A sequel to Joy Reid's Annie Butcher's Jigsaw, Annie Tries Not to and Annie's Case Book presents two books in one. Meet Annie Butcher; for some reason, she has a knack for taking seemingly unrelated events and fitting them together ...and usually solving a crime along the way! In Annie Tries Not to, Annie tries not to be a detective. She's a teacher, and she'd like to keep it that way. But when a Kenyan student goes missing at a local college, Annie can't help herself. She stumbles upon evidence that might just solve the case-but to complete the task, Annie must travel to Kenya, where she discovers the missing girl's father is fighting a corruption scandal. Will Annie find the missing girl, or will she become a target too? In Annie's Case Book, Annie returns from a trip to find ice and snow in her hometown. She slips and finds herself laid up in the hospital with a broken leg. But mystery seems to find her wherever she goes, and Annie is soon drawn into a suspicious plot at the medical facility. Her friend and ally, Chief Inspector Neil LaCoste, is pulled in by his concern for Annie, and mystery mingles with romance in this fast-paced dual novel.

This is a detective novel with a difference as Annie Butcher is a very reluctant detective. She insists she is a teacher, she knows she is a successful one and she does not want to be drawn into anything else. She is too busy and she has other worries such as a wayward daughter and she is trying to keep an eye on her unsavory landlord, "fishy" one of her friends calls him. But, when one of her pupils dies under suspicious circumstances and another is mugged, she finds herself drawn deeper into a mystery involving drug dealing and people smuggling. Her life is placed in grave danger one stormy night on a wild beach.

Will Annie solve the jigsaw puzzle and will her friendship with the charming Chief Inspector develop into something more? This is the first of the Annie Butcher Mysteries introducing readers to the stoic Annie and her haphazard friends and family, the sequels will be following shortly.

This is the third book in the Annie Butcher series following on from Annie Butcher's Jigsaw and Annie Tries Not To and Annie's Case Book. Annie's Haunting Memoirs again has several stories in one book. Annie Butcher has a knack for taking seemingly unrelated events and fitting them together, and usually solving a crime along the way. Joy Reid uses the same characters in this sequel involving family and friends. In Annie's Haunting Memoirs, Lance inherits a very large old house and decides to move in with the family. Annie joins them in a nearby cottage. During construction work, bodies are found, and Annie is again caught up in the mystery whilst trying very hard not to get involved Clues drop onto her lap The mystery gets clearer when she becomes a target for the gang, and she has to lie low for a while. Her friend and ally, Chief Inspector Neil LaCoste, is again concerned for her safety. Finally giving way to destiny, she forms her own detective agency when she unravels some rather unusual cases and makes some people very happy. With Neil's help, will she manage to solve the mystery that had been haunting the nearby village?

A sequel to Joy Reid's Annie Butcher's Jigsaw, Annie Tries Not to and Annie's Case Book presents two books in one. Meet Annie Butcher; for some reason, she has a knack for taking seemingly unrelated events and fitting them together ...and usually solving a crime along the way! In Annie Tries Not to, Annie tries not to be a detective. She's a teacher, and she'd like to keep it that way. But when a Kenyan student goes missing at a local college, Annie can't help herself. She stumbles upon evidence that might just solve the case-but to complete the task, Annie must travel to Kenya, where she discovers the missing girl's father is fighting a corruption scandal. Will Annie find the missing girl, or will she become a target too? In Annie's Case Book, Annie returns from a trip to find ice and snow in her hometown. She slips and finds herself laid up in the hospital with a broken leg. But mystery seems to find her wherever she goes, and Annie is soon drawn into a suspicious plot at the medical facility. Her friend and ally, Chief Inspector Neil LaCoste, is pulled in by his concern for Annie, and mystery mingles with romance in this fast-paced dual novel.