Award-winning humorist and writer Pat Dennis proves it can be a crime to serve hotdish, a heartlander term for casserole. This collection of culinary mystery short stories (and 18 hotdish recipes) will have you puzzling with laughter.

Hotdish To Die For

Dennis, Pat

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Penury Pr

Stand-Up and Die is a mystery novel set in the funny, dark and necrotic world of stand-up comedy. Meet plus sized Mannie Grand - comedienne and amateur sleuth. When a fellow comic dies on-stage, Mannie sets out to kind the killer. Awarded the Merit Award for Fiction from the Independent Publishers Association. "Her characters are as wacky as one would except from a professional comedienne. This book won't scare you to death, but it may make you die from laughing...." Heartland Reviews.

Stand-Up and Die

Mystery

Penury Press

WHO DIED IN HERE? is an outstanding collection of mystery short stories of crimes and bathrooms, ranging from zany to deadly serious. Selected by Pat Dennis, author of Hotdish To Die For and Murder by Chance, the 25 storytellers' writing credits include prestigious magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Television series such as Nash Bridges and Designing Women. Contributing authors are: R.T. Lawton, Pat Dennis, Kris Neri, Thomas Bray, BevVincent, Terry Burlison, Michael Giorgio, Nick Andreychuk, MikeBefeler, Peggy Jaegly, Stephen D. Rogers, Michael Learmond, Kevin Carollo, David Dumitru, R.J. Mills, Beverle Graves Myers,Jeremy Yoder, James C. Wardlaw, Donna Sundblad, Sandra Levy Ceren,Lori G. Armstrong, A.S. Berman, Lance Zarimba, Joan Hall Hovey, DeanJohnson

Who Died In Here?: 25 Mystery Stories Of Crimes & Bathrooms

Befeler, Mike

Vincent, Bev

Zarimba, Lance

Armstrong, Lori G.

Lawton, R.T.

Neri, Kris

Bray, Thomas

Burlison, Terry

Giorgio, Michael

Andreychuk, Nick

Jaegly, Peggy

Rogers, Stephen D.

Learmond, Michael

Carollo, Kevin

Dumitru, David

Mills, R.J.

Murder by Chance is the debut novel in the Betty Chance Mystery series. Can three scrappy, single women of varied ages find happiness in a new travel business specializing in casino junkets? All bets are off when Betty Chance finds a body in a tour bus that arrives at the casino hotel. At fifty, Betty is unemployed, divorced and penniless, after her husband left her for an older, fatter woman. But with her stunningly beautiful niece Lori, she opens Take A Chance Tours, a Chicago-based company specializing in gaming destinations. Betty quickly becomes close friends with Tillie, the perky, effervescent bus driver who happens to be an ex-con. As soon as the tour bus arrives at Moose Lake Bay Resort and Casino in northern Minnesota, Betty and her driver Tillie, discover a dead body in the locked bathroom of their motor coach. The 350-pound corpse is riddled with stab wounds. With Tillie and Lori's help, Betty puts her amateur sleuth ability to work and searches for the killer

Murder by Chance (Betty Chance Mystery)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

All bets are off when it comes to murder … Take a Chance Tours is on the road again – this time to the casinos and mouth-watering buffets of Biloxi, Mississippi. Betty Chance hosts the tour, along with perky effervescent bus driver and ex-con, Tillie McFinn. Riding along are the original fan club members for Bradford and the Beekeepers, a popular rock and roll group of the 50s and 60s. The chance to see their idol perform live once again in concert is priceless to Bradford’s ardent followers. Only problem is, the itinerary includes a bit of kidnapping, murder, and alligators. Betty puts her amateur sleuth ability to work and, with the help of Tillie and her niece Lori, they search for the killer. Killed BY Chance is the second novel in Pat Dennis' Betty Chance Mystery series.

