Freaky Florida Investigations

Is Mothman real, or just another fly-by-night tourist scam? The truth is out there … way WAY out there in this deliciously snarky, surprisingly twisty mystery.Get shot by a weirdo in tiger-striped hotpants. Spot glowing red eyes atop the Stop-N-Shop. Interview the town's crazy lady about lewd phone calls from a robot. In Point Paradise, Florida, that's what Bobbie Drex calls a Thursday.Stuck in a dead-end job in a dead-end town, Bobbie Drex is even stuck wearing a dead man's shoes until a drunk-dial purchase, a fateful gunshot, and a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger send her life bulleting from mundane to insane in no time flat.Growing up in backwoods Florida, Bobbie has seen it all – from two-headed turtles to two-timing boyfriends. While her life of hard knocks has left her short on cash, she's still packing enough snark to give any whack-job a run for his money. But when a handsome weirdo arrives at her mechanic shop seeking repairs to his rundown RV, suddenly it's Bobbie who's in for a complete overhaul.Nick Grayson is harboring some big secrets. Like a Glock, a fake ID, and an impressive set of washboard abs. Broke, bored, and half bonkers from dealing with her annoying cousin Earl, Bobbie figures she might as well take a closer look at all three. What she's about to discover about Grayson will knock her little world totally off its Southern axis...

Are earthworms the new pasta?All Bobbie Drex wanted was something normal-a new career as a private investigator. But after signing up with Nick Grayson to complete her internship, nothing normal has happened since.In fact, when Grayson gets a call about a possible alien invasion going down in Plant City, Florida, normal packs its bags and books a flight for another planet.Man pudding. Doomsday preppers. Wayne's World wannabees ….Not to mention the whole "living with a stranger in an RV" thing.The horrors!Good thing she's packing a Glock-and enough snark to qualify as a lethal backup weapon.

Florida. Where Weird goes to Die.What better place than the Sunshine State for dark souls to live out their golden years? After all, who would notice? Uh … Bobbie and Grayson, of course.As a rogue physicist turned conspiracy chaser, Grayson's motto is, "Have sentience, will travel." As a broke, private-eye wannabe, Bobbie doesn't have much choice but to follow his sketchy command. But every road Grayson travels down leads to the bizarre, the unexplained, and taco-induced heartburn.Vampires. Zombiguanas. Ikigai smell.It's hard to decide which is scarier. But decide, Bobbie must. And before sundown, too. Because in the freaky parts of Florida she now investigates with Grayson, nothing is ever quite exactly as it seems ….

Just How Great is that Ape, Anyway?When Bobbie and Grayson go on the hunt for the legendary Florida Skunk Ape, there's more than one tangled mystery afoot. Grayson, the man Bobbie's hung her life and career on, is every bit as evasive as the creature they're tracking.At the start of their investigation, a colossally bad judgement call leaves Bobbie wondering just exactly who-or what-the elusive being is. And she doesn't mean Bigfoot. What she discovers may leave her questioning the entire primate subclass …Swamp gas. Batman. Sasquash casserole.Does ape imitate life, or does life imitate ape? It's gonna take all of Bobbie's fledgling investigative skills to figure out that age-old riddle.

Things that Go "Cheap" in the Night …When Grayson and Bobbie head to the Florida Panhandle to witness a spectacle of nature, they take a wrong turn and quickly find themselves up to their armpits in arthropods. And that's the good part of their vacation.Campers are disappearing without a trace from nearby Torreya State Park. Whatever's stalking them soon sets its eyes on Bobbie and Grayson, too.Toadsicles. Bugaboos. Entomophagous BBQ.It's enough to make anyone lose their appetite! Have Bobbie and Grayson bitten off more than they can chew? Or will they swallow their fears and capture the creature that's been bugging them?Only one thing's for sure. Either way, they're gonna need a bigger can of Raid.

Portal Letting for Fun & ProfitWhen Bobbie and Grayson head back to Plant City to help out some old friends, they run into a "hole" new set of problems. While investigating a rash of missing persons, it's not long before they get under each other's skin. What's making them all hot and bothered?Each other. In more ways than one.Bobbie's down-to-earth explanations for the missing men irritate Grayson, while his otherworldly theories have her itching for a sane solution. But when new, conflicting evidence emerges in the case, they soon realize they've only scratched the surface of the mystery at hand.Worm butts. BIMBO mobiles. Mystery meatballs.It's enough to make someone break out in hives!Complicating matters, Grayson finally gets word on his Mothman scat samples-escalating their problems excrementally. This time, it looks like these two have truly stepped in it-big time.

It's Not the Heat, It's the Stupidity...When Bobbie and Grayson go in search of a new RV, a chance encounter at a homeowner's fire sale ignites a hidden flame burning deep within Grayson.And it's not spontaneous human combustion … Or is it?People in St. Petersburg, Florida keep mysteriously bursting into flames. While the pair investigate potential causes, sparks soon begin to fly between them as well, threatening to snuff out their budding romance.Hot pockets. Total burnouts. Suspicious ash holes.As Bobbie and Grayson sift through the smoldering clues, will they realize they're fated to be twin flames? Or will the fireworks between them fizzle out like a dud?With the heat on to solve the case, they'd better keep a close eye on each other. If not, they could both end up in the dead-letter office marked, "Return to Cinder."

Hook, Lie, and Sinker.When a string of idiotic decisions lands Bobbie in a boatload of trouble, she's got to keep a lid on her temper before she winds up on the next episode of Snapped!With her cousin Earl's hand in one pocket and partner Grayson picking the other, Bobbie's cash is disappearing faster than banana pudding at a Baptist pot luck.Oddly, so are the folks in the tiny fishing village of Astor, Florida.Then again, it's the middle of gator-hunting season. And with horrendous tales of a murderous beast trolling the riverbanks, just who's the angler and who's the bait is as blurry as swamp gas at midnight.Bang Sticks. Dead-Eye Gravy. Limbic Pentameter.Given the deadly school of suspects they're forced to wade through, the mismatched trio will have to cast a pretty wide net to snag this monstrous culprit.Will they be able to swallow their fears and tackle the mystery afloat? Or will they end up as the killer's next catch of the day? This is one fishy case that could spell their final recipe for dis-Astor ...