Parrots and Payback: Madigan Amos Zoo Mysteries, #0

By Ruby Loren

A publicity stunt is about to go pear-shaped...

Renowned crime writer, Stephen McClean, has chosen to launch his latest thriller from Avery Zoo on Valentine's Day. A Valentine's photoshoot in the lovebird enclosure has been planned, and the zoo is set to benefit from the extra publicity. 

But the real reason the crime writer is coming to Avery Zoo has nothing to do with lovebirds… and everything to do with love gone wrong. 

Can Madigan solve the mystery and save the zoo from being dragged into a publicity nightmare?
 

Pick up this funny prequel to the Madigan Amos Zoo Mysteries series today and find out where it all began!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ruby Loren
• Release date: Aug 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386162261

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Parrots and Payback

Parrots and Payback

Madigan Amos Zoo Mysteries Series Prequel

Ruby Loren

Copyright © 2017 by Ruby Loren

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Contents

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Books in the Series

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1. Death of a Valentine

2. Cry Wolf

3. Lovebirds

4. The not so Great Escape

5. Partners in Crime

Books in the Series

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Also by Ruby Loren

British Author

Please note, this book is written in British English and contains British spellings.

Books in the Series

Penguins and Mortal Peril

The Silence of the Snakes

Murder is a Monkey’s Game

Lions and the Living Dead

The Peacock’s Poison

A Memory for Murder

Whales and a Watery Grave

Chameleons and a Corpse

Foxes and Fatal Attraction

Monday’s Murderer

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Parrots and Payback is the short story prequel to the Madigan Amos series. It can be picked up at any point in the series, or read before. It doesn’t contain spoilers for the later books and I hope it provides some fun insight into Madi’s life before the murders begin!

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Ruby x

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1

Death of a Valentine

Valentine’s Day had never been much of a big deal at Avery Zoo until the crime writer came to visit .

None of the staff at the zoo seemed to know precisely why he’d picked Avery as the place to promote his brand new book. I’d asked my manager, Morgan, (who liked to read crime books) if he knew if the book perhaps featured the zoo in some way. He’d said he didn’t know. Crime writer Stephen McClean’s latest thriller was due to be released on Valentine’s Day itself and was firmly under wraps until then.

I glanced at one of the posters advertising today’s event on my way to feed the wallabies. The odd-job zoo workers had pasted them everywhere, and I still thought they looked strange. Most of the events at Avery Zoo involved animals in some way. We had Father Christmas and his reindeer in the winter, and then it was rabbits and chicks for Easter. The previous year, the zoo hadn’t even bothered to promote Valentine’s Day. The only people who’d come to the restaurant were desperate men who’d