Bridgett Olsen leads a quiet life in a rural Texas town with her golden retriever, Cooper. While finishing a degree in investigative journalism, she works at a local bank to help pay the bills. Her social life consists of a monthly bunco game with her coworkers and her best friend, Elena Rodriguez, a detective on the police force.
On a whim, the bunco group buys a lottery ticket and wins the multimillion-dollar prize. Bridgette knows her life will change, but she doesn’t realize how true that is until she stumbles over the body of her murdered bunco teammate.
Using her internship as a liaison between the local police force and the newspaper, Bridgette searches for a motive and discovers things she never knew about the murdered woman. She works closely with her detective best friend and Elena’s handsome partner, Detective Garrett Keyes, and finds herself fighting a growing attraction to him.
Haunted by the decades-old kidnapping and murder of her childhood best friend, Bridgette knows she must let go of her survivor’s guilt and let God mend her broken heart if she wants to find answers.
As bodies and suspects begin to pile up, Bridgette becomes a target herself. Can she find the killer before it's too late?
Staci Mauney is a freelance writer and editor and indie author. She is the co-owner of Prestige Prose, a freelance writing and editing company, which she started in 2015. She earned a Master of Education in secondary education from Cameron University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. As an author, she has written six devotionals in the Echoes of Joy series, all of which can be found on her website at stacimauney.com. Her Yorkshire terrier, Lilly, is the main character in her devotionals and her blog, which can also be found on her website. She has written one Christian cozy mystery, Death by Dice: A Bunco Club Mystery #1. She has had short stories published in Chicken Soup for the Shopper’s Soul; Owl Hootings, Vol. II; Oklahoma: The Fountain of the Heartland, and the OWFI Report and has worked as a content writer for Oklahoma Farm and Ranch magazine. Staci volunteers for a variety of organizations in her local community. She has been a member of OWFI since 2007 and is currently serving as the 2019 OWFI president.
I love a good cozy and this one by Staci Mauney did not disappoint. I found myself wrapped up in the twists and turns as I spent many a late night trying to figure out who done it. Can't wait for the next one.