Hello. Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Tales. Around here, May is a confused ar April was, so we’re all praying for consistancy. This week, the Tuesday Tales’s authors are crafting scenes around the word prompt BIRTH. I’m coninuing with my cozy mystery, The Case of the Missing Prince. Enjoy!
I swallowed. “But he wouldn’t bother with an injured man or a corpse, would he?”
The idea of Leo meeting the giant grizzly had the burger in my stomach revolting.
“Ms. Chambers, survival of the fittest is a way of life especially in the animal kingdom. Sooner or later, everyone becomes part of the food chain. Grizzly bears are opportunistic carrion eaters. Food is food, and if it isn’t going to fight back, so much the better. They’ll eat road kill, winter kill, calves that don’t survive after birth, and whatever the wolves take down and leave behind, especially in spring when they’re hungry and the crop of berries is sparce. Hell, male grizzlys will eat their own cubs without even thinking twice about it, seeing them only as food and nothing else. To the Boss, a human corpse would just be another free meal. If your man wandered out there and died, the animals could’ve scattered his bones over almost seven thousand square kilometers. The odds of finding him wouldn’t be good.”
Perhaps some hiker will come across a bone or two, and DNA can verify it as belonging to Leo. The man is dead. Leave him in peace.
Zandro’s words flashed through my mind. Had he known the size of the park? As an environmental toxicologist, he could be aware of animal habitat as well as diet. Could he have known about the Boss?
Once again, I regretted consuming that large burger for lunch. I had to hope that Leo hadn’t met the Boss or any of the other predators Hank had mentioned.
He signaled and turned into a large paved lot. The Buffalo Spring Convalescent Home was in a rural setting although it was still within the city limits. The three-story modern, red brick building featured many large windows, so there would be lots of natural light. There were several trees decorating the front of the building, all of them dressed in gold at the moment, heralding the arrival of autumn, and someone had placed giant flower pots filled with multicolored mums to add a little festive color to the place. I wasn’t sure what I’d expected when I’d heard Buffalo Springs Convalescent Home, maybe something along the lines of a refurbished mental hospital or one of the buildings that had once been a school, but this place looked friendly and inviting.
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Living the Dream 
Love the cover, Susanne.
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This is Book 2 in the Evie Chambers series and will be out as part of a box set next month, published by me in the fall.
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I looked briefly at a box set, but it’s complicated–new ISBN, reformatting books, new cover. A lot of work!
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I publish in milti author bos sets, so I don’t have to format more thanonce and box sets are only available as e-Books.
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Ah. That helps.
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Striking cover, but reading this just now didn’t quite feel cosy, even without eating a large burger
. No grizzlies in our small scale National Park, but several years ago, a missing young French
woman’s bones were found at last ,. death believed to be from an accidental. fall.-
Searching for Veronique, the police retrieved the body of a murder victim, from England’s deepest lake.
April ? May 10C max today, supposed to be 1 overnight. Saves buying new for summer.
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We have had frost warnings the last three nights. * and raining now, Not the beautiful month of May and very few flowers as of yet.
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That cover is cool! I like the font and how the words are a bit ‘wobbly’!
Hugs xx
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Thanks. It’s the second book in a cozy mystery series. The first one is called A Case of Mistaken Identity
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I’ll have to look them up! xx
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Pretty grizzly, no pun intended, for a while there. Geez, I didn’t know all that about bears. Then you transition into a nice, pleasant convalescent home. The scene is striking for the contrasts. Great job!!
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That’s what I was looking for–the contast between the peace and tranquility in nature and the reality of the ugliness that lies beneath.
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I always enjoy reading your snippets. You have so many layers in your stories.
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It wouldn’t let me leave this in the previous post: I love the description of the Boss and that they set the seasons on him. I love and fear him all at the same time. Great job!
And I love the background info on bears and what they will and will not eat. I hope they find Leo alive and not the Boss’s lunch. Great job!
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I learned a lot researching the Boss.
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