Grave Secrets: Jake Wyler Mysteries Books 1-3, #7

By Bob Moats

Jake Wyler bought a cemetery. It was an impulse buy and now he paid the owner in cash that led to his murder..Now Jake and the son of a woman from his past are quested to find the money hidden in the old victorian house on the cemetery propery. Numerous attempts by an unknown killer to find the money almost leads to Jake becoming a victim. Murder, mystery and romaqnce are in store in this series.This is a novella, shorter than a novel but longer than a short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Moats
• Release date: Feb 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215312520

Bob Moats

Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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Magic 1 Productions

Website: http://murdernovels.com

Cover design by Bob Moats

Stock photo www.fotosearch.com

Extra special thanks to:

To Amy Morningstar, for editing my chapters.

To my proof reader Al Norris for proofing the final copy and hopefully catching all those annoying little errors that slip through.

Thank you to all the people who purchased this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

Chapter 1

Jake sat at his desk watching Becky and Sheila working on their files to organize the burials in the cemetery. Their predecessor, Ben Crenshaw, never ran the cemetery with any organization, just dig a hole and bury the bodies. He did keep track of who was where but it was a clumsy attempt to keep records. There was a large area map on the wall to show where graves were or will be placed. It was the only attempt Crenshaw did to keep track of where the bodies were buried.

Are you in a dream world? Becky asked Jake. You look far away.

No, Jake replied. I was just thinking about Crenshaw and how poorly he ran this place. I’m glad to see we are modernizing everything.

"Yes, ‘we’ are. Sheila and I are doing a good job. What are you doing?"

Hey, I’m the captain of this crew. I’m keeping you two in line to do the job.

Aye-aye, Capitan. Permission to continue working, Becky mugged.

Get to work or face the brig, ensign. Jake said with a laugh.

Paul, Becky’s son and Jake’s number one worker, came into the office and stood in front of Jake’s desk.

Now what did I do? Jake asked him.

"You did nothing, but I have a problem. I was digging the hole for our next burial and I got down about three feet and hit something. It was a pine