Mysteries are falling from the sky.Amateur sleuth Mandy Hansen has plans for National Meteor Watch Day: relax on the beach with her friends watching for shooting stars and make sure everyone gets to bed at a reasonable hour.But when a bright streak lights the sky a little too close to town, word spreads about a possible impact site. Egged on by her friends, Mandy leads the group downtown to investigate. But they're not the only ones looking for the ...

It's the biggest day of Mandy's career so far, and then mystery strikes.A visit from representatives of Top of The List Tourism Board could make or break tourism in Holiday Beach for years to come. Everything must be perfect, especially since town publicist, Mandy Hansen's, job hangs in the balance.So when unexpected trading cards show up on Trading Cards For Grown-ups Day, Mandy, who moonlights as the town's reluctant sleuth, needs to figure out wh...

Leaping Leap Day Lies…is leap day getting leapt?Reluctant sleuth Mandy Hansen is excited to celebrate an extra special holiday in Holiday Beach, one that only comes around once every four years: Leap Day. To celebrate the town is going all out with leapfrog, birthday parties, and … a mystery?Instead of a list of scheduled events, the day's calendar is empty. In a panic, the Mayor calls on Mandy to save Leap Day. Can she unravel the clues and figure out who ...

This story was previously published in A Hobby In Foul Play.Does a missing brush-tip marker hide a host of secrets or just a clumsy artist?The new Holiday Beach town coloring book is out and it's the perfect way to celebrate National Coloring Book Day. Mandy Hansen, town publicist and amateur sleuth extraordinaire is looking forward to taking an adventure through the pages on her lunch break but then the call comes in. The artist who designed the c...

Don't cry over missing milk.Mandy is trying to focus on her job as the publicist for Holiday Beach, Florida, but the town has other ideas. It's National Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day and all the milk that was set aside for the special milk spilling ceremony is missing. There are no clues and only limited suspects, because why would anyone want to steal a ton of milk?But if Mandy can't find the culprit and the milk before time runs out, the celebration wil...

Mandy is looking forward to spending a relaxing day at the town of Holiday's Halloween festival with her best friend, Samuel. No mysteries allowed (despite Samuel's objections).But when a Hollywood style werewolf steps off the big screen and into the town's costume contest, her day turns upside down. One phone call puts Mandy on the case, with Samuel in tow. Can she find the enigmatic costumer before the clock runs out and prizes are announced, or will the winner just be "the werewo...

This story was previously published in A Flock of an Alibi.It's a flamingo invasion!When Mandy wakes up to a town covered in flamingos, she assumes it's just another over-the-top town celebration, but the town decorating committee denies any responsibility. With tensions on the rise among the shopkeepers and flamingos coating every surface, Mandy must find the source before her best friend, Samuel, has a meltdown over the fact that he forgot to make flamingo cupcakes.

A memorial to lost socks?Why would someone destroy that?Mandy isn't a detective, but apparently her boss, the mayor, doesn't know that. When someone destroys a crucial element of the town's Lost Sock Memorial Day celebration. The mayor calls on Mandy to find the vandal before they can strike again. So instead of working on Holiday, Florida's new promotional campaign, she's thrust into a mystery that could spell disaster for the much anticip...

A legendary pie recipe, a looming bake-off, and rumors of theft among the contestants.Mandy Hansen expects some kind of orientation and maybe a tour of the town on her first day as Holiday, Florida's official publicist. Instead, the mayor's assistant kicks her out with just a hastily drawn map.Left to her own devices, Mandy stumbles into a mystery that could rock the town's Pi Day pie competition to its core.When she meets Samuel, an up-and-coming b...

After studying the structure of an archetypal story form, the hero’s journey, each student wrote an individual piece of Ace’s adventure. Each of the pieces addressed a critical component of the hero’s journey, from the original call to action to the eventual triumphal return. In addition, after the class identified the hero “Ace”, it defined the foundational characteristics of our hero. Once the individual stories were completed, they became (metaphorically) a collage, as the individual pi...

In early 2020 Italy was a country whose political parties stood as significant obstacles in the way of resolution of its social and economic problems. The purpose of this book is to help the reader to understand how Italian politics had reached this point. It does this by tracing the most significant processes of political, economic and social change to have marked Italian history in recent years back to their roots in the Italian political system as it emerged at the end of the Second Wor...

Tanner Harlow is a talented landscape designer, quietly building a name and a solid future when he finds himself needing to be the temporary guardian to his eleven-year-old half-sister. Tanner loves her, but he can’t see himself as a father figure or imagine how he’s going to build his business during his busiest season with a child in tow. But his newest client—his high school crush who still makes his heart pound—has a proposition that will help them both, as long as Tanner can resist th...