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Mother's Day: Professor Molly battles morning sickness, a meddling mom, and of course, murder (Professor Molly Mysteries Book 7) Kindle Edition

by Frankie Bow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A fundraising scheme at Mahina State University ("Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow") forces pregnant Professor Molly into the role of "tutierge" (that's tutor-concierge) to the spoiled heir of a prominent local family. While she's battling morning sickness, a meddling mom, and the Student Retention Office. The last thing she needs to deal with right now is murder.
But here we are.
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    Professor Molly Mysteries
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Sky and palm trees Hawaii

Molly Barda earned her PHD in a top-ranked literature program.

But it's a brutal year on the academic job market before she lands a job: teaching business communication at Mahina State. Her advisor laments she's wasting her talent "teaching a bunch of slack-jawed baseball caps how to pad their resumes." Hey, it wasn't her first choice either.

Hawaiian beach and sky

Mahina, Hawai`i, is not Molly's idea of paradise.

Molly sits on a yoga ball because there's no money for office furniture. Molly's dean, unwilling to lose paying customers, won’t let her report cheating students. The coffee from the cold-war-era machine tastes like hot chocolate and chicken soup. Hawaiian sunshine? It's wetter here than Seattle.

Chang's Pizza Pagoda takeout box on the beach next to a dead body

But Molly discovers there's more to Mahina.

Molly finds new friends in biology professor Emma Nakamura and writing instructor (and former crime reporter) Pat Flanagan. There's nightlife (trivia night at the Pair-O-Dice), shopping (Galimba's Bargain Boyz), and local cuisine (Chang's Pizza Pagoda). And surprisingly often, there's murder.

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Praise for the Professor Molly Mysteries:
A "smart and welcome addition to the teaching-college-is-murder genre."
― Kirkus
A "fun read from beginning to end."
― Christa Nardi, author of the Cold Creek Mysteries
a "winning first mystery"
― Publishers Weekly
"Certain to appeal to readers who love well-drawn settings or academic cozies"
― Library Journal
"I was caught laughing out loud. The sarcasm and humor are superbly written. I was hooked from the start and dare say forgot all about the time while reading."
― Cozy Mystery Book Reviews

From the Author

I love to read traditional and cozy mysteries, and I write what I like to read.
My influences include:
  • The book and play reviews of Dorothy Parker
  • The Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Mapp and Lucia books by E.F. Benson
  • Sarah Caudwell's Hilary Tamar mysteries
  • The Provincial Lady series by E.M. Delafield
  • Anything by Dave Barry
  • Everything by Allie Brosh, including her calendars
  • Frog and Toad

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B072LPN27H
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hawaiian Heritage Press (May 17, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.7 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1546793089
  • Customer Reviews:
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Frankie Bow

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Frankie Bow writes two mystery series: The Professor Molly mysteries and licensed novellas in Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune universe. Writing as Patience Fairweather, she is also the author of No, You Can't be an Astronaut, a realistic career guide.

Like Professor Molly, Frankie works in higher education. Unlike her protagonist, she is blessed with delightful students, sane colleagues, and an adequate office chair. Follow Frankie at frankiebow.com.

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  • Heather Haven, author
    5.0 out of 5 stars A mystery with a lot of fun in it
    Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2017
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    I didn't know this was the 6th book of the series until I came to leave a review. I really like a series that has stand-alone reads. Ms. Bow has written a good mystery novella with interesting characters, set in the academic world of Hawaii. Professor Molly is a reluctant tutor, forced by her superior to take a tutoring job in a monied donor's home. She even has to teach a subject she's not that familiar with, all while being in her first trimester of pregnancy. It all blends together to make a charming and colorful mystery. I will read more of this series.
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  • Molly G. Hamblin
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great setting for mystery and trouble
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2017
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    Mother's Day. Frankie Bow.

    A different approach to a mystery.

    As we are introduced to the many colorful characters, I'm waiting for the mystery to unfold. We have an annoying director of "Friendraising", a charming hubby, an irritating long distance mother, a University faculty environment, a wealthy patroness, and her bit of do-nothing son. Or at least at first glance.

