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Phyllis Smallman

After being shortlisted for the Debut Dagger in the UK and the Malice Domestic in the US, Phyllis Smallman's debut mystery won the first Arthur Ellis Unhanged Arthur in 2007. In 2009, Margarita Nights was shortlisted for Best First Novel by the Crime Writer's of Canada. In 2010, Good Morning America named the Sherri Travis Mysteries one of the six top series for a summer read. Her fourth book, Champagne for Buzzards, was one of three mysteries chosen as a best cottage read by Zoomer Magazine for summer 2011. Phyllis worked in a library and as a potter before turning to a life of crime. Depending on the time of year, she can be found on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, or Manasota Beach, Florida.

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A Brewski for the Old Man

A Brewski for the Old Man

A Sherri Travis Mystery
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In the third Sherri Travis mystery, Phyllis Smallman returns to Jacaranda, Florida and the Sunset Bar. Ray John Leenders, the brutal man who tried to rape Sherri when she was thirteen, is back in Jacaranda, and living with the single mother of a teenaged daughter. Sherri doesn’t want to get involved and tries hard to ignore what she sees happenin …

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Champagne for Buzzards

Champagne for Buzzards

A Sherri Travis Mystery
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With its seven-foot snakes and nasty horses, Florida ranch country can be as dangerous as the mean streets of any big city. Sherri Travis doesn’t do country. She likes it even less when she meets Clay Adams’ psychotic neighbors and finds a dead man in the back of her pickup. With fairy lights dancing through the Spanish moss and violent men clo …

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CHAMPAGNE FOR BUZZARDS

CHAMPAGNE FOR BUZZARDS

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With its seven foot snakes and nasty horses, Florida ranch country can be as dangerous as the mean streets of any big city.

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Highball Exit

Highball Exit

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Sherri Travis is three months behind on her mortgage and it will be last call for the Sunset Bar and Grill if she doesn't come up with some cash. So when Aunt Kay offers to pay Sherri to ask a few questions about Holly Mitchell's death, it sounds like easy money. But it quickly descends into a dangerous world of drugs, sex workers, and perversion. …

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Long Gone Man

Long Gone Man

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Singer Brown's life takes a nosedive after the suspicious death of her lover, Michael, a roadie for a rock band called Vortex. Twenty years later, she is looking for revenge. In a thick fog, a ferry docks on Glenphiddie Island and Singer's decrepit van unloads. The homeless singer is there to find the man who destroyed her life all those years ago. …

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Margarita Nights

Margarita Nights

A Sherri Travis Mystery
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The bar in Jacaranda, Florida may be upscale, but bartender Sherri Travis is from the side of town where luxury is an extra wide trailer. Sherri is separated from her husband Jimmy Travis, who comes from Jacaranda's social register, and there's only one thing Sherri and her mother-in-law agree on, which is that Sherri and Jimmy don't belong togethe …

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Sex in a Sidecar

Sex in a Sidecar

A Sherri Travis Mystery
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Florida has two seasons. The rainy season brings hurricanes, the dry season delivers tourists---and both can be nasty. Sherri Travis is tending bar at the Bath and Tennis Club where two women have been murdered and every night is fright night for the millionaire weirdos. A rich socialite, who comes in daily for her quota of sidecars, decides to com …

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