Temporarily
Insane
Hattie Cooks Mystery, #2
By Vicki Batman
Genre: Romantic Comedy Mystery
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Release Date: September 16, 2016
No man. Bad job.
And Murder. Hattie Cooks is still searching for her dream job and one
might be available...in the Big Apple, far from friends, family, and Allan
Wellborn, the man who still makes her heart race. In the meantime, she finds
temporary employment at an accounting firm where two auditor friends turn up
dead.
Detective Allan
Wellborn dropped Hattie for Blonde Bimbo who, coincidentally, is employed at
NLB where fishy things are taking place. When Allan interviews Hattie, he must
determine why all signs point to her as a suspect.
Can Hattie
discover why Allan dumped her and who is murdering auditors before death
strikes again?
Trixie had some
nerve.
“Stop it,
Hattie!”
Her reprimand,
the one which had shot a stabbing pain to my right eye, sounded terribly out of
character, like she had little patience for me. Ordinarily, she was the nicest
person I knew, didn’t have a mean bone in her body. The kind who rescued
animals, picked up trash at Sommerville Park, and prepared food for the
elderly.
Not today. I
narrowed my eyes and crossed my arms across my chest in a school girl flaunt.
Trixie tilted
forward in her desk chair, her bosom almost resting on her desk. “This nonsense
has to end. Your moan sounded like an obscure breed of a
bizarre...untamed...wounded animal.” She returned to an upright and seated
position and in tiny increments, rotated her chair from side-to-side, waiting
for me to say something not stupid.
In truth, Trixie
had pounded the nail on the head. I had nothing to add. My whole life had
turned into an obscure, bizarre, bad reflection of itself, thus wounding me to
my core. I sighed and pouted an if only.
Don’t go there.
My funsister
friend owned the employment agency Jobs Inc., and on occasion, she’d happily
assisted me in finding temporary work since my dream job had been flushed down
the proverbial toilet a few months back, thus soiling my picture perfect life.
For this newest assignment she’d located, I’d be employed as an administrative
assistant for the managing partner at Northside, Lancaster, and Brookside,
Certified Public Accountants, headquartered in my hometown of Sommerville.
At first, she’d
sounded oh-so pleasant when we began our yak about the opportunity.
“Think accounting,” she’d teased, followed by a small chuckle.
Her laugh had
spoken volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica proportions.
Amazon
best-selling and award-winning author, Vicki Batman, has sold many romantic
comedy works to the True magazines, several publishers, and most recently, a
romantic comedy mystery to The Wild Rose Press. She is a member of Romance
Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and several writing groups. An avid
Jazzerciser. Handbag lover. Mahjong player. Yoga practitioner. Movie fan. Book
devourer. Cat fancier. Best Mom ever. And adores Handsome Hubby. Most days
begin with her hands set to the keyboard and thinking "What if??"
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