Poison parcheesi and wine

Four friends are steeped in the secrets of the wine country … and another husband dies in Poison Parcheesi and Wine #thehusbandalwaysdies  in the Cardboard Cottage Mystery series. 

Friendship rules in this good mystery about a wasbund, the wine, and the Big European Tour of Arkansas that make for a triangle and a tricky state of affairs.

Four friends are steeped in the secrets of the wine country … and another husband dies in Poison Parcheesi and Wine #thehusbandalwaysdies  in the Cardboard Cottage Mystery series. 

Friendship rules in this good mystery about a wasbund, the wine, and the Big European Tour of Arkansas that make for a triangle and a tricky state of affairs. 

When our four friends embark on a political stump tour, they're looking for a good time in the Arkansas wine country. But when a husband is found dead, Amy wonders if she's been railroaded into a black widow society. Is it Deja Vu? Or has her snippet come true? Amy needs to uncork the murderous plot before another husband falls prey. 

If you like carrying on with fun friends, unexpected twists, and amateur sleuths with southern sass that’s anything but cookie-cutter sweet, you’ll love Jane Elzey’s fast-paced whodunit. 

PUBLISHED BY SCORPIUS CARTA PRESS OCTOBER 2022.

Friendship rules in this good mystery and third book in the series. 

In Poison Parcheesi and wine, no one has more fun than four friends who run a clever business by day and tally domino pips by night. Amy Sparks owns Tiddlywinks Players Club in the zany tourist town of Bluff Springs, where the game is always afoot.  

While the Who's Who of

Friendship rules in this good mystery and third book in the series. 

In Poison Parcheesi and wine, no one has more fun than four friends who run a clever business by day and tally domino pips by night. Amy Sparks owns Tiddlywinks Players Club in the zany tourist town of Bluff Springs, where the game is always afoot.  

While the Who's Who of Arkansas tourism is in Bluff Springs for a conference,  a wine merchant husband is found dead. Amy is drawn into the mystery, along with Genna and her politician. With so much at risk, our sleuth is driven to uncover the secrets that surround the Arkansas wine country before another husband falls prey.

Who killed the husband?

The wife and her friends with their iron-clad alibi? Genna’s political candidate? A group of wine enthusiasts called the Cork Docs? A high school jock with unrequited love, or a sommelier-in-training with a caseload of secrets? Everyone had something to gain.

As the friends of the Cardboard Cottage scatter like players on a Parcheesi board, Amy needs to solve the mystery and bring them safely to Home Square before the game gets ruined by the poison in the wine. 

and... #anotherhusbanddies

 “The Big European Tour of Arkansas has officially begun, my friends. We’ll get that boy to Capitol Hill if it kills us,” Genna claimed to her friends poolside.

“The big European what?” Rian asked.

“I’m taking my candidate on a back-to-your-roots political stump tour," Genna answered between slurps of a Sunday Mary.  "We’ll stop at all the 

 “The Big European Tour of Arkansas has officially begun, my friends. We’ll get that boy to Capitol Hill if it kills us,” Genna claimed to her friends poolside.

“The big European what?” Rian asked.

“I’m taking my candidate on a back-to-your-roots political stump tour," Genna answered between slurps of a Sunday Mary.  "We’ll stop at all the towns in his district named after European cities. Too bad we can’t go by train. A stump speech from a red caboose would be the cherry on top.”

Amy grinned from beneath her hat. It was one of those floppy summer hats that kept the sun off her freckles and made a bit of shade on her shoulders under a mid-day sun. She felt like bacon crisping on a griddle. 

“If everything goes as planned, I’ll get a picture of the governor with Jerry Glen Villiger, and maybe we can finagle one with you, too," Genna said with vigor. "If everything goes as planned, that is. And why wouldn’t it?” 

What could possibly go wrong with a plan like that? Amy raised an eyebrow at Genna. Did anything go as planned when the four of them were together? Not much chance of that. Maybe not even a fifty-fifty chance. 

Poison Parcheesi and Wine is a good mystery where friendship rules