Psychic Barber Mysteries

DANICA LUMAN has used her secret psychic abilities to squeeze by in the San Fernando Valley. Her powers help her give great haircuts - she sees into customers' minds and knows exactly what styles they want. Things are steady until one day, while giving a strange man a high-and-tight, the image Danica sees is of a dead body. What Danica lacks in detective training, she makes up for in stubbornness. She takes on the role of amateur detective only to sink deeper into the muddy mystery, with each clue dragging her further into the weird underbelly of Los Angeles. Fighting off unpaid bills, attempts on her life and dangerous family squabbles, Danica gets tangled up trying to solve the murder and discover how it connects to the cops, a student newspaper, and an old man who calls himself "the Mayor of Bel Air."

A short mystery about veteran private eye Malcolm Fine, one of the colorful side characters featured in the novel The Murderous Haircut of the Mayor of Bel Air. Set almost a month before the events of that book, here Malcolm faces his greatest challenge yet: trying to appear as a legitimate private investigator to fulfill a legal, taxable obligation. He considers bailing on the PI game entirely, but gets pulled back in by an old colleague who offers what sounds like a simple stakeout job. Few things go simply in Malcolm's world, and he's pushed to the brink of giving up the life entirely. Maybe he's not cut out for this kind of work. (This also contains a teaser "clip" from the full novel, The Murderous Haircut of the Mayor of Bel Air, the first in the Psychic Barber Mystery series, and a fun amateur sleuth story that's one part "The Long Goodbye," dabs of "Blanche on the Lam" and "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" with just a little X-Men mixed in, too.)

You loved to hate him as Danica Luman's foil in Murderous Haircut of the Mayor of Bel Air. Now Gene the sassy stylist is back in his own dramatic mystery adventure... The Sequins of Events! Set concurrent to the events of the first Psychic Barber Mystery story, Gene arrives late for a gig as MC for a karaoke birthday party where he will be performing his own unique brand of entertainment, complete with bedazzled outfits. But when he arrives at the club, the party has already gone sour when the birthday girl's purse has gone missing -- and they accuse the DJ! So it's up to Gene to play amateur sleuth for once. Can Gene figure out who really stole the purse? Will the party be saved? And will he really sing a tribute to TLC? Find out in this hilarious short cozy mystery. Readers have loved the full novel The Murderous Haircut of the Mayor of Bel Air, saying, "I. Am. HERE FOR IT!" (Anchal at Libro Book Review) and "Five stars" (Michele at Books Cause Insomnia). Professional haircutter, amateur sleuth and secret psychic DANICA LUMAN reads the minds of her customers by touching their heads. Mostly she sees their ideal hairstyles, but one day she touches the head of a new customer and sees a dead body. For lovers of Flavia de Luce from The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Long Goodbye and even X-Men, too. Make your appointment to cut hair, read minds and solve a murder. Find out more at www.phillipmottaz.com.