I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

A Poo Poo Kind of Morning

I tried not to look down the mouth of hell staring back at me from inside the glaringly pristine outer ceramic shell of the white throne, my throat catching, stomach doing half flips and a rather impressive rollover routine that would have gotten at least a 9.5 even from the Russian judges. Instead, I forced myself to smile and swallow and remind myself the elbow length yellow rubber gloves grasping the handle of the standard issue plunger were all that stood between me and Pooageddon. 

Suck it up, Fee. Big girl panties and adulting and all that. 

“At what point,” I waved the dripping plunger, wincing as droplets of yuck flew, “did I think owning a bed and breakfast was going to be glamorous and romantic?”


Fiona Fleming is in so much trouble. Her recently inherited bed and breakfast might not actually be hers thanks to the underhanded misdealings of the local real estate bully. Despite her grandmother's last will and testament, Fee might me out of luck and on the street before she even gets settled. But when her new enemy floats belly up in her koi pond, she's the prime suspect in his murder! Can she uncover who the real killer is before the smoking hot new sheriff puts her behind bars instead of asking her out on a date?

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Fiona Fleming Cozy Mysteries

Fame and Fortune and Murder Fiona Fleming Cozy Mysteries #3 Patti Larsen	


   There was just something spectacular about a hot latte and a deliciously sunny April morning that stirred my optimism. Not that I had anything to complain about, really, but the beaming sunshine and perfectly roasted and sugared aroma of fresh coffee mixed with the smiling relief of small town residents recently released from the depressing gray of winter put an extra bounce in my step.


   Not just mine, either. As I passed through the glass doors of the most yummy smelling place in all of Reading, Vermont-who didn't adore the scent of well-brewed Colombian?-and into the warm and welcoming arms of spring, I nodded with excellent humor to everyone who returned the grin I shared like we had some secret we'd long been keeping to ourselves and were only now beginning to pass around.


Chapter 77: New Beginnings