Beds, Breakfasts, and Beta Blockers
Series: Three Dog Mysteries #1
Author: Jann Franklin
Genre: Cozy Animal Mystery
Setting: Louisiana
Release Date: February 20, 2025, by Independently Published
Pages: 238
Summary:
Ro Bergeron’s grandparents raised her to be, well, helpless. She can’t boil an egg or keep a plant alive. When Ro inherits her childhood home, she decides to open a bed and breakfast for humans and their canine friends. Running a business catering to people is a big undertaking for thirty-two year old Ro—let alone pets too—yet with faith she is confident she can handle it. She even has her first guests booked for the coming weekend!
But when her meddlesome great aunts find the opportunity to solve a local murder too irresistible, Ro’s new life as a business owner is turned upside-down! As Min and Win Rascoe indulge their sleuthing skills, a reluctant Ro and her enthusiastic house guests are drawn into the mystery.
Will the Rascoe sisters and their unconventional team solve the murder before Ro’s high school crush Detective Jason Charbonnet? Can Ro master the skills of cooking and hosting? Will life for Ro in the tiny town of Belle Bayou ever be the same?
This book is the first of the Three Dog Mystery Series.
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Excerpt
The dealer thrust the bag in my direction, noting the tremble in my hands. I lunged forward to clasp the precious purchase. “Thank you! Thank you so much. And I’ll see you tomorrow, if not sooner.” My tennis shoes squeaked against the tile as I headed for the back door.
“Ro, we’ve had this conversation before. You’ve got to dial it back, decrease your intake. I make my living off addicts, but you need it more than most. And that’s a real problem. Not to mention, the coffee shop doesn’t open for another hour. If you weren’t my cousin…”
“But I am, and you love me!” I hoped my brilliant smile would lighten the mood.
“If I had a fancy grinder and roaster like you, I’d make my coffee every morning. But I don’t, so here we are. And there I go!” The slamming door prevented further conversation.
Marshall loved to worry. He worried about the delivery truck–would it make the predictable Thursday drop off? Or would a tornado blow it away? My cousin dug out the variables surrounding a situation, then fretted over them until…well until nothing happened. Then he’d worry about the lack of catastrophes.
Since our grandmother had passed, Marshall focused his concern on me, like one of those red laser pointers that cats adore. He meant well, but his worry rubbed against me like sandpaper. Fortunately, I had a busy day with no time for my cousin and his misplaced worry. My appointment with the lawyer was the last step to finalize Memaw’s estate and take title of her house and land.
My grandparents were the only parents I’d known, and losing them had ripped a jagged hole in my heart. They spent their golden years raising me while my parents traveled the country chasing music careers.
Most people thought little of Arthur and Etta Bergeron, including me. They’d met at a jazz club in New Orleans, and three weeks later paid a visit to my grandparents in Belle Bayou.
“Mom, Dad, this is Arthur Bergeron. He plays the saxophone like an angel! We met in New Orleans a while back, and we’ve come to ask for your blessing. We’d like to get married.”
My grandparents had coined a phrase for my mother. “Etta and the truth aren’t on a first name basis.” The truth was Etta and Arthur were already married, and expecting me. Memaw suspected that was the reason they got married, because Etta was in the family way. My mother denied it.
About Jann Franklin
Jann Franklin lives in the small town of Grand Cane, Louisiana with 298 other people. Many of her stories came from living the small-town life. Like her heroines, she was dragged kicking and screaming back to a small town. Then she encouraged herself to value her small-town roots.
Now she can’t imagine living her life any other way.
Jann is a newspaper columnist and the author of two book series about small-town life. Her books center on the fictional village of Graisseville, Louisiana and its quirky residents.
She and her husband John enjoy Sundays at Grand Cane Baptist Church, supper with family and friends, and the sense of community that comes from living the small-town life. Their kids come to visit, when they aren’t too busy living their big-city lives.
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