Grounds To Kill by Wendy Roberts is a quirky mystery with a little supernatural to make it more fun.
Jen Hanby is a café barista at Merlot’s, she may not be earning a lot of money or have the perfect life but she is content with what she has. Except for the fact that she gets an itch on her left palm and the writes messages from the beyond with it, especially as she is right handed and the messages are from her spirit guide.
Now when she thinks everything is going perfect with her boyfriend and her life, she gets a message saying “Dear Jen your boyfriend is cheating on you”. Not only that, she then finds out he was cheating with the person she most hates, who also happens to be her half-sister. To make matters even more fun, her sister turns up dead, she is the one to discover the body and becomes the first suspect, until evidence points to her father, who suffers from schizophrenia, as the prime suspect.
Jen knows that neither her nor her father killed her sister, and she will have to turn to her Hand of Doom, as she calls her gift, to try and solve this mystery before her father ends in jail. And with all the evidence pointing towards both of them she is limited in time before either of them end up in jail or the real killer finds and kill them first.
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Book Info: Publisher: Carina Press (January 7, 2013)
66,000 words
Barista Jen Hamby’s coworkers give her a hard time for bringing coffee and pastries to a homeless man who sits outside her café–but she has a secret. The scruffy man is her father.
She’s also hiding the little matter of why her palm itches. But how can she explain that her hand has a mind of its own and writes messages from the beyond? Right. That’ll get her Employee of the Month.
When she finds herself scrawling your boyfriend is cheating on you! to herself on the bathroom mirror, she immediately dumps the guy. But then his little fling–who just happens to be her half sister–turns up dead, and suddenly Jen’s homeless father is the prime suspect.
Jen knows he is being framed and must take matters into her own hands to protect him. But will anyone believe that the crazy old man is innocent? Or that his spirit-writing daughter holds the truth?