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Real Actors, Not People (The Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries Book 8) Kindle Edition

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Book 8 of 10: The Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries

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Frannie Shoemaker and her friends go camping to get away from the real world. So they are surprised and dismayed to find their wilderness campground the production site of a new 'reality' show--Celebrity Campout. Reality intrudes on their week in the form of accidents, nature, and even murder. They handle the situation with their usual humor, compassion, and mystery solving, because...camping can be murder.

Book 8 of 10

The Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries
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3 May 2018
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Karen Musser Nortman began writing the Frannie Shoemaker Campground mysteries after 22 years of teaching and 18 years in test development for ACT. In 2014, she started The Time Travel Trailer series about a vintage camper trailer that turns out to be a time portal. Her books have been designated IndieBRAGMedallion honorees, Chanticleer CLUE award finalists, and a First-in-Category winner in the Chanticleer Paranormal 2015 Awards. She is an avid reader, camper, gardener, and scrapbooker, as well as a volunteer in numerous community activities. She has three children, eight grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CVRDPPC
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3664 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 129 pages

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Karen Musser Nortman, after previous incarnations as a secondary social studies teacher (22 years) and a test developer (18 years), returned to her childhood dream of writing mysteries. Her first series, The Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries, sprouted from numerous camping trips in Iowa and through at least 24 other states. The Frannie Shoemaker Mysteries center around a group of retirees who camp together and sometimes stumble over dead bodies. Six of the books have been designated IndieBRAG medallion honorees and three have been finalists in Chanticleer CLUE and Mystery and Mayhem contests. Most of the books are based on actual campgrounds.

Karen has two other series. The Time Travel Trailer series follows the adventures of Lynne McBriar who buys a vintage camper that turns out to be a time portal. The first in the series, by the same name, was the 2015 category winner in the Chanticleer Paranormal contest. The Mystery Sisters is a new series involving two seventy-something sisters who travel the country in a 1950 Studebaker, argue, annoy their relatives, and solve mysteries.

Karen has three children and eight grandchildren. She also loves reading, gardening, and knitting, and can recite the 99 counties of Iowa in alphabetical order.

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Marty Langenberg

So many names

Reviewed in Australia on 28 July 2021

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I enjoyed the story and it kept me guessing for a while. There's a group of 3 couples who, it appears, go on camping adventures together and Frannie has a reputation for stumbling onto a murder in each book of the series. A great premise for cozy mysteries. I haven't read any of the others. In this one, they share the campground with a group of has-been celebrities there to make a reality TV series about camping. Unfortunately this brings a whole group of further names into play. Then there's the host couple who oversee the camp ground, plus an extra camper who's camping elsewhere but gets caught up in the story as well. There's a sheriff, of course, and people in the restaurant, and the bartender, and ...
It's a fairly short story and all those names are confusing. Still, I liked it. Well written.

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Wanda Atkinson

Love this camping mystery series!

Reviewed in Canada on 13 January 2020

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I really enjoyed this series and all the mysteries Frannie and friends got involved in. Also enjoyed all the camping tips and recipes at the end of each book. Felt quite sad when I came to the last one as felt I was parting from camping friends. Hoping that there are more to come.

Kim Templeton

Keeps getting better

Reviewed in the United States on 11 January 2020

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Frannie Shoemaker, her husband, and her inlaws have arrived at another campground only to find out their campground will soon become the site of a celebrity reality show. When the celebrities show up, it was obvious they have no previous camping experience. Shortly after the show starts shooting footage, someone associated with the show is found dead. Frannie and her family get pulled into the investigation. Can they help find what really happened?

This series just keeps getting better. I love Frannie and her family and friends. They are realistic, fun, and relatable characters. The mystery is well-plotted, has plenty of suspects, and several twists and turns along the way to the big reveal. This series makes me want to go camping even though I’ve never camped in my life. This is a reflection of how well the book is written.

I listened to the audio version of this book. Narrator Michelle Babb is a gifted storyteller. Babb brings the story to life, allowing the reader to easily visualize what is happening in the book. She has a wonderful tone of voice which helps bring out each character’s personality. I recommend listening to the audio version if you have that option.

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Lovely cozy mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2020

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These books are great, different camp grounds and plenty of murders, mysteries and mayhem. I do hope there will be more books.

man

We camp and it all seems so real!

Reviewed in the United States on 20 October 2021

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The characters are real and down to
earth. I would love to be on some of their adventures but not the murder part.

Jere Mullen

My stomping grounds …

Reviewed in the United States on 31 December 2021

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Though names of attractions were either changed or omitted I loved reading about my beautiful state. She captures the UP perfectly. This is my third or fourth book by this author and I think I am hooked. I also love the camping theme since camping has always been a big part of my life. I do believe I am going to look for another of her books right now. 😄

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