Oliver Twisted

"It is not easy to combine humor and murder, but Cindy Brown does it effortlessly"(NewYork Times–bestselling author Rhys Bowen).

Orphans. Thieves. Murder. And an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet! When Ivy Meadows lands a gig with the book-themed cruise line Get Lit!, she thinks she's died and gone to Broadway. Not only has she snagged a starring role in a musical production of Oliver Twist, she's making bank helping her PI uncle investigate a string of onboard thefts, all while sailing to Hawaii on the S.S. David Copperfield.

But Ivy is cruising for disaster. Her acting contract somehow skipped the part about aerial dancing forty feet above the stage, her uncle Bob is seriously sidetracked by a suspicious blonde, and—oh yeah—there's a corpse in her closet.

Forget catching crooks. Ivy's going to have a Dickens of a time just surviving.

"A whole lot of fun for those who want to solve a very good crime . . . A great adventure, a solid mystery . . . Ivy is turning into a really memorable character." —Suspense Magazine

"Brown mixes laugh-out-loud observations about the acting life with a witty and intriguing mystery. Consider yourself warned. Oliver Twisted is a fast-paced addictive read impossible to put down until Ivy has caught the killer." —D.E. Ireland, Agatha Award-nominated author of Move Your Blooming Corpse

"A fun and rollicking mystery at sea with a delightfully twisty plot and a heartfelt heroine who is as entertaining as she is soulful. I highly recommend this series. More please!" —John Clement, author of the Dixie Hemingway Mysteries