Attention Mystery Lovers!

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Attention Mystery Lovers!

If you are looking for a fun January mystery, check out “Mad Money & Murder” by Jenni Stand.

It’s available in Paperback, Kindle, and Audiobook formats!

My narrator, Carol Beth Anderson, did a wonderful job narrating my book. It released just before Christmas and is already being enjoyed by a handful of listeners.

Liz Pond is a private investigator with her own agency in historic San Antonio, Texas. Her specialty is proving that con artists are frauds, and Liz knows just how to spot a fake…by using her own secret psychic abilities.

However, after the failed rescue of a kidnapped woman, Liz has lost all faith in herself as a PI. She’s also lost her psychic abilities and doesn’t know if she’ll ever get them back.

While walking along the San Antonio River Walk during its annual draining, Liz finds a body weighted down at the bottom of the drained river. The victim’s roommate hires Liz to find the killer. Liz agrees to take this one last case because she can’t stand the idea of seeing a murderer escape justice. A romance with a local police detective is bubbling just below the surface, plus a reluctant friendship with an investigative reporter she’s afraid will discover her secret, will this end up being her last case? Or will Liz regain her abilities – as well as her confidence?

Get ready for the next adventure in the Pond Investigations Mystery series, “Death is in the Cards”, coming out in February 2025!

Death is in the Cards

Books / Covers / Pond Investigation Mysteries

“Death is in the Cards”

Cover Reveal

The cover for the second book in my Pond Investigations Mystery series was unveiled at the Lubbock Book Festival yesterday. I’m very excited to share it with the rest of the world today.

Some notes on the cover design: my daughter, Katy, drew the Tarot Cards used in the photograph. They inspired the text used to describe these and other cards within the book. My husband, Rob (a.k.a The Tech Dude), took the photo and created the layout of the cover.

I’m so fortunate to have such a wonderful support system in my family.

Lubbock Book Festival

Events / Pond Investigation Mysteries

Lubbock Book Festival

This coming Saturday, August 24th, 2024. I hope to see you there!

Early Access opens: 11am.
General Admission opens: 12noon.

For full details visit: https://www.lubbockbookfest.com/

Follow Up

We had a fantastic time at the Lubbock Book Festival yesterday. The team who organized the event did an amazing job. I loved visiting with so many new, and future, readers of the Pond Investigations Mystery series. I had the opportunity to chat with some of the other authors around us as well. Not as many as I wanted to, but that was only because we were all so busy. Which is always a good thing. The general consensus was that we are all looking forward to participating in the 2025 Lubbock Book Festival. A special thank you to the Lubbock Book Festival and Literacy Lubbock for putting together a fantastic event!

Here’s a link to see a few of the author booths. And a fantastic group shot at the end. https://youtu.be/265WkRKI4LM?si=i4WDf0vzuNzhyWhk

Introduction

Pond Investigation Mysteries / Writing

Week of February 21, 2021

I hope everyone reading this has finally thawed out and has full access to heat, electricity, and safe drinking water. BRRR! That was a cold week!

Now that my favorite pen, which is metal, no longer needs an hour to warm up before I touch it, I’m back to work on my first mystery novel. Would you like to read my elevator pitch? Here it is:

San Antonio Psychic Detective Mysteries

Elizabeth Susan Pond loves her beautiful, historic city of San Antonio, Texas where she works as a private investigator with a secret. Liz was born with Extra Sensory Perception and uses it as a tool to solve her cases, but she refuses to tell her clients or advertise herself as a psychic detective because she doesn’t believe in psychics. Her favorite hobby: busting charlatans.

I’ve always enjoyed anything to do with the paranormal or mysteries whether it be a book, movie or television show, which makes this book extra enjoyable to write.

And the research. Love it! We’ve been to San Antonio many times and always leave looking forward to our next visit even as we drive out of the city. As I look through photos from our trips it is easy to see many places to base an intriguing mystery.

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“Mad Money & Murder” by Jenni Stand Liz Pond is a private investigator with her own agency in historic San Antonio, Texas. Her specialty is proving that con artists are frauds, and Liz knows just how to spot a fake…by using her own secret psychic abilities. However, after the failed …

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Rankings Sadly, “Mad Money & Murder” has dropped off the Top 100 New Releases for Psychic Mysteries & Psychic Thrillers. It was on there for at least three weeks, which is still fantastic! And I certainly will never forget watching it climb the Best Sellers & New Releases Charts that …

About the Author

Jenni Stand

Jenni Stand lives in Texas and is achieving her lifelong dream of becoming an independently published author. She was born and raised on Prince Edward Island in Canada, and she now lives in Texas with her husband, daughter, and slightly spastic dog. She has always wanted to be a writer, partially due to being surrounded by everything connected with Anne of Green Gables and Lucy Maud Montgomery and partially due to her love of reading. Growing up, she always had her nose in a mystery book, whether it was Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys or Trixie Belden. Plus, the eighties was the best decade for some of the best mystery series on television. Lately she’s been enjoying Agatha Christie. It’s fun getting to read her books for the very first time.

After years of trying to write a book without success, Jenni was one of the earliest students of Ellie Alexander’s Mystery Writing Masterclass. Since joining, Jenni wrote her first book, Mad Money & Murder: A Pond Investigations Mystery. She has already written the first draft of the second book in the series titled Death is in the Cards. Jenni has plotted book three of the series titled Sage’s Bluff.

Jenni and her family cowrote a role-playing adventure called Legend of the Veil that currently sells on DriveThruRPG.com. She also wrote a handful of articles for a short-lived local magazine in Midland, Texas, called Tall City Tales.

If she doesn’t have a pen in her hand, it’s usually holding either a crochet hook or a knitting needle instead.

Link to my Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jennistand

Direct Link to “Mad Money & Murder” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Money-Murder-Pond-Investigations-Mystery-ebook/dp/B0CSKBT4VK

Jenni Stand is an Affiliate Member of the Mystery Writers of America.

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Author photo taken by Robert Standridge.

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