Books in the Deadwood Shorts Series
The Deadwood Shorts collection includes short stories featuring the characters of the Deadwood Mystery series. Each tale not only explains more of Violet’s history, but also gives a little history of the other characters you know and love from the series. Rather than filling the main novels in the series with these short side stories, I’ve put them into a growing Deadwood Shorts collection for more reading fun.
The Deadwood Undertaker Series
Deadwood (late 1876) … A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in?
Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead … and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone that steps out of line.
But when a couple of Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow. Their search leads them to throw in with Clementine to hunt for a common enemy.
What they find chills them all to the bone and sends them on an adventure they’ll never forget.
From the bestselling, multiple award-winning, humorous Deadwood Mystery series comes a new herd of tales set in the same Deadwood stomping grounds, only back in the days when the Old West town was young.
The Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series
Bestseller in Women Sleuth Mystery and Romantic Suspense
Welcome to the Dancing Winnebagos R.V. Park. Down here in Jackrabbit Junction, Arizona, Claire Morgan and her rabble-rousing sisters are really good at getting into trouble—BIG trouble (the land your butt in jail kind of trouble). This rowdy, laugh-aloud mystery series is packed with action, suspense, adventure, and relationship snafus. Full of colorful characters and twisted up plots, the stories of the Morgan sisters will keep you wondering what kind of a screwball mess they are going to land in next.
The Dig Site Mystery Series
Welcome to the jungle—the steamy Maya jungle that is, filled with ancient ruins, deadly secrets, and quirky characters. Quint Parker, renowned photojournalist (and lousy amateur detective), is in for a whirlwind of adventure and suspense as he and archaeologist Dr. Angélica García get tangled up in mysteries from the past and present in exotic dig sites. Loaded with action and laughs, along with all sorts of steamy heat, these books will keep you sweating along with the characters as they do their best to make it out of the jungle alive.
The Goldwash Mystery Series
The Old Man’s Back in Town
This short story is a bit of a puzzle. Each scene is a different variation of the same story for a reason, which you’ll learn at the end. See if you can pick up on the clues along the way and figure out the puzzle before you finish the story. Thank you for giving it a try!
~ Ann
Overview…
In the lonely mining ghost town of Goldwash, Nevada, Christmas has come early. Unfortunately, the local bar owner must be on this year’s naughty list, because Santa brought her something even worse than a piece of coal on this dark, cold winter night—her old man.
Acknowledgments
Once upon a time I wrote a book called Devil Days in Deadwood. I’d like to thank the following folks for helping me make it to “The End … for now” yet again:
My husband for all of your love and laughter throughout this quarantine craziness.
My kids, Beaker and Chicken Noodle, for taking me on walks regularly so that my fingers didn’t fuse to the keyboard.
My First Draft team: Margo Taylor, Mary Ida Kunkle, Kristy McCaffrey, Jacquie Rogers, Marcia Britton, Paul Franklin, Diane Garland, Vicki Huskey, Lucinda Nelson, Marguerite Phipps, Stephanie Kunkle, and Wendy Gildersleeve. Your patience is legendary. Your help is much appreciated.
My editor, Eilis Flynn, for your sharp eyes and even sharper wit. You have the best socks!
My WorldKeeper, Diane Garland, for help keeping track of my many threads and characters, and for helping me coming up with fun quizzes for readers for the other books.
My Beta Team for making time for me at the drop of a dime and finding needles in the haystack.
My brother, C.S. Kunkle, for drawing what I daydream and nailing the cover art.
My graphic artist/cover designer/formatter, aka my husband, for making the outside and inside of the book look amazing.
Bev Caserio, Bruce Outka, and Tim Agena for taking Mr. Lucky and me on an amazing top-to-bottom tour of the Lawrence County Courthouse in Deadwood.
My readers and friends for lifting me up time and again with your kind words and shared laughs. Together, we can conquer the world—or at least we’ll give it our best shot … of tequila.
And as usual, Clint (my brother), for spending almost all of your money in Omaha on a stupid video game, thereby giving me a great story to tell time and again.
Devil Days in Deadwood
Copyright © 2020 by Ann Charles
Prescott AZ, USA
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means now known or hereafter invented, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Ann Charles.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is coincidental.
Cover Art by C.S. Kunkle
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