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    Jones'd
    Jones'd
    Jones'd
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    Jones'd

    By Linda Rae Blair

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    Murder investigation via the dog's perspective, this humorous mystery has Jones providing background information on the goings on in the Andrews household. His views on work, people and situations are bound to give the reader a giggle as Press and the rest of the Virginia team try to find the killer of a young woman who didn't exist just a very few years before she's found on Press's beach--dead!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Rae Blair
    Release dateJan 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301849574
    Jones'd
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    Linda Rae Blair

    Raleigh artist, Linda Rae Blair was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She has used her knowledge gained during extensive travel throughout the United States and her passion for art, history, mysteries, and scenery to create compact novels with rich characters so real you'll miss them when they're gone and places you'll swear you've been. She has lived in Seattle, WA, Monterey Bay, CA, Cincinnati, OH, and retired five years ago in the Raleigh, NC area.Her love of history is well-earned. She is a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of Mayflower fame. She is also descended from a strong line of Scots-Irish immigrants to America in the 1700s. She even had a great uncle who was robbed by the infamous outlaw Belle Starr.Her Scottish love story, “Elusive”, spans 200 years of Scottish history and intrigue via setting in 1700s Scotland and early 1900s Paris and Scotland.An avid reader who inhales novels by Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown and others in the romance/mystery genres, her imagination takes you to a variety of places and times all in the same story.Her travels to the beautiful southwestern states inspired her more modern historic romance combined with mystery, “100 Years of Brotherly Love”.Her mystery series, The Preston Andrews Mysteries now has 12 published entries, beginning with “Hard Press’d” which now claims over 50,000 downloads and, most recently, the softcover print version of the series in compilation form.Ms. Blair has spent many happy hours in Virginia Beach during off-season, when the winds blow cold and hard and the salty air whips at the weather-protected palms. This is the locale chosen for her Preston Andrews series. Locals and visitors alike find many familiar frames of reference in this series.Her homage to her love for Poirot is via her teeny tiny mystery, “The Board Game Murders”.Her newest series is aimed at a slightly younger and more female audience from that of The Preston Andrews series but begins in the backstory in “Pressing Reunion”.The Samantha Hartley, PI series is lighter and features a very young and not terribly experienced private investigator just beginning her career—with a slight assist from the Director of the FBI.One thing is for certain, she combines her passions into stories interesting to history buffs, travelers, and lovers of romance and mystery.

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      Jones'd - Linda Rae Blair

      JONES’D

      By Linda Rae Blair

      Published by Linda Rae Blair at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Linda Rae Blair

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 9781301849574

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to thank my friend, Bev Rusk, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for all her messages on social media about pet rescue, lost pets and pet adoption. In the last year Bev lost two members of her family—her beloved Tuscan and most recently Tuscan’s best buddy, Nipper. If anyone understands how much love our furry friends give us, it’s Bev. If anyone understands how much we love them, it’s also Bev.

      I hope this story captures someone you love and someone who loves you back.

      Enjoy!

      For pet lovers everywhere!

      Put yourself in your pet’s place and see how the world looks at pet perspective.

      Andrews Mansion

      Virginia Beach, VA

      Wedding Day

      My name is, no, not Ishmael, it’s Jones. You’ve probably heard of me. I’m a big galumph, so my master says; a pony, so says my favorite vet; a naughty baby, according to Lizzie who makes the best tasting goodies ever; and sweetheart, so says my Rachel.

      Shlurp…excuse me while I lick up some beef flavored chewy bone-induced drool

      Something special is going on in my house today. Everybody is excited about something. I’m not sure what it is, so I’m keeping a very close eye on everything and everybody.

      Lizzie has been busy in the kitchen for days. The whole house smells so good. For some reason, they aren’t allowing me in the kitchen, except when they’re taking me outside. Even then, they put me on a leash so I can’t stop to inspect the countertops covered in those plastic bowls with the dreaded Jones-proof covers. I hate those covers.

      My bestest friend ever is Palmer. He plays with me on the beach, throwing that fun toy with all the tiny holes in it—it doesn’t start out with holes in it, they just appear like magic. When it lands in the water, it sinks. Palmer says it’s all my own fault. I’m not sure why that is, but I trust him, so I try to be more careful. It doesn’t work, but I try.

      I nearly lost my Palmer. While I’m not quite sure what that means, really, my people said that a lot when they were all very upset and crying. Then Palmer had to sleep downstairs in a special bed. The lady called Nurse came and stayed with my Palmer for a long time. He’s all better now, but it sure was a long time before he could run on the beach with me again.

      Today, for some reason, Palmer is getting all dressed up. He looks funny in that outfit. A white suit, pink tie and those funny things he puts on his feet when we go swimming, you know—the ones that make that funny flip-flop sound when he walks.

      There’s my pretty lady, Rachel! I try my best to do what she wants. Rachel is a very nice human. She was hurt very bad and was so very sad a while back. I could feel her sadness. I do my best to please my Rachel; she’s very special to my master and all my humans.

      My master, the humans call him Press, is going to give me a treat (tummy growling) and run with me this morning. I’m really excited. He’s been very busy doing that thing they call work. I’m not sure what work is, really, but my humans all talk about it a lot.

      My master and I went on a trip. He was so sad when the trip started, but he got happy again when we found pretty Rachel. Then, she saved my master’s life, with a little bit of help from me, of course! I’ll always remember that mean man; I don’t think he’ll forget me any time soon, either! He sure didn’t taste good.

      I’ve been close behind my Rachel all morning, hoping I can find out what they’re all up to today. This morning she has her pretty red hair—that’s what humans call their fur—all wrapped around those funny things she puts in her hair after taking a shower and putting on all those nice smells that make me sneeze. It always surprises me that all that red hair does all those bouncy things.

      I like to chew on Rachel’s hair when we play the wrestling game. It smells like the pretty flowers Lizzie puts on the thing they call a table. It just looks like a tall, flat bowl to me. This table must have special significance to my humans. They get very angry with

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