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Lynn Rankin-Esquer, Ph.D. is a psychologist and author living in the SF Bay area, and according to her children she is ‘the goddess of potato buttering.’

Her latest work is on a cozy mystery series set in the professional organizing world. Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress: An Order Out of Chaos Mystery Book 1 (XandL Press, 2025) is the first released and she is almost finished with the second in the series. She is also the author of the family dramedy 'The Unmooring of Mrs. Mango' (XandL Press, 2020), and the YA novel 'My Paperback Cape: The Unlikely Odyssey of a Bookworm' (XandL Press, 2013).

Lynn is blogging at: https://lynnrankinesquer.wordpress.com/

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Average rating: 4.49 · 181 ratings · 27 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress (An Order Out of Chaos Mystery, #1) 4.44 avg rating — 153 ratings — 2 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
	My Paperback Cape: The Unlikely Odyssey of a Bookworm 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013	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
	The Unmooring of Mrs. Mango 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings	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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Because the win here is that we are participating. We are getting ourselves out there. The medal on the left is an actual winning medal for my pickleball team in our league last summer (we were actually the champions!). Our captain bought these in a very light-hearted fashion but I have kept it around because it signifies way more than beating beginne

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“It's from Rainer Maria Rilke. The whole quote is ‘Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”
― Lynn Rankin-Esquer, Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress

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