Chicken Scratch

Name: Chicken Scratch
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Becki Willis
ISBN: 9781541439788

Author: Becki Willis

Series: Sisters, Texas Mystery #1

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/26/2019

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy

Synopsis

When Madison Reynolds finds herself widowed and penniless before forty, she does the only thing she knows to do—she packs up her teenage twins and moves back home with her eighty-year-old grandmother. To make ends meet, Madison opens In a Pinch Temporary Services. Her first real client is Ronny Gleason, but when she shows up for the first day of work at the Gleason Poultry Farm, Madison makes a gruesome discovery. The dead body she finds belongs to Mr. Gleason. When a local man is arrested for murder, Madison takes on the job of proving his innocence. Even though she is not a private investigator, both mothers are desperate: Lucy Ngyen to clear her son's name, and Madison to pay her bills. But as she begins asking questions around town, her interference is not welcome.

With a daughter determined to go back to Dallas, a son settling into small town life, a feisty grandmother who knows all the town gossip, bill collectors calling, and now someone trying to keep her silent, Madison has no time for re-kindling her high school crush with police chief Brash deCordova. She has her hands full just trying to stay alive.

If she survives her amateur investigation, Maddy has a decision to make. Will she go back to her life in Dallas, or will she build a new life here in The Sisters?

About Becki Willis

Becki Willis has been writing since grade school, though her earliest works are best left unpublished. She majored in journalism at Texas A&M University but soon got sidetracked with life-marriage to her high school sweetheart, raising their two children, launching careers she loved but that had little to do with writing. In 2013, Becki resolved to pursue her life-long dream of becoming an author.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Evelyn

Read some of the reviews and although I agreed with most of them, I had to think "Did these people REALLY read this book?" Did they not notice that Chapter Nineteen started "With a warped sense of dith a , Madison called 911..."? I still haven't figured out what the sentence was meant to read. Did t......more

Goodreads review by Jeanie

I am new to Becki Willis but I already love her writing. Chicken Scratch has something special that the best light mystery writers bring to us. The characters are great and are well developed, there were no stereotypes, and I found my self wanting to know most of them. I could related to so much abo......more

Goodreads review by Reader

I enjoyed this book immensely! Great characters, interesting topic (I thought chicken houses were little wooden coops), convincing plot, and a good mystery. When Madison Reynolds loses everything (her husband, her home, their business, her friends) she goes back home to Juliet, one half of the commu......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie

Becki Willis is a great writer. I just got done reading Chicken Scratch #1 of the series The Sisters Texas Mystery. Madison Reynolds has a lot on her plate of life, first her husband dies, then she finds out there is no so she packs up everything and went back home to Sisters,Texas. This will have y......more

Goodreads review by Leslie aka StoreyBook Reviews

You know a book is going to be good when it starts off: "Finding a dead body was never good. Finding the dead body of your newest client - particularly on the first day of the job - was decidedly worse." Welcome to The Sisters, Texas. Where rumors run rampant, small town bias is still alive, but whe......more