Sore Like an Eagle
About Sore Like an Eagle
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting - California’s Redwoods Country
BGM Press
April 20, 2026
Number of Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 979-8989814428 / ASIN: B0GWJ5ZM28
Digital ASIN: B0DY9Z93XX
The coroner is claiming natural causes. The mayor is crying murder. Can this feisty retiree spot the truth before the clues drown in the chaos?
Andy Shirley won’t admit he likes it here. But in the year since his wife’s passing, the copy-editor-turned-reluctant-hotelier has begun to appreciate small-town life amongst the towering redwoods. And his quick eye for detail has him suspecting foul play when the local busybody is found belly-up in the community pool.
With his sleuthing skills unaffected by a recent hiking injury, Andy ignores the police chief’s cautions and dives into an off-the-books investigation. But though his snarky sidekick and pocket-sized poodle help chase down leads, all his Poirot-inspired maneuvers aren’t getting him any closer to closing the case.
Can he pull off an impossible solve, or will the lack of evidence drive Andy off the deep end?
Sore Like an Eagle is the splashy third book in the Redwoods Country cozy mystery series. If you like reluctant heroes, unexpected team-ups, and puzzles that keep you guessing, then you'll love this hilarious yarn.
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Character Guest Post
Provided by Sindy Caleira, a peripheral
character who’s been falsely accused of murder in the last two Redwoods Country
Mystery novels. Although a lovely young woman, and innocent of those
accusations, she continues to struggle to keep a job, boyfriend, or consistent career
goal. Sindy is prone to inventing new words and threatens to create her own
language—a thought which causes Andy Shirley a lot of heartburn as a retired
copy editor.
Dear
Journal,
My
day began blissfully. Thank goodness all that craziness of yet another dead
person is over. Following a timeless meditation in the forest, I allowed velvetmist
to permeate my being with its typical sense of comfort and serenity. Keeping my
eyes closed, I felt the accompanying subtle sensation of floating.
Given
the magic imbued within a fairy circle of redwoods, created by sprouting
redwood children birthed by the death of a parent tree, I peeked my eyes open
to see if my legs had left the ground. My disappointment was soothed knowing letharglow,
and its pleasant heaviness of contentment had elevated my response to gravity.
Clearly that was the only thing which had kept me rooted to the earth.
I remained in my pose contemplating my options. My work teaching water aerobics
had swum away as the community center cancelled the classes for the foreseeable
future. I acknowledged my feelings of glumphoria—the bittersweet joy of
ending something I enjoyed. I was happy to have experienced the class, yet sad
it was over. And now what would I do next?
As I
considered switching careers yet again, my mood began to shift into dreadlight,
the strange excitement of anticipating something you’re also terrified of. I’d
last felt this when I tried skydiving for the first time a few months ago.
Charlie had chickened out but I’d had a vision that I’d land safely so I went
ahead with the jump. She’d tried to convince me it wasn’t a vision, just me
being high, but I’d done it anyway—and lived to brag about it.
Shaking
away the negativity, I drew in one more cleansing breath to stay in the moment.
But before saying my departing blessing to Earth Mother, I felt vibrations of quellowarm
spread in my chest. Like a tiny proof that the world is okay, at least right
now, I felt a calming warmth inside from the unexpected kindness of Andy
Shirley. Once again, he’d got me off the hook for murder by finding the actual
killer.
I’d
known I wasn’t guilty, but now everyone in town knew it was true also. Watching
him unveil the killer was quite the experience—as it usually seemed to be with
Andy. But despite Charlie’s hope of experiencing sorrosmugness (the
guilty satisfaction of being right about something going wrong), Andy hadn’t
blown it. He solved the case and then immediately solved a second one.
Pretty
wild for an old dude. I smiled and left the forest. It was time to figure out
what was next for me.
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