Killed By Chance (Betty Chance Mystery)

Twenty tongue-in-cheek, stress-relieving, single-sided pages to color, rip out and crumple into a ball, stomp on...whatever you need to do to relieve your stress now that your husband is retired. Created by comedian and author Pat Dennis, this is a perfect gift for yourself or a friend who is facing one of the life’s biggest challenges – a husband at home twenty-four seven. Pat came up with the idea for the book on Day One of her spouse’s retirement. Pat is the author of the award winning Hotdish to Die For ( a collection of short stories where the weapon of choice is hotdish – 18 recipes included) and the Betty Chance Mystery series: Murder by Chance, Killed by Chance, Dead by Chance and Vegas by Chance. Her work has appeared in Anne Frasier’s “Deadly Treats”, Once Upon a Crime Anthology, Writes of Spring, Cooked to Death, Silence of the Loons, Resort to Murder, Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice, MPR’s Minnesota Monthly, Woman's World, The Pioneer Press, and more. Pat is a veteran of 1,000 plus performances in comedy clubs, women's organizations, and church basements. She’s worked with such notables as Phyllis Diller, Lewis Black, and Tommy Chong.

Kill Me! My Husband's Retired!: A Coloring Book for Reluctant Adults (Kill Me Coloring Book Series)

Arts & Photography

Painting

Independently published

Can three scrappy, single women of varied ages find happiness in a new travel business specializing in casino junkets? All bets off when Betty Chance finds a body in a tour bus that arrives at the casino hotel. At fifty, Betty is unemployed, divorced and penniless, but with her stunningly beautiful niece Lori, she opens Take A Chance Tours, a Chicago-based company specializing in gaming destinations. Betty quickly becomes close friends with Tillie, the perky, effervescent bus driver who happens to be an ex-con. As soon as the tour bus arrives at Moose Lake Bay Resort and Casino in northern Minnesota, Betty and her driver Tillie, discover a dead body in the locked bathroom of their motor coach. The 350-pound corpse is riddled with stab wounds. With Tillie and Lori's help, Betty puts her amateur sleuth ability to work and searches for the killer.

Murder by Chance

Forty Press

Will amateur sleuth Betty Chance finally host a trouble-free gambling junket to the sparkling metropolis of Las Vegas? Mischief, intrigue, and murder follow Betty and her gaggle of quirky friends to Sin City. Riding along on the bus with Take A Chance Tour is legendary gambler Max Nichols, two-time winner of mega progressive slot jackpots. A ‘little voice inside him’ has predicted he’ll win his final and largest jackpot ever—thirty-one million dollars when he plays on the Strip. Everyone from paparazzi, gold diggers, hangers-on, and criminals, who’d love to grab Max’s potential fortune, gather around. Vegas by Chance is the fourth book in the Betty Chance Mystery series. Others include Murder by Chance (Book #1, is set in Northern Minnesota), Killed by Chance (Book #2, is set in Gulfport/Biloxi, Mississippi) and Dead by Chance (Book #3 is set in Deadwood, South Dakota.) Recipes are included in all of the Betty Chance books. Pat Dennis is the award-winning author of Hotdish To Die For, a collection of six short stories where the weapon of choice is hotdish (18 recipes included). Her Betty Chance Mystery series include the novels: Murder by Chance, Killed by Chance, Dead by Chance and Vegas by Chance. Pat’s memoir Fat Old Woman in Las Vegas (Gambling, Dieting and Wicked Fun) reached #1 on Amazon’s Travel Memoir for Kindle. Her humor and fiction have appeared in Anne Frasier’s Deadly Treats; The Silence of the Loons; Resort to Murder; Fifteen tales of Murder, Mayhem and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice; Once Upon a Crime Anthology; Writes of Spring; Cooked To Death: Tales of Crime and Cookery; Mood Change and other stories, St Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly and Woman’s World. Pat performed as a stand-up comedian with over 1,000 performances at comedy clubs, Fortune 500 companies, Women’s Expos, and special events.

Vegas by Chance (Betty Chance Mystery)

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