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the Book Tour, presented by Silver Dagger Book
Tours, for The Sisters Texas Series by Becki Willis. Please leave a comment or question for Becki
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enter her tour wide giveaway by following the link below. Good Luck!
Chicken
Scratch
by Becki Willis
The Sisters, Texas
Series, Book 1
Clear Creek Publishers
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Named
2016 Best Mystery Series by Texas Association of Authors.
When Madison Reynolds
finds herself widowed and penniless before forty, she does the only thing she
knows to do – she packs up her teenage twins and moves back home with her
eighty-year-old grandmother. Life in The Sisters, Texas has not changed much
since she’s been gone, but at least her best friend Genesis is there to soften
the transition back into small-town life.
To make ends meet,
Madison opens In a Pinch Temporary Services. Her first real client is
Ronny Gleason, but when she shows up for the first day of work at the Gleason
Poultry Farm, Madison makes a gruesome discovery. The dead body she finds
belongs to Mr. Gleason. When a local man is arrested for murder, Madison takes
on the job of proving his innocence. Even though she is not a private investigator,
both mothers are desperate: Lucy Ngyen to clear her son’s name, and Madison to
pay her bills. But as she begins asking questions around town, her interference
is not welcome.
With a daughter
determined to go back to Dallas, a son settling into small town life, a feisty
grandmother who knows all the town gossip, bill collectors calling, and now
someone trying to keep her silent, Madison has no time for re-kindling her high
school crush with police chief Brash deCordova. She has her hands full just
trying to stay alive.
If she survives her
amateur investigation, Maddy has a decision to make. Will she go back to her
life in Dallas, or will she build a new life here in The Sisters?
From Chicken Scratch, Sisters Texas Mystery Series, Book 1“You were trespassing on posted property.”“I didn’t see the sign.”“Did you happen to notice the fence?”Madison chose not to comment. With a determined glint in her hazel eyes, she said, “I also overheard them talking about the boss, someone obviously higher up than Ronny Gleason. And I think you’re right. I think this is an organized gambling ring.”“I’m so glad you approve of my theory. I suppose your years of watching Matlock and CSI qualify you to offer your glowing endorsement?”With great effort, Madison resisted the urge to stick her tongue out at him.Brash continued. “Of course, the biggest problem I have with all of this is that you were witness to illegal activity, yet failed to call it in. By failing to report it, a smart Assistance District Attorney could argue your silence makes you an accessory to crime.”Madison had a quick comeback, along with a charming smile. “A smart Chief of Police would recognize I have valuable information to share and would never dream of pressing charges.”She knew he was having difficulty maintaining his stoic expression. His eyes glittered with appreciation, but his voice remained gruff. “You should have reported it, Maddy. We might could have caught them in the act.”
When The
Stars Fall
The Sisters, Texas
Series, Book 2
Madison Reynolds is
rebuilding her life, one obstacle at a time.
But the building blocks
aren’t standard issue: widowed at thirty-nine…betrayed by her late
husband…mother of teenaged twins…finances in shambles…living with her
eighty-year-old grandmother…still attracted to her teenage crush Brash
deCordova, who just happens to be the Chief of Police in The Sisters…embroiled
in yet another murder mystery… How will she ever get all the blocks assembled
and stacked one upon another, in order to build a future for herself and her
children?
Madison’s newest client
at In a Pinch Temp Service is a suspicious wife, up against a
formidable foe—the lovely Caress Ellingsworth, former soap opera queen. When
the star is murdered and Madison is eyewitness to the deed, she wonders if the
shadowed person she saw commit the crime might really be her client. Now
Madison is torn between uncovering the truth and keeping her client’s name off
the suspect list.
Caress is not the only
star in town these days. With a little help from Granny Bert and Madison’s best
friend Genesis, the popular television show Home Again arrives, with some crazy
notion about remodeling the Big House for Maddy and her twins. The problem is,
Madison can’t afford to buy the house, much less pay to have it renovated. No
matter how tempting the offer—or how tempting the show’s star, Nick
Vilardi—Madison sees it as just another block that will not fit.
Even if she manages to
stack the blocks in a semblance of order, even if she climbs her way up and
reaches for the sky, what happens when the stars fall?
**FREE on July 1-2 and July 14 **
Stipulations
and Complications
The Sisters, Texas
Series, Book 3
Life comes with
stipulations.
If you want to fit
into last year’s swimsuit, you can’t eat ice cream and a Gennydoodle cookie
after every meal.
If you want to go to
Heaven, you can’t raise Hell on Saturday night and show up in the church pew on
Sunday morning, hungover and reeking of cheap perfume.
