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    Electric Blue: A Jane Kelly Mystery
    Ultraviolet: A Jane Kelly Mystery
    Candy Apple Red: A Jane Kelly Mystery
    Audiobook series3 titles

    Jane Kelly Series

    Written by Nancy Bush

    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King

    3.5/5

    ()

    About this series

    For process server-turned-private investigator, Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly minted P.I. Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland's ex-wife number two: Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell.

    Everywhere Jane and her lovable, misfit pug, Binky, look, there's a suspect odder than the last, including two grown, very troubled kids, an ex-wife strung out on Botox, and a current wife who's a cross between Donna Reed and a sex kitten-all of them eager to blame Roland's death on Violet.

    The deeper Jane digs, the less she wants to know. Every truth leads her deeper into danger, and soon, Jane wonders if her first official case might also be her last . . . and if the client she's been asked to clear just might be the coldest black widow of all . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    Electric Blue: A Jane Kelly Mystery
    Ultraviolet: A Jane Kelly Mystery
    Candy Apple Red: A Jane Kelly Mystery

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      Candy Apple Red: A Jane Kelly Mystery
      Candy Apple Red: A Jane Kelly Mystery

      Candy Apple Red: A Jane Kelly Mystery

      Nancy Bush
      3/5 - 9 ratings
      3/5 - 9 ratings

      Jane Kelly is through following men. She left Southern California for the murky quaintness of Lake Chinook, Oregon, apparently so she could trade her bartending skills for much more glamorous work as a process server. And the boyfriend, of course, is long gone. But things have been looking a little brighter lately. Her hobby doing PI work is kind of fun, especially when she lands a real case-that pays real money. But the case is about Bobby Reynolds, best friend of Tim Murphy, the only guy she's never gotten over. Everyone except Tim believed Bobby murdered his young family-isn't that why he vanished? Now Tim's coming home and Jane's on her way to talk to Bobby's father. Looks like Jane'll be trailing men after all-this time with a tape recorder and a camera. To top it off, she's being trailed by a homely pug named Binky, left to her by a distant relative. With a job she's learning as she goes along and her ex back in town, Jane's life just went from stress-free to completely stressed-out. And then there's the dead body . . .

      Jane Kelly is through following men. She left Southern California for the murky quaintness of Lake Chinook, Oregon, apparently so she could trade her bartending skills for much more glamorous work as a process server. And the boyfriend, of course, is long gone. But things have been looking a little brighter lately. Her hobby doing PI work is kind of fun, especially when she lands a real case-that pays real money. But the case is about Bobby Reynolds, best friend of Tim Murphy, the only guy she's never gotten over. Everyone except Tim believed Bobby murdered his young family-isn't that why he vanished? Now Tim's coming home and Jane's on her way to talk to Bobby's father. Looks like Jane'll be trailing men after all-this time with a tape recorder and a camera. To top it off, she's being trailed by a homely pug named Binky, left to her by a distant relative. With a job she's learning as she goes along and her ex back in town, Jane's life just went from stress-free to completely stressed-out. And then there's the dead body . . .

    • 2

      Electric Blue: A Jane Kelly Mystery
      Electric Blue: A Jane Kelly Mystery

      Electric Blue: A Jane Kelly Mystery

      Nancy Bush
      4/5 - 1 rating
      4/5 - 1 rating

      Some days are just weird city. Take today. Jane Kelly, thirty-something ex-bartender, current process server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local "information specialist" (i.e., private investigator), and on the road to becoming a P.I. herself. Next thing she knows she's socializing with the Purcells, a rich, eccentric rich family with a penchant for going crazy and/or dying in spectacularly mysterious ways. From what Jane can tell, the Purcells all want Orchid Purcell's money. And when Orchid turns up in a pool of blood, the free-for-all has just begun. Then when Jane finds a second body, it seems weird city is about to get even weirder . . . and a lot more deadly . . .

      Some days are just weird city. Take today. Jane Kelly, thirty-something ex-bartender, current process server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local "information specialist" (i.e., private investigator), and on the road to becoming a P.I. herself. Next thing she knows she's socializing with the Purcells, a rich, eccentric rich family with a penchant for going crazy and/or dying in spectacularly mysterious ways. From what Jane can tell, the Purcells all want Orchid Purcell's money. And when Orchid turns up in a pool of blood, the free-for-all has just begun. Then when Jane finds a second body, it seems weird city is about to get even weirder . . . and a lot more deadly . . .

    • 3

      Ultraviolet: A Jane Kelly Mystery
      Ultraviolet: A Jane Kelly Mystery

      Ultraviolet: A Jane Kelly Mystery

      Nancy Bush
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      For process server-turned-private investigator, Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly minted P.I. Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland's ex-wife number two: Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell. Everywhere Jane and her lovable, misfit pug, Binky, look, there's a suspect odder than the last, including two grown, very troubled kids, an ex-wife strung out on Botox, and a current wife who's a cross between Donna Reed and a sex kitten-all of them eager to blame Roland's death on Violet. The deeper Jane digs, the less she wants to know. Every truth leads her deeper into danger, and soon, Jane wonders if her first official case might also be her last . . . and if the client she's been asked to clear just might be the coldest black widow of all . . .

      For process server-turned-private investigator, Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly minted P.I. Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland's ex-wife number two: Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell. Everywhere Jane and her lovable, misfit pug, Binky, look, there's a suspect odder than the last, including two grown, very troubled kids, an ex-wife strung out on Botox, and a current wife who's a cross between Donna Reed and a sex kitten-all of them eager to blame Roland's death on Violet. The deeper Jane digs, the less she wants to know. Every truth leads her deeper into danger, and soon, Jane wonders if her first official case might also be her last . . . and if the client she's been asked to clear just might be the coldest black widow of all . . .

    Author

    Nancy Bush

    Bestselling author Nancy Bush has had an eclectic writing career. She started her first story when she heard how young mothers were making money writing romance novels. She thought, "I can do that," and talked her sister, bestselling author, Lisa Jackson, into joining her in her foray into writing. Nancy began her career in the romance genre, writing both contemporary and historical novels, but being a mystery buff, she kept trying to add suspense into the plot, as much as her editors would allow. In 2002 she was chosen by ABC Television to be part of a writing group "think tank" which was tasked with developing story for ABC's daytime dramas. She was one of two people selected from that group to actually become a breakdown writer for, at the time, one of ABC's top-rated daytime shows: All My Children. Nancy made the move to New York to join the AMC team while she was writing for the soap. That was an experience, she admits. Ask her, and she'll swear that the pressure cooker of delivering story every day - lots and lots of story -- helped focus her writing. When Nancy returned to her home state of Oregon she channeled that newfound energy into writing the kind of books she's always loved: mysteries. She is the author of the gripping mystery novels Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Huide, Nowhere Safe, You Can't Escape and I'll Find You. Like her sister Lisa, she's now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, both in her co-writing ventures and on her own merits as well.

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