When Dode Schneider, rattle-brained farmer, insists the abandoned Wyatt mansion is haunted by ghosts Pawpaw County Sheriff Boots Gibson happily off-loads the crazy case to Ruby Jane Waskom and Veenie Goens, senior sleuths in training with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. Ruby Jane and Veenie, lifelong friends who live in the small Indiana town of […]
It’s Spring in Pawpaw County, Indiana. Everybody has a bad case of hanky-panky pants. Senior sleuths Ruby Jane Waskom and Veenie Goens are on the run, chasing down cheating heart jezebels and shaking child support out of deadbeat baby daddies. Everybody in the small town of Knobby Waters, Indiana, knows Avonelle Apple, cantankerous bank president. […]
Pawpaw County, Indiana, is all atwitter about Ma and Peepaw Horton’s annual Chickenlandia Festival. The mood turns dark though when the Horton’s prize-winning rooster, Dewey, and his best laying hen, Ginger, vanish, leaving behind no clues except for a trail of tail feathers. Also missing: Gertie Wineagar, local sourpuss, and BBQ chicken cook-off queen. Senior […]
Shady Hoosier Book Series Wins Best Indie Humor Book 2019
” Imagine Murder She Wrote meets The Golden Girls and you’ll be in the ballpark of Daisy Pettles’ GHOST BUSTING MYSTERY, where the fun is infectious and the story will keep readers laughing, while showing us all how to grow older with grace, humor, and style.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS – “A spirited beginning to a new mystery series that is haunted with humor … clever, amusing, often quotable … the author, born in a small Indiana town, writes with knowledge and affection about a quirky cast of Hoosiers.”
Shady Hoosier Book Series Wins IPPY Award – Best Mystery Ebook 2019
Macsbooks – “This is one of my Top 10 Books of 2018 and one of the funniest books I ever have read. As in, EVER! It’s like Garrison Keillor meets Mel Brooks: folksy, irreverent, hilarity with a whole lot of Midwestern charm.”
Bedford, Indiana (Lawrence County); Bloomington, Indiana (Monroe County); Southern Indiana arts and entertainment newsDate: February 25, 2020Daisy Pettles, Indiana author and philanthropist, is pleased to announce the grant finalists in the first annual Daisy Pettles Contest for Women Writers. The competition is open to women writers, aged forty or over, published or unpublished, working in all genres, except for poetry.The competition, with a top cash prize of $1,000 and a free month-long … Read more... about Finalists Announced in Daisy Pettles Grants for Women Writers June 2020
Daisy Pettles is the pen name of novelist Vicky Phillips, who was born in Bedford, Indiana. She grew up in the tiny river town of Medora, Indiana. Her parents, "Junie and Deanie," ran the corner gas station and ice cream stand. She learned to read while sitting on her grandmother’s lap, under an apple tree in Brownstown, Indiana. As a child, she was fed a steady diet of books, pies, and Bible stories. After graduating from one of the smallest public high schools in Indiana, Medora High School, in 1977, she attended DePauw University, where she was graduated Phi Beta Kappa. A world traveler, she has lived in San Francisco, London, and Athens. She has raced camels in Egypt and eaten Kentucky Fried Chicken with Communists in Shanghai. She … Read more... about About Daisy Pettles | Southern Cozy Mystery & Crime Comedy Author
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