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THE HOUSEKEEPER MYSTERY SERIES
BOOK 1 - I'M GOING TO KILL THAT CAT -2025 GLOBAL AWARD GOLD MEDALIST in Mystery-Murder shatters the peace of St. Francis de Sales when an old feud ignites a tangled web of secrets and lies, and an unsettling new housekeeper arrives. But when a parishioner is found dead, and her cat goes missing, it’s the beginning of a deadly game that leads to scandal, destruction, and murder.
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BOOK 2 - CATWALK DEAD, Murder in the Rue de L’histoire Theatre. 2026 SILVER MEDALIST IN THE GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS MYSTERY SERIES. Something far darker than stage fright haunts an historic Austin, Texas, theater. When a dead body falls from the light bridge during a rehearsal, the stage is set for a deadly mystery. Drawn into a murder that may be the undoing of Mrs. B.’s son’s ballet company, she and Father Melvyn must discover whether this is the Macbeth curse or the curse of human evil and greed.
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BOOK 3 -, THE CHURCH MURDERS AND THE CAT’S PREY, is ripped from today’s headlines. The peace of a sunny Easter Sunday morning is fractured by a gunshot that finds Father Melvyn. He collapses on the altar in front of a shocked and frightened congregation. Panic and mayhem ensue. But is this the act of one gunman, or is it something else? This absorbing mystery follows the passionate amateur sleuthing duo—the sharp-witted housekeeper Mrs. B. and the dedicated Father Melvyn—as they are thrust into a dangerous high-stakes conspiracy. They, along with the Austin Police Department, race to end this diabolical plot before more deaths occur—even the trusty rectory cat, LaLa, has a role to play.
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CRIME
BLOOD OATH
TANGLING WITH THE MOB IS HELL ON EARTH. THEY NEVER FORGET.
Idealistic Buddy Sullivan comes back from WW 2 and fighting Nazis. He joins the NYC Police Department to become a crime fighter like his hero, the late Joe Petrosino. In his first undercover assignment, things go disastrously wrong when he discovers the identity of the powerful mob boss Gaetano Manzone’s love interest: Lena Sullivan. After a fellow cop on the team is murdered and a note is left on his body, Buddy is desperate to convince his sister that she’s being used. But is she, or is she a willing participant? There is more than life and death at stake in this game where family and community ties are strong, and blood calls for blood. The mob never forgets, and blood oaths are made.Button
PARANORMAL MURDER MYSTERY WRITING AS LEONORA
TIME TO DANCE, TIME TO DIE
With her dance bag slung over her shoulder, Erica runs toward the imposing Victorian residence, housing the Romanova Ballet Conservatory, trying to reach the front door before the storm arrives. In a sudden gust of wind, there is a whisper: Erica. Erica. I need you.
She stops dead in her tracks; the hairs on her neck standing up.
She’d heard the rumors about ghostly episodes and a disturbing atmosphere at Romanova’s ballet conservatory. No, she thinks. It’s my imagination. Nothing will make her give up this chance.
Resolutely, Erica steps forward and marches to the door. But was it her imagination? Will this be Erica’s time to dance or her time to die?
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COMING IN JANUARY 2027
BOOK 4 - MURDER IN THE CAT’S EYE, A Roman Antiquities Murder Mystery.
In book four of the Housekeeper Mystery Series, Father Melvyn attempts to help his parishioners regain their faith after the horrific attacks on religion in Austin. He leads a group to Rome, Italy, to learn about the lives of the earliest Roman Christians and what they endured. But it doesn’t take long for crime to find them, and tracing ancient history can be murder, even in the modern world. Set in the ancient and modern city of Rome, Italy, have Mrs. B. and Father Melvyn gotten more than they bargained for, or are their talents for reason and logic appreciated even in a foreign land?
Housekeeper Mystery Series by F. Della Notte