Josiah Reynolds Mysteries Box Set: 19-21: Death By Theft, Death By Betrayal, Death By Trauma

A Josiah Reynolds Mystery

Book 19

Josiah is happy for her pals Lady Elsmere and Shaneika Mary Todd when broodmare Jean Harlow give birth to a male foal sired by Comanche. Both owners of the horses have high hopes the foal will become a stakes winner—maybe even win the Kentucky Derby. The foal has a broad chest, indicating significant lung capacity—important for winning races, but just like his daddy, the foal is ebony with a bad attitude. 

Josiah and Shaneika visit dam Jean Harlow early one morning and are shocked to find the prized foal is missing. They frantically search Lady Elsmere’s and Josiah’s farms without success. It’s urgent they find the foal fast as he is not yet weaned and is too young to be separated from his mother.

Who would snatch the feisty foal from his mother’s care? And equally important—why?

Death By Betrayal

A Josiah Reynolds Mystery

Book 20

Betrayal – The act of thwarting a person’s trust, revealing information in violation of confidence, or failing to honor a promise.

Josiah knows all about betrayal. In the glamorous Bluegrass world of oak-cured bourbon, antebellum mansions, and Thoroughbred horse farms, betrayals never die—never remain hidden. The dark and bloody land called Kentucky eventually gives up its secrets from its dark, loamy soil, laying them bare for all to see.

The day starts out innocently with Josiah visiting Hunter, her boyfriend, and his new farm assistant, Palley. The young man tells Josiah of his desire to enter the demolition derby at the county fair. Ever since Palley received his driver’s license, he has been waiting to compete, but he needs an old beater of a car to enter.

Josiah tells Palley he is welcome to use an old jalopy that’s been gathering dust in an unused barn on her property. Josiah and an excited Palley travel to her shed. Pulling off an old tarp, they examine the car until they find—you guessed it—a body in the back.

Whose body is it? How did it get there? Josiah is on the trail of murder again. In the mysterious Bluegrass, there’s justice, and then there is Josiah’s justice!

Death By Trauma

A Josiah Reynolds Mystery

Book 21

In the Bluegrass world of oak-cured bourbon, antebellum mansions, and Thoroughbred horse farms are secrets—deadly secrets!

Josiah Reynolds knows that and with good reason. She’s solved many a murder, but Josiah prays that she does not stumble across another body. The stress is too much.

She is happy to be invited to a winter sledding party at Haze Corbyn’s home. Corbyn is a former syndicated movie critic for newspapers and magazines, who retired to the Bluegrass, dabbling in his love of horses.

The party is a kickoff for the Angela Weathers retrospective at a local theater. Miss Angela is even coming for the showing of her first movie and Corbyn’s event. 

Josiah is excited to meet her movie idol, so it comes as a big surprise when Haze Corbyn turns up dead at his own party.

Kentucky is not called “the dark and bloody ground” for nothing!