Taking the Wrap
A dry cleaner-turned-amateur sleuth finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer in this “fast-paced” cozy with a “smashing climax” (Publishers Weekly).

Mandy Dyer is more than ready to give up her second career as an amateur sleuth. After all, she has an in-demand dry cleaners to run! But when her cousin Laura comes in and asks for Mandy’s help locating a coat she lost in a restaurant, Mandy can’t say no. Besides, it seems like a fairly harmless investigation—until a hit-and-run driver nearly takes Laura out. And when Mandy heads to Laura’s apartment to cheer her up while she heals from a broken leg, Mandy is suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant. Pressed into detective work once more, Mandy hopes that this time, she isn’t hung out to dry.

Praise for Dolores Johnson and the Mandy Dyer Mysteries

“Delightful. Good, clean fun.” —Dorothy Cannell, author of The Thin Woman

“Dolores Johnson writes with wit and panache. I love her sense of humor.” —Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times–bestselling author of the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries
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Taking the Wrap
A dry cleaner-turned-amateur sleuth finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer in this “fast-paced” cozy with a “smashing climax” (Publishers Weekly).

Mandy Dyer is more than ready to give up her second career as an amateur sleuth. After all, she has an in-demand dry cleaners to run! But when her cousin Laura comes in and asks for Mandy’s help locating a coat she lost in a restaurant, Mandy can’t say no. Besides, it seems like a fairly harmless investigation—until a hit-and-run driver nearly takes Laura out. And when Mandy heads to Laura’s apartment to cheer her up while she heals from a broken leg, Mandy is suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant. Pressed into detective work once more, Mandy hopes that this time, she isn’t hung out to dry.

Praise for Dolores Johnson and the Mandy Dyer Mysteries

“Delightful. Good, clean fun.” —Dorothy Cannell, author of The Thin Woman

“Dolores Johnson writes with wit and panache. I love her sense of humor.” —Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times–bestselling author of the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries
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Taking the Wrap

Taking the Wrap

by Dolores Johnson
Taking the Wrap

Taking the Wrap

by Dolores Johnson

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Overview

A dry cleaner-turned-amateur sleuth finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer in this “fast-paced” cozy with a “smashing climax” (Publishers Weekly).

Mandy Dyer is more than ready to give up her second career as an amateur sleuth. After all, she has an in-demand dry cleaners to run! But when her cousin Laura comes in and asks for Mandy’s help locating a coat she lost in a restaurant, Mandy can’t say no. Besides, it seems like a fairly harmless investigation—until a hit-and-run driver nearly takes Laura out. And when Mandy heads to Laura’s apartment to cheer her up while she heals from a broken leg, Mandy is suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant. Pressed into detective work once more, Mandy hopes that this time, she isn’t hung out to dry.

Praise for Dolores Johnson and the Mandy Dyer Mysteries

“Delightful. Good, clean fun.” —Dorothy Cannell, author of The Thin Woman

“Dolores Johnson writes with wit and panache. I love her sense of humor.” —Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times–bestselling author of the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798337201122
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication date: 05/13/2025
Series: The Mandy Dyer Mysteries
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 206
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Dolores Johnson was a journalist who worked for newspapers in Oregon, California, Wyoming, and Colorado. Her experience as a field reporter for American Drycleaner magazine helped her write the Mandy Dyer Mystery series. Her first novel, Taken to the Cleaners, was published in 1997. She passed away in 2010.
 

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"[P]lenty of colorful suspects . . . . Johnson's ability to infuse comedy into the plot will keep readers chuckling. Good, clean fun."

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"The author's ability to leaven many situations with humor adds to this well-written and complicated mystery."

—Sue Reider, Mystery Scene magazine

"[A]n upbeat, often funny amateur sleuth mystery"

—Harriet Klausner

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