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Nancy is a happily former Realtor. Without a license to hold her back, she is free to share her opinions about all things real estate especially in Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries. She's had a checkered career past: she's worked for the San Jose Mercury News, been a librarian, photo archivist, and been the business manager of Shakespeare/Santa Cruz.
Her work history reflects her philosophy: people should try something radically different every few years. Writing murder mysteries set in Santa Cruz is one of her newer adventures.
He has also had a go at editing. "Cozy Food," which has caused her to think that cozy writers are the nicest people out there, has recipes from 128 cozy mystery writers. "Santa Cruz Weird" is her most recent edit ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 812 ratings · 168 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Backyard Bones (Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries, #2) 3.66 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buying Murder (Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries, #3) 3.66 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death Contingency (Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass House (PIP Inc, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 59 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow's Walk League really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murder House: A Regan McHenry Real Estate Mystery 4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mags and the AARP Gang 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cozy Food 4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Neighborly Killing (Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries Book 6) 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Funeral Murder (PIP Inc, #2) 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dave Everett, my favorite small town cop

This article originally appeared in Mystery Readers Journal: Small Town Cops II (volume 32, No 4)

I write cozy style mysteries with a Realtor protagonist named Regan McHenry. She comes across the occasional body selling houses — she and her husband even bought a house with a partially mummified body in it — and she has friends and clients who sometimes find themselves in a mess. She’s a bit of a Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 23, 2017 15:32 • Tags: amateur-detective, cozy-mysteries, mystery-series, real-estate-mysteries, woman-sleuth, woman-writer

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Series by Nancy Lynn Jarvis

Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries (7 books)
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PIP Inc Mystery (3 books)
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Nancy Jarvis liked Yvonne's review of Donor 73101: A PIP Inc. Mystery (PIP Inc. Mysteries Book 5): "Private Investigator Pat Pirard and her new husband, Tim, arrive home from their honeymoon and are immediately thrown into an investigation. Their neighbors, Tina and Robin, need their help. They are trying to start a family using a sperm donation. T" Read more of this review »
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Nancy Jarvis rated a book it was amazing Death in the Time of Ice (A People of the Wind Mystery Book 1) by Kaye George (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's late afternoon and I'm still in my pjs because I couldn't stop reading long enough to get dressed. What fun for me who loved "Clan of the Cave Bear" and a good mystery. ...more
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Nancy Jarvis and 1 other person liked Yvonne's review of The Corpse's Secret Life (PIP Inc. Mysteries #3): "Private investigator, Pat Pirard, has just finished a difficult case and still wears a wrist cast to prove it. Now she is hired for a new case. It doesn’t sound like it will be too difficult. She just needs to find the identity of a woman who died at" Read more of this review »
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Nancy Jarvis rated a book it was amazing Wildfire: Losing Everything, Gaining the World by Nicole Sallak Anderson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Nicole has written a magnificently intimate tale of staggering loss and trauma, rebirth and self-discovery filled with fairies, magic, and most importantly, angels that arrive in the post. As a fire survivor, I cried often reading her book, sometimes w ...more
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“Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?”
― Beatles, Paperback Writer

tags: cozy-mystery, mystery-series, real-estate, woman-writer, women-sleuth

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“Your house, Regan, your murder.
from Buying Murder”
― Nancy Lynn Jarvis

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“So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a
sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof”
― John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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“Your house, Regan, your murder.
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“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

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