Crazy Cozy Mysteries-Cooking with Thieves

Today is the big book launch for two Cozy mysteries! In celebration they are hosting a Crazy Cozy Blogfest. One fun mystery tour which you can read about here. Make sure you take the whole trail and visit some of the other stories as well!  
These are the rules:

Come up with a wacky theme, a zany sleuth, a crazy setting for your OWN Crazy Cozy Mystery idea.

Include:
1)  Sleuth (age, occupation, maybe a little family info)
2)  Sidekick (either friend or foil, but someone who always seems to be around)
3)  Setting (town, city, or other sort of place)
4)  Theme (go nuts)
5)  Twist (be as creative as you like)

Write it up in 150-250 words (so short)--for the blogfest portion anyway—we want people to be able to read a bunch of these without too much burden. Keep the traditions in mind, but we are judging on entertainment value--which we enjoy most, not how realistic it is to make a best seller. We want people to laugh.

My Story idea is about a gang of thieves working as cooks on a cruise boat, hope you get a laugh.

Cooking with Thieves

As a retired police detective addicted to crossword puzzles, Kat was not the kind of gal to take things lightly. She was hard as nails, a penny pincher and not the least bit frivolous. So when she was given a Mexican cruise from her two children as a birthday present, she had half a mind to give it to her spinster sister instead.

“It will be good for you Mom. Dad died 5 years ago, and it is about time you had some fun. You might even meet someone.” They insisted until she gave in, unaware that she was about to sail off into a ship load of trouble. A stowaway cat with thieving paws and a nose for danger was not the kind of friend she expected to meet. When Kat finds herself in the middle of a mysterious death on board the M/S Fantasy and a crew full of suspicious characters, her only back up turns out to be a dirty yellow cat with a taste for gold. Together they uncover a smuggling ring that is run by a gang of vicious cooks, and in a game of cat and mouse they fight to stay alive.

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 Links:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Indie Bound
Confessions of a Watery TartLinks:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Indie Bound
Mystery Writing is Murder

Come back tomorrow to see what Eye Spy is up too!

MINNIE HAS FINISHED CHICKEN

Chicken was really a rooster that had no legs and enormous wings, because of that everyone on the swamp wanted chicken to buy a set of convertible skis-water for the summer, snow for the icy winter on that swamp. Only they didn’t want chicken to use the skis- they wanted him to fly and pull them across the water, but chicken knew what lay in those waters…Sharktopus, and it wanted fried chicken! Chicken was no chicken however but a Butterball turkey with false wings which would not lift him up. The poor thing was grounded; the only thing left was a snake in the bushes. Chicken knew how to fight snake and quickly grabbed it by the tail. Swinging it faster and faster he threw it straight at the Sharktopus and flew off into the night with his enormous false wings, never to be seen from again.

Minnie and her Gibberish pals this month were: 

Hilary Melton-Butche

Alex J. Cavanaugh

Craziness abounds

Stephanie V

EvalinaMaria

Summer Ross

Thanks for playing, hope you come and play again soon.

Tomorrow there is going to be a lot of foul play in the air and here we are going to be cooking with thieves. Come back tomorrow for a special  stop on A Cozy Mystery Tour.


This Wednesday "EYE SPY" will be guest posting over at A-Z challenge,  talking about how social nett working can change lives. Since it is the first Wednesday of the month, that means it is also time for the Insecure Writers Support Group.


Have a great day!