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Severn A. Lee

    January 1, 1988
    Not Your Backup
    As You Step Outside
    The Touchstone
    The Comedienne
    Written (Golden Edition)
    Everyone Was Falling
    • 2024

      With a sweet, universal message and charming illustrations full of irresistibly cute animals, this is a loving tribute to moms everywhere

      I Really Like Mom
    • 2023

      A creative and fun picture book about the world's most beloved animals! Meet four-legged, two-finned, and webbed-toe friends in this word-as-image introduction to the animal world, chock-full of interesting facts. In what looks like a simple image, there lies a fully formed word (and vice versa) for kids to read! As they giggle and make their best guess, tiny readers will discover new favorite creatures in this delightful interaction between image, shape, and letters. This book is for you if: you like vibrant colors! you like art! you like guessing games! you like learning new facts! you like fun! you love animals! Pair with classics like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Press Here, and Elmer.

      Let's Read Animal Words
    • 2022

      The King Falls

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.4(34)Add rating

      In R.J. Lee’s fourth Mississippi-set Bridge to Death Mystery, it’s up to newly-married reporter and bridge player Wendy Winchester Rierson to finesse a homicide investigation where the killer holds a master hand…King Kohl, scion of the Kohl and Son real estate firm, has a reputation for loving three the ladies, closing on properties, and playing bridge. Still, when he invites Wendy, the president of the Rosalie, Mississippi, Country Club Bridge Bunch, to a small, exclusive bridge party, her investigative instincts as a reporter for the Rosalie Citizen are on the alert. In fact, King means to use the occasion to make a surprising announcement to his selected guests. But before he can lay his cards on the table, tragedy strikes. After receiving a mysterious message to hurry to King’s home, Wendy almost collides with the man’s real-estate rival, running out the front door insisting he found King dead when he arrived. Not just dead, it turns out, but murdered—crowned with one of his own award plaques. Is the rival as guilty as he looks? Was it a crime of passion by one of Kohl’s scorned lovers? With her detective husband Ross and her father Bax Winchester, the chief of police, Wendy is determined to find the offender who dropped the unguarded King…

      The King Falls
    • 2021

      Cold Reading Murder

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.6(70)Add rating

      "Who could have predicted it? The daughter of Police Chief Bax Winchester married to a cop--Detective Ross Rierson. It's a beautiful wedding, and the newlyweds are in bliss--even if they do have to postpone their Hawaiian honeymoon for now. In the meantime, Wendy is teaching a group of newbies the game of bridge so they can join the Rosalie Country Club Bridge Bunch. One of the newcomers, flamboyant psychic Aurelia Spangler, invites the group to meet at her new home. The historic Overview mansion sits atop the High Bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, and the local lore is that it's possibly haunted, definitely cursed by the original builder, who fell down the stairs to his death. Unfortunately, the house is about to claim another life. Following a night of bridge practice and cold readings by their clairvoyant host, Aurelia is found dead in her home by Wendy, a suicide note and cocaine residue by her corpse. But Wendy, an investigative reporter for the Rosalie Citizen, doesn't buy it. The scene seems phonier than Aurelia's act, and now Wendy needs to call the bluff of a cold-blooded killer playing a psychic bid..."--Publisher description

      Cold Reading Murder
    • 2020

      Reporter and bridge player Wendy Winchester once again plays ace detective when a country club member is murdered in a hot tub . . . Now an investigative reporter for the Rosalie Citizen in the Mississippi River port of Rosalie, Wendy still likes to unwind over a game of cards. Following the demise of the Rosalie Bridge Club, she's started her own group at the Rosalie Country Club. During the first meeting of the Country Club Bridge Players, the dummy has barely been laid down when another dummy gets in a scuffle at the bar across the room. Bridge player Carly Ogle's husband Brent is at it again. After the club's new female golf pro breaks up the fight, Brent storms off to soak in a hot tub. But Carly soon finds the bullying Brent dead in the water, clubbed over the head with the pestle the barkeep uses to crush leaves for mint juleps. Racist, sexist, homophobic, and an all-around lout, Brent made enough enemies to fill a bridge tournament. So Wendy has to play her cards right to get the story—and stay out of hot water long enough to put the squeeze on the killer . . .

      Playing the Devil
    • 2020

      Everyone Was Falling

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      EVERYONE WAS FALLING is a story about racism and gun violence on the verge of Trump's election, told by a queer transracial adoptee of color raised in racial isolation.

      Everyone Was Falling
    • 2020

      Have a look under your chair. Is it there? Have a look under your bed. Is it there? Will you help Jeremy to find his lovely treacle delight?

      Jeremy Loves Treacle Delight
    • 2019

      Harry manifested the flight and saved Sam's life, and ever since, Sam's protected Harry from shadowy forces. They meet a man who is training teens with supernatural powers, but he isn't what he seems... and he has no use for an ordinary kid like Sam.

      The Touchstone