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    Where Pigs Fly: Nether Edge Cozy Mystery, #2
    Where Pigs Fly: Nether Edge Cozy Mystery, #2
    Where Pigs Fly: Nether Edge Cozy Mystery, #2
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    Where Pigs Fly: Nether Edge Cozy Mystery, #2

    By Wendy Meadows

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    In the Nether Edge part of town, a fabulous fundraiser is planned for Bella Donnington, a beautiful yet ailing young woman, who's been wheelchair bound for most or all of her life.  Her best friend, Cassandra, an apartment dweller above the town's Spicery shop, has actually rarely seen her at times before then.  On the day of the party, a good time is had by all….  

     

    Until, Bella's overbearingly protective but caring mother, Minnie, is brutally and mysteriously murdered.

      

    Panic ensues throughout Havenholm, and soon several people are suspected for the crime, including Gwyneth, Bella's caregiver and Mr. Frowd, a reclusive author and Havenholm's de facto local "celebrity."  

     

    At once, Cassy and Dorothy (Dot), her older and curmudgeonly outspoken investigative partner, are knee deep in clues, clashes and crushes; perhaps, nothing a quick potion or small spell couldn't handle.  Besides, finding the killer could mean life or death for everyone involved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMajestic Owl Publishing LLC
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386690481
    Where Pigs Fly: Nether Edge Cozy Mystery, #2
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    Wendy Meadows

    USA Today bestselling author, Wendy Meadows, is a passionate Cozy Mystery Author whose meticulously crafted stories showcase witty women sleuths and engaging plots. Her primary influences include but are not limited to mystery genre greats Joanne Fluke, Ellery Adams, and James Patterson. To date, she has published dozens of books, which include her popular Sweetfern Harbor Series, Maple Hill Series, and Alaska Cozy Series, to name a few. In a previous life, Wendy worked as a Graphic Designer, earning her Graphic Design Certification at the prestigious New York based Sessions School of Design. With this valuable artistic background, she designs her own book covers. In fact, she began writing fiction soon after designing numerous book covers for other fiction authors. When she isn’t writing about female detectives and their tactful crime solving, you can find Wendy either tending to her hobby farm, playing video games, relaxing on her back porch, or coloring in her growing collection of adult coloring books. She also loves spending quality time with her husband, two sons, two cats, and one adorable Labradoodle. Together, they call “The Granite State” home sweet home. To find out more about Wendy Meadows both personally and creatively, feel free to visit her official website at www.wendymeadows.com

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      Where Pigs Fly - Wendy Meadows

      prologue

      Bella Donnington was beautiful. It wasn’t out of the ordinary for people with her condition to be attractive, but she was rarely seen by the residents of the Nether Edge part of town. Although Cassandra had lived above the Spicery for four years, she’d only seen Bella about twenty times.

      It wasn’t that Bella was reclusive so much as housebound. She suffered from a combination of ailments, including chronic fatigue syndrome and, it was rumored, a recurring and rare strain of cancer, which limited her movement. It was a sad sort of life, Cassy thought, for someone so young to be stuck in a small apartment, especially on such a glorious day in the town of Havenholm.

      chapter one

      "I t’s too hot, Cassy, Dot whined, as she lazily cooled herself with an oversized, ornate oriental fan, her elbows resting on the shop’s cash register. We’re not meant to get heatwaves. Rain, snow, high winds, that’s what we like. Anything above ‘I’ll take my sweater off’ isn’t welcome."

      Whereas Dot wilted in the unusual heat, Patty came to life in the sun. All morning she’d been bouncing around the place cleaning shelves, the floor, the windows, and anything that looked like it might need a good dusting, save the few customers who’d wandered in then promptly left after they’d unsuccessfully searched the shop for a beverage cooler.

      Only you could see a downside to this weather, Dot, Patty said, taking a breather at the entrance to the shop. A cool breeze snuck in, ruffling Patty’s blond pigtails. I might go out to the lake later. It’s not often that you get to see me swimming in there. She clasped her arms to her sides and shivered, then popped back into action, resuming her obsessive cleaning.

