Fran Rizer

A Callie Parrish Mystery

1 - A Tisket, a Tasket, a Fancy Stolen Casket (Oct-2007)
2 - Hey Diddle Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle (Apr-2008)
3 - Casket Case (Oct-2008)

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  A Tisket, a Tasket, a Fancy Stolen Casket
  

  • Oct-2007
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Callie Parrish Mystery - 1
  

  THE BODIES HERE ARE RESTING IN ANYTHING BUT PEACE... Mortuary cosmetologist Calamine "Callie" Parrish likes to end her days in a relaxing way--with a Moon Pie, an episode of Six Feet Under, and a few chapters in one of her mystery novels. But righ...

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  Hey Diddle Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle
  

  • Apr-2008
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Callie Parrish Mystery - 2
  

  NOBODY'S LEAVING THE ISLAND--INCLUDING THE KILLER... Mortuary cosmetologist Callie Parrish is thrilled to pack up her banjo and take off with her best friend, Jane, for a bluegrass festival on Surcie Island. A whole weekend of her favorite kind of...

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  Casket Case
  

  • Oct-2008
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Callie Parrish Mystery - 3
  

  SOMEONE'S MAKING A LOT OF BUSINESS FOR MIDDLETON'S MORTUARY. The town's beloved pharmacist has been found floating facedown in his hot tub. Callie has to wonder if the kind man died of natural causes, or if his seemingly distraught young wife had ...

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  Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, There's A Body In The Car
  

  • Jan-2011
  • / Mystery
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  When Callie finds a locked car with an unidentified dead man and a poisonous snake inside, she's busy caring for her sick father and helping with her brothers' weddings -- too busy for any detecting.

  Then Mrs. Joyner wants her deceased husband's f...

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  Mother Hubard Has A Corpse In The Cupboard
  

  • May-2013
  • / Thriller
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  Callie Parrish escapes her duties as a mortuary cosmetologist to hang out with friends, Jane and Rizzie, at the county fair, but their fun screeches to a standstill when Rizzie's Maum breaks her hip. Then Callie discovers an injured man in a storage ...

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  Mother Hubbard Has a Corpse in the Cupboard
  

  • May-2013
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Callie Parrish escapes her duties as a mortuary cosmetologist to hang out with friends, Jane and Rizzie, at the county fair, but their fun screeches to a standstill when Rizzie's Maum breaks her hip. Then Callie discovers an injured man in a storage ...

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  A Corpse Under the Christmas Tree
  

  • Nov-2013
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Callie Parrish and her BFF, Jane, love presents at Christmas, but what they find under the tree isn't a gift from Santa Claus. It is Santa in person--murdered and dumped under the tree the friends decorated with much joy for the holiday season. Th...

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  Kudzu River
  

  • Dec-2014
  • / Thriller
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  Kudzu River is a gripping tale of three women’s lives entangled by a serial killer -- a story of abuse, murder, and retribution. Unlike Fran Rizer’s previous Callie Parrish mysteries, Kudzu River is not a cozy. When Teacher of the Year Katie Wray...

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  Murder Is on the Clock
  

  • Oct-2015
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Mortuary cosmetician Callie Parrish doesn't have time to sleuth the day before her father's wedding though Jane's accusation that Callie attracts murder like a magnet seems true. She finds a John Doe homicide victim. Callie and Jane are terrified whe...

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  The Horror of Julie Bates
  

  • Oct-2016
  • / Horror
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  Who knew Columbia, S.C., could be so scary? Julie Bates discovers a corpse in front of the Assembly Street Post Office the same day arson destroys her home, but Julie's story is not a mystery. It's horror--southern style. Police officer Nate Adams th...

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  A Skull Full of Posies
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Mortuary cosmetician Callie Parrish is overwhelmed when her friend Rizzie's brother Tyrone discovers several human skulls in St. Mary, SC. Before scientists confirm whether the skulls are remnants of an ancient civilization or more recent homicides, ...

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