While the home invaders wait for instructions from a mysterious caller, Gnarly must plot to stop them. Four assassins for hire have invaded the home of Rocky’s elderly owners. Now he’s in the dog house–or rather the boathouse–after stealing the Christmas feast! Moments after Archie and Mac leave Spencer Manor, Gnarly hears a call for help from Rocky, the Maltese down the street. It is Christmas day and Gnarly has been up to his old tricks again. Gnarly, the rambunctious German shepherd, is featured in Lauren Carr’s best-selling Christmas short story, A Gnarly Christmas. McDonald resides on her Thoroughbred farm known as Fly by Night Stables near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Bill, and her poorly behaved Cocker Spaniel, Allister.Ĭonnect with the author: Website ~ Twitter ~ Facebook ~ Instagram The Owl’s Nest Mysteries has a little grit, a little time travel, a little romance, and a whole lot of cozy! Once again, she has set her cozy mystery in Pittsburgh and the female protagonist, Alexa Owl, is much different from Fiona Quinn. The books are also available on audio, narrated by Maren Swenson Waxenberg.Ĭindy’s newest venture is The Owl’s Nest Mysteries. Presently, the Fiona Quinn Mysteries includes nine books with a tenth slated for 2021.

She decided to write the cozy mystery series that everyone, including teens and tweens, can read and enjoy. In 2016 she added the Fiona Quinn Mysteries to that expansion. McDonald, to write children’s books for her grandchildren. Under her real name, Cindy McDonald, she writes murder-suspense and romantic suspense novels.

In 2011 she retired from her dance career to write. During that time, she choreographed many musicals and an opera for the Pittsburgh Savoyards.

Classically trained at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School, The Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, and many others, she became a professional dancer and choreographer. McDonald’s life whirled around a song and a dance.

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