When the Carny Comes to Town

When the Carny Comes to Town

by Elaine Orr
When the Carny Comes to Town

When the Carny Comes to Town

by Elaine Orr

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Overview

Jolie never liked the idea of sitting on the plank above the dunk tank for the food pantry's fundraiser at the Jersey shore carnival, but she never dreamed what Scoobie saw that day would leave him battling for his life. Scoobie's ex-con mother shows up and there's a murder to add to the mix. Soon Jolie is doing a lot more than appraising real estate, though even that is complicated by home burglars. Jolie grudgingly seeks help from her nemesis--reporter George Winters--and tries to stay a step ahead of a kidnapper and murderer so she can take charge of her world again. Can she keep her friends safe, and will Scoobie recover enough to plan another silly fundraiser?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781948070584
Publisher: Lifelong Dreams
Publication date: 09/11/2020
Series: Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery Series , #3
Edition description: Barnes and Noble Edition
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 564,375
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Elaine L. Orr has authored 30 works of fiction, including four mystery series. What makes her fiction different from other traditional mysteries? Some might say the dry humor (only a few say lame), but she thinks it is the empathy her characters show to others. Fiction doesn’t always have to be profound. But it can contain people whose paths we cross every day — whether we know it or not.

Her books include the thirteen-book Jolie Gentil cozy mystery series, which is set at the Jersey shore. Behind the Walls was short-listed for the 2014 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Awards. New Lease on Death was published in 2023. “Reading any Jolie Gentil book is like spending time with cherished friends. That feeling grows as the series continues.”

The River's Edge series takes place among the cornfields of Southeastern Iowa, along the Des Moines River. A fired news reporter switches to landscaping, but still digs up trouble. Demise of a Devious Neighbor was a Chanticleer shortlister in 2017

The Western Maryland mountains, near Deep Creek Lake, host the four-book Family History Mystery Series. The Unscheduled Murder Trip received a B.R.A.G. Medallion in 2021. Gilded Path to Nowhere was published in 2022, and book five, Long Held Lake Secrets, will be out in late 2023.

Small-town Illinois is the setting for the Logland Series, which features Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman -- a police procedural with a cozy feel. Amid the mystery and laughs, Final Cycle, set during a Christmas season, shows why it’s important to assist those who are difficult to help.

Elaine also writes plays and novellas, including the one-act, Common Ground. Her novella, Biding Time, was one of five finalists in the National Press Club's first fiction contest, in 1993. Falling into Place is a novella about family strength as a World War II veteran rises to the toughest occasion. (It’s also Elaine’s favorite book.) In the Shadow of Light is the fictional story of Corozón and her family, who are separated at the U.S./Mexico border.

A member of Sisters in Crime, Elaine grew up in Maryland and moved to the Midwest in 1994.
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