A Stranger Like Me
(2019)(The first book in the Twin Sisters Mystery series)
A novel by Kristen Chaney Beard and Kristen Chaney (Kristen James)
A Private Investigator... A School Counselor / Bookstore Owner...
The same face...
Angie doesn't have time to figure it out while tracking down a runaway teen who's in danger.
Private Investigator Angie Duval lives in her RV with her over-sized, furry best friend and partner, Galaxy. She found Galaxy abandoned as a puppy out in the Eastern Oregon desert. She's in Eugene now to locate a missing teen when she runs into herself - or, a mirror image of herself.
Her newly discovered twin sister is named Vivi Leavitt, a school counselor who co-owns a women's boutique and bookstore with her mother.
Vivi is a perky bookworm, so basically Angie's identical twin AND complete opposite. Or so she thinks at first.
For most twins separated at birth, it's awesome to find the other one. But these two both know they weren't adopted. It doesn't make sense, except that they were lied to. Angie's mom passed away a year ago, leaving only questions.
Angie has a teen to find, who is reportedly with a man who calls himself Demon, so she can't drop everything and dig into her birth situation. In fact, she's worked hard to forget her childhood and wants to walk away from this too... except she can't. So suddenly she has two cases, and one's a little too personal.
Angie and Vivi don't like what they find when they start investigating their respective parents, and Angie's missing teen case gets complicated too.
The twins want to know why they were separated and lied to... but at the same time, they don't. However, it's starting to look like whatever happened is bigger than just them.
TEASER:
It wasn't who Angie expected to see leaning out from behind a bookshelf.
It was...someone who looked exactly like her.
A pair of questioning blue eyes stared back at her, out of the same heart-shaped face that Angie saw in the mirror every day. No makeup like her. Same light brown, wavy hair, except a little longer and parted in the middle instead of the side. Same height. Same everything.
They blinked at each other for what felt like a full minute before the other woman finally spoke.
"Is Natasha in trouble?"
The words surprised Angie. She'd actually forgotten why she was there - while staring at a copy of herself - but the question jolted her back into work mode. She needed something else to focus on, something to do to get around this crazy thing.
"No..." She took a small step toward her. "But her family is worried about her. Can I have a minute of your time?"
Genre: Mystery
The same face...
Angie doesn't have time to figure it out while tracking down a runaway teen who's in danger.
Private Investigator Angie Duval lives in her RV with her over-sized, furry best friend and partner, Galaxy. She found Galaxy abandoned as a puppy out in the Eastern Oregon desert. She's in Eugene now to locate a missing teen when she runs into herself - or, a mirror image of herself.
Her newly discovered twin sister is named Vivi Leavitt, a school counselor who co-owns a women's boutique and bookstore with her mother.
Vivi is a perky bookworm, so basically Angie's identical twin AND complete opposite. Or so she thinks at first.
For most twins separated at birth, it's awesome to find the other one. But these two both know they weren't adopted. It doesn't make sense, except that they were lied to. Angie's mom passed away a year ago, leaving only questions.
Angie has a teen to find, who is reportedly with a man who calls himself Demon, so she can't drop everything and dig into her birth situation. In fact, she's worked hard to forget her childhood and wants to walk away from this too... except she can't. So suddenly she has two cases, and one's a little too personal.
Angie and Vivi don't like what they find when they start investigating their respective parents, and Angie's missing teen case gets complicated too.
The twins want to know why they were separated and lied to... but at the same time, they don't. However, it's starting to look like whatever happened is bigger than just them.
TEASER:
It wasn't who Angie expected to see leaning out from behind a bookshelf.
It was...someone who looked exactly like her.
A pair of questioning blue eyes stared back at her, out of the same heart-shaped face that Angie saw in the mirror every day. No makeup like her. Same light brown, wavy hair, except a little longer and parted in the middle instead of the side. Same height. Same everything.
They blinked at each other for what felt like a full minute before the other woman finally spoke.
"Is Natasha in trouble?"
The words surprised Angie. She'd actually forgotten why she was there - while staring at a copy of herself - but the question jolted her back into work mode. She needed something else to focus on, something to do to get around this crazy thing.
"No..." She took a small step toward her. "But her family is worried about her. Can I have a minute of your time?"
Genre: Mystery
Used availability for Kristen James's A Stranger Like Me