This boxed set includes the first three books in the national bestselling Laurel McKay Mysteries.
"Sample’s sleuth is an endearing character readers will adore.” RT Book Reviews

DYING FOR A DATE (Book 1) # 1 Amazon Bestseller in Humor and Cozy mysteries
Unsure if she is looking for Mr. Right, or Mr. Every Other Saturday Night, divorced mother of two, Laurel McKay reluctantly joins THE LOVE CLUB, a popular local dating service. Dressed to kill, she meets bachelor number one at a trendy restaurant. But the date is a bust, literally, when the guy decides Laurel is dessert, and she breaks his nose with her cell phone. It gets even worse when the man is found murdered the next morning, and Laurel has his blood on her clothes. Despite her now being a person of interest to the police, Laurel bravely ventures out on date number two. When that unlucky bachelor disappears during dinner, Laurel’s only alibi is a bottle of Dom Perignon. The sexy investigating detective thinks she’s innocent and is worried she may be the next target. That’s more than enough motivation for Laurel to find a murderer determined to kill her social life––before dating becomes a dead end she can’t escape.

DYING FOR A DANCE (Book 2) Northern California Publisher & Authors Fiction Winner and 2012 LEFTY Finalist Best Humorous Mystery
Discovering she has two left feet isn’t the biggest problem for Laurel McKay when she agrees to learn a foxtrot routine for her best friend’s Lake Tahoe wedding. Stumbling over the lifeless body of a sexy Russian dance star with her broken shoe heel stuffed in his mouth… is far worse. Almost as bad as running into the hunky detective she dated briefly before he disappeared from her life. When another death occurs on the ballroom floor, Laurel finds herself waltzing her way into the dark secrets of the Golden Hills Dance Studio. Navigating kids, career, wedding planning and murder requires some fancy footwork. Can Laurel tango with a killer and stay alive?

DYING FOR A DAIQUIRI (Book 3) 2014 SILVER FALCHION Finalist Best Traditional Mystery and 2014 LEFTY Finalist Best Humorous Mystery
When Laurel McKay attends a Hawaiian wedding, her vacation soon becomes more deadly than the calorie count in her daiquiri. Her post-wedding holiday upends after a beautiful hula dancer is found dead on the rocks below the oceanfront restaurant owned by Laurel's brother and sister-in-law. When a family member is arrested for the murder, Laurel is plunged into a mystery where exotic Big Island locations--a coffee plantation, black sand beaches and a volcano--reveal their deadly side. And where is her hunky on-again/off-again boyfriend detective when she needs him? Laurel zip-lines and four-wheels her way through the island paradise unearthing long hidden secrets. Will ingenuity and pluck be enough? Or will this hula be her last?

"Cindy Sample knows how to weave a story that satisfies and excites. Time literally flew by as I turned the pages...simultaneously harrowing, exciting, tender, and uplifting, a true who-done-it combined with a romance that will warm the heart and sheets."
-Long and Short Reviews

"Packed with zany characters, humorous situations, and laugh-out-loud narrative. Consider reading DYING FOR A DATE in one sitting, because once you start, you will be reluctant to put it aside."
-Midwest Book Review

"Dying for a Dance has all of the elements of an excellent cozy mystery. Interesting characters, plot and setting. Fast paced writing. I struggled to figure out what it was that stood out that made me really enjoy the book and I decided it was the tone. It is a feel-good book, it makes you smile."
-Examiner.com

"I have rarely been more cheered up by spending time with a book. Dying for a Dance is the perfect antidote to a bout of the winter blues."
-Kings River Life Magazine
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GET READY FOR NANCY MCGOVERN'S NEW, RELATED SERIES, "A RETURN TO MILBURN", BY READING THIS BIG BOX SET CONTAINING THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL SERIES! ALL FOR JUST 99 CENTS!

This Box Set contains ALL 12 of the original stories from Nancy McGovern's popular Culinary Cozy Mystery series, "A Murder In Milburn"...

...with ALL 12 delicious recipes from Nora's "Madness Diner Cookbook"!

THAT'S MORE THAN 2,000 PAGES of fun characters & intriguing whodunits!

