Murder,
Curlers and Cream
Murder,
Curlers Series Book 1
by
Arlene McFarlane
Genre:
Cozy Mystery
“Smart,
entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny!”—Liliana
Hart, New York Times Bestselling Author
Valentine
Beaumont is a beautician with a problem. Not only has she got a
meddling mother, a wacky staff, and a dying business, but now she’s
got a dead client who was strangled while awaiting her facial.
With
business the way it is, combing through this mystery may be the only
way to save her salon. Until a second murder, an explosion, a
kidnapping, death threats, and the hard-nosed Detective Romero
complicate things. But Valentine will do anything to untangle the
crime. That’s if she can keep her tools of the trade in her bag,
keep herself alive, and avoid falling for the tough detective.
In
the end, how hard can that be?
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MURDER,
CURLERS & CREAM
CHAPTER
ONE
“You
wound a perm rod around a man’s what?”
Detective Romero stood in the middle of my Mediterranean-styled
salon,
hand on his gun hip, legs spread wide. His deep voice was laced with
cynicism, and his blue eyes pierced me with a look that said now he’d
heard everything.
I
know it sounded outrageous, but good lord. It’d been several years
since “Local Beautician Valentine Beaumont Uses Perm Rod to Curl
Murderer’s Gonads” made front page headlines in the Rueland
News.
Was I ever going to live that down? It was an awful picture of me
they’d run too, considering I was soaked in mud and covered in cuts
and bruises.
Besides,
there was another crisis at hand. I mean, a dead body had just been
removed from the facial bed in Ti Amo—one of my treatment rooms,
not thirty feet down the hall. Didn’t this detective, in his faded
jeans and brown plaid shirt, think that
was a little more important?
I pulled at my
tight-knit top, trying not to let him get under my skin. “For the
record, that perm rod saved me from being knifed to death. Anyway, it
sounds worse than it was.”
“Worse than it
was! Lady, that’s about as worse as it can get for a man.” He
blew out a sigh. “I’d love to hear the full story on that one
day.”
I smiled sweetly.
“If you’re nice to me, maybe one day I’ll tell it.”
He glared at me,
probably not certain if I was being sarcastic or sincere. Frankly, I
wasn’t sure about that myself.
Murder,
Curlers and Canes
Murder,
Curlers Series Book 2
Valentine
Beaumont is back in her second hair-raising mystery, this time,
trying to find out who had it in for an elderly nun. Only trouble is
there are others standing in her way: hot but tough Detective Romero,
sexy new stylist Jock de Marco, and some zany locals who all have a
theory on the nun’s death.
Making
things worse: the dead nun’s secret that haunts Valentine, another
murder, car chases, death threats, mysterious clues, an interfering
mother, and a crazy staff.
Between
brushing off Jock’s advances and splitting hairs with handsome
Detective Romero, Valentine struggles to comb through the crime,
utilizing her tools of the trade in some outrageous situations.
Question is, will she succeed?
Murder,
Curlers and Cruises
Murder,
Curlers Series Book 3
“Sharp,
sexy, and side-splitting. Everything I love in a good mystery!” –
Darynda
Jones, New York Times/USA Today Bestselling Author of the Charley
Davidson Series
“A
fun-filled ride. A zany cast of characters. And a quest to find a
killer. Another great book in a wonderful series!” –
Wendy
Byrne, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Izzy Lewis Mysteries
In
her third fast-paced mystery, beautician Valentine Beaumont and her
madcap crew sail the high seas on a Caribbean “Beauty Cruise.”
When a bizarre murder takes place onboard, Valentine finds herself
swept into the middle of the investigation.
If
things aren’t bad enough, her mother is playing matchmaker, a loved
one is kidnapped, drug smuggling is afoot, a hair contest proves
disastrous, and a strange alliance between tough Detective Romero and
sexy stylist Jock de Marco rubs Valentine the wrong way.
Will
this impulsive beauty sleuth comb through the catastrophes and
untangle the mystery, or will this voyage turn into another fatal
Titanic? With Jock and Romero onboard, it’s destined to be a hot
cruise!
Arlene
McFarlane is the author of the Murder, Curlers series.
Previously an aesthetician, hairstylist, and owner of a full-service
salon, Arlene now writes full time. When she’s not making up
stories, or being a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, cat-mom,
or makeover artist, you’ll find her making music on the piano.
Arlene
is a member of Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Toronto
Romance Writers, SOWG, and the Golden Network. She’s won and placed
in over 30 contests, including twice in the Golden Heart and twice in
the Daphne du Maurier.
Arlene
lives with her family in Canada.
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