Bøger af Cindy Davis

Life is amazing. Every day is something for which to be grateful, and to look for inspiration.There was a time I didn't think like that. I went through life as if on a treadmill-over and over, the same things. At the age of 62, alone, I left everything behind in New England, and headed south to Florida's sunshine and warm weather.One day someone told me to smile, that nothing could be as bad as all that. And I realized how I'd been-not looking forward. Not caring about tomorrow.This book is about how I turned a frown into a smile-every day.Get your copy today.

A Picasso disappears en route from Chicago to New Hampshire.While the truck is moving.The multi-million dollar painting is there, then it's not. It's gone, but it can't be. - Kendra Jean Valentine, underwriting agent for the policy, is on the hook. She scrapes together enough to hire two women to work the case. Two 'regular' women no self-respecting insurance agent would look twice at. Which is exactly why KJ thinks they're perfect. - Westen Hughes owns a failing pet shop. With creditors phoning daily, she jumps at the chance to earn a bundle of easy money, even though the offer comes from high school nemesis KJ Valentine, who stole everything in high school: head cheerleader, homecoming queen and the star quarterback. - Phoebe Smith is a snake-loving, underwear-hating, tuba player with more baggage than Logan Airport-Westen's total opposite in all ways.Ten percent of a hundred million is...Well, it's a lot so Smith and Westen join forces on a roller coaster ride to find one of the world's most valuable paintings.

There has been a murder on Lake Winnipesaukee.The fishing charter boat carried seven people-six people and the murdered boat captain.Angie Deacon was the last to see Nolan Little alive. Which makes her a prime suspect in his death. Sure, he was gruff and insensitive. Treated his wife like dirt. But besides Valerie, why would any of the five strangers on board want him dead? None of them knew him before today. Or did they? Police detective Colby Jarvis storms the boat determined to unveil the killer before they get back to shore. What a feather in the widower's cap that would be. He falls hook, line, and sinker at his first sight of Angie, but she is married and off limits. He sets to work piecing together the information from the afternoon spent fishing on the lake. - Angie was seen having an altercation with Mr. Little earlier that day.- But so did handsome Jamaican Montez Clarke, who by day is a computer geek. He even went so far as to pop Nolan in the nose.- Why did Sonny Phelps bring two duffel bags aboard? They don't appear to contain fishing gear. They're there, and then they are gone... And Sonny won't talk about them, nor will he explain about his partnership with Montez.- And what about the pretty boy Tyson Goodwell, born into wealth and privilege... He just showed up as the boat was pulling away from the dock? Why?- As for Angie's husband Will...all Jarvis can come up with is philandering. Bad enough but it doesn't make him a murderer. Valerie begs Angie to help find the killer before they lock her up forever. Angie is an ER nurse; she has no aspirations toward becoming a woman sleuth. But if she refuses, Val threatens to ask Sonny and Montez, which could land her in even deeper trouble. Under pressure, Angie agrees. Once she learns the woman's dark secret, will Angie regret her decision to jump into the role of female detective? As in all murder investigations, untruths aren't the only cause for alarm as the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, leaving Angie wondering just exactly how her cheating husband fit into the deadly equation...and if she is next on the killer's list. Get your copy today.

You Have the PowerSelf-edit Your Way Into Print Cindy is a 20+year professional editorShe is an award winning freelance editor who's worked in both fiction and nonfiction with over a thousand authors. www.fiction-doctor.com Cindy Davis shares her years of editing experience.Her guidelines give you the power to edit and polish your own writing.Cindy will teach you many editing strategiesLearn how to decipher overwriting, how to make dialect more readable. Learn to remove the overuse of adverbs and pronouns.Learn how to make your opening sentence stand out. Cindy is best known for her murder mysteries and romantic suspense, many of which were set in her home state of New Hampshire. And have achieved considerable success. Now, a transplant to Florida, Cindy has found herself changing not only place of origin but also genre since her latest work is a New Age fiction penned with her husband Rick

Can lyrics from Jimmy Buffett's songs help Bliss solve a month-old murder?The Texas hill town of Magnolia Bluff looms as a mere distraction for Bliss Jager when the new-to-her motorcycle breaks down under a banner publicizing the annual persimmon festival. Her other thought at the time: What in the world is a persimmon?Only in town an hour, she's offered pizza-for-life and a job at Doyle's General Store. The job comes with two perks: a yellow throat toucan, which is odd enough, but add to that the ghost of Merrick Doyle and life takes a vociferously strange turn. The fatherly man is friendly and much loved, and related to most everyone in town. Trouble is, he's been dead a month. Townspeople think he died of natural causes but he insists he was murdered.Can Bliss expose the killer before people find out she's been getting clues from a ghost, and um...a toucan? More important, can she find the killer before the killer finds her?

Almost everyone will find themself back in the dating world at some point.Whether married and divorced, whether widowed or ending a long-term relationship-and it doesn't matter the age-almost everyone will find themself back in the dating world at some point. The idea of returning to the dating scene is frightening enough to keep some people from trying at all. The reasons are many: what family might think, the fear of getting hurt, being set in our ways, and the one we've heard most of all from older people-not letting someone see what time has done to their body. Online dating is gaining in popularity. It's increased three-fold in popularity through the years. Years ago, internet dating sites were called impersonal and a place for losers, but it's important to remember, the impersonal-ness is gone after that first meeting. Dating sites are merely a place to meet a larger, more diversified number of the opposite sex. The New York Daily News stated that in a poll of 19,000 people married between 2005-2012, one third met on a dating site. Consumer Reports, in 2017: 44% of respondents to their poll said online dating led to a serious long-term relationshipIdentify Scammers and Internet Trolls. This book contains an entire chapter on identifying and avoiding the scam artists that patrol our world. Learn to write your profile so it catches attention. Special instructions on how to make your profile pop, which photos to use, and how to weed through the available profiles. Learn the step-by-step method of contact.So you are safe at all times, beginning with simple, low-stress coffee dates. Learn how to follow through and what to do if you fail.And how not to settle for second best. The authors met on a dating site.No, it didn't happen overnight-for Rick the journey was years; for Cindy six months. In this book, they provide both the male and female perspectives to help others successfully navigate the world of online dating. To avoid the scammers. To become one of the success stories.

