Diana K. C. Gill Libri

Delia Sanchez, currently a hospitality manager and part owner of the Loring Boutique Hotel in Santa Clotilde, California, is once again forced to use her training from her previous job at the LAPD to help those she loves. Delia's boyfriend has disappeared during a trip back home to Fresco Falls, Florida. Braving a hurricane, Delia arrives in south Florida only to realize that her boyfriend has hidden important aspects of his life. For example, a Caribbean plantation-style family estate situated amid a swamp, his leadership of a multi-national conglomerate, and an alligator named Frederico. Things go from bad to worse as Delia becomes entangled with crooked corporate execs, deadly snakes, a voodoo priestess, and raising the dead at a local cemetery. Will she survive to save the love of her life? Book two of the Delia Sanchez Mystery series, a funny, relatable, and at times creepy cozy mystery.

Delia Sanchez- hotel hospitality manager, best-selling writer, ghost conduit, and new mom - is busy preparing the charmingly-haunted Loring Boutique Hotel to host the remaining survivors of a drug trial conducted twenty years ago. They've reunited for a fundraising venture to benefit the financially-strapped Stevensen Memorial Hospital that helped cure them of childhood cancer. Delia's also putting the finishing touches on her fast-approaching Valentine's Day wedding to fiancé Gabe. Unfortunately, an unexpected and unwelcome guest throws Delia's preparations into a tailspin. Tallulah Mimowsky, Gabe's ex-wife, has invited herself to the wedding. Events go from bad to worse when a hooded intruder threatens Delia's cat Esmeralda, poisons a guest who accidentally eats that cat's gourmet meal, and finally gases someone else almost to death. These events challenge Delia with life-altering questions: Who is trying to murder her cat? Did she really see the Angel of Death in the hotel's lobby - and if so, for whom did the Angel come? Most importantly, can Delia clean up the mess before saying her wedding vows?

Murder visits the Loring Boutique Hotel where Delia Sanchez is part owner and hospitality manager. Pregnant and adjusting to her new professional role after her previous job as a beat cop for the LAPD, Delia is galvanized to solve the murder when romantic troubles threaten to break up her relationship with her boyfriend and local chef, Gabe MacBride. Is Delia still the woman Gabe fell in love with? Or has Delia, as she fears and Gabe has hinted, lost some of her investigatory sharpness, as well as other attractive traits, due to her pregnancy? Identifying the killer will answer these questions once and for all. The third book in the Delia Sanchez Mystery series, How to Survive Ghosts, Gators, Whores, and Traitors involves the same colorful cast of characters that readers have enjoyed in How to Survive Ghosts, Cats, and Psychopaths and How to Survive Ghosts, Dolls, and Fresco Falls.

This delightfully eerie cozy mystery follows Delia Sanchez, a street-wise ex-cop with a desperate need for a new start. Her first glimpse of the for-sale Loring Mansion, an enormous 1920s Tudor with hand-plastered walls, arched doorways, and miles of oak floors, promises her the do-over she so desperately craves. But complications arise when she discovers that the late owner left it in trust to her two cats, and the sale is only for a tenancy...which includes caring for the cats for the next ten years! Oh, and did I mention that cats terrify Delia? Unable however to go back to her previous life, she agrees to the unthinkable, impossibility of the condition. Things are settled and she moves in...only to find that the malevolent ghost of the past owner still occupies the house. And then there's the sadistic ex-boyfriend of an injured stranger roaming about...