A Kiki Long Mysteries Box Set: Midlife, Murder & Mirth

OH, SHOOT!

Ever since her husband disappeared seven months ago and it came out that he’d been embezzling funds from the town, pet photographer Kiki Long has been keeping a low profile. 

But now it’s time to focus on creating a new life for herself. 

Risking the wrath of the town’s residents, Kiki attends the annual Pride Falls Fair where she’s regarded with a mix of animosity, curiosity, and pity.

When a participant in the pie eating contest drops dead due to poisoning, Kiki realizes that the pictures she captured at the fair could hold the key to figuring out the mystery of his death. But it’s not like she can go to Sheriff Rockland with them. He still considers her to be a suspect in her husband’s disappearance.

With the help of her cat, Kodak, Kiki sets out to prove that her friend, who baked the deadly pie, did not poison it. Can she catch the killer? Or will this new development be what lands her in prison?

SHOOT FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER

Pet portrait artist Kiki Long is driving to her first day of work at her new job as the Pride Falls forensic photographer when she spots a smoking car that’s skidded off the road.

After confirming nobody is inside, her natural inclination to document what she’s witnessing takes over and she starts taking pictures, which means she’s standing too close when the vehicle explodes.

Now she’s dealing with a head injury and an irate detective who accuses her messing up his crime scene. That’s nobody’s definition of a good first day.

But she did do a good job with the photos. They prove that the owner of the car didn’t die in the explosion, and they give the ornery detective a place to start his investigation.

It’s the goat that Kiki saw before she started snapping photos that makes her curious. Despite the detective’s dismissal of her idea, she starts her own amateur sleuthing along with her two best friends. Her curiosity just might just get them all killed.

SHOOT THE MOON

Things only get more complicated when, on the one-year anniversary of her husband’s disappearance, Kiki Long wanders around her neighbor’s pasture in the middle of the night. 

Slightly inebriated, she witnesses a moonlit crime…that nobody else believes happened, despite the photographic evidence she provides.

Her neighbor wants her charged with trespassing, Her family and friends are worried about the toll that the stress of the past year has taken on her.

Kiki needs to maintain her focus if she’s going to have a shot of emerging from this collection of cow patties unscathed in this novella.

THE CAT, THE WITCH, AND THE DEAD DUDE

While pulling a Halloween prank, a group of teenagers find the town’s homeless man covered in blood, muttering about a witch.

Most of the residents of Pride Falls assume he’s responsible for whatever terrible fate has befallen the missing town librarian, but pet photographer turned crime scene photographer Kiki Long doesn’t see it that way.

She pursues an alternate theory while attempting to convince her incarcerated husband to grant her a divorce, avoid a creepy stalker, and figure out the perfect costume to wear to her friend’s Halloween bash.

Hard to say whether she’s got a shot of pulling any of it off.

A note from author JB Lynn:

As someone who lives in western North Carolina, I wanted to do something to help my neighbors recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene. The profits from the Kiki Long Mystery boxed set will be donated to the North Carolina Community Foundation. This charity supports mid- to long-term disaster recovery efforts in North Carolina. Thanks for your support!