This book is not a diet book; it is a way to change your relationship with food.You've been there before, maybe many times. And you're tired of failing. Let failure be a word you eliminate from your vocabulary. It's time to SUCCEED. Learn how to make food work for you. "Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments." Bethenny Frankel Like many of you I have struggled with weight my entire life. I have been a perpetual dieter...forever. In that time I have lost hundreds of pounds. Most of you understand what I am talking about. Gain a few lose a few on and off the never ending roller coaster of weight loss. In short, I was a professional dieter. It took me many tears of frustration and disappointment to learn that losing weight IS NOT HARD. Yes you just read that right, I said WEIGHT LOSS IS NOT HARD. The biggest problem we perpetual dieters have is that we get discouraged and give up. Usually after anywhere from two weeks to two months. The world is in a perpetual search for quick weight loss programs. But, be realistic. How can there be any such thing-outside of chopping the fat from your body? How could you expect the weight to come off overnight? Was it gained with a snap of the fingers? Or the twitch of a nose? The goal should be consistent weight reduction over a period of time. You must be prepared to develop a whole new outlook on food and what it does to your body. But it can be done, and it can be done in an enjoyable way that makes the journey easier. NOW IS THE TIME.

Angie Deacon's partner has gone to Broadway to follow his dream, and she's left alone to produce Prince & Pauper's first play of the new year.Proudly she narrows the group of leading-man applicants to pharmaceuticals salesman Stone Powers. His six-pack abs and charisma have the female cast practically swooning. Stone accepts the attention with cool professionalism, even as wives pop up like dandelions in a field.When he arrives drunk at the theater two days in a row, Angie isn't surprised; keeping three wives from learning of each other could drive anyone to drink. The next day, the local convenience store phones in a domestic dispute. The last thing Jarvis expects is to find Stone dead on the floor. He suddenly finds himself overwhelmed with suspects of the female persuasion. Did one of them do the unthinkable? Can he keep them from killing each other while he untangles the deluge of clues?

The murder of a popular eighteen-year-old girl devastates residents of the tight-knit communities surrounding NH's Lake Winnipesaukee.When the jury sets the accused man free, it shakes people to their very core. Detective Colby Jarvis blames himself-the witnesses were ineffective; his testimony was weak, the clues inadequate. The next morning, jigsaw puzzles begin arriving in mailboxes belonging to people related to the trial. Twelve hours later, deaths begin. Angie tries to help Jarvis in the case, but she's mired in her own set of problems.Her partner Tyson has just been offered his lifelong dream-a part in a Broadway show. She faces running the theater on her own, perhaps forever.>Her demanding mother is back in town, and she's brought her a boy-toy-a twenty-something statue of Adonis come to life-who decides that he too wants to be a detective. The puzzle pieces to seemingly random people continue to arrive. Do they tell a secret someone is desperate to protect?Were they sent by the accused man recently released from custody?Or someone with an as yet unknown motive?

A local drama teacher is found dead with a makeup tube duct taped into her mouth.Everyone is devastated, especially Kiana Smith, co-author of the most recent production intended to raise money for the floundering drama program. Although her own community theater is in the midst of its next production, Angie Deacon agrees to help out.>Angie thinks the gene that produced maternal instinct is missing from her DNA. Until she meets Kiana Smith: beautiful, personable, and...grieving, because her mentor has been murdered.And it becomes impossible NOT to help find the killer, >Can she unravel the clues before the police close down the school play?And before her own theater production fails?

The barking dog's owner lay dead in the living roomAngie was last seen in a confrontation with him Several other people have better motives--but she is the main suspect. Especially when his wife is found dead later--and once again Angie was the last to see her alive. Angie Deacon thought her vacation in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire would be relaxing. But the dog next door would not stop barking. After two sleepless nights, she confronts the handsome, athletic owner at the local diner. When he doesn't even apologize... Their 'discussion' ends in a near knockdown drag-out.The following morning Simon York is found dead. And she's the main suspect. Angie's search for the real killer leads to a cosmetics factory that's putting out some very questionable products.Now the owner of the factory-Simon's wife-is dead.Now Angie is a suspect in the murders of two people she didn't even know. She vows to seek out the real killer before they stuff her behind bars till her skin wrinkles and arthritis knobs her joints.

Take $2 million in bank securities.Add a bank manager who moonlights as a magician. Blend well, then add: - A nagging shrew of a wife- A high-maintenance daughter in debt up to her ears- A TV talk show husband who foots too many of the family's bills- A down-to-earth daughter, seemingly baffled by them all>And it's clear, Gabe Heinz has two million reasons to disappear. He is in the middle of his vanishing act on stage when he does just that-vanish before a sell-out crowd-along with two million in securities from the bank where he's vice president. His daughter is distraught-and a prime suspect-not just by the FBI, but by her nagging shrew of a mother. Insurance recovery team Smith and Westen are up to their ears in movers determined to demolish every stick of furniture in their new home. It's almost a relief when a recovery job takes them to Los Angeles. Hunky bodyguard Ryan Ames is supposed to meet them at LAX. Instead, a gun-wielding lunkhead with a fondness for roughing up women escorts them to a mobster who claims they now work for him. When they locate the securities-and they'd better, or else-can they keep them from the mobster?