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Lorena Mccourtney
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New Audiobook
Something Buried, Something Blue, Book #1 in the lighthearted Mac 'n' Ivy Mysteries series, is now available as an audiobook. Ivy's chapters are narrated by Melinda Cumming, Mac's chapters by Rob Vlock. Two talented narrators who really bring the story to life!
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Ivy and Mac have been warily waltzing around the idea of marriage for some time, and now they've made the Big Decision. They're getting married!
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The plans are made, the date is set. A church wedding, of course, complete with an heirloom wedding gown and a buffalo barbecue to follow. Ivy's old friend Magnolia will walk her down the aisle.
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Except there is the problem of a dead body, a mysterious pile of money, an odd connection with a notorious plane hijacker, and a killer who is willing to bring their plans to a deadly halt.
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Ivy and Mac are sleuthing again! Click on the button below to shop for the audiobook.
New 7-Books-in-One Collection
This seven-book collection brings together two series, The Ivy Malone Mysteries and the Cate Kinkaid Files.
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The Ivy Malone Mysteries includes Invisible, In Plain Sight, On the Run, and Stranded.
The Cate Kinkaid Files includes Dying to Read, Dolled Up to Die, and Death Takes a Ride.
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To be released November 18, 2025
MY BOOKS
The Mac 'n' Ivy Mysteries
Charlie's Secrets
Book #6
Mac, with Ivy's assistance, usually writes lighthearted articles for travel magazines about quirky people, places, and events, but now they're doing the memoirs of a mysterious and reclusive woman who always hides behind a veil. They expect a simple book for family and friends, but these memoirs turn out to be an explosive expose of the woman's three prominent and well-known ex-husbands.
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Ex-husbands who are desperate to stop publication of the incriminating memoirs. How far are they willing to go to stop the memoirs? Bribes, threats ... murder?
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Beware those ex-husbands, Ivy and Mac! Now that you know all their secrets, you're also in line for their dangerous determination to stop the memoirs.
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Watch out for those sneaky peacocks too!
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Available as both e-book and paperback.
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THE TUNNEL OF DOOM
Book #5
Is Mac the next hot new movie star? Probably not. But he is an extra in a movie being filmed near a mysterious California mountain famed for the myths and legends surrounding it. He even gets a promotion above "extra" level; now he's Bigfoot and he's lumbering around roaring and head-butting people.
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Ivy is mildly indignant that she's a movie-extra reject. Too short. Although her job as assistant to the ranch woman providing lunches for cast and crew does not, at least, require a costume both hairy and itchy and she doesn't have to head-butt anyone.
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Production of "The Tunnel of Doom" does not go smoothly however. An explosion during the hiring of extras. A dead bus. A poisoned salad. Someone is definitely trying to stop completion of the movie.
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And when the sabotage escalates to a murderous level, Ivy and Mac are right in the midde of it.
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Available in both e-book and paperback.
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THAT'S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES
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Book #4
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What comes after the honeymoon for Ivy and Mac? Looking for a quiet, comfortable place to settle down and leave the nomadic motorhome life behind. No more dead bodies. No more killers.
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What do they find instead? Murder!
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Beginning with a runaway Miranda and a fiancée in a ruffled red bikini, continuing with a missing gun and a dead man with a gunshot hole in his chest. Was he the sweet guy the fiancée claims he was? Or was he a slick bank robbing con man, with any number of people . . . including the fiancée . . . eager to put a bullet in his chest?
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The most sensible reaction for Mac and Ivy would probably be to head down the road in their motorhome and look for a different place to settle down. But they both have a strong concern for someone in trouble, and there's also Ivy's persistent mutant curiosity gene . . .
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Available in both e-book and paperback editions.​
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DESERT DEAD
Book #3
Ivy and Mac are on the road, headed for their long-delayed honeymoon. Baja! Beaches! Romance and shrimp tacos and sunshine!
