He’s ornery. He’s grouchy. He’s missing.
Nubbin doesn’t like to be told what to do. He especially doesn’t like to be told what not to do.
Determined to keep things that way, he slips out of the nursing home and heads for bigger pastures. There are two problems with his plan: It’s the middle of winter and a band of brazen criminals are on the loose.
Mercy has a sweet spot for her former patient. When she learns that he’s vanished, she drops everything to search for him, but the sly octogenarian doesn’t want to be found.
Can she find him before he succumbs to the frigid temperatures, or worse, falls prey to something far more sinister?
Nubbin but Trouble is book five in the Mercy Mares Mysteries. It features a traveling nurse with a knack for trouble and a heart of gold. With a band of misfits of all ages by her side, she's a force to be reckoned with and a sight to see. Follow her adventures as she chases crooks, criminals, and the occasional curmudgeon in this laugh-out-loud medical cozy mystery series that pays homage to nurses everywhere.
Ava Mallory - Laugh-out-loud mysteries with a side of Latin flair!
Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author Ava Mallory writes inclusive, laugh-out-loud mysteries with a side of Latin flair. Her fictional characters are based on the people she knew and loved in her native Spain and the many U.S. locations she lived in after moving to the States in the late 1980s. Her characters are feisty, fun-loving, and full of life... unless they're not. (She writes mysteries after all.)
AVA is best known for her Mercy Mares traveling nurse cozy mysteries that feature a middle-aged Latina nurse who is a champion of patients and a magnet for trouble. Mercy's sidekicks are the who's who of quirky characters with big hearts - like the people Ava grew up with.
AVA earned a degree in psychology and a degree in nursing with a certification in geriatric/Alzheimer's care. She lives minutes from Chicago with three of her four children (The oldest left the nest & Ava's not been the same since.) and their Dorkie (Yorkie/Daschund) dog named Chacha, the actual Queen of the Mallory castle.