Calamity Jayne Boxed Set

Boxed set of first six Calamity Jayne Mystery novels featuring the Midwest’s answer to Bridget aspiring ace cub reporter and amateur sleuth, Tressa Jayne Turner. Set

CALAMITY JAYNE

Tressa Jayne Turner has had it up-to-here with the never-ending string of dumb-blonde jokes and a lifetime nickname that's harder to get rid of than lint from a belly button. Crowned "Calamity Jayne" by Iowa Department of Resources officer Rick Townsend, Tressa's out to gain a little hometown respect--or die trying. Unfortunately, that may be the case. When Tressa breaks down on a dark, deserted road, and discovers a body in the trunk, she returns to find the stiff gone and she's driven off in the wrong car. Tressa is determined to prove there's more to this cockeyed cowgirl than meets the eye and she’s just been handed the perfect opportunity to get "Ranger Rick" and a skeptical citizenry to finally take her seriously. How? By solving a murder no one else believes happened...No one, that is, except the killer.

CALAMITY JAYNE RIDES AGAIN

The homegrown good-time is Tressa's favorite time of year--donuts, funnel cakes, cotton candy, turkey legs--it's also her Uncle Frank's busiest. His ice cream stand is in a prime location, and he's poised to scoop the competition. But when a soft-serve saboteur appears at the same time her cousin goes missing, it's another fine, sticky mess she's gotten herself into. With a string of malicious pranks, to scary, psycho dunk-tank clowns, two geriatric Jessica Fletcher wannabes, a dishy state trooper, and a sister who may have her eye on a certain ranger-type, and it's mayhem on the midway time. So, let the carnival games begin!

GHOULS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
It's autumn in the heartland, and this year all Tressa Jayne Turner wants is a slower pace, some candy corn and toffee apples--and a serious story she can sniff out on her own. And she's in luck! Eccentric and reclusive bestselling writer, Elizabeth Courtney Howard is coming to little ol' Grandville to conduct some family business and finish her latest book. So, what's stopping Tressa from scoring this journalistic coup--besides a blackmailing six-foot-two-inch homecoming queen candidate with all the charm of Frankenstein in taffeta, a rival reporter out to scoop his competition, a séance-hosting roommate who happens to be her grandmother, and the sexy ranger-type who could tempt a nun to rethink those vows? Only the fact that the skeletons to uncover in this little exposé are all in a closet in Haunted Holloway Hall--a house only Norman Bates could love.

CALAMITY JAYNE GOES TO COLLEGE

Ace cub reporter Tressa Jayne Turner is carrying a full load--and we’re not talking post-holiday pounds. Back in college for the fourth time (but who’s counting!?), she’s also looking to nab a raise from her stingy boss at the Gazette, Stan. What can stop Tressa from making the grade—besides the old “dog ate my homework” story, that is? A wrinkled roommate rekindling an old flame, maid of honor madness run amok, a botched betrothal that’s more than just schoolyard gossip, one man who likes her for herself and another who wants to save her from herself, and a campus criminal out to teach the student body a lesson—one one crime at a time. And that’s just for starters! It’s a case of murder and mayhem by the books...and failure is so not an option.

CALAMITY JAYNE HEADS WEST
Tressa Jayne Turner is headed for Arizona—and a wedding!Her goofy gammy’s getting’ hitched, and Tressa’s sunny little siesta is about to have more strings attached than a dream catcher. Her cousin’s keeping secrets, Ranger Rick Townsend is sending signals—and it seems Tressa’s not the only one with an attachment to “Kookamunga”, the fertility figurine she picked up at a roadside stand. The wacky wedding’s about to become an amazing race-meets-the-Da Vinci Code-Wild West-intrigue featuring a washed-up actress out to kick-start her career, a suspect spiritual advisor, locals with a cause, and a ten-year-old who’s a chip off a certain ranger’s blockhead. It’ll be a vision quest to make Thelma and Louise’s southwestern spree seem like amateur night at the OK Corral.

ANCHORS AWEIGH
Ahoy, mateys! Tressa Jayne Turner is looking forward to the week-long cruise that follows her gammy's wedding. Good food. Warm beaches. Romantic sunsets. A swashbuckling ranger-type who shivers her timbers. Unfortunately this Love Boat has Iceberg ahead! written all over it. Why? It’s a lo-cal cruise, Tressa’s bad-boy faux fiancé and his marriage minded Aunt Mo are stowaways, and Tressa's barely got her sea legs before a murder plot bobs to the surface. It's one whale of a Bermuda love tria...