CREAM WITH YOUR COFFIN, an entertaining and highly suspenseful mystery, complete at 80,000 words. This project is now a Quarter-Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
Outspoken American Lucy Beam is trying to carve out a new life in bucolic Saskatoon, Canada. Her efforts are stymied by the slander of her secret-hoarding neighbour. Lucy's plans for the perfect life crumble when she discovers the pickled remains of the neighbour and her only friend is accused of the murder. A philandering South American vet is Lucy's chief suspect but she's soon turned off lattes for life when she finds him upside down in a vat of creamy milk in the university's dairy barn. Lucy must trip up a Peeping Tom, snare the double killer, and rescue her twins before she can make a place for herself and her family.
This humorous cozy mystery (with recipes) will appeal to fans of M.C. Beaton and Diane Mott Davidson. There are two more Lucy Beam novels in the works -- one involving mysterious crop circles, and another set in Paris. Synopses for both manuscripts are prepared.

Bobbi Mumm is a mystery and thriller writer in Saskatoon, Canada where she works half-time as an event planner at the University of Saskatchewan. Married to a nuclear physicist, she has four children, two of whom are college-age. The twins remain at home. Bobbi practices Karate, as do her kids.
A year ago, Bobbi completed her first novel, Cream with Your Coffin. This past year, she signed with a U.S. literary agent and is seeking a publishing home for the novel. Bobbi was thrilled this month to learn that Cream with Your Coffin is now a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
Almost finished her second novel, thriller De Rigueur Mortis, Bobbi has fallen in love, all over again, with the mystery that is Paris.