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Date read: February 26, 2021
Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries
1. Engagement and Espionage
2. Marriage and Murder - Paperback | Kindle
3. Home and Heist
4. Baby and Ballistics
Penny Reid
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
The Devil is in the details . . .Thoughts on Marriage and Murder: Fair warning, Cletus's story was my introduction to the Winston brothers and Green Valley and he's always been a favorite. He's sneaky and sly and his plans tend to lean toward the diabolical and I sort of adore that about him. I love how Jenn's kindness balances out some of his mad scientist tendencies and he's trying to be a better person just because she deserves good in her life.
Cletus Byron Winston wishes to marry Jennifer Anne Donner-Sylvester (aka The Banana Cake Queen) posthaste! He’s spent the last year wanting nothing more than for the celebrations to be brief, libations flowing, and BYOB (bring your own blueberries). His future mother-in-law has other plans, plans his intended has been willing to indulge, much to Cletus’s chagrin. Therefore, so must he. To a point. But truth be told, he wouldn’t mind if the meddlesome matriarch disappeared, at least until the nuptials are over.
On the night of Cletus and Jenn’s long-awaited engagement party, just when the surly schemer is of a mind to take matters into his own hands, a shocking event upends everyone’s best laid plans and sends the small hamlet of Green Valley into complete disarray. The final months leading up to Cletus and Jenn’s matrimonial bliss are plagued with chaos and uncertainty. Will Cletus and Jenn finally make it to the altar? Or will murder and mayhem derail their happily-ever-after? And most importantly, who done it?
That said, Cletus is going to Cletus even when he's trying to be good. He's still the same sneaky, sly genius who once had a slew of plans on how to make Jackson James suffer chronic low-level torment. He's just better at keeping his more criminally-minded plans under wraps now.
The thing is, Jenn loves him whether he's being diabolical or good. She adores his quick mind and the moments where he loses control. She loves all the complex, tangled facets of him and she's a-okay with him being less than perfect.
As it turns out, his complex, tangled schemes are needed when another bout of mayhem descends on Green Valley. It hits close enough to home to throw Cletus off his game for a while, but he rallies and sets things in motion to ferret out the culprit and put things right.
If you've been following along with the Green Valley saga, we get a lot of answers to things that have been hinted at in other books. With the Donner-Sylvester family, in particular. Diane and Isaac both get some air time (a fair amount, actually) and THINGS HAPPEN.
I adore spending time in the Green Valley world and with Jenn and Cletus and I genuinely can't wait to see what happens next with these two crazy kids.
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Excerpt
“Here.” Cletus suddenly appeared, looking devilishly handsome in the dim light and seemingly all put back together—like we’d been in here holding hands instead of. . . ANYWAY.
He held out my underwear. His eyes were bright even in shadow, and I could see they were half-lidded as they lazily trailed over me. He looked at me like he was hungry, and I was dinner. Despite all the encore orgasms I’d just had, the effect hit me right between my legs.
I wondered what he was thinking, watching as he licked his bottom lip and drew it into his mouth. Was he just as insatiable for me? And if so, was he okay with that?
Tearing my eyes away, I pulled on the lace and fixed my skirt, telling my body to settle down. We were getting married for hootenanny’s sake!
Cletus cocked his head to the side while I smoothed my hands down the red fabric, working to get a hold of all this raging want always coursing through my veins whenever he was near. Maybe it was because he was my first, and I guess, my only. Was that why I felt so crazed for him all the time?
“Miraculous,” he said.
I surmised he meant the dress. “Right? The wrinkles are hidden, if there are any. It’s ’cause they ruched the outer fabric at the seams, see?” I turned to the side to show him the seam, and he stepped forward as though he were going to investigate.
Instead, his hands cupped my face and tilted my chin back. He stared at me with a vibrant intensity I felt all the way to my fingertips. “No, Jenn. Not the dress. You.” Cletus gave me a soft kiss, ending it by gently nipping my bottom lip. “You are my miracle.”
I sighed. And I smiled. And I felt like I was walking on a cloud instead of in four-inch heels, which was also probably something of a miracle. “You say the sweetest things.”
“I think you mean, I say the truest things.”
I laughed, and he kissed my forehead. He held me there, in the dark with his lips pressed to my forehead. “I love you so completely, with every cell in my body. I wonder sometimes if I’d cease to exist—just evaporate or disappear—if anything ever happened to you.”
“No.” I anchored my hands to his wrists and squeezed. “Don’t think like that. We’ve got our whole lives in front of us. There’s nothing anyone can—”
Three bangs in quick succession pierced the quiet moment, and not a second later Cletus had me on the ground beneath him, covering my back with his body.
“Gunshots,” he whispered in my ear. “From the parking lot. Don’t move.”
Meet Penny Reid
Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she just writes books. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.
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