Lanterna Rally

Author: Anne R. Tan

Publisher: Rusty Chicken Books

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Total Pages: 617

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This set includes the first 3 books in the Raina Sun Cozy Mystery Series. For readers who like cozy mysteries, quirky characters, a dash of humor, and Chinese-American culture. Raining Men and Corpses Graduate student Raina Sun is trying to keep her head above water as the bills roll in when her dashing college adviser cons her out of several months of rent. But her quest to get her money back sets into a motion a streak of bad luck. First, she finds the dead body of an ex-lover and becomes the prime suspect in his murder. The only man she ever loved reappears as the lead detective on the case and wants to reignite their passion (or at least he's sending out smoke signals). Her life careens out of control as her grandma moves into Raina's postage-stamp-sized apartment, dragging a red suitcase and trouble. Raina summons her sleuthing skills to extract herself before things get dicey. There is no place for an amateur when it comes to murder. Gusty Lovers and Cadavers Graduate student Raina Sun thought she knew what she was getting herself into when she volunteered to take the new foreign exchange student shopping on the last weekend before Christmas. But between a riot for the last hot toy of the season and an abandoned baby, the holiday is a season for mayhem, and sometimes it doesn't pay to be a Good Samaritan. She wants to reunite the infant with his family, but calling the mysterious phone number in the diaper bag leads to more questions than answers. A strange man claims to be the child's father, and his alleged mother turns up dead. Raina summons her sleuthing skills to protect this baby and soon discovers everyone has a few skeletons in their closets. With her pimp-cane-toting grandma, she faces an ex-boyfriend bringing sexy back as well as a murderer determined to hide the truth. Breezy Friends and Bodies Raina Sun thought cleaning her grandma's house in San Francisco to prepare for Chinese New Year would be a breeze. Instead, she finds her deceased grandfather's secret journal and ends up French kissing the train tracks in a mugging incident. After putting the move on her grandma, her grandfather's BFF took an elevator ride straight to the Heavenly Gates. And the second time Raina ends up flat on her back without a man in sight, she suspects the Year of the Monkey would leave her skulking in cold damp places where family secrets are better off dying with the dead. For readers who like fun cozy mysteries, quirky characters, and a dash of humor. Keywords: cozy mystery, amateur sleuth, traditional mystery, mystery, free ebook, free mystery, small town mystery, female protagonist mystery, murder mystery, cozy mysteries free, interracial, female sleuth, humor, free, freebie, first in series, mystery, mystery series, culinary mystery, mystery books cozy, mystery books cooking, bestselling mystery books free, mystery books in series, free and bargain first book in series, female sleuth cozy mystery, books set in California, college town mystery, free, freebie, free novel, college, free funny mystery, free humorous mystery, Chinese mystery, cozy murder mystery series, cozy murder mystery, cozy murder mystery books, cozy murder, cozy murder mysteries, animal cozy mystery, animal cozy, cozy romance mystery, free ebook, free murder mystery, free mystery, free cozy murder mystery book, free mystery book, free mystery and suspense, free mystery and thriller, free mystery detective stories, free mystery humor, free mystery romance books clean, free mystery romance suspense, free mystery suspense murder, free mystery with women, free mystery women books, free mystery romance