Last Chance for Murder (Lisa Chance Cozy Mysteries Book 1)
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“You’ll call me?” she said.
“You’ll be hearing from me very soon,” Penny said.
Claire nodded at Lisa and Mo before leaving with her kitten.
Lisa gave her mother a coffee. “See? Re-open one day and already a new client.”
“Indeed.” Penny gave Olivia’s back a cold look before accepting the coffee cup. “Lisa, please come into my office. Mo, I trust you can handle things out here.”
“Yes, ma’am,” he said to Penny. To Olivia he said, “Would you like to hold one of them?”
Lisa followed her mother into the office and closed the door. Was Penny going to yell at her for bringing Olivia in?
“Mom, I can explain. She just wanted to see the kittens.”
“Lisa.”
“I think she’s going to adopt one.”
“Lisa.”
“And anyway, I just told her that once I can find a location, I want to go it alone. I guess I should have talked to you about that first, make sure your offer still stands. But you’ve been so loyal to me, how could I be disloyal to you?”
“Lisa!”
“Yes?”
“I brought you in here because I have some very good news.”
“You do?”
“Claire Comstock, my new client, has decided to remain in Moss Creek.”
“Oh. That’s good, I guess.”
“You haven’t heard the good part yet.”
“Ok.”
“She has engaged me to find a small yet elegantly appointed home for her. She says the family house is far too large for one person to live in. She wants me to find a tenant for that property. I told her I have the perfect person.”
Lisa blinked at her mother, her brain not able to catch up with the words she’d just heard.
“You. You’re the perfect person, the tenant for the Comstock property.”
“Wait, me? For the Folly? She’s going to rent it to me? She’s going to rent it to me!”
Lisa jumped out of her chair and danced around the room to give her mother a giant hug.
“Mom, you’re the best! Oh, I can’t believe it! Will she mind if I renovate? It needs more work to be right for a café.”
“Renovations will be expected, and she’s willing to give a reduction in rent for certain necessities.”
“Oh, my goodness, I can’t believe it. Mom! This is the best day of my life!”
“And, if you want to turn the upstairs into an apartment and live there, that is also in the agreement.”
Lisa hugged Penny again. “You are the best! Oh! I have to go tell Mo the good news,” she said, running out of the office. “Mo! Mo! It’s mine! The Folly is mine!” She hugged him around the neck and gave him a big kiss. “I mean, I’ll be renting, but I can have my café there, and an apartment, and do renovations, and it’s all because of Mom!”
Penny stood in her office doorway. “That’s not entirely true,” she corrected. “I think the kitten may have helped your case.”
Lisa laughed with joy. “Oh, you wonderful kittens, you’ve saved my life again,” she said.
She kissed Mo once more before taking out her phone. “I have to tell Carly the good news. And Toby. And Gideon. Oh, I hope he can get right to work on the renovations. I want to get Lisa’s Last Chance Café open as soon as possible.”
End
A note from the author
Thanks for reading this book! It’s been such fun writing about the quirky inhabitants of Moss Creek. Lisa Chance will be back in SHOOTING ON LOCATION, coming in January, 2018.
About the author
Estelle Richards writes cozy mysteries and makes her home in the beautiful high desert of the American Southwest. The Lisa Chance Cozy Mystery series is her first series. You can find her online at EstelleRichards.com or on Facebook at Facebook.com/EstelleRichardsWriter/.
SHOOTING ON LOCATION, the second book of the Lisa Chance Cozy Mystery Series
She’s done with the movies, but the movies aren’t done with her.
Lisa Chance has it all. Her coffee shop is starting to succeed and her relationship with Mo is getting closer. She doesn’t miss her old life in Hollywood at all.
But when a film crew comes to town, she’s roped into working on the movie set. Worse, her ex-boyfriend Dylan thinks his role in the film is the perfect opportunity to win her back.
Lisa’s delicate balancing act crumbles when there’s a murder on set – and Dylan is the primary suspect. Can Lisa clear her ex’s name? Or will Dylan get a second chance to ruin her life?
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