INCLUDES:
Death At A Diner
Death Of A Deputy
Death In The Library
Death Under The Fireworks
Death By Ice Cream
Death At The Zoo
Death At A Wedding
Death Of A Psychic
Death At A B & B
Death On Social Media
Death Of A Rock Star
Death On Bingo Night

RECIPES INCLUDED:
Nora’s Shepherd’s Pie
Nora’s Delicious Crepes
Nora’s Pomegranate Iced Tea
Nora’s Wonderful Watermelon Cocktails
Nora’s Cardamom Buttermilk Pie
Nora’s Mahi Mahi With Pineapple Salsa
Nora’s Peanut Butter Bacon Burgers!
Nora’s Sweet & Spicy Mac & Cheese
Nora’s Lovely Lamingtons
Nora’s Crispy Orange Chicken Sandwich
Nora’s Chocolatey Chocolate Cake
Nora’s Super-Soft Super-Simple Peanut Butter Cookies

PLUS 2 FREE BOOKS from Nancy's "Bluebell Knopps" & "Slice of Paradise" series AND a Sneak Peak at her "Comfort Cakes Cozy Mysteries" series!

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FROM BOOK 1:
Nora Newberry has been working to make her dreams come true and finally, after 10 years, it's time! She’s moved back to her hometown of Milburn, Wyoming, and, together with her lifelong best friend, Raquel Madden, is opening the diner they've been planning since high school. Life couldn't be better...and it's time to celebrate!

Sadly, the celebration doesn't last long. Just three days before the diner is set to open its doors, Raquel is found murdered. And with no clear motive and little cooperation from the townspeople, Nora is thrown into a murder investigation that just may cause her to lose her own life.

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A DETECTIVE AGENCY WITH HEART.
ALSO MOM, KIDS, AND A KITTEN!

It’s a dismal day for the PI firm to the stars of Silicon Valley when their own star is huddled in a phone booth instead of tracking down stolen software. Sadly, ace detective Lee Alvarez is currently taking shelter from a deluge while surveilling some rat of a husband. This is way beneath her dignity! Worse, she may be trapped with another rat. Something in there just moved. But Lee’s luck just changed—that’s no drowned rat. It’s her thoroughly drenched, pathetically skinny, and terminally cute new BFF—an orange and white kitten tiny enough to fit in a pocket.

Well, forget the surveillance. When you catch on that this is the kind of mystery that starts with rescuing a kitten, you know you're in good hands!

But Lee can’t forget the surveillance—she’s been assigned to the case by her formidable boss, the elegant Lila Alvarez (aka her mom), who’s doing a favor for an old friend. When she investigates why the rat hasn't left his lair, she discovers the worst—he has a few fresh holes in his chest. She soon uncovers a criminal web of international proportions amid dark and harrowing dangers she never signed up for. But is she up to a near-death experience? Well! Is a kitten adorable?

Author Haven quickly rolls out all the warm and fuzzy delights a cozy fan could wish for—in the form of a delightfully eccentric, usually squabbling, yet thoroughly loving detective family, each with his or her special talent, beginning with its matriarch. Lila possesses all the WASPy refinement of Princess Grace, in cool contrast to her spirited half-Latina daughter Lee. (Liana to her mom, and that tells you so much!) Completing the quartet are the adoring uncle you’ve always wanted (he cooks!) and the genius bro’ who made the firm famous with his brilliant cyber-detection.

Trust us, this series has everything but tea and cookies. Fans of PI stories, cozy mysteries, and women sleuths will go bananas, especially if they love sharp funny female protagonists like Sue Grafton’s witty Kinsey Millhone and Janet Evanovich’s lovable Stephanie Plum. Aficionados of Lisa Lutz’s family series, The Spellman Files, will get a special kick out of the Alvarez clan. Readers will also enjoy the fact that this series may be a first. Father/son detective teams abound—think The Republic of Doyle and The Good Cop—but mom/daughter sleuths are an idea whose time has come. Step right up and meet Lee and Lila.

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Wicked witches. Murder. Mystery.
Being a teacher at an academy for teenage witches is no easy job—especially when students are trying to kill you.

Vega Bloodmire, wicked witch extraordinaire and teacher of defensive magic at Lady of the Lake School for Girls, has secrets she would prefer remain buried. Preferably six feet under. When a student dies in the middle of a lesson, the administration rules it as an accident. Vega has reason to question this. The death resembles an incident from her days as a student at the same magical boarding school—a death she got mixed up in—which is how she knows it is no accident.

When the principal starts digging into the past and fingers start pointing at Vega as the culprit, she knows she’s going to have to solve a murder from eight years before so she can figure out who committed the one in the present.

Can Vega discover who committed both crimes before she is framed for murder?

Enjoy this stand-alone book in this spin-off series of Womby’s School for Wayward Witches.

This book starts with Vega Bloodmire’s life before working at Womby’s School for Wayward Witches when she was a new and inexperienced teacher at Lady of the Lake School for Girls.

Clean, cozy, no sex or swearing, PG 13—perfectly fine for teens or grandmas who like mysteries with magic.
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