      I don’t know how she does it, Cassandra, Dot moaned, the hand fan now being moved at full force, I’m glad we’re only doing half a day. Is everything ready?

      It was a coincidence they’d chosen today, the hottest day of the year, to have the annual Nether Edge Barbecue and it had been fortuitous, considering the wash out the past two years. Besides, nobody had any desire to buy what the Spicery was offering. If it didn’t provide either shade or refreshment, then today it wasn’t leaving the shelves. Cassy thought of doing a spell, just by using some of the very basic ingredients they sold; something that would combat the hot weather, but it would mean giving away centuries-old family secrets, and she would not do that. Her mother would hex her from the grave and Cassy wasn’t so sure that was impossible.

      This year I decided to let someone else deal with it all, Cassy said. She took a large ring of keys off her belt and selected the appropriate one. Something always goes wrong when I organize the barbecue.

      Like the potato salad, Dot replied, her face now crimson from the heat.

      How was I supposed to know I told everyone to bring potato salad, Cassy said, moments before realizing what a dumb thing it was to say. Anyway, it’s all for a good cause, so nothing can go wrong.

      Do you think we’ll raise enough money? I’ve seen what some of these people spend and it doesn’t come cheap.

      For what it’s worth, I think we’ve already hit the fund-raising target. This is more like a celebration.

      Celebration? At $30 a plate you’d want to be happy, wouldn’t you? Dot exhaled, wearily.

      Cassy left the older woman to huff and to puff and to stew while she locked the shop and then corralled Patty through the back door, into the courtyard. Dot followed them, still beating her fan like it was an Olympic event.

      Before leaving the murky confines of the Spicery, Cassy ran up the small, winding staircase that led to her apartment. Herzog, the cat, greeted her, his smoky gray fur rubbing against her face as she appeared out of the stairwell. It amused Cassy to think she was going below deck on a boat every morning when she went to work, and that her apartment was the only entrance to the rest of the world above deck.

      She made sure Herzog had water and food (tuna-mayo) and that the window in the TV room was open enough for him to squeeze out should he need to.

      You be good, she said, patting him on the head. Herzog sat on his haunches and looked her in the eye. The air in the apartment was still and hot, even with the window open. When Cassandra returned below deck to the coolness of the Spicery, it made her appreciate the air conditioning.

      Outside the store, people chattered, and the damp earthiness of charcoal smoke permeated the air. Someone had put on music, some old rock ‘n roll tune. The superintendent of the building opposite Cassandra’s had kindly put up a small sound system for residents to use.

      The barbecue was just one of the ways everybody had come together for Bella. The burden of looking after someone with a life-changing illness could be overwhelming financially, so when the townspeople had heard that Bella needed a new treatment, no one hesitated to lend a hand. Cassy didn’t remember whose idea it was to make the annual barbecue a fundraiser, but it was perfectly timed and would do more than relieve the financial situation for Bella’s full-time caregiver and mother, Minnie Donnington.

      More than money, Minnie would know how much everyone loved her. There were, no doubt, hundreds of things Minnie Donnington would have loved to have done with her life, but circumstance, fate and a husband who thought his talents would be better suited on the other side of the country, put those aspirations to rest.

      Cassy stepped outside and held her eyes to her hand like a visor. The buildings on either side of the courtyard provided much-needed shade. Dotty was among those more prudent revelers, while Patty danced in the sun under one speaker.

      She’s in a world of her own, that girl. Dot watched Patty from the safety of the shadows, with an expression that bordered envious. But it wasn’t Patty, the increasing number of people joining in, nor the bounty of salads, cold meats, drinks and other things that caught her eye. It was a delicate young woman in a wheelchair. Under an enormous sun hat, the rim of which sagged almost comically low, Cassy glimpsed the sweetest smile; red lips against pale white skin.

      "You should mingle,

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