Charlie's Secrets: The Mac 'n' Ivy Mysteries
By Lorena McCourtney
“Charlie’s Secrets” is a finalist in the Cozy Mystery category of the 2025 Daphne du Maurier awards for Mystery/Suspense books.
Mac, with Ivy’s assistance, usually writes quirky articles about everything from a frog race to a garlic festival for a travel magazine, but now they’ve been hired to write a woman’s memoirs for a rather nice sum.
Except these memoirs turn out to be a high-powered expose of the woman’s three prominent and well-known husbands,. and each of those ex’s is desperate to keep his past misdeeds from showing up in print. What will they do to stop the memoirs? Bribe, threaten … or murder?
And now Ivy and Mac know The Wife’s dangerous secrets too.
“Charlie’s Secrets” is a finalist in the Cozy Mystery category of the 2025 Daphne du Maurier awards for Mystery/Suspense books.
Mac, with Ivy’s assistance, usually writes quirky articles about everything from a frog race to a garlic festival for a travel magazine, but now they’ve been hired to write a woman’s memoirs for a rather nice sum.
Except these memoirs turn out to be a high-powered expose of the woman’s three prominent and well-known husbands,. and each of those ex’s is desperate to keep his past misdeeds from showing up in print. What will they do to stop the memoirs? Bribe, threaten … or murder?
And now Ivy and Mac know The Wife’s dangerous secrets too.