Margaret Lashley Books

Most Definitely Contains Nuts. All Val wants is a quiet holiday away from her oddball family. But a promise pried from her lips earlier in the year has blown that wish out the hen-house window. When Val and her boyfriend Tom arrive at her mother’s house in Hicksville, USA, the annual Family Fruitcake Competition is well underway. And there’s more than a few fruits and nuts in the running. But the biggest contest is between Val and her mom. As their battle of wills heats up, unexpected ingredients get thrown into both women’s batter. It may be time to call in a referee…. Who will win, and who will get their just desserts? And will Val’s half-baked family turn out to be too much baggage for Tom to handle? What Four is a satirical look at something we all face...going home for the holidays to a bag of mixed nuts known as our families. If you like deeply flawed characters and laugh-out-loud situations, you’ll love What Four. It’s the fifth book in Margaret Lashley’s hilarious Val Fremden Mystery Series.

You can’t fix stupid with duct tape. But you can muffle the sound. When Val tries to revive her old writing career, story ideas prove as elusive as a moment alone without her boyfriend Tom breathing down her neck. Tom’s moved in, and Val’s itching to move out – at least temporarily. A last-minute getaway to the country seems like the perfect solution for dissolving her writer’s block. But a fateful fish fry ends up inspiring a whole different kind of dead end. With an angry horde of RVers pointing the finger at Val, she’s got to out-smart Bigfoot, out-do a seedy crafter, out-wit a psycho killer, and just plain “out” whoever in blue blazes keeps scaring the daylights out of her with those hideous shrunken heads! Whether Val gets out of this alive or not, one thing’s for sure. She’ll never trust the internet again…. If you like wacky, deeply flawed characters and laugh-out-loud situations, you’ll love Seven Daze! It’s the seventh book in Margaret Lashley’s hilarious Val Fremden Mystery Series. Pick up a copy and get laughing today!