Ghost Busting Mystery: Shady Hoosier Detective Agency (Book 1)

Daisy Pettles

Hot Pants Press, LLC, Aug 18, 2018 - Fiction

Veenie Goens and Ruby Jane Waskom would like to retire, but they lack a nest egg. In fact, they barely have a nest. They co-own a ramshackle, but cozy home, that’s overrun with quirky characters. Determined to supplement their social security, the amateur aging women sleuths, who live in the small town of Knobby Waters, Indiana, decide to go pro with their one natural talent: nosiness. They sign on as detectives with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, run by Harry Shades, an incompetent womanizer. Their knees aching, but their spirits high, the senior sleuths’ first crime case, the Ghost Busting Mystery, finds the lifelong friends chasing ghosts, bank robbers and hillbilly hoodlums through the barnyards of rural Indiana. Follow Ruby Jane and Veenie’s antics in the Ghost Busting Mystery, an award-winning feel-good, funny mystery voted the Best Humor Book 2019 by the Indie Reader. This is Book 1 in the humorous Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Cozy Mystery Series.

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User Review  - whybehave2002 - LibraryThing

Two senior citizens are hired to get rid of ghosts in the house across the road. Antics ensue and colorful characters seem to come from out of the blue but alas all is well by the end of the book.

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Ghost Busting Mystery (Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, #1) by Daisy Pettles is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary. Oh my gosh this book is hilarious! It has the most unique ...

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 7
• Section 3: 14
• Section 4: 23
• Section 5: 29
• Section 6: 34
• Section 7: 39
• Section 8: 46
• Section 9: 52
• Section 10: 59
• Section 11: 65
• Section 12: 74
• Section 13: 80
• Section 14: 86
• Section 15: 91
• Section 16: 98
• Section 17: 103
• Section 18: 110
• Section 19: 116
• Section 20: 123
• Section 21: 129
• Section 22: 134
• Section 23: 138
• Section 24: 143
• Section 25: 149
• Section 26: 156
• Section 27: 161
• Section 28: 166
• Section 29: 170
• Section 30: 175
• Section 31: 180
• Section 32: 185
• Section 33: 190
• Section 34: 195
• Section 35: 201
• Section 36: 208
• Section 37: 215
• Section 38: 219

About the author

Daisy Pettles is the pen name of Vicky Phillips, born in Bedford, Indiana and raised in the tiny farming community of Medora. As a child, she was fed a steady diet of books, pies, and Bible stories. A world traveler, she has raced camels in Egypt and eaten Kentucky Fried Chicken with Communists in Shanghai. She was a therapist before becoming an entrepreneur and award-winning writer. She currently lives in a cloud of quiet at the end of a dirt road in Vermont. The Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, humorous novels set in Knobby Waters, Indiana, is her debut mystery series. 

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ghost Busting Mystery: Shady Hoosier Detective Agency (Book 1); Volume 1 of Shady Hoosier Detective Agency
• Author: Daisy Pettles
• Publisher: Hot Pants Press, LLC, 2018
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Humorous / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths; Fiction / Small Town & Rural; Fiction / Women