The Preening Peacock - A Rosalinda Alameda Mystery: a Cozy Zoo Short Story, #1

By Lisa Shea

Rosalinda Alameda adores zoos. When Massachusetts's summertime "Free Fridays" promotion features the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Rosalinda grabs her camera and heads east. A full day amongst lions and tigers is about the best outing she can possibly imagine.

But something's wrong at the zoo, and it'll take a combination of her Puerto Rican common sense and her fifty years of wisdom to unravel the puzzle!

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The Preening Peacock is the first book in the Rosalinda Alameda Mystery series. These short stories are about 15 pages each and feature the zoos that Rosalinda loves with a passion. Author Lisa Shea goes to each zoo personally to write up its sights, sounds, and aromas. That way you, the reader, can take a virtual vacation to these zoos! Visit Lisa's webpages to see photos and write-ups of the zoos. All of the Rosalinda Alameda Mystery series contain no violence, no swearing, and no intimacy, so they are suitable for teens and up. 

You can read the books one-by-one as they are released, or you can wait for the boxed sets to be published once the series gets enough books in it. It's your choice!

A portion of all proceeds benefits battered women's shelters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lisa Shea
• Release date: Aug 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513071626

Lisa Shea

I love writing in a variety of genres. I currently have over 300 books published in all lengths from full 500+ page novels down to short stories. I love writing series. Some are with unconnected characters, like the 14 full-length medieval novels with a sword being passed from heroine to heroine. Some have connected characters, like the 31 mini-mysteries featuring a detective in Salem, Massachusetts. All of my books are written "clean" with no explicit intimacy, no harsh language, and no explicit violence. All are suitable for teens and up. For a full listing of my books please visit: http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/gettingyourbookpublished/lisalibrary.html

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The

Preening Peacock

Rosalinda Alameda Mysteries

Vol. 1

A Cozy Zoo Short Story

Lisa Shea

Copyright © 2015 by Lisa Shea / Minerva Webworks LLC

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Book design by Lisa Shea

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

ASIN: B014GRKH0K

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Chapter 1

"No bird soars too high

If he soars with his own wings."

-- William Blake

Rosalinda craned her neck, looking from side to side across the wide expanse of the giraffe exhibit at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. She adored giraffes and these two were over twelve feet tall. How could they possibly be hiding from her? It wasn’t as if the exhibit was closed for renovations. Over by the trees a lone zebra was placidly taking a snooze near a small gaggle of wildebeests. Far off to the right an ostrich meandered his way beneath the hot August sun.

She ran a hand in confusion through her greying hair, her brow adding more wrinkles to the ones that she