Coming Soon ~ It's A Mystery II

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It’s A Mystery
A new cozy mystery seriesBy Critically Reviewed Author Cyn Ley

It’s a Mystery I: The Lost Boys
Debuting the series in the story anthology Pink Flamingos & Other Follies.
Tim and Jocelyn are two college friends with the same obsessions –books and theater. They find a lovely little town to set up It’s A Mystery, their bookshop, and both become active in the community theater group.
Then one fine summer day, two little boys go missing, one of them being the son of Joc’s best friend. There is no trace of them anywhere. And then a clue is dropped in the bookshop’s mailbox as rehearsals for the upcoming theater production swirl around them. 


It’s A Mystery
A new cozy mystery seriesBy Critically Reviewed Author Cyn Ley

It’s a Mystery I: The Lost Boys
Debuting the series in the story anthology Pink Flamingos & Other Follies.
Tim and Jocelyn are two college friends with the same obsessions –books and theater. They find a lovely little town to set up It’s A Mystery, their bookshop, and both become active in the community theater group.
Then one fine summer day, two little boys go missing, one of them being the son of Joc’s best friend. There is no trace of them anywhere. And then a clue is dropped in the bookshop’s mailbox as rehearsals for the upcoming theater production swirl around them.




Excerpt
We were stunned. Tim pushed back from the manuscript, met my eyes.
“My God, Tim, did someone disappear Johnny and Bobby?” My voice expressed only a fraction of the horror I felt.
“It sounds like it,” he said grimly, pulling out his cell. “Hello, Steven? Something showed up here in our drop box. It might be important. But it makes very little sense.”
Someone who hates boys. A wonderland somewhere nine inches down. Some place that’s dark and below. Below what? A lot of walking in the dark. A challenge. Lots of contempt. Marco Polo, where’d they go?
Had we just read a confession?



Coming in May!
T’s a Mystery II: A Player Sets The Stage, continuing the story begun in It’s a Mystery I: The Lost Boys from the anthology Pink Flamingos & Other Follies.
It’s now a few weeks since the events of The Lost Boys. The play is almost ready to debut. Tim and Joc find themselves at center stage for some fallout from recent events and from their college days. Meanwhile, at the community theater, there are some bizarre and dangerous discoveries. The stage is set … but for what?




Excerpt
Randy never took the hint. He’d try to engage me in small talk, and I wouldn’t let him. Eventually, he’d say something like, “Hey, you want to go out to dinner with me?”
“No, Randy, I don’t.”
“You like playing hard to get, don’t you?” He’d flex his chest and arm muscles, putting on some sort of fuzzy testosterone-fueled display. It had all the appearance of tribbles in the throes of an epileptic seizure. “Whaddya think?”
“I think I’m not interested,” I’d say firmly. “I mean it, Randy. Lay off.”
“Lots of ladies would love to get what you’re getting.”
“Fine. Go bother them.” I tried to sound neutral and calm, I swear I did. “Starting with your girlfriend.”
His face reddened. “It’s Tim, isn’t it?”
I knew it. The feud wasn’t over yet. Only this time I was the prize. I just had no plans on becoming collateral damage.
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Look for the It’s A Mystery series on Amazon.com under Cyn Ley. Both are available in print and Kindle editions.


Check out Cyn’s other fabulous books!


Encounters Tales Recounted and Reborn
The Ossuary Playground and Other Unexpected Tales
Pink Flamingos and Other Follies
Plot Twist
Prey




About Cyn Ley
Cyn lives and breathes the beautiful Pacific Northwest rainforests and mountains in which she lives, and many of her stories reflect the wonder and the weirdness of her hometown.The best of her earliest published tales (2014-2016) were revived and given new life in the anthology Encounters Tales Recounted and Reborn (2017). This was followed by all new stories of the paranormal kind in the highly praised collection The Ossuary Playground and Other Unexpected Tales (2017). That fall, humor and horror collided in the short story Plot Twist, wherein a demon on assignment tries to collect at a science fiction convention. In 2018, another collection of short stories saw light – PinkFlamingos & Other Follies. Quirkiness abounds in these tales, and a new cozy mystery series debuted with its first installment It’s A Mystery: The Lost Boys . The short thriller Prey crept out into the light of the October moon.In addition to her writing, she has been rated in the top six for book editors twice in the annual Predators & Editors poll.She is a member of the Northwest Independent Writers Association.All of Ms. Ley’s titles are available on www.amazon.comEncounters(print & Kindle)Ossuary Playground(print & Kindle)Plot Twist(Kindle only)Pink Flamingos(print & Kindle)Prey(Kindle only)It’s A Mystery II: A Player Sets The Stage (print & Kindle)



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