xabier, aka the six foot teddy bear. But does this relationship come to an abrupt end before it can really blossom, when the teddy bear meets his fate at the hand of a mysterious killer? Arleta comes to life for the reader in this book as she begins to question the meaning of life without God, but does she find Him? Ginger once again strives to improve her relationship with Earl, but does she succeed or will her relationship need further honing in the next book? Not only do we have all these character struggles in Death of A Six Foot Teddy Bear, but Dunn also brings us a more complex mystery with many twists and turns, and an unpredictable outcome. Though not a mystery that races to a break neck conclusion, after all we have to take our time to enjoy the madcap characters along the way, the reader will be thoroughly satisfied with the ending. Sharon Dunn has a great humorous writing style and you can always, I mean always, count on her to deliver a quirky, fun, and laughable read. She doesn't disappoint in this second book. In fact, due to the very creative setting of the story, at the Wind-Up Hotel decorated in retro-children's toys, where squirrel lovers are plentiful, I enjoyed this book more than the first. As a writer, I admire Dunn's well-played humor and her creative descriptions along with her eccentric characters. Even the detectives in this story come alive with Dunn's unique depiction of the pair. I have always recommended Sharon Dunn as an author not to miss and I'll stand by that recommendation. If you love a good cozy style mystery, Death of A Six Foot Teddy Bear will not disappoint. Susan Sleeman / The Christian Suspense Zone
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Other Books by Sharon Dunn
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Crimes & the Mustang Menace: A Ruby Taylor Mystery Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Sharon Dunn / Kregel Publications 
Investigating a series of bizarre ranch thefts, dealing with the expectations of a Betty Crocker mom, and entering a recipe in the Potato Festival cook-off, have Ruby Taylor in over her flaming red head. When an outsider turns up dead, it'll take more than a steaming mocha expresso, and her unpredictable yet intriguing Wesley, to save Ruby from the danger. |
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Sale Newbie, Bargain Hunters Mysteries Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Sharon Dunn / Multnomah Publishers Inc. 
Since when do three women, bonded together by the need to clip coupons and be first in line at door buster sales, solve crimes? Since the fourth member of the Bargain Hunters Network was found dead. When they suspect Mary Margret s murder was prompted by something she purchased at a garage sale the morning of her death, the three amateur sleuths begin to investigate. Suzanne is a mother of three with another on the way. Kindra is a college student with a taste for designer clothes but not the budget. And Ginger is an active baby boomer whose world is filled with scouting the clearance racks, church activities, and helping her retired husband, Earl, test his inventions. Their discoveries take them back twenty years to a dark and buried secretone perhaps better left there. |
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Rustlers and Thunderbird Thieves Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Sharon Dunn / Kregel Publications
No one makes a fool of Ruby Taylor...or her friends. A tough cookie with an attitude, but also a soft heart, Ruby finds herself in a perilous search for a young man who disapppeared just days before he was to be married. Her sometimes harrowing yet often hilarious quest to right the wrongs of love pit her against helicopters, wild buffalo, and some desperate people who have every reason to want Ruby to fail. |
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Sassy Cinderella & the
Valiant Vigilante Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Sharon Dunn / Kregel Publications
When a professor at a local university dies, Ruby Taylor is hired to fill his shoes. Along with a frozen corpse and midnight intruders, this sassy Cinderella has to deal with lost love and a family that defines the word dysfunctional. Deadly university politics turn personal as Ruby works to straighten out a mystery that has more twists than a silly straw. |
©2006-09
Susan Sleeman
Susan Sleeman
is the author of Nipped in the Bud, available May of 2009 from Heartsong Presents: Mysteries, an imprint of Barbour Publishing.
