Make Believe Murder

Make Believe Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a former CIA agent turned Girl Scout troop leader and a laugh-out-loud mystery!Merry Wrath's summer plans didn't originally include an unexpected visit from her old friend, Hilly—a quirky CIA assassin who's been forced by HR to take her first vacation in...forever. The fact that Hilly chose a small town in Iowa for vacation doesn't bother Merry or her scout troop (especially since Hilly's teaching them how to kill a man with one punch), but her former handler, Riley, believes something sinister is afoot.After all Lana, Merry's arch-nemesis, is sighted all over town, and when a Chinese operative ends up murdered in her backyard, Merry starts to wonder if Riley is right and Hilly is secretly on the job. It doesn't help that a group of cosplaying teenage druids have targeted Merry for a misguided ritual sacrifice, or that Medea Jones, cub reporter, constantly harasses Merry, seeing the former spy as her...
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Memories Are Murder

Memories Are Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a hilarious mystery that will leave you laughing 'til you cry...It's been years since ex-CIA agent Merry Wrath was undercover with Carlos the Armadillo in Colombia. So why is Teo the Tapir suddenly in Who's There, Iowa looking for her? Merry and Teo were not on the best terms back then, especially after he attempted to blow her up. Is he in town to get revenge, or is he telling the truth about wanting to retire and let bygones be bygones?It's a question that becomes much more important when a mutual colleague is murdered in Merry's garage. Suddenly Merry wonders if Teo did it to frame her. As usual, this isn't a great time for a dead body, since Merry is having trouble teaching her troop to use drones responsibly, her twin taxidermist sisters-in-law are trying to keep Merry from spilling their big secret, there are rumbles of a sexist schism in the teenage Cult of NicoDerm and there's an issue...
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Mascots Are Murder

Mascots Are Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes the funniest high school reunion you've ever attended!"Welcome Back to Who's There, Iowa, Who-rish, to your 10 Year Reunion!"A 10 year high school reunion happens only once, and to many, they can be a nightmare of revisiting past slights, humiliating moments and the class paste-eater—aka Officer Kevin Dooley. But ex-CIA agent turned Midwestern Girl Scout troop leader Merry Wrath figures that when you've been undercover with Colombian drug lords, embedded with Yakuza, and chased by an armed chicken through Chechnya, how bad could it be? Even her scout troop gets in the game by handling registration with overly enthusiastic weapons searches and background checks."Old friends are waiting to see you again!"But there's more going on than the tradition of spiking the punch. It doesn't take long before the loathed Class President threatens to reveal dangerous secrets, half the class starts...
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Match Box Murder

Match Box Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a killer campfire tale...It's just another weekend camping trip for ex-CIA agent Merry Wrath and her precocious Girl Scout troop. This time the girls are learning riflery, taught by Merry's assassin friend, Hilly (who isn't an assassin because the CIA doesn't have assassins because that would be illegal...but she totally is). What could go wrong?Plenty, because the creepy camp caretaker is soon found inconveniently dead behind the rifle range. Naturally, a violent storm comes out of nowhere and strands the troop with four suspect camp staffers. The scout manual explains how to keep kids safe during storms, hiking trips, and the overly-enthusiastic application of matches to start a campfire, but there's nothing on what to do when trapped in a lodge with a murderer. Can Merry unmask the killer before she and the girls get burned?Note: This title was previously available as part of...
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Merry Wrath Mysteries Boxed Set Volume III (Books 7-9)

Merry Wrath Mysteries Boxed Set Volume III (Books 7-9)

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a boxed set of three hilarious Merry Wrath Mysteries! This boxed set includes three, full-length novels featuring the CIA assassin turned Girls Scout troop leader, including:Map Skills Murder – book #7When ex-CIA Agent turned Girl Scout troop leader, Merry Wrath digs up a treasure map in her yard, she's sure it leads to a century-old murder and a secret missing treasure. But unfortunately, the investigation of this cold case yields a modern day murder! Are these crimes connected? And more importantly—who has an axe to grind with Merry Wrath?Mean Girl Murder – book #8The Halloween Parade is coming up, and former CIA agent-turned-suburbanite Merry Wrath's Girl Scout Troop hopes to repeat a 1st place trophy for the 3rd year in a row. But when they find a dead woman dressed as a witch, a mysterious treasure, and face a ruthless kidnapping, it looks like Merry's in for a different...
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Merry Christmas Murder

