Bøker av Lolli Powell

WHISKEY WITH A MURDER CHASER!Big cities are known to be dangerous, but former New Yorker and bar owner Ricki Fontaine is finding the small town of Waterton, Ohio, is proving to be the murder capital of the world-well, at least her world.The new Top Shelf is open for business, but business as usual for Ricki and the Shelf translates to another dead guy. Ricki's friend, Ruby Fogarty, is charged with murdering her boyfriend by clubbing him to death with a bottle of whiskey. The police consider the case closed, but Ricki is convinced Ruby is innocent and sets out to find the real murderer. Although Waterton police detective Gabriel Russell is crazy about Ricki, he isn't too crazy about her trying to do his job.The killer's not too happy about it either.

Police detective Jen Dillon has a lot on her plate. Between finding a brutal serial killer who is preying on her city's women and raising a son on her own, she doesn't have time for a man. But when FBI Special Agent Will Anderson joins the hunt for the killer, she starts to reconsider.Will's focus is on the killer. He believes him to be the son of a serial killer he caught years before. But when he sets eyes on Jen for the first time, he still wants the killer, but he also wants Jen.The killer has goals, too. He wants to trap the man responsible for putting his father in prison. Jen Dillon is the perfect bait.

Luke Savage is a DEA agent assigned to go undercover in a criminal organization that wants to expand its "business." Bree Kelly is a local cop assigned to go undercover with him. She thinks he's an arrogant sexist. He thinks she's an irritating liability. Their cover? They have to pose as a loving couple-and they don't even like one another. The assignment could last for weeks or even months as they try to uncover their target's plans and who the organization has on the inside of local government and police departments. The success of the assignment-and their lives-depends on them working together as partners. But can they trust one another even though they don't like each other? Can they share an apartment for as long as necessary without killing one another? And the biggest question of all-will the loving couple act stay an act?

Small town council meetings are usually boring, but not when Ricki and murder are involved! When Waterton councilman and local pharmacist, Ralph Waites, takes a wrong turn after a council meeting and ends up face down in the Ohio River, the Waterton police at first think it was an accident. The meeting had been held in the newly renovated warehouse between the Top Shelf and the river to introduce the townspeople to what will become a town museum, craft shop, and meeting rooms. The Top Shelf catered the event, and Ricki and the victim got into a shouting match by the end of it. When the Waterton police chief starts accusing Ricki of contributing to Ralph's death by serving him too much wine, Ricki starts investigating. She soon finds the councilman/pharmacist was not the upstanding citizen he seemed to be. Between playing host to her mother and stepfather, who have come to town to meddle in her love life, and investigating murder, Ricki is a busy woman. And that's not even counting the catering business she's trying to get off the ground. It's almost enough to drive a bar owner to drink!

Shelby Wolfe's life has gotten complicated-two eccentric aunts, too many attractive men, and too many roommates-both living and dead.It's winter in Goose Lick, and Shelby Wolfe is settling into her new home. Chief Jebediah Carpenter doesn't seem to be in any hurry to move on, but when Lillian Harris, a local lawsuit-crazy woman, is stabbed to death with one of the café's knives, Shelby is kind of glad Jeb is still around. Just hours before, the woman, Lil Harris, had stormed into the café and accused Shelby's cousin, Red, of trying to poison her. During the ensuing argument, Red had a knife in his hand, the same knife that ended up being the murder weapon.Since the murdered woman had sued nearly everyone in town and claimed to know things about people they would want kept secret, almost everyone in Goose Lick had a motive for wanting to see Lillian dead. But thanks to the argument and the knife, the police zero in on Red. Shelby knows her cousin wouldn't have killed anyone, but she's convinced someone is trying to set him up. She vows to prove his innocence by finding the real killer, and she has Chief Jeb Carpenter to help her.After all, dead men don't retire.

Murder and men!When Daniel Fuller, a hotshot real estate developer, chases a double shot of bourbon at the Top Shelf with a double shot to the chest in the parking lot, the police arrest Trey Franklin, the grandson of Waterton's only taxi driver, Mose Franklin. It appears to be an open-and-shut case: -Trey has motive. Daniel was evicting Mose after buying his delinquent mortgage under suspicious circumstances.-Trey has opportunity. He left the Shelf just minutes before the murder.-Trey has the means-or at least he might. The police determine a .38 was the murder weapon, and Mose's .38 is missing.Mose begs Ricki to prove his grandson's innocence, and at first, she refuses. But after talking to Trey, she agrees and sets out to find the real killer.That should be enough to keep Ricki busy, but she's got more than a murder to solve. Gabriel Russell, the hunky detective who left town to think about their relationship, is back. He wants to pick up where they left off, but Logan Parker, owner/editor of the local paper, wants to fill the vacancy left by Gabe. That's problem enough, but the real problem is that Ricki wants them both.And then there's that FBI agent...Sometimes Ricki wishes she'd stayed in New York