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Miss Prentice Mystery Series

This series follows an English teacher whose predictable life is upended when she stumbles into a murder investigation. Despite her attempts to return to normalcy, circumstances repeatedly pull her deeper into a web of intrigue and danger. Each mystery challenges our unlikely sleuth to use her wit and courage to uncover the truth and protect herself and those around her. It's a journey where cozy small-town life collides with thrilling suspense.

Murder in the Past Tense
Death Dangles a Participle
Irregardless of Murder

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  1. 1

    Irregardless of Murder

    • 338 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    4.1(69)Add rating

    Amelia Prentice, a forty-something high school English teacher comfortable in her predictable routine, regains consciousness after tripping over the corpse of a former student in the safest of places, the public library. Returning to the classroom, she tries to pretend nothing happened. But when it becomes obvious that the victim's death wasn't an accident and she is now a murder suspect, she realizes that her cozy small-town life in New York's Adirondack region will never be the same. Crazy things begin to happen: The victim's mother disappears. Amelia's friend Lily is thrown overboard from the Lake Champlain ferryboat. A mysterious millionaire from Montreal seems determined to buy Amelia's house. The school nurse is viciously attacked by a student. Amelia's old beau Gil suddenly seems determined to rekindle their romance. Amelia is carjacked, and of course, there's the Lake Champlain Monster . . . It will take all Amelia's wisdom, humor, and faith to figure out what's going on and embrace the new life that lies ahead. If she survives.

    Irregardless of Murder
  2. 2

    Death Dangles a Participle

    • 346 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    When her students stumble across a brutal murder, English teacher Amelia Prentice Dickensen investigates, despite her falling out with her best friend, irate parents, a missing cat, and a strange illness.

    Death Dangles a Participle
  3. 3

    Murder in the Past Tense

    • 348 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.7(3)Add rating

    It's summer, and Amelia is a lady in waiting. When she happens on a familiar face in a tabloid newspaper, she and Gil reminisce about another summer, long, long ago when they were teens, working with a summer stock company. There was drama that summer, along with romance. And danger. Though much has changed over the years, the danger still lurks. Who killed Danny? Did they also kill Janey? What does it all have to do with an Adirondack hermit? And will Amelia uncover the killer's identity before she finds herself playing a death scene?

    Murder in the Past Tense