Merry Christmas Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a very Merry Wrath Christmas...Ex-CIA agent turned Girl Scout leader, Merry Wrath is about to have a holiday to remember! It's not Christmas in Who's There, Iowa without a severely mandatory holiday lights policy, passed by thirteen year old Mayor Ava and her henchman...Betty! The girls show up on their troop leader, Merry's, doorstep with a box of lights and an ultimatum.The whole town has gone crazy in preparations, and with Merry's husband Rex gunning for the prize, she has no choice but to help. Putting up lights is the last thing Merry wants to do, and she's hoping to get by with the barest minimum needed to comply.Unfortunately, as she's working on the display, she finds a dead man tangled in her lights. Can Merry find the killer and get her display back on track before the lights go out on Christmas?What critics are saying about Leslie Langtry's...
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Method Actor Murder

Method Actor Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes the next wacky, wild, wonderful Merry Wrath mystery...Whether they like it or not, culture is coming to Who's There, Iowa in the form of community theater! Merry Wrath, former CIA operative turned suburban Girl Scout Troop leader has high hopes when Ye Olde Opera House is renovated, and newcomers Ophelia and her husband Dante arrive from off-off-off Broadway (...Street in Peoria) with their stage pig, Iago, to put on a production of Derek the Sparkly Unicorn Ninja, which was written by the mysterious SeBasquetian deCatalonia Braveheart.But chaos is the name of the game when half the town and their hamsters show up for auditions, Merry has been volunteered as Stage Manager, and her precocious troop are planning death-defying stunts and dangerous special effects. It certainly doesn't help that Ophelia emotes like a deranged drama queen and Dante seems to think there's a Tony Award for seducing women. When one of...
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BFOA03 Stand By Your Hitman

BFOA03 Stand By Your Hitman

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

SUMMARY: Missi Bombay invents things--fatal flowers, Jell-O bullets, stroke-inducing panty hose and other ways to kill a target without leaving any kind of evidence. She's a great asset to her family of assassins. The one thing she can't invent, though, is a love life. Unfortunately, her mom has decided to handle that for her. Next thing Missi knows, she's packed off to Costa Rica for a wild reality show where she's paired with Lex, the hottest contestant on TV. Too bad she also has to scope out a potential victim. But the job becomes tougher when someone starts sabotaging the show...and love-of-her-life Lex thinks she's the culprit!
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Mistaken Identity Murder

Mistaken Identity Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a hilarious case of mistaken identity...Merry Wrath, ex-CIA agent turned Girl Scout leader, is having a hard time dealing with the fact that the girls in her troop are now at that extremely dangerous age—the middle school years. Bearing this in mind, Merry should have anticipated what disaster chaperoning the school dance would be. Chaos reigns with everything from a rogue attack penguin to a punch-induced hallucination brought on by the very latest synthetic LSD. Things only get worse when a man is murdered, and the killer has been caught on camera—and is none other than Merry Wrath!Merry knows she's innocent, but proving it to the police is another matter. And family issues are keeping her awake at night too, now that Merry's hosting the Holy Mud Man from Chechnya and his goat Warren, to see if her new twin nephews are prophets. Add to that the zoo is considering revoking Scout Lauren's...
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Mythic Melee Murder

Mythic Melee Murder

Leslie Langtry

Mystery / Romance / Humor

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a hilarious adventure of mythic proportions...Ex-CIA agent turned Girl Scout Leader, Merry Wrath is wondering if maybe it was a bad idea to have her girl scouts over for a Lord of the Rings marathon...because now they've signed the entire troop up for a LARP (Live Action Role Playing Game) event in Des Moines. The girls have decided they are the Skullcrushers from the country of Skullgraviastan—a land made up of mercenaries from other nations. They will be part of the Realm of Ulm for a weekend, fighting pirates, Mongols, Romans, and Vikings for supremacy!Okay, so maybe it'll be fun, Merry thinks. No real dead bodies, her husband dressed in a kilt as a Highlander, and she gets to be General Dorcas the Dark One. But things don't stay innocent for long as Andy the Necromancer tells them Steve the Sorcerer was murdered a month ago and the police are convinced it was an accident... even though Andy...
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