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Teresa Trent

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Teresa Trent writes hilarious cozy mysteries that take place in the small towns of Texas. She was first inspired to create Pecan Bayou after visiting the Texas Hill Country to view the millions of springtime flowers alongside the roads and highways.
Teresa also writes the Piney Woods Series with Camel Press and debuted the first book in the series January 2018.
Her latest book,Die a Yellow Ribbon. has Betsy, The Happy Hinter obsessed with tidying up as all of the lovable characters return for an amazing race to find the Golden Pecan!
Teresa also features other cozy authors and cozy giveaways on her blog, Books to the Ceiling, that can be followed right here on Goodreads or you can join over a thousand people who follow her at teresatrent.blo ...more

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	A Dash of Murder (Betsy Livingston / Pecan Bayou #1) 3.59 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Color Me Dead (Henry Park, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buzzkill (Betsy Livingston / Pecan Bayou #4) 3.96 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Overdue for Murder (Betsy Livingston / Pecan Bayou #2) 3.81 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burnout (Betsy Livingston / Pecan Bayou #5) 4.06 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Till Dirt Do Us Part (Pecan Bayou Book 7) 4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oh Holy Fright (Pecan Bayou Book 8) 4.17 avg rating — 48 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doggone Dead (Betsy Livingston / Pecan Bayou #3) 3.88 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder of a Good Man (Piney Woods Mystery, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder for a Rainy Day (Betsy Livingston / Pecan Bayou #6) 4.27 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Book Review: The First to Lie

We’ve all been home for a while, so let’s mess with your head. Can you tell when someone is lying to you? The liar may touch their hair or lips, keep everything vague, and repeat your questions back to you. Even with all those “tells” it can be difficult to spot a liar.

The First to Lie focuses on the vulnerability of women who have had difficulty conceiving a child. If you desperately wanted a b

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The mystery aspect of The Black Midnight is really a backdrop to the romance between Annie/Alice, the royal turned Pinkerton detective, and Isaiah Joplin, another Pinkerton detective from Austin Texas. She is forbidden to marry anyone outside of Engl ...more
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You know the old saying "Be careful what you wish for.", well this humorous book illustrates just how bad it can get. When Sam, a librarian on Galveston Island thinks of unrequited love Duncan, she still pines for him. She is surprised to learn he wi ...more
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Something about this audiobook had me from the first sentence. This is a story of a family whose life is changed when the father chooses to move them into a historic home called the Dutch House. It is beautifully narrated by Tom Hanks, who has the ri ...more
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Lady Amy, who is secretly a successful mystery writer loves to attend her weekly book group and talk about the latest mysteries with her friend Lord William. Amy has been set up in an engagement with Mr. Ronald St. Vincent but after she ends the enga ...more
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“But men like my father didn’t seem to exist in my generation. So here I was, seven years later, The Happy Hinter, popular blogger, columnist and author. No one needed to know this hinter hadn’t always been happy.”
― Teresa Trent, A Dash of Murder

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