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Welcome to Deer Tick. Population: Nosy
Cozy mysteries about a small-town reporter, her one-eyed dog, and the neighbors who absolutely did it.
Delaney Price thought the hardest part of small-town life would be finding a decent latte. She was wrong. Between nosy neighbors, mysterious happenings, and a one-eyed puggle who keeps uncovering clues she'd rather not find, her peaceful fresh start is anything but quiet. Good thing she's got reporter instincts and a knack for asking the wrong questions to all the right people.
By Petra Phillips
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Meet Petra Phillips
Petra Phillips has been writing since she was a kid, starting with childhood diaries, high school short stories, college creative writing classes, and stints as a newspaper reporter and advertising copywriter. Now, she crafts funny, fast-moving cozies set in small towns with big secrets.
A ravenous reader herself, Petra was born and raised in a town very much like Deer Oak, PA. She enjoys small town-life, iced dirty chai’s, puggles, and, escaping reality with a good cozy.
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Meet Delaney before she ever lands in Deer Tick. In Morning Show Mayhem, a poisoned co-anchor drops mid-broadcast and the cops are looking at her. Join my newsletter, ‘The Scoop”, and you’ll be among the first to get my FREE prequel novella when it publishes August 30th.
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I’m Petra. I write about a town of 900 people that somehow keeps turning up bodies, which says someing about Deer Tick and possibly about me. A real human writes these books. Mostly I’m in it for the dog.
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