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Dead in a Dumpster (Leah Norwood Mysteries Book 1) Kindle Edition

by B. L. Blair (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 199 ratings

Book 1 of 3: Leah Norwood Mysteries

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When Leah Norwood finds the body of Isabel Meeks in the dumpster behind her store, she can’t believe the police consider her a suspect. Sure, she didn’t like Isabel, but then again, neither did anyone else. Isabel had a condescending attitude and a bad reputation. As manager of the antique store, Patina, she had made a lot of enemies. There is Patina’s assistant manager, the handsome and charming Trent. Isabel was blackmailing him. There is Patina’s owner, the aloof and influential Anthony Thorpe. Isabel was smuggling drugs through his store. And there is the entire drug dealing Cantono family. Isabel had lost a box containing heroin from one of their shipments. That is just to name a few and didn’t even include the stranger who was seen arguing with Isabel just hours before her death. The police have too many suspects and too many soft alibis. Leah needs to prove to the sexy new chief of police that she had nothing to do with Isabel’s death. Leah loves a good mystery. Can she find the killer before the police arrest her for murder?

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B. L. Blair writes mystery/romance stories. Like most authors, she has been writing most of her life and has dozens of books started. She just needs the time to finish them.

She is the author of the Leah Norwood Mysteries and the Lost and Found Pets Mystery Series. She enjoys reading books, writing books, and traveling wherever and as often as time and money allows. She is currently working on her latest book set in Texas, where she lives with her family.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00MZC65YG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ B. L. Blair (September 23, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 23, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1074 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 210 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #265,493 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #6,558 in Amateur Sleuths
- #7,971 in Cozy Mystery
- #12,987 in Cozy Mysteries (Books)

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B. L. Blair writes mystery/romance stories. Like most authors, she has been writing most of her life and has dozens of books started. She just needs the time to finish them.

She is the author of the Leah Norwood Mysteries and the Lost and Found Pets Mystery Novellas. She loves reading books, writing books, and traveling wherever and as often as time and money allows. She is currently working on her latest book set in Texas, where she lives with her family.

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Finds a body

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024

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Leah stays late working on payroll but when she goes to throw the trash out she finds Isabel's body in the dumpster, she was shot. Leah meets the new Chief of Police Griggs. At first she's worried they'll think she shot Isabel. Leah starts unpacking yesterday's shipment when she finds a vase she didn't order with drugs in it, she calls the police. The police think Isabel was killed because of the missing drugs. Leah decides she's going to help the police find the murderer and who is smuggling the drugs. Good story and characters holds your attention.

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Donna Mallard

Cute but predictable story!

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2019

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I really liked the characters in this book. I wasn't crazy about the somewhat slow pace of the story though. I had the killer and motive figured out much before the end of the book. Hopefully book #2 in the series will be better! Oh, and not fond of bringing Marcus in as a romance threat. Too much like the Stephanie Plum books.

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Don't Leave Town

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024

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This story has it all. A retail shopping area with small businesses and owners, and retail help who all know each other. Throw in a little gossip, drug trafficking and a couple murders. Oh, also add a snoopy wanna be police detective and a really good looking real detective . add a little romance and you have a good who done it. Not who you were expecting.

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021

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First time reading this author and couldn't PUT it down, stayed up alot, because i wanted to know what was going to happen next.
Leah is an interesting person, but dense when it comes to men.
Alexander griggs, police chief of Reed Hill is new in town. And has a hard time with Leah getting in the middle of an investigation that happened next door to the antique store, when Leah went to take out her trash at the dumpster behind the stores. The most hated the manager of antique store was in it. And of course Leah is a suspect.
Gabe and Olivia are her partner's in her business Scents and Sensibility.
Alot has gone on next door in the Antique store that has the little town shook and scared especially when a well known member of the town council and of a wealthy family that has put their mark on the town for the good they have done for the town, is murdered. Who and why?
You have to read for the details!!!!

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better editing needed

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024

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While it was an interesting mystery, with enjoyable character portrayals, I found myself getting bogged down with grammatical and tense errors. Better editing might have identified these issues and corrected them.

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2023

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After having read the Pet Finder mysteries by this author, I knew I had to try this series, and Leah Norwood has turned out to be a smart and very likable amateur detective. A good storyline , with many characters, which kept you guessing all the way through the book. A bit of romance, too. Now it’s on to the next book.

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Jane Reads

Fun and Fast-Paced — I Really Enjoyed It!

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2018

Dead in a Dumpster is a fun, fast-paced read, the first book in the Leah Norwood Mystery series. I was immediately caught up in the action, and finished the book in two days. I was hooked by the first sentence, "I found the body on December 1st."

B.L. Blair has created realistic, memorable, and distinctive characters in Dead in a Dumpster. Most of them are likable, except the ones the reader is supposed to dislike. My favorite characters are Leah's best friends and business partners Gabe and Olivia, Police Chief Griggs, and Leah.

I like Leah. She has spunk. She's sassy, snarky, and can be headstrong at times. She's not a wimp who lets people walk all over her, no sir. If someone gets on her last nerve, especially when she's had a bad day, she lets that person have it. (She may immediately regret whatever it was she just said, but that's beside the point.) I like the way Leah and Griggs interact.

The world-building in Dead in a Dumpster is done well. Author B.L. Blair has described fictional Reed Hill, Texas just right, so that it seems real, and seems like a place I'd like to visit.

B.L. Blair has included some clues and foreshadowing, along with the twists and turns in the plot of Dead in a Dumpster. Can you spot them, and figure out whodunit?

The climax of Dead in a Dumpster is very exciting. Leah is in peril, at the mercy of ????? Will she be saved in time? Spoiler alert: Yes, she will. Otherwise, the Leah Norwood Mystery series would have only one book.

Dead in a Dumpster has a great ending; I was smiling as I finished it. A subplot is left with kind of a cliffhanger, and I am anxious to see what will develop.

I recommend Dead in a Dumpster to all fans of Romantic Mystery books and Cozy Mysteries. I really enjoyed Dead in a Dumpster by B.L. Blair, and grant it Four Stars!

Note: I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of Dead in a Dumpster.

The entire review is available on my blog Jane Reads.

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Wilson R.

Dead in a Dumpster: A Recommended Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2015

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I found this book to be an enjoyable read. It is a well written mystery, complete with a good cast of characters, or perhaps we should say, suspects.

The author creates a good foundation in the beginning so that the reader has insight regarding the interaction of people in town. I don’t think anyone in the entire town liked Isabel but to murder her – well that’s another level.

Adding to the mystery are a couple mystery boxes that I knew would not bode well when first mentioned in the story. It was the extra touches like this one that added good depth to this story. Add in some drug matters and yet another dead body and we have a book worth recommending.

I liked the main character, Leah. She was very realistically created and it made me wonder if the author based any of the characters that she knew in real life.

The story is created in first person and Leah’s sense of dry humor shines. I think writing it in first person really made this story extra good as it added a good layer.

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