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Fran Stewart, award-winning and national best-selling author of the Scot Shop Mysteries and the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series, delights us with her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings from the first few years of her Facebook author page. Since nobody wants to scroll back and back and back, we've compiled some of her posts from 2015, right through all of them from 2018.Whether you read it straight through or approach it more like a smorgasbord-skipping around and tasting one entry here and another there-you'll find that the Fran you meet on these pages is sometimes thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, but always thoroughly entertaining.Grab a cup of tea, sit back, and prepare to make friends with an author who always delights her readers.

The stakes keep getting higher for Mary Frances and Hubbard, who were separated soon after their secret marriage. The dangers of the trail seem insurmountable at times, not only lost goats, broken axles, and fires, but disease, accidents, and an occasional murder. Experience the sweep of history. People haven't changed much in 250 years.

Continuing the saga that began in Red as a Rooster, Biscuit & her friends & the cat Marmalade uncover more ways the 200-year-old story of the founding of Martinsville is woven through their own lives. Not all treachery is ancient. Not all murders are history. Stewart's masterful weaving of this multi-generational story fascinates and delights.

When a set of 200-year-old diaries are found in the bottom of a trunk, the mysterious history of Martinsville - all of it based on a lie - begins to come to life! Biscuit and Bob's old house with its wood- burning stove becomes a shelter where many of their friends take refuge from an ice storm, where old artifacts pique their curiosity.

Martinsville, Georgia has always been a sleepy little town, where nothing much ever happens, except a few murders... There''s a firebug in Martinsville. Town librarian Biscuit McKee isn''t too worried when a garbage bin at the grocery store is set on fire. But when it''s her beloved garden shed that goes up in flames, the fur begins to fly.Biscuit''s feline companion Marmalade comments frequently, ...Yes, I do. ... (even though her humans think she''s only purring ...Mouse droppings! ... or sneezing). She''s as baffled by all this as her humans.We could have some tuna. That would solve a lot. Distracted by a visit from Peachie, an old college friend, Biscuit pays only scant attention to a third fire, but it''s hard to ignore the dead body found in the charred remains of Connie Cartwright''s studio, where glass-blowing may have turned into homicide.

Biscuit and Bob are enjoying their honeymoon at a small hotel near Savannah, until Margaret Casperson, a wealthy friend from Martinsville, collapses against their door in the middle of the night. Why would anyone want to poison dear Margaret? Officer Colly Sloan, who sometimes wishes she were a plumber instead of a police officer, is tracking the long-lost cousin Margaret came to Savannah to find.Who we are is so often linked to family issues that span generations. This story takes us through the intricate weavings and dark secrets of several generations of the wealthy Holvers family. Biscuit and Bob are pulled into a life and death struggle.Of course, Marmalade, the orange & white tabby cat who adopted Biscuit in the first book in this series, Orange as Marmalade, manages to get in her two-cents' worth. Unknowingly, Marmalade's antics put Biscuit in grave danger.

Meet Marmalade and Biscuit. This saucy cat and her human find a body in the library. When Biscuit's sister visits, pursued by a creepy former boyfriend, Marmalade sees what's happening, but her humans just won't listen to her, so she decides to take matters into her own paws.

This is the conclusion of the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series. Between dealing with the woes of Mary Frances Martin and Hubbard Brandt, as evidenced in their 250-year-old journals, and dealing with a murder next door, the inhabitants of Beechnut House are caught up in a maelstrom of deception, despair, delight, and danger.

Best-selling mystery writer Fran Stewart shares her sense of adventure with you as she discusses not only bees of all sorts, but the ghosts in the Tower of London, moon photos and chicken eggs, vultures and dammit dolls, car wrecks and appendicitis, and a real-life cow car wash.She continues her well-loved BeeAttitudes at the end of each daily entry, and rollicks along on this joyous journey through life. In this sixth and final volume of her beekeeping memoir, you will see Fran at her most captivating, and life at its most absorbing. Enjoy the journey!

Join national best-selling mystery writer Fran Stewart as she not only learns more about bees, but learns more about herself as she gradually faces some major fears in her life. Whether dealing with a 1,200-pound therapist or an empathetic life coach, Fran shares the strides she’s made, the setbacks she’s experienced, and the joys she’s discovered. Travel from Georgia to Australia to the moon to Italy—all from the comfort of your home—as you read this 5th volume of Fran’s beekeeping memoirs.

Things get scary for Beekeeper Fran as she gradually realizes that there's a problem brewing in her beekeeping paradise. It's possible to love bees, support bee culture, encourage others in their beekeeping journeys, and still have a major roadblock along the way.It's also possible to surmount that roadblock, as you will find when you walk this journey with best-selling mystery writer and beginning beekeeper Fran Stewart.

Continue this daily journey into the realm of bees and beekeeping as national best-selling mystery writer and beginning beekeeper Fran Stewart learns more about bees, sets up her back-deck hives, and shares her love of bees and beekeeping. The daily BeeAttitude comments from the bees add not only a sense of whimsy but also a great deal of common sense information and food for thought.

Enjoy this journey with national best-selling mystery writer and beginning beekeeper Fran Stewart as she learns about bees, prepares for her back-deck hives, and shares her knowledge (and her mistakes). A whimsical but highly informative exploration of the realm of the hobbyist beekeeper, BeesKnees is appropriate not only for people who would like to become beekeepers, but those who simply want to learn more about the magical world of bees.