A Cop and a Coop

Clucks and Clues Cozy Mysteries, Book 1

It's a mother-clucking murder!

When Leona Davis hatches a plan to return to her beloved hometown of Honeytree, Oregon, she hopes to build the egg farm of her dreams and leave behind the marriage of her nightmares.

But the yolk's on her when she breaks ground on her chicken palace and unearths a skeleton in her front yard. It's clearly fowl play. The bones may be decades old, but there's no statute of limitations on murder.

With a county forensics team roosting on her lawn and a flock of town gossips poking their beaks where they don't belong, Leona's well-laid farming plans may be nothing more than a wing and a prayer.

Her spicy high school ex, Sheriff Eli Ramirez, assures Leona he'll crack the case, but he's not exactly a hardboiled detective. Her best hope to get back to a life with more hens and less mens? Scramble to uncover her small town's buried secrets before everything's totally plucked.

A Cop and a Coop is the first book in the clever, irreverent Clucks and Clues Cozy Mysteries that will keep you chuckling and guessing until the end.

©2019 Hillary Avis (P)2020 Tantor

A mother-clucking good book!

Leona is exactly the type of cozy protagonist I love. Rebuilding her life after divorce, she digs up a body while working on the foundation of her chicken coop--and doesn't stop digging until the murder is solved.

Unlikable protagonist

Flying into a rant again and again then expecting a "sorry, I didn't mean it" to erase consequences is unrealistic. Why spend time with an accusatory insensitive main character?

Hard to listen

The storyline was predictable, but ok. But, the reader voice I found very hard to tolerate. I had to quit after chapter 14!

Cute cozy mystery

I listened to this as I was building my own chick coop. Great story I love it! I can’t wait to listen to the rest.

Loved everything

It was great. From the performance to the story line, it was wonderful. As a chicken keeper, it was even better.