Charm City Spouse's Club
About Charm City Spouse's Club
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting - Baltimore, Maryland
Publisher: Wild Rose Press (April 2, 2025)
Paperback: 254 pages
ISBN-10: 1509260013 / ISBN-13: 978-1509260010
Digital ASIN: B0DTKQ8L8W
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About Pamela Kyel
Character Guest Post
I’m Sammie, and I met Laci when I showed up on her doorstep after I found out my husband and her ex-husband was dead. You see, they used to work together in addition to being married. I had our twins with us, and, yes, I know my folks lived right over yonder, but my momma couldn’t handle Ryan’s crying. I swanny it’s like she never had kids before.
I’m Cassy, and I met Laci at a local pharmacy in the middle of the night. She had on boxers and fuzzy bunny slippers and had no idea where anythin’ was in the place. I helped her with the kid’s medicine and some snacks. Next thing I know, I got the chicken pox, and I’m crashin’ at her place. We been together ever since. It’s been a riot.
We help Laci out on her cases whenever she asks us. It was crazy going to my in-laws and seeing her with them. Something I never thought I’d ever see.
I used to be a Baltimore City Cop but left that job, and this one here knows how to pick locks, and dontchu think that comes in handy. Between the three of us, we got it figured out.
Yes, we also learned I’m terrible with guns didn’t we?
Oh yes, but then you ain’ so good with a Taser either.
Poor Laci. She took it well when I got her with it, though. Twice. What she doesn’t take well? Being snuck up on. I’ve been on the other side of that right hook, and I swanny it’s not something I’ll ever forget.
Yeah, she don’ like that too much. She didn’ like the shootin’ range the first time we went with her neither. She got scared, and next thing you know she’s in a ball on the floor and pale as a sheet. She got trauma from when she deployed, she said.
I think that’s where the right hook comes from, too, when you sneak up on her. She’s amazing with my kids, though. Ana took to her right away, and when Laci works from home she usually has Ana attached to her hip. I like to say they’re like peas and carrots.
Tha’s like Rev and Ryan. Peanut butter and jelly, those two are.
Yes, who knew when Rev helped us out that he’d be a part of the family. Not me. Just don’t get between him and an Os game. Isn’t he going to a game here shortly? Laci bought him a ticket in the shower section as a thank-you for him helping us out. Apparently, it’s a Baltimore thing.
Oh yeah, that an’ hon. He likes to use that a lot. I’m from San Francisco, and we don’ have nothin’ like that there.
I grew up in Tennessee and we have lots of sayings. I guess
you can tell that by the way I talk, huh?
Yeah, you got the “I swanny” thing goin’ on everywhere. Rev’s real name is Steve, and he owns a ride-share company called Revved. The man is a giant. I mean I’m tall at six even, but he got me by a head. I think he said he’s six-foot-seven.
We learn more about the military with each case Laci brings home. The spouse’s club was a doozy. For land’s sake—this girl got upset because her husband wasn’t promoted a year early? It wasn’t any skin off his nose, he was willing to wait, but it didn’t set too well with her, and she got ornery about it. I mean she took it out on the whole club, but that one poor girl more than the rest.
Yeah, we never know what she gonna bring home next. Her and her honey can’ seem to get of one mind and go out on a date. I done told her to ask him out. She did, but have they gone out yet? Nope.
You can’t blame that entirely on Laci, and you know it. He called and canceled and never even told her why. Then she had to go and hear about that woman trying to make it into the DA’s office. Bless her heart, she handled that better than how most other women I know would have.
Yeah, Desio done stepped in it with that. He ghosted the poor woman without realizin’ tha’s what he was doin’. Man is clueless.
Yes, their dating motto is we’re taking our own sweet time about it, but we’ll get there someday.
We should come up with a house motto—like those signs you see everywhere.
In this house, every day is an adventure.
… and sometimes a felony.
Don’t forget Laci’s sweet tea addiction. I swanny I’ve never seen anything like it. She should buy stock in Groovs. Groovs is the local chicken and sweet tea place. She’s always there.
In this house, every day is an adventure and sometimes a felony. But there’s always sweet tea.
Oooh, now that I like.
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