Who is Ivy Featherstone?
Ivy is a single woman who retired early to travel the globe. In her first year, she went to India, China, Italy, Greece, Croatia, and Turkey. Then COVID-19 hit, and everyone stayed home. When COVID-19 finally passed, people had grown accustomed to staying home, so travel buddies became increasingly scarce.
Undeterred, Ivy investigated solo travel, but most options were cost-prohibitive or involved countries that would be difficult to navigate without knowledge of the local culture or language. All this research led to what seemed like the perfect fit: traveling the US and Canada in a camper van!
And boy did she ever go - her first adventure lasted seven months and she LOVED it. To continue in this newly discovered and much-loved lifestyle, she decided she needed to find work that would pay decent money, allow her to work remotely, and most importantly, be FUN!
Ivy has always been a BIG reader and loved murder mysteries and was often heard saying, ‘I could write this stuff!’ So, lo and behold, her 1st Novella was born - Death in the Ditch.
This first story introduces her protagonist, Willie Wilder, an independent woman who is a stress-induced poet, a pet psychic deep in denial, and an even more reluctant amateur sleuth. After she inherits an old farmhouse, complete with Axel, a Standard Poodle, she loads up her old VW van and travels from Jupiter, Florida, to Grandview, North Dakota, to start a new chapter in her life.
I hope you enjoy her adventures as she works her way out of her old life and into her new one.
Death in the Ditch
A Willie Wilder Cozy Murder Mystery
A newcomer.
A suspicious death.
A town of secrets—and one bossy cow.
Willie Wilder was just passing through Eagle Ridge on her way to a fresh start.
But when her van breaks down, she finds herself stuck in a small town hiding big secrets—and someone at the center of them winds up dead.
The victim? A cranky landowner with more enemies than friends.
The suspects? Coopers, long feuding neighbours, Baldwin, deeply indebted, or the Fenleys - cheated out of their land?
Her allies? A trio of unforgettable women: Talulla the tattooed mechanic, Birdie the bedazzled motel clerk, and Marnie the no-nonsense librarian.
Threatened to back off, she arms herself with a notebook, curiosity, and her strange gift for understanding animals (don’t ask), Willie becomes an accidental sleuth.
With antique keys, a cryptic cow, and a skeptical sheriff circling, Willie must dig up decades of buried secrets.
And in Eagle Ridge… even the cows know better than to talk.
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