MOOD CHANGES AND OTHER STORIES is a smart and funny collection of six short stories by award-winning author Pat Dennis. The title story MOOD CHANGES tells the tale of poor Myra and her discovery of a cheap mood ring her practical joker of a husband had purchased for their 25th wedding anniversary. She feels she has no choice but to rid the world of his bad jokes once and for all. ONE FOR THE ROAD tells the tale of two RV-driving senior citizens and a shady car mechanic with an unexpected twist. Jake wants nothing more than to kill his chain-smoking, alcoholic, meat-eating, animal rights activist bride. Once he met her on an Internet dating service for vegetarians, his life was not worth living. MOTHER'S DAY presents a whole new take on the normally revered holiday as a nickel playing, slot loving elderly mom and her bitter son spend the day at a casino. PUCK reveals an annoying good doer who is about to get her just rewards for being a pest with her door to door sales of Hockey mom trinkets and do-dads to raise money. DEAD LINE tackles sibling rivalry with potentially murderous results as two sisters vie for the best Halloween decorations in town. MINNESOTA ICED faces the challenge of a mother in law's visit to a daughter-in-law whose heart is as cold as a Minnesota winter.
The latest in the series of stories selected by acclaimed author and editor Barb Goffman for the Black Cat Mystery & Science Fiction is Pat Dennis's terrific mystery, "Dead Line." Pat Dennis is the author of Hotdish to Die For; Fat Old Woman in Las Vegas: Gambling, Dieting and Wicked Fun; Kill Me! My Husband’s Retired!; Murder by Chance; Killed by Chance; Dead by Chance; and Vegas by Chance.
All bets are off when it comes to murder ... Take a Chance Tours is on the road again - this time to the casinos and mouth-watering buffets of Biloxi, Mississippi. Betty Chance hosts the tour, along with perky effervescent bus driver and ex-con, Tillie McFinn. Riding along are the original fan club members for Bradford and the Beekeepers, a popular rock and roll group of the 50s and 60s. The chance to see their idol perform live once again in concert is priceless to Bradford's ardent followers. Only problem is, the itinerary includes a bit of kidnapping, murder, and alligators. Betty puts her amateur sleuth ability to work and, with the help of Tillie and her niece Lori, they search for the killer. Killed BY Chance is the second novel in Pat Dennis' Betty Chance Mystery series.
Twenty tongue-in-cheek, stress-relieving, single-sided pages to color, rip out and crumple into a ball, stomp on...whatever you need to do to relieve your stress now that your husband is retired. Created by comedian and author Pat Dennis, this is a perfect gift for yourself or a friend who is facing one of the life's biggest challenges - a husband at home twenty-four seven. Pat came up with the idea for the book on Day One of her spouse's retirement. Pat is the author of the award winning Hotdish to Die For ( a collection of short stories where the weapon of choice is hotdish - 18 recipes included) and the Betty Chance Mystery series: Murder by Chance, Killed by Chance, Dead by Chance and Vegas by Chance. Her work has appeared in Anne Frasier's "Deadly Treats", Once Upon a Crime Anthology, Writes of Spring, Cooked to Death, Silence of the Loons, Resort to Murder, Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice, MPR's Minnesota Monthly, Woman's World, The Pioneer Press, and more. Pat is a veteran of 1,000 plus performances in comedy clubs, women's organizations, and church basements. She's worked with such notables as Phyllis Diller, Lewis Black, and Tommy Chong.
Discusses the selection and care of guinea pigs including such aspects as housing, feeding, breeding, and exhibition. Also describes the different breeds and varieties.
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