Let me tell you a bit about myself. My name is Gladys Wyatt and I’m a retired widow. I recently sold my rambling old house and bought a condo in a brand new snazzy building on the waterfront of Musgrave Landing. It’s a village on Salt Spring Island in the Pacific Northwest.

Besides the lovely ocean view, the main thing that sold me on the condo was the big kitchen with two wall ovens. I run a cottage bakery from my home and that second oven comes in handy let me tell you. There’s no yard work, somebody else does the repairs, plus everything was shiny and new. Sounds great doesn’t it? Unfortunately, things are never what they seem on the outside, but I digress.

I’m up at the crack of dawn baking most mornings. Bread, rolls, cinnamon buns, you name it. In the afternoon I do my deliveries with my old Forrester station wagon. Yes, it was once the hearse for Moffatt Funeral Services but nobody’s noticed so far. The car was cheap and that’s what I needed. The business helps me pay for the spiralling costs of owning a condo. I can’t believe the fees or all the rules.

No wonder Enid Lindquist and Dwayne Davis aren’t popular. As manager, Enid has a prison guard mentality and Dwayne, the condo board president is a tyrannical despot. I had to join the condo committee to help stem their rules which have done nothing to stop the thefts in the building.

Then my granddaughter Maisy came to stay with me and thing just got busier. She was here to help with my business, but I found her a job working with my friend Arlie Birch at the café by the ferry.

Arlie can be a curmudgeon, but he has a heart of gold, even if he is my partner in ‘crime’. Still, it’s nice to drop in a few days a week and have a gossip with him at Jane’s Eats and Treats. His daughter-in-law, Jane, is a sweetie too for helping Maisy. We have a lovely community in Musgrave Landing. Well, except for the odd suspicious death. . .

Condo Crazy, A Musgrave Landing Mystery #3
Genre: Cozy
Release: March 2022
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Welcome back to Musgrave Landing.

Gladys Wyatt is busy with her home bakery business. She needs to keep up with the expenses on her new condo. It would help if Linda would stop flooding the place. Freddie isn’t much bothered by the damage Linda’s causes. He is more caught up in defending his medical plants from Lara Finkle, the one-time mistress of the late embezzler mayor. How can she afford a unit in the new building anyway? Arlie Birch thinks he knows, but not everyone agrees.

It would also be great if Enid, the building manager and Dwayne, the condo board president, would stop coming up with new bylaws that threaten Gladys’ bakery business. This makes the condo board meetings quite contentious.

When Gladys is accused by Ann Westcott of hanging prank banners on the water facility build, is it possible the pranks could be related to the thief plaguing the village? Gladys suspects it was the thief who injured Matthew’s dog.

Gladys is shocked to find a body, half outside of the garage. Could the thief also be responsible for the murder? She reminds her granddaughter to keep the condo doors locked, but will that be enough?

Meet the author
Yvonne Rediger was born in Saskatchewan, lived and worked in northern Manitoba, Alberta, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Yvonne has been writing since she was in her teens. Her favourite genres are Mystery, Thrillers, Urban Fantasy, and Romantic Suspense, each with a bit of humour. She is videographer for a YouTube channel Pallet Cabin for her husband.

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