Jackie Pentecost: 4 books

Wine, Weddings and Death is the last book covering the rise of Oleta Parker, an unsophisticated neighborhood snoop, into a licensed P.I. with a concealed weapons permit and an attitude.The other titles are, in order: Bakersfield Irregulars, Snake in Paradise and Double Barrel. These mysteries are laced with humor as well as suspense to create satisfying reading. Enjoy.

Nosy Oleta Parker seeks to prove the innocence of a boy accused of murder in Bakersfield while at the same time tracking down the cause of two apparently unrelated deaths occurring in Fresno and Three Rivers. Her attempts to tie the murders together cause her boyfriend, Detective Cantrell and his...

An eccentric and choleric oil industry inventor is found bludgeoned to death by his timid wife in the living room of their rented bungalow. Homicide detectives Ramos and Cantrell find a wealth of suspects, including his employer, his brother in law, his own children, a neighbor and even the victim's...

My sister-in-law thinks I killed Kenny. The fat old cow also thinks I killed her sister. That's ridiculous. Why would I kill my wife of forty years who I never manhandled, not once, in all that time, and especially now, when she so recently started receiving social security checks? And, why, if I killed my son, would I leave him on my boat in my own backyard?