And if you want your
hundred-year-old mansion completely updated and remodeled for free, you have to
sacrifice.
Stipulations, my
child.
-Granny Bert Cessna
Now that Madison
Reynolds has agreed to be part of a reality-television home remodeling show,
she barely recognizes her own life. The show is an instant success, bringing
cameras and reporters right to her doorstep, eager to chronicle her every move
in the small Texas town.
With In a Pinch Temporary
Services hovering on the thin line between prosperity and extinction,
Madison takes on another quirky case, this one concerning a property dispute.
Complications turn a simple mission into all-out danger, and once again Madison
finds herself embroiled in an intriguing mystery.
Between her
cantankerous grandmother, a moody teenage daughter, an ever-starving son,
townspeople eager to grab their fifteen minutes of fame at her expense, and a
mother-in-law appalled by her undignified foray into the public eye, Madison
had her hands full, long before the skeleton was discovered. Now work is
interrupted at the Big House, ghost stories abound, more secret passages have
been unearthed, and someone is trying to scare her away from her new home.
What she needs is
another session of Brash deCordova’s unique ‘river therapy’… not to mention the
kiss that eludes them with frustrating regularity.
What she gets is
another round of stipulations and complications.
Home
Again: Starting Over
The Sisters, Texas
Series, Book 4
Named "Best
Mystery Series of 2017" by Texas Association of Authors
Things in The Sisters
are heating up, and Madison Reynolds is in the hot seat.
When a local woman dies
in a most unconventional way, In a Pinch takes on the quirky case and once
again, Maddy finds herself in the middle of a would-be murder investigation.
Even with the help of her grandmother and best friend Genny, this case may be
too hot to handle.
As summer scorches its
way across Texas, drama as thick as the August humidity rolls through the twin
towns of Juliet and Naomi. Granny Bert reveals a secret that rocks Maddy’s
foundation. A celebrity designer joins the renovation crew at the Big House,
bringing twice the chaos and twice the fans. Madison’s estranged mother-in-law
convinces the twins to spend the summer with her in Dallas. As if all of that
isn’t enough to wreak havoc in Madison’s life, Barry Redmond continues to
propagate his ridiculous grudge against her.
Things really start
smoking when Cutter’s grandfather, rodeo legend Sticker Pierce, returns to The
Sisters and tries to rekindle a romance with old flame Belle, aka Granny Bert.
And Maddy’s latest brush with death prompts Brash to finally make his move.
With renovations almost
complete and the love of a good man behind her,
Maddy is ready to tell the
world: I’m home again, and starting over.
Don’t miss Book Four in
the award-winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series.
**On sale for .99 from July 1st-21st, then $1.99 until July 28th**
Genny's
Ballad
The Sisters, Texas
Series, Book 5
By all
accounts, everyone loves Genny.
So why
does someone want her dead?
There’s something
special about Genesis Baker, owner of The Sister’s popular New Beginnings
Café. With her dimpled smile and twinkling blue eyes, Genny has practically the
entire town eating from the palm of her hand. But Genny is hiding a secret.
Despite her sunny disposition and golden touch, there is heartache in her past,
and heartache, they say, comes in threes.
Heartache Number
One: An unwelcomed customer shows up at New Beginnings. Apparently,
the restraining order against him has lapsed.
Heartache Number Two: Genny’s
arch nemesis from high school returns to town. Twenty years has done nothing to
mellow the bitter feud between these two women.
Heartache Number
Three: As Genny finally acknowledges her feelings for a younger man—sexy
firefighter Cutter Montgomery—memories of her first love come back to haunt
her.
On top of it all,
someone is stalking Genny, determined to make her life miserable.
As it turns out, being
kidnapped is only the beginning of her troubles…
Great as a stand-alone,
but Book Five of the award winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series, voted
Best Mystery Series by the Texas Association of Authors, two years in a row!
Becki
Willis,
best known for her popular The Sisters,
Texas Mystery Series and Forgotten
Boxes, always dreamed of being an author. In November of '13, that dream
became a reality. Since that time, she has published eleven books, won first
place honors for Best Mystery Series, Best Suspense Fiction and Best Audio
Book, and has introduced her imaginary friends to readers around the world.
An avid history buff,
Becki likes to poke around in old places and learn about the past. Other addictions
include reading, writing, junking, unraveling a good mystery, and coffee. She
loves to travel, but believes coming home to her family and her Texas ranch is
the best part of any trip. Becki is a member of the Association of Texas
Authors, the National Association of Professional Women, and the Brazos Writers
organization. She attended Texas A&M University and majored in
Journalism.
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