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Hoard It All Before: A Circus of Unusual Creatures Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Circus of Unusual Creatures, Book 1
Publisher: Draft2digital Llc
Published: Jan 18 2022
Pages: 342
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It's not every day you meet an amateur sleuth... with fangs.
Like any traveling circus, Zin's Circus of Unusual Creatures has hair-raising acts and fried food on sticks.
But it's also got an aura-spotting centaur, a chain-smoking unicorn, and an omelet-addicted dragon. Oh, and a body in the center ring.
After far too many buckets of wine, Duncan -- aka Brutus Fangwrath, Deadliest Dragon in the West -- wakes one morning to find his best friend Porter Kohl isn't just sleeping off a hangover. He's been murdered.
Suspicion for the crime quickly turns to the circus's new hire, Cordelia Quinn. After all, she desperately wanted Porter's job and she's got loads of circumstantial evidence stacked against her.
But Duncan's not so sure.
When it looks like Cordelia's murderous fate is sealed, that she might be sent off to the Pits, and that no one else is willing to uncover the truth, it's up to Duncan to ponder the puzzling clues, prove Cordelia's innocence, and pry open a troubling secret along the way.
As soon as he's done with his omelet, that is.
If you like comic fantasy whodunnits that combine laughs with murderous mayhem and mythical beasts, you'll love Hoard It All Before, the first of The Circus of Unusual Creatures Mysteries!
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Set in a 1930s that's just a tad different than what you're used to, The Circus of Unusual Creatures is a delightfully humorous cozy fantasy series that features a detecting dragon, an aura-spotting centaur, a chain-smoking unicorn, and plenty of other quirky characters getting into all kinds of trouble as they stumble their way through clues, crimes, and perfectly cooked omelets.
If you like comic fantasy whodunnits you'll love, not only this silly story, but also the other books currently in the series: Tipping the Scales, Fangs a Million, Beast or Famine, and Too Claws for Comfort.
What readers are saying...
Very funny and laughs out loud will be heard when reading it...this was so good l read it in one sitting couldn't put it down!
What a truly FUN, lighthearted read, full of fantastical and lovable characters!
I loved the humour... I loved the way the story was written. The characters are very believable, and the way the mystery unravels is very well crafted...
Story Note: While these lighthearted stories are mostly clean, the do have a lusty, chain-smoking unicorn who makes more than a few naughty innuendos, a dragon who drinks, a tiny bit of mild swearing, and (obviously) there's a murder or two along the way.
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