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Joyce Oroz
Full Series List in Order
A Josephine Stuart Mystery
1 - Secure the Ranch (May-2010)2 - Cuckoo Clock Caper (Jul-2013)
3 - Beetles in the Boxcar (Dec-2013)
4 - Shaking in Her Flip Flops (Apr-2014)
5 - Roller Rubout (Oct-2014)
6 - Read My Lipstick (Nov-2014)
7 - Scent of a $Windle (Sep-2015)
8 - Who Murdered Mary Christmas? (Sep-2016)
9 - Pushing Up Daisy (Oct-2017)
Book List in Order: 11 titles
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Secure the Ranch
- May-2010
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Josephine Stuart, a fifty-year-old widow, is blessed and cursed with an overactive curiosity, a strong sense of right and wrong and a willingness to put herself on the line for her friends. Josephine has been hired to paint murals in the secluded Mun...
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Cuckoo Clock Caper
- Jul-2013
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An explosion in the middle of the night plummets local muralist Josephine Stuart out of bed and down the street to determine which of her neighbors’ homes in sleepy Aromas, California, has been destroyed. When she discovers fire trucks and police v...
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Beetles in the Boxcar
- Dec-2013
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Josephine teams up with her Aunt Clara to solve Joey Gianelli"s murder. The elderly man was found dead on the railroad tracks six years after he supposedly died in an airplane crash. But there's more trouble coming down the tracks, headed straight fo...
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Shaking in Her Flip Flops
- Apr-2014
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Josephine has her hands full, painting murals at the Milagro Hotel and trying to protect Inez from a murderer. Inez witnessed the murder of the hotel owner and the murderer saw Inez. Josephine is also trying to save the hotel, but things are getting ...
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Roller Rubout
- Oct-2014
- / Cozy Mystery
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Mario Portello is run over by a black sedan while sitting at his desk at Ralph’s Roller Rink. Josephine Stuart happens to be painting a mural at the rink the day he is rubbed out, making her the only witness to the hit-and-run event. Everyone assum...
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Read My Lipstick
- Nov-2014
- / Amateur Sleuth
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An accountant working at the Thornton Therapy Center dies from a fall down the stairs. Josephine has been hired to paint murals at the Center and happens to be the first person on the scene. The dying man indicates he was struck from behind. The out-...
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Scent of a $Windle
- Sep-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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Scent of a $windle is flush with provocative foreign intrigue and unforgettable charactersâ€"â€"including a menagerie of animals that consist of a dog, a cockatoo, a goat, and a rooster. A disturbingly tragic murder has upset the balance of life on t...
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Who Murdered Mary Christmas?
- Sep-2016
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No one in Josephine’s plein-air watercolor class thought that Mary Milford, also known as Mary Christmas because of her fabulous Christmas decorations, would fall off the Capitola cliffs into the Pacific Ocean. One minute she was thereâ€"â€"paintin...
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Pushing Up Daisy
- Oct-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Josephine and her two employees try their hand at painting props at the Park Theater in Ben Lomond, California. Their services are urgently needed because Mac, senior prop painter, turned up dead in the theater’s blistering attic. Why was the door ...
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Hill Street Clues
- Sep-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Between mural jobs, Josephine Stuart promises she will help her neighbor, Jason Oeblick, with his nursery business in Gilroy, California. His mother was recently murdered and Josephine is on it. She commutes to work with all good intensions but strug...
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Dead on a Rifle
- Oct-2019
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Josephine Stuart and her Aunt Clara feel the urge to look into the murder of Josephine's fiance David’s friend, Eddie Garrett,who mysteriously drowned in one foot of water on toop of his rifle. Through scary times and arduous labor, Josephine and C...