    The long distance soon to be grandmother mentions Somoan ethnicity, so one assumes they are in Hawaii, later underscored by the mention of lava houses and Haole.

    Best friend Emma's publishing seems to be doing poorly, and suddenly massive protests explode against her book.

    The Friendraising money man tells our heroine Professor Molly she will have to re-pay 1/4 of her salary if she doesn't take on concierge level private tutoring. Poor Molly also seems to be suffering from perpetual nausea, a bigger challenge since her handsome hubby runs a local food hotspot and tries to bring her tasty treats.

    All are great settings for mystery, murder, and mayhem.

    To see who survives the ultimate unraveling of murder and mayhem, take a peak inside!

    This seems like a witty, colorful series with lots of possible scenes for trouble ! What fun!
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  • spas49392
    5.0 out of 5 stars Frankie Bow has an excellent writing style
    Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2017
    Frankie Bow's Professor Molly series is one of my favorites. I swear, the college where Molly works is a carbon copy of my own, right down to the "office of student entitlement"...oops, I mean student "engagement." The small nature of the community ensures that Molly will run into her students whenever she picks up a prescription or goes shopping for bras (in one hilarious scene from a previous book). As a professor herself (hi from a former MISERY reader--how I miss that site), Frankie Bow has an excellent writing style, erudite and humorous and totally entertaining.

    (Only problem: I still can't see what Molly sees in Donny, who seems like a total doofus, or why she would want a baby, for that matter, but I guess there is a man shortage, along with an office chair shortage, on the island!) Hope there will be many more in the series!
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  • E T Guerro
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great short story.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2017
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    Very interesting...didn't want it to end. I enjoy all the Professor Molly Barda stories. Easy reading and great characters, plus lots of interesting plots.
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  • Merry a Vero Beach, FL Reviewer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Professor Molly is back in this eye opener short story!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2017
    A quick read to whet our appetites waiting for Professor Molly to deliver her baby! Can't wait for the next Professor Molly book to see how she juggles teaching, her baby and of course her mother who keeps calling with advice every day sometimes more! Of course you have Professor Molly tutoring a student who looks to be failing in health more and more each day and his step-mother who seems to be dying as well. How to cope. Something just doesn't seem right. But what could it be. With some laugh out loud humor Frankie brings us to a startling conclusion in this short story making us want more! I received and ARC but the opinions here are stricly my own.
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  • Ray Pace
    4.0 out of 5 stars Frankie Bow delivers a lot to like in her new book, Mother's Day
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2017
    Frankie Bow delivers a lot to like in her new book, Mother's Day. Told from the first person point of view ( perhaps my favorite), Bow manages a wonderful look at ass-kissing academicians, late-life pregnancies, and over-bearing mothers. Throw in a seasoning of Hawaiiana with a paean to the unfairness of the publishing racket and you've got an entertaining read.
    It all goes along so smoothly that one begins to forget halfway through the story that no one's carried out a cadaver, called the cops or threatened our investigator with anything other than losing her summer gig at the university. Fear not, however, Bow has the criminal appear late and it all gets sorted out with proper references to illegitimate sex and changed wills with plenty of money involved.
    I've opted for four stars in my review because I wanted more Molly. The strength of what Bow does is in the commentary vis a vis a Robert B. Parker. Yes, there is a major crime being dealt with and that's a big concern, but the crimes that Bow really gets the reader involved in (as in the case of all good detective writers) are the every-day crimes the reader suffers through with the protagonist - the day-to-day afflictions of office politics, overbearing bosses and people who always know better than you. Bow handles all of that beautifully.
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  • Gwynne Powell
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's wonderful to see Professor Molly again
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2017
    It's wonderful to see Professor Molly again, this time coping with murder and morning sickness. I loved the way the story grew with such delicate touches. My only complaint was that this was too short, I wanted to spend more time with the characters. Molly's ongoing battle with the powers of political over-correctness running the university. Donnie is coping so well with it all, Molly is on a steep learning curve. This was a delightful glimpse at some old friends - can't wait for more!
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