A Murder in NYC (Drops on December 25, 2024)

This is the debut novel in this hilarious mystery series starring the most unlikely investigative team...a high-paid criminal profiler and her nosey mother.

Tracy "Tiny" LeBlanc is a former highly decorated FBI Agent who decides to leave her stressful job and use her hefty inheritance to become a Travel Influencer. Traveling across the world and posting about the amazing cities and sites that she visits brings her a joy and freedom that she never knew existed. But Tiny's life takes a drastic turn when a Category 4 hurricane strikes her hometown of New Orleans and wipes out her childhood home; leaving her mother, Ida LeBlanc, homeless. Like any good child, Tiny opens her doors to her mother. But what she thought would be a temporary living arrangement becomes permanent. Now, Ida accompanies Tiny on many of her trips and so does murder and mayhem. 

Their first trip together is to New York City. While in New York, Tiny treats Ida to a book signing in Brooklyn where Best-selling Author, Teddy P. Moody, will appear. Ida has stalked Mr. Moody for years, she was even banned from one of his book signings because of the way she "fan girled". But Ida promises to behave herself this time. She evens brings Mr. Moody a peace offering...his favorite flavored coffee. Mr. Moody accepts Ida's apology for previous behavior at one of his book signings, accepts the coffee, and then abruptly leaves because his scheduled appearance time is over. 

Needless to say, Ida becomes livid. She gives him a piece of her mind and storms out of the book signing. And that would have been the end of the inauspicous encounter if Teddy P. Moody hadn't died minutes later and the cause of death is traced back to the coffee given to him by Ida.

Desperate to clear her mother of all charges, Tiny is forced to tap into her investigative skills to find the real killer. But with no suspects other than her mother (the woman one bystander referred to as a lunatic), Tiny may find that this is a murder that even she isn't skilled enough to solve.