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    A Grave Murder: A Jake Wyler Mystery, #5
    A Grave Murder: A Jake Wyler Mystery, #5
    A Grave Murder: A Jake Wyler Mystery, #5
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    A Grave Murder: A Jake Wyler Mystery, #5

    By Bob Moats

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    Jake decides that he needs a vacation, and Becky agrees that she and her son, Paul, should come along. They decide to head out to Las Vegas since Angelo had told them to visit. Before they do leave, Jake wants to explore the basement that he didn’t know was under his house. Becky discovers a skeleton in a trunk and they find out that the original owners may have been cannibals. Now is the time to get away. They arrive in Las Vegas and are greeted by Jim Richards and his wife Penny. Before they even get to explore, there are a couple more murders and Penny isn’t happy. The next few days are busy with solving the murders and exploring the city. This is the fifth book of the novella series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Moats
    Release dateApr 5, 2018
    ISBN9781386649380
    A Grave Murder: A Jake Wyler Mystery, #5
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    Bob Moats

    Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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      A Grave Murder - Bob Moats

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      This is a work of pure fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      P.O. Box 524, Fraser MI 48026-0524

      Website: http://murdernovels.com

      Cover design by Bob Moats

      Stock photos www.fotosearch.com

      Extra special thanks to:

      To Susan Haughton, for editing my chapters.

      TO THE BETA READERS, Cindy Valstad, Carolyn Linington and Al Norris for proofing the final copy and hopefully catching all those annoying little errors that slip through.

      THANK YOU TO ALL THE people who purchased this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

      THE BOB MOATS FAMILY of Readers is listed in the back of the book.

      Author’s Note

      Warning. This book contains some spoilers that gives away plots from previous books of this series, so if you haven’t read those books be aware this book may reveal previous plot lines. Read the first books first to enjoy this one.

      Chapter 1

      Inever cared for the sight of a black hearse leading a funeral procession. The one coming into the cemetery that I owned didn't do much for my disposition. I turned away from the front window of my office and looked to Becky and Sheila sitting at their desks doing whatever they were doing. There wasn't that much business to keep busy enough, so they must be doing things that didn't pertain to cemetery business.

      I walked over to Becky's desk, coming up behind her and found she was doing a word search. She was almost done with the page she was working on and I cleared my throat. She jumped, looking back at me.

      Don't sneak up like that, she growled. You could have given me a coronary. Don't you have anything better to do but look over my shoulder?

      I'm just checking to see how you are earning your meager pay. Don't we have any business coming up?

      Meager pay is right. We have two more burials this week, but nothing scheduled beyond that. Paul already dug the holes for the two we have and will bury the one going on out there after they are done putting the casket in the hole.

      Glad someone is earning their pay, I said with a grin.

      Hey, we all earn our pay, it does get a little slow at times, so we have to find something to do.

      I heard the front door bell tinkle and waited to see who would join us. It was Hank, the mailman. Afternoon, everyone, he said cheerfully.

      Hey, Hank, are you staying warm?

      Today isn't too bad. I'm not looking forward to when it starts snowing. I may just leave your mail in the box at the road.

      And make me trudge through the snow to get it. I may have to rig up some kind of chain system to bring the mail box up here.

      That would be a feat of engineering. It's a long way to the road, he said and handed me a small pile of mail.

      When faced with adversity, I get to the solution. I'm not a snow creature. I looked at the mail and said, Mostly bills, and a couple from funeral homes, probably payments.

      Why don't you go to a warmer climate for a vacation? he asked.

      I'd still have to come back. Being away from cold and snow for five months wouldn't do much for my business.

      I'm sure Becky and Sheila could run the business without you, Hank said with a grin.

      Oh, no, Becky spoke up from her desk. If he goes to a warmer climate, I go, too.

      I suppose we'd have to take Paul? I asked.

      Of course, he also hates winter.

      Who will run the business and get people buried? I asked.

      Sheila, Becky said. She knows how to do our jobs. She can get the excavating company to dig the holes like they did before you bought that machine.

      I'd have to give her extra pay for taking over. I could send her on a vacation after we got back. I paused, thinking. Where would we go?

      You said Angelo invited you out to Vegas, she said, referring to the former Mob enforcer who was now an honest Las Vegas citizen and restaurant owner and had saved us from a Detroit Mob attack.

      He did. I've never been to Vegas, it might be interesting, I said.

      I go there every year for a week, love the place. I've seen just about every show on the Strip, Hank said. If you decide to go, let me know and I'll give you a few tips on not getting ripped off. Well, back to work. He turned and went out.

      You'd leave me in charge for a week, Sheila said. What if I have problems?

      You can call me, or get hold of Mickey, he'd help you, I replied. I'd give you a week off when we got back. Where would you like to go?

      Oh, dear, I don't know. I've never had a nice vacation before. I always worked year round or was homeless and trying to survive.

      Well, it's time to go relax. How about a nice spa for a week? You can get pampered and refreshed. I heard of a place in Florida that takes people in and gives them the full treatment.

      I don't know. When you get back I'll decide.

      It sounds like we are going on vacation, I said as Paul walked in.

      Who's going on vacation? he asked.

      You, your mother and me. We're going to Las Vegas.

      What brought this on? he asked.

      Don't question it, it's a free trip, or don't you want to go?

      Are you kidding? Of course I want to go. When?

      This is all happening so fast, I hadn't thought about it.

      What about the cemetery? You can't just close down. Paul said.

      "No, Sheila will run the place. She can call

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