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The Renaissance Gallery Mysteries
Genevieve Carmichael-Starr is the town of Renaissance’s least remarkable employee, doing a thankless job as the town’s half-time historian out of a tiny office down in the basement of town hall. Her desk occupies a prime spot right next to a leaky boiler, towers of mouldering boxes of Main Street Easter decorations from the 1960s, and a Christmas tree that’s probably at least that old because it appears to be made out of aluminium foil. She’s pretty sure there’s a family of mice living in the bottom drawer on the right-hand side.
Like everyone else, she’d heard the rumors about the vast sum of cash old Wellington Thorne, Sr. had recently bequeathed to the town, and bits and pieces about how it’ll be used to fund the creation of a new museum; a state-of-the-art gallery space in a renovated historic building right here on Main Street. How it’s supposed to attract the tourist dollar to their tiny, out-of-the-way lake district location, revitalize Main Street, and save the town.
But she never could have imagined how Old Thorne’s gift has changed her life.
Now she’s The Town of Renaissance Gallery & Museum’s inaugural curator, and the nominal boss of a quirky cast of misfits who are all finding a home at the museum: The Beat, a suspiciously stylish ex-pat with a secret past who runs the gift-shop, Kyle, their resident ninja security expert and Batman fanboy, Gus, the world’s worst sanitation expert, and a couple of student interns from the local college who keep trying to kill each other. Not to mention the mysteriously sexy Connor Hughes, who arrives with their first exhibit.
All that while building a tentative new friendship with Louisiana Soleil, Renaissance’s Jill-of-all-trades, dealing with new boss Catherine, who’s five parts drill sergeant, four part brilliant financial manager, and one part vinegar, and trying to stay out of the way of Thorne’s disgruntled heir, Thorne Jr., whose new mission in life seems to be to shut everything down.
And, oh yeah, while she’s at it, solving a murder.
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The Renaissance Gallery Mysteries are a five book series launching in 2021 with Now Museum, & Now You Don’t.
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RenAISSANCE gallery Mysteries
Now Museum,
& now you don’t
New job, new friends,
and a “shocking” opening-night murder.
It’s the first day of Jenni Starr’s new life as the curator of the newly founded Town of Renaissance Gallery and Museum.
Things are going about as well as can be expected, considering Jenni’s not exactly sure where her new apartment is, or what the heck she’s going to do about her cheating soon-to-be ex-husband, or what, exactly, a museum curator actually does.
What more could possibly go wrong? How about a fatal electrocution at the Museum’s gala opening night?
Now Jenni and her new best-friend-in-the-making, Lou, must solve the mystery together—or the Gallery may be shut down before it even opens, taking with it the future of the small town of Renaissance and Jenni, herself!
#Cosy mystery #Amateur sleuths #Museums and museum curators #Besties #Small town #Quirky characters #Humor and mystery #Nudie suits #Rhinestone cowboys
RenAISSANCE gallery Mysteries
No one expects the spanish exhibition
3 eccentric artists. One ill-advised gallery competition. What could go wrong?
Jenni and Lou are back with the rest of the crew as the Renaissance Gallery hosts three eccentric Spanish artists locked in a murderous rivalry!
The mayor’s bright idea for the Gallery’s next showcase started out innocently enough—a combined collection of the work of three prominent Spanish artists, all under one roof.
What no one counted on is the vicious competition between competing art-styles and egos that threaten to sweep half of Renaissance into a furious—and murderous!—aesthetic debate.
Now Jenni and Lou have to manage not only the new museum, but an ongoing War of Art, which threatens to consume both the gallery and the town itself!
#Cosy mystery #Amateur sleuths #Museum curator #Besties #Small town #Quirky characters #Humor and mystery #Romanticism #Surrealism #Cubism
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AUTHORS
J DEE DUPUY
By day: No Webpage For You. By night: attic dweller, mystery writer. Transplanted RedSox fan. Katong Laksa convert. Sticking out like a sore thumb in Southeast Asia.
Dan hess
Dan Hess is a Cincinnati, OH-based comics artist, freelance illustrator and writer, who entered the wild of the Internet to create digital art of all kinds, and to spread the love of illustrated cats.
we have cats
Dee’s cat, MILO
Milo is a rescue from SPCA Singapore where he was incarcerated for eight months before someone stupid enough to adopt the oldest and ugliest cat in the shelter came along and bailed him out. Since then the jailbird has relaxed into the life of pampered pet with grace and good humor, revealing his true gentleman’s soul.
Dan’s cat, GrAyson
His self-assurance knows no bounds as he attempts to make friends with all the neighborhood feral cats, and constantly puts himself between his human and him doing anything remotely productive. Otherwise, his days are spent stalking squirrels, playing with his favorite dangly toy, and power napping.