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Dry humor. Fair clues. Grown women with actual jobs.
Everyone leaves loose ends.
Some of them are murder.
Every assignment begins with a practical problem. Then one detail refuses to behave.
ESTATES / FAMILY / ONE WRONG DEED
Lorraine Bickham had her affairs in order and absolutely no intention of dying. Then someone found her at the bottom of the garage steps.
A brand-new will leaves nearly everything to charity—and includes a piece of property Lorraine had not owned in four years. Wendy was sitting at her table the day before. She knows it is wrong.
PASSWORDS / ROYALTIES / BAD NUMBERS
Owen brought his brother’s laptop in a grocery bag. He was trying not to throw away the wrong thing.
There are three password lists and an account in a woman’s name nobody recognizes. The royalty statements do not match the contracts. Somebody keeps changing the numbers.
PROPERTY / COLD CASE / MISSING WOMAN
Miriam had a moving date and a buyer. Then the title search found a woman who vanished twenty-three years ago.
Human remains surface behind the seawall, and the missing woman’s name keeps turning up in the house records. Miriam still needs somewhere to live next month.
THE WOMAN WHO GETS CALLED
Wendy Madsen is fifty-four, capable, and professionally allergic to unfinished business.
She runs Consider It Handled, a Southwest Florida service for estates, emergencies, downsizing, and the family mess nobody wants to touch.
Wendy does not play detective. She finishes the job she agreed to finish. Sometimes that means finding out why the paperwork tells one story and the family tells another.
The difference between mess and manipulation
Contemporary mysteries. Midlife women. Cozy-adjacent, with teeth.
Tracy Harker writes for readers who like their sleuths observant, their humor dry, and their puzzles fair. The Consider It Handled Mysteries are about suspicious deaths, stubborn paperwork, Florida weather, and the everyday complications of being the reliable person in the room.
They are emotionally adult, practical by nature, and uninterested in pretending fifty-four is a crisis.
GEN-X, CURRENT VERSION
Jeans.
Black T-shirt.
Good instincts.
Low tolerance for hype.
It was wrong. Wendy wants to know why.
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