Waiting

I’ve started work on my next Jazzi and Ansel mystery, #12. I usually can’t do it. I can’t write a Jazzi and Ansel back to back, but for some unknown reason, because he was only a walk-on character, Eric Freeman who bought a condo on the second floor of the warehouse Jazzi, Ansel, and Jerod were converting in book 11 decided that he should play a bigger role in a story. At first, I played with the idea of making him a murderer, but he wasn’t happy with that. So, in book 12, he’s the person who FINDS the body in the condo’s lobby. And it’s someone he knows, someone he works with. He’s so nervous, he asks for help, and since the dead body was propped in their lobby, Jazzi decides to get involved in finding the killer.

The housing market in River Bluffs is still tight, so when Jazzi and her friends look for a house to flip, they can’t find one that will work. So, they buy a bed-and-breakfast to flip into six more condos. And they all sell before they can even get to the second and third floor to start work on them. That makes them wonder what they’ll do when winter comes and they still can’t find another house to flip. That’s when Jerod reads that River Bluffs has okayed using shipping containers to make into homes. Jazzi thinks he’s nuts until he shows her images on the internet of container houses. Not her favorite style. Too modern. But the interiors can be really cool. 

The warehouse was the biggest project the three of them have ever done together, but if they do this, it will be even bigger. They decide to go for it. They buy a huge tract of land to divide into six properties. They plan to build a different style of container home on each one. It’s a big undertaking that will probably last until the end of next summer or even longer. But it’s worth a shot, so they dive in. 

Oh, and Jazzi still has a murder to solve. Easy peasy.