Miss Fortune World: Sinful Stories

You're invited to the hottest bash in Sinful, Louisiana. It's Gertie's Tenth Annual Funeral (because why have a funeral after she's gone and can't hear all the good things people say about her?) and she's pulling out all the stops, hoping to make this year's celebration the best one yet. Only someone has a different idea. Someone wants to take the f-u-n out of "funeral" and tries to turn fake-dead Gertie into real-dead Gertie. Who would want to kill Gertie? And why? And can Fortune and the Geritol Mafia stop him before he attempts to kill Gertie again? Nearly Departed is the first in the Sinful Stories series, a fast-paced novella set in the world of Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune Mysteries, complete with a splash of suspense, a dollop of humor and a pinch of heart.

Gertie and Fortune are sentenced to three days of anger management camp following a fight with Celia outside City Hall. While there they search for clues proving the judge who sentenced them received kickbacks from the company running the camp. But they soon discover a crooked judge is the least of their concerns. Someone may have been murdered. Join Gertie, Fortune and Ida Belle as they try to solve the mystery of The Mutiny on the Bayou.

Fortune takes on her toughest assignment yet: temporary librarian at the Sinful Library. Join her as she muddles through the Little Sinful Readers' Book Hour, discovers a dying man in the reference section, endures a fiasco at the Mudbug Roller World (where Gertie and Ida Belle reprise their roles as Roller Derby Queens), and faces not one, not two, but three attempts on her life.

Hell has finally frozen over. Gertie's getting married! Or... is she? When a charming gold-digger by the name of Cliff Dow comes to Sinful and steals from their friend, Marie, the Swamp Team 3 decides to get even by publicly shaming him at the "When Hell Freezes Over" wedding of the century. And everything's going according to plan until... Well, this is Sinful after all. Meanwhile, a mystery woman also arrives. She says she's a FEMA representative. But Fortune thinks otherwise. She's met her before. But where? More importantly, is she friend or foe? Nearly Beloved (Sinful Stories Book 3) takes place after the events of Hurricane Force, Book 7 of Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series.

An assassin's life is filled with many challenges. She has to be ready at a moment's notice to drop behind enemy lines and do what is necessary to complete her mission. Even if it means putting on a pair of skates and joining the Sinful Sliders in a rematch to determine once and for all who won the Louisiana Derby Championship of 1982. Should be an easy mission, right? Wrong. Someone else has other plans, and attacks one of the opposing skaters before the championship bout, dropping clues that frame an innocent man and point toward Ida Belle as an accomplice.

Amid fears of her location being compromised, Fortune is extricated from Sinful in the middle of the night and relocated to a 55-plus trailer park in the Arizona desert, where she is to pose as the niece of recently deceased Olive, a woman many there think was murdered. Harrison gives her one order: Under no circumstances should she have any contact with anyone back in Sinful. Yeah, like that's going to happen.

"All aboard the Sinful Express! Fortune gets roped into leading this month's Sinful Library mystery book club. But fiction becomes reality when one of the book club members is poisoned. Will Fortune, Gertie and Ida Belle catch the perp before she strikes again? Or will one of them become her next victim? Murder on the Sinful Express (Sinful Stories Book 7) is set after the events of Hook, Line and Blinker, book ten of Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series."

The good. The bad. The sinful. But which one is a killer? This year's Founders' Day parade is marred by the murder of former Sinful High math teacher, Buster Blanchet. Enter Fortune and her cohorts, Ida Belle and Gertie, who've been hired to prove Tessa DuBerry, Buster's former colleague, didn't do it. But how can Fortune prove Tessa is innocent when the woman takes every opportunity to look guilty? Join the Swamp Team 3 as they rip the lid off Sinful's wicked past in a desperate attempt to find clues that point to another suspect. You know what that means-an undercover trip to the Swamp Bar!