But then comes a panicky phone call from good friend Magnolia, who is, as usual, looking into her complicated family genealogy. What she's found this time is not another fourth-cousin-three-times-removed, but a dead body in the middle of a desert town.Except that this body, unlike the dead bodies with which Ivy has had past experience, has vanished. Magnolia is uncertain if she made a foolish mistake about there ever being a body, or if something sinister is going on. Sinister as in murder.
Mac and Ivy figure a brief side trip to Prosperity, Arizona, to help their old friend won't take long, but when they arrive they find complications .In addition to the missing body, there's an old cowboy trying to revive a faded western-movie career, a possible blackmailing, and a two-million-dollar insurance policy. Also an ex-model writing the Great American Novel, her artist boyfriend, gloomy about his surprising success as a painter of desert roadrunners, and a hungry roadrunner named Harry.
And somewhere in the desert scene, there's also a killer, now determined to put Ivy and Mac into the category of the missing dead.
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Available in both e-book and paperback.
DETOUR
Book #2
What follows a wedding? A honeymoon, of course. The beginning of a happily-ever-after future in which Ivy and Mac will travel the country in their motorhome searching for the perfect place to settle down and live. No more dead bodies. No more murders.
Instead, here they are on a detour to an old dinosaur park, and Ivy is up to her possum-gray hair in ghost goats, deteriorating dinosaurs, and . . . what else? A dead body, of course.
Ivy and Mac vow Non-involvement, no searching for clues or killers this time, but it's a vow difficult to maintain when they seem to be at the top of the list of suspects. There's a gun with Mac's initials scratched into it, a hint of dastardly doings in the past, an exploding Porsche, and a covert climb over a chain link fence into the dinosaur's domain.
Is Ivy in danger from the dinosaurs? Or is it more a case of Watch out dinosaurs - here comes Ivy!
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Available in both e-book and paperback editions.
SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE
Book #1
​Ivy and Mac have been warily waltzing around the idea of marriage for some time, and now they've made the Big Decision. They're getting married!
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The plans are made, the date is set. A church wedding, of course, complete with an heirloom wedding gown and a buffalo barbecue to follow. Ivy's old friend Magnolia will walk her down the aisle.
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Except there is the problem of a dead body, a mysterious pile of money, an odd connection with a notorious plane hijacker, and a killer who is willing to bring their plans to a deadly halt.
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Available in both e-book and paperback editions. Also audiobook.
THE IVY MALONE MYSTERIES
GO, IVY, GO!
Book #5
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​Ivy has been running cross-country in her motorhome, hiding out from the vindictive Braxtons, but now it appears they have lost interest in her and she is going home to Missouri.
Her silver-fox friend Mac MacPherson is strongly against this and heads a different direction.​But an unpleasant surprise awaits Ivy in the bathtub of her old home, proof that the Braxtons are as murderous as ever. They haven't forgotten her and they still have murder on their minds.
But Mac hasn't forgotten her either!​
The first four books in the Ivy Malone Mysteries series, Invisible, In Plain Sight, On the Run, and Stranded are available immediately when e-book is ordered. Paperback and hardcover editions occasionally show up as available as used copies.
THE ANDI McCONNELL MYSTERIES
YOUR CHARIOT AWAITS
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Book #1
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Downsized from her job.
Dumped by her boyfriend.
Depressed about that upcoming 6-0 birthday.
Not a good week for Andi McConnell. But now there's good news: She's just inherited a limousine, a long, sleek, black limousine with bulletproof windows, from an eccentric uncle.
There's also bad news: The dead body that soon turns up in the trunk. And Andi is the top suspect in the murder. Enter Keegan "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, former TV detective, very interested in the case - and in Andi.
As they work together to solve the crime, a big question looms: when the bullets start flying, are the windows in Andi's limo really bullet proof?
