Böcker utgivna av Kay Dew Shostak

Eleventh book in this popular Southern Fiction series set in the small North Georgia town of Chancey.It's graduation time in Chancey......a time for caps and gowns. For Pomp and Circumstance. For magnolias blooming and epic parties.And, apparently, for a growing sinkhole to pop up on Main Street. Years of neglected underground repairs have forced half the shops downtown to close indefinitely. Ruby's Café moves into Blooming Books and Missus, Chancey's new mayor, gives no straight answers on when repairs will be completed.Despite the big hole downtown, Carolina and her husband, Jackson, are doing their best to focus on their daughter Savannah's high school graduation-if only other matters would stop trying to steal their attention. Between their younger son Bryan's girl-crazy phase, friend Laney planning an epic graduation blowout for her twins, Susan's baffling lack of responsibility for her own children, and the sneaking suspicion that Peter Bedwell's not through with his baby mama, Shannon Kinnock, there's a lot of distractions vying for first place. And Chancey has a Peeping Tom?Well, of course it does.Join in the laughter, the celebration, the rumors, and the love in POMP AND CHANCEY, the latest hilarious, heartfelt installment of Chancey, a beloved and bestselling women's fiction series set in the South.

False crawl? Nesting season? Turtle monitors?Jewel Mantelle is just getting used to the humidity in her new Southern home on Sophia Island when turtle season opens way too early. At least it''s too early according to her friends who volunteer with the Turtle Trackers. Have they really found a sea turtle nest, surrounded by garbage, on a stormy April morning?It doesn''t seem likely when a body is discovered, buried where the eggs should be.Jewel has too much on her plate to worry about a false turtle nest. She''s trying to clean up the old house her disinterested, on-the-road husband inherited in Sophia Beach''s historic downtown. But when the body is found to have close ties to one of Jewel''s new friends, her lunch bunch goes to work trying to solve the murder. Between college kids partying on the beach, a senator''s illegitimate child, a lost sketch pad, and warring turtle factions hindering the investigation, it''s a miracle Jewel even has time to try biscuits and gravy.But she finally did... and she''s a fan.The Sea Turtle Did It is a clean and cozy beach mystery set in a historic small town. It''ll keep you turning pages well after bedtime and slathering on more sunscreen to get a few more poolside pages in.

Jewel Mantelle has never lived in the South, much less on the coast, so moving from Chicagoland to the historic North Florida coastal town of Sophia Island seems like just the adventure to fix her marriage. However, when she arrives she finds that it’s awfully hot and humid there and that these Southern folks really like to hug.Her husband’s past on the island includes a creaky old house in the historic district and lots of nosy relatives he’d forgotten to mention. When one of the Mantelle cousins turns up dead, Jewel needs something she’s never really had before—friends. As her lunch bunch puts on their detective caps to get to the bottom of this murder, Jewel discovers that she may get more than she bargained for out of Sophia Island.THE MANATEE DID IT is a clean and cozy beach mystery set in a historic small town. It’ll keep you turning pages well after bedtime and slathering on more sunscreen to get a few more poolside pages in.  

Christmas Novella set in the popular fictional town of Chancey, Georgia. Whether this is your first trip to Chancey, or you're an old friend - Welcome! Missus has called an emergency meeting and this is one meeting you don't want to miss. Christmas is just around the corner and there's a crisis! And you never want to miss a meeting in a small town because you just might end up in charge of the Christmas Parade. Memories surface, tempers flare, and new suggestions get shot down because it's never been done that way before. This novella is a perfect way to sip a cup of hot cocoa and take a quick trip to a small Southern town for the holidays.

Book six in this popular Southern Fiction Series. It's been a year since the Jessups moved to the Georgia mountains to run a B&B for Railroad buffs. Small town living has taken some getting used to after living in the Atlanta suburbs, but even the teenagers feel like it's home. Then the detours, detours leading to good things... and bad.

Humourous Southern Fiction set in North Georgia Mountains in Railfan B&B.  Carolina is barely surviving the family's move to a small town in Georgia, where they opened a Railfan B&B. She misses her Atlanta suburbs and is finding out holidays are different in a small town. They expect you to cook. And participate. When an ex-spouse shows up no one knows about, it's just one of the secrets hiding under the tree. Like where did all the town's money go? And who is that strange girl no one seems knows? And who is the new man in town flirting with? And just how do you thaw a 24 lb. turkey?