It seemed so straightforward at the time. Allison, my creative, impulsive, right-brained sister, asked me to spend some time with her in Savannah to see if I could save her vintage candy store.

It was a no-brainer. As a business consultant in Chicago (and definitely left-brained) I’m used to assessing a company’s performance. Most of the time, I can come up with a clear strategy to save a failing business.

So here I am, watching as Ali sorts through bins of Swedish Fish, Fruits Stripes and Turkish Taffy. Did I mention her business was a vintage candy store? Yes, it’s a bit out of my wheelhouse. But hey, she’s my sister. Oldies but Goodies, her charming little store in the historic district, is on the skids. The store is bleeding money and I’m going over the accounts with a nice cappuccino, trying not to pull my hair out

I’ve got to put family issues aside and treat this as just another business in trouble. Except Ali tends to be “flighty” as my mother used to say, and doesn’t realize how dire things are. I’m trying to get her to focus on the numbers and she’s flitting around the kitchen, preparing for her dream club meeting tonight.

Yes, a dream club. Don’t worry, I’d never heard of one either. It’s like a book club (sort of) except members talk about their dreams, not about books. They relate some really crazy ones and everyone chimes in with their take on it. Last week, a prim and proper lady related her dream of shopping in the Piggly Wiggly stark naked! I almost fell off my chair but no one else seemed too concerned. (apparently dreaming you’re naked in public is a fairly common dream. Who knew?)

A bit of a shock for me, because I don’t dream, don’t believe in dreams and had no intention of sitting around analyzing dreams with a bunch of perfect strangers. But then something amazing happened. As time went on, Allison’s dream club members started uncovering clues in their dreams—clues to murders in Savannah. How was this possible? They helped the Savannah PD solve a murder, and then another one!

Was it a coincidence or was something else at play here? I was caught off guard, completely unsettled. And then I learned that my ex, Noah, had moved back to Savannah and was working as a private investigator. The plot thickens. Between Noah and the dream club, I may never go back to Chicago.

A Premonition of Murder, A Dream Club Mystery Book 3
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release: June 2024
Format: Digital
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When Abigail Marchand, Savannah’s famously reclusive heiress, invites the Dream Club ladies to lunch at her Beaux Reeves mansion, Taylor and Ali hope for an invitation to join the distinguished Magnolia Society. But Abigail has a more pressing concern: a recent dream that seems to foretell her death.

Taylor reassures Abigail that there are many ways to interpret a dream, but at the next meeting of the Dream Club, their discussion is cut short by a call from Detective Sam Stiles. She’s at Abigail’s mansion, where the elderly woman appears to have been pushed to her death down a flight of stairs. Now Taylor, Ali, and the Dream Club need to catch a killer before someone else is laid to rest.

About the author
Mary Kennedy is a practicing psychologist and the author of the Talk Radio Mysteries and the Dream Club Mysteries. She’s written nearly 50 novels, including both mysteries and young adult fiction and has sold over four million books worldwide. Mary lives with a varying number of neurotic cats in the northeast. She has tried unsuccessfully to psychoanalyze them, but she remains optimistic. You can visit her at marykennedy.net.