HERE COMES THE RIDE
Book #2
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Andi and her new limousine service have a fabulous new gig, five days ferrying guests at the "wedding of the century."
There's the groom with cell phone welded to his ear; the bride who suspects she'll be murdered at the ceremony; and the over-the-hill movie star/stepmother with an ambitious agenda of her own. There's blackmail, betrayal, and enough hostility to melt that life-sized sculpture of the bride and groom. And then there's murder...​
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Along with chasing down a killer, Andi is trying to figure out her relationship with God and testing the limits of her aging anatomy with a skateboard. There's also her relationship with Keegan "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, a guy who is living proof that some men do age like fine wine, which adds another complication to the chaos of her life.
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FOR WHOM THE LIMO ROLLS
Book #3
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Andi's life is momentarily normal. Her limo business is flourishing, as is her friendship with former TV detective "Fitz," and her relationship with the Lord is growing.
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Can "normal" remain for Andi? Doubtful. Not when there's an odd new renter in her duplex. Plus unlikely changes in her grumpy neighbor, Tom, now that he has a girlfriend, and the girlfriend's strange "helper," who seems to speak from some other dimension.
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And then there's the dead body. . .
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Midnight Escape
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Times are hard during the Great Depression, and Beth Curtis is even more desperate than most in this year of 1933.
She's always known the powerful Wilkerson family might try to claim baby Joey, the nephew she's been raising almost since birth. But until Guy Wilkerson shows up at her door, Beth hadn't realized how far they'd go to claim him, and legality doesn't matter to the Wilkersons. Beth, knowing she can't fight the Wilkersons' money and power, makes the only choice she can with Joey. Run! Hide!
But Guy Wilkerson is a very determined man, and it turns out that he wants more than baby Joey.
Faith and Fun Romances
Dear Silver
Silver Sinclair's love life has always been more like the sinking of the Titanic than a Club Med cruise, but this breakup letter from Chris Bentley is a new low. It's as cold and impersonal as a "You're fired" letter from an employer or a complaint about a defective widget. She'd be devastated by it except for one minor point: Who is Chris Bentley?
Silver's bewilderment quickly turns to indignation. What kind of guy writes such an insensitive letter to end a relationship? An insensitive clod, that's who! Which is exactly what Silver tells him when the sparks fly - and the latte spills - at their fiery first meeting.
Other Mysteries and Romances
Canyon
The Holloway and McCord families have been friends and business partners for years, and now Kit and Tyler are planning a big wedding and an adventurous future together as river guides taking rafters through the wild rapids of the Grand Canyon. But Kit's father and Tyler's mother have plans too, shocking plans that open a canyon of difference between Kit and Tyler and shatter their future together.
Searching for Stardust
Stardust! The name jumps out at Jan Hilliard from the disjointed pages of her dead son's journal. Is she just a fantasy out of his chaotic mind or a real girl who may be carrying Jan's grandchild? The last thing Jan wants is to work with her ex-husband to find Stardust - and the truth about their son's death - but she grits her teeth and does it.
Yesterday Lost
Who is she?
She was found injured and unconscious on a rugged stretch of Oregon coast. Now she's in a hospital with a shaved head and a cast on her leg, her memory and identity hidden in an unreachable pit in her mind.
But someone knows who she is! After considerable publicity, a warm and caring older woman, Lenore Lennox, shows up and identifies her. She's Kat Cavanaugh, New York model, who disappeared from her deceased parents' isolated home in northern California several months ago.
Relieved to know who she is, Kat returns home with Mrs. L. As her leg heals and her hair grows, she finds herself very much attracted to Jace Foster, manager of a nearby Christian school for boys.
But even though her past is only a shadowy flicker in her mind, ugly strands of that other life reach out to entangle her present. She was not, she realizes a nice person in that life. There's a hostile past with Jace, vengeful ex-roommates, professional clashes - and a fiancé she can't remember.
There's also someone from her past who is determined there will be no future for her.
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