Books Beads and Baubles

By Mary J Hicks

A Coffee Break Mystery - Short, sweet and clean.
Bertie and her twin Wanda, own a combination thrift and used bookstore. As a service and convenience to their customers, Bertie set up a 'read-n-return' section in the book area. Customers can check out books for free, and return the books when they've finished reading them. Books begin to disappear, but no one is checking them out at the register as they are supposed to.
What's happening to the books? As Wanda noted, 'they aren't leaving the store under their own steam, that's for sure!'
The sisters live in a small town; their customers are good people who help each other, they care for their neighbors and they'd never do harm on purpose. Can the two elderly sisters solve the mystery...?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary J Hicks
• Release date: Apr 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311735133

Mary J Hicks

Mary J Hicks writes women's fiction, short stories about farm life and light romance. After a long career as a portrait and commercial photographer, Mary retired from photography to enter the world of make-belief. Making up places and characters to entertain the people out there who, like herself, loves to get lost in a good read. "Writing is as much fun as reading, maybe more so. When I'm writing, I have control of the elements, who, where, what, when and how. A buffet of excitement, humor, romance, and mystery to choose from. Being short with dark eyes myself, I fight the penchant for making all my female characters tall, blond, and blue-eyed." In rural Oklahoma surrounded by rolling farm land in the Red River Valley, Mary finds an idea for another story as easy as looking out across the fields and letting her imagination roam free.

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