Donor 73101: A PIP Inc. Mystery
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
Setting - California
Publisher : Good Read Mysteries (August 15, 2024)
Paperback : 243 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8990936607
Digital ASIN : B0DC5H77N2
Aiden O’Rourke needed cash to help pay for college so he made money by selling his sperm. He
was young, attractive, smart…and popular. Now many years later, his offspring are coming
forward—eleven of them and counting—and connecting on a website they created called
Donor73101.com.
Pat Pirard, Santa Cruz County Law Librarian turned PI, is approached by next door neighbors
Tina and Robin who want to start a family. Because Tina was conceived via sperm donation, they
want to be 100% certain that their baby and Tina won’t have the same father.
It doesn’t take Pat long to determine that Aiden O’Rourke was Tina’s sperm donor. It also
doesn’t take her long to discovers that one by one, his offspring are being murdered. By whom
and why? Well, that’s a mystery.
Excerpt
Although it was only a few minutes past 6:30pm, it was dark, not unexpected in Santa Cruz in
early January. The Uber driver popped his hatchback and offered to help them with luggage. Tim
declined, moving the four suitcases―one for him and three for Pat―on to the sidewalk.
Pat started to pick one up. “Leave it,” Tim instructed. “We can come back outside for those in a
minute, but before we bring in suitcases, I want to carry my bride across the threshold.”
Pat giggled. “I’m a modern woman. No carrying needed.”
“That may be, but I’m feeling old-fashioned at the moment.” He smiled at her, put one arm
around her back just above her waist, and attempted to scoop her into his arms.
She slipped away from him, laughing as she did. “I bet you can’t catch me before I get inside on
my own, my old-fashioned caveman,” she flirted, heading for the front door.
“I can be a caveman if that’s how you want to be carried, but you’re being carried,” he said, his
tone full of playful mischief. He gave chase and tossed her over his shoulder when he caught her.
Pat squealed, but was laughing too hard to resist, which is how she came to greet her tail-
wagging Dalmatian, Dot, who jumped against Tim’s backside in an attempt to get her head up
high enough for the backward slung Pat to scratch her ears; her cat, Wimsey, who abandoned his
rule about avoiding Tim and rubbed against his legs, and Tina and Robin, their pet-sitting next-
door neighbors, butt-first, draped over Tim’s shoulder.
About Nancy Lynn Jarvis
Nancy Lynn Jarvis wore many hats before she started writing cozy mysteries. After earning a
BA in behavioral science from San Jose State University, she worked in the advertising
department of the San Jose Mercury News, as a librarian, as the business manager for
Shakespeare/Santa Cruz, and as a realtor.
Nancy’s work history reflects her philosophy: people should try something radically different
every few years, a philosophy she applies to her writing, as well. She has written seven Regan
McHenry Real Estate Mysteries; five PIP Inc. Mysteries; a stand-alone novel “Mags and the
AARP Gang” about a group of octogenarian bank robbers; edited “Cozy Food: 128 Cozy
Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes,” and short story anthologies, “Santa Cruz Weird,”
and “Santa Cruz Ghost Stories.”
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