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The Chakra Outline: A Katherine Sinclair Cozy Mystery by [Angie Cabot, Gary Jonas]

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You are cordially invited to a murder...

My aunts, Liz and Clara, own a metaphysical bookstore in Cassandra Springs, a small town in Colorado. Aunt Liz thinks she's psychic, and Aunt Clara believes she has a ghost lover named Edward, and a ghost cat named Hannah Rose. I think they're making it up to seem eccentric because I know how things work in the real world.

But when Aunt Liz asks me to attend her annual murder game at Bostwick Manor, she's convinced she's going to be killed for real. It doesn't help that she invites the employees who hate her the most to the weekend retreat, and starts pushing their buttons.

Sure enough, she turns up with a knife in her third chakra.

Now I'm snowed-in with a group of her employees, and one of them is a murderer. My only ally is a Siamese cat named Nico, and let's face it, she mostly wants to be fed. I need to figure out whodunit on my own before the killer strikes again!

Don't miss this first novel in a humorous new cozy mystery series.

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October 25, 2019
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Z6HGW4L
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Denton & White (October 25, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 25, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 782 KB
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Best Sellers Rank: #1,357,437 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #11,215 in Cozy Animal Mystery
- #18,340 in Cozy Animal Mysteries
- #26,902 in Amateur Sleuths

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Gary Jonas
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The latest novel from Gary Jonas is Mystic Hollow.
He is best-known as the author of the Jonathan Shade urban fantasy series. He's also written books under several pen names including westerns as Dan Winchester and a cozy mystery as Angie Cabot.
THE JONATHAN SHADE SERIES
1. Modern Sorcery
2. Acheron Highway
3. Dragon Gate
4. Anubis Nights (time travel sequence 1)
5. Sunset Specters (time travel sequence 2)
6. Wizard's Nocturne (time travel sequence 3)
7. Razor Dreams
8. Vertigo Effect
9. Club Eternity
10. Timeless Gods
11. Immortal Ascendant
12. Undead Agent
Spirited Christmas (novelette chronologically before Modern Sorcery, but can be read anytime)
Books 1-3 have been bundled in a box set.
Books 4-6 have also been bundled in a box set.
KELLY CHAN SERIES
1. Vampire Midnight
2. Werewolf Samurai
3. Subhuman Resources (written with Rebecca Hodgkins)
4. Zombie Rising (w/Rebecca Hodgkins)
5. Vendetta Blues (w/Rebecca Hodgkins)
HALF-ASSED WIZARD SERIES
1. The Half-Assed Wizard
2. The Big-Ass Witch
3. The Dumbass Demon
4. The Lame-Assed Doppelganger
All 4 have been bundled into a box set if you prefer to get them all at once.
STANDALONE NOVELS
One-Way Ticket to Midnight
Pirates of the Outrigger Rift (written with Bill D. Allen)
Guardians of the Sky (originally planned as a series)
A Bullet for My Brother (as Dan Winchester)
Riding with Barefoot Bob (as Dan Winchester)
The Chakra Outline (as Angie Cabot)
Hell Hunter
Mystic Hollow
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Quick Shots
The Hitman Stories
Living on Dream Time
TOMBSTONE JACK NOVELETTES (written as Dan Winchester)
1. Tombstone Jack
2. Tombstone Jack and the Redwing Saloon
3. Tombstone Jack and the Wyoming Raiders
4. Tombstone Jack and the Sisters of Death
5. Tombstone Jack and the Hurricane Hangman
NOVELLAS
Night Marshal (see below)
Retribution Trail (as Dan Winchester)
Finally, we should talk about Jack Talon, the vampire gunslinger in the old west. Gary created the series, and wrote the first book then turned it over to other writers to carry forward.
NIGHT MARSHAL SERIES
Night Marshal: A Tale of the Undead West (by Gary Jonas)
High Plains Moon (by Glenn R. Sixbury)
This Dance, These Bones (by Rebecca Hodgkins)
The Ghoul of Socorro (by James K. Burk)
Night of the Monster (by Gary Piserchio)
The first three were collected in a box set.
Okay, that's enough talk. Go read some books. If you don't want to read Gary's books, that's all right, but read books by someone. The world is better if you read. Really.
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Angie Cabot
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Ellen Oceanside

Humerous Story

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2020

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Katherine has two aunts Liz and Clara, they fight all the time.They hold an annual murder retreat.Liz feels someone will do it for real, and she is to find killer. Also they want her to run their bookstore,she would even have her own place. First .i have read by the author, it is quirky, humorous and enjoyable. The characters each add a lot to the story, even the cat,

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MJHolt

A story of fairly innocent people who are quite screwed up.

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2021

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This is what a friend of mine would call a restful book. It's a cozy murder mystery with a group of squabbling co-workers and the innocent heir of the first victim. It's a perfect pass time for lazy time with a book and a cat or dog in your lap.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019

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I enjoyed this book immensely! I love when a book can make me laugh or cry. This author had me in stitches with some of the outrageous things the characters did. I loved Nico. I have a blue point siamese cat that I think could give Nico, a run for her money! Can hardly wait for the next book!

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Leslie Hubanks

Very enjoyable read!

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019

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This book has a bigger than expected character arc. I really liked the swift pace and the engaging characters. The metaphysical background is well thought out. Good work by a newcomer to the Cozy scene.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019

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Fantastic read, great characters.
Story fulfilled the cozy mystery for me.
Waiting for a new one of this series.

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RaksGato

Delightful Cozy Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒓𝒂 𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆, A Katherine Sinclair Cozy Mystery, Book #1
by Angie Cabot

Disclaimer: I obtained this book free in exchange for an honest review. Also disclaiming: The Kindle edition, which I read, will not be available until, I believe, Friday, October 245, 2019 (today being Thursday, the 24th). On to the review.

Spoilers? Perhaps, but certainly no more than in the Amazon description.

Katherine Sinclair hasn't seen either of her two aunts, Elizabeth and Clara, for several years. But, having just gone through a disastrous divorce and having lost her job, Kathy is now pretty much homeless and penniless. When she receives a literal order from her Aunt Liz to return to Cassandra Springs to manage the aunts' shop, The Eye of Ra, she very much wants to resist, but knows she has no real choice. She arrives just in time for the annual winter retreat at Bostick Manor, a murder mystery weekend that is written and staged by her Aunt Liz. When she arrives, she and Aunt Liz drive out to the Manor in a snowstorm to meet the 6 employees Liz has invited to the event: Todd (aka Balthazar) and his wife, Diana, Morgan, Carl, Sandra, and Zen, plus Jenn and Emma who will serve as housekeeper and cook for the weekend. By the next morning, Aunt Liz is lying dead on the kitchen floor and the rest are all snowed in, unable to call out for help from the police and unable to navigate the impassible roads to get to town to notify them. They are all stuck there, knowing that one of them is a murderer.

This is the quintessential 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 murder. If you are familiar with Christie's 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒏𝒆, or perhaps Ellery Queen's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒔 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅, you know the type of murder mystery I'm talking about. The detective, in this case, Katherine, must determine who, among the remaining 8 living people present is guilty, while managing to stay alive herself.

Cabot did a fine job with this mystery. There are certainly a host of suspects, and you are never really sure of whodunit until all is revealed just a very few pages from the end. The main characters are well developed and believable, although at least three of the more minor characters I never really felt I knew anything about, and in fact, kept forgetting them unless they were prominently featured on the page. I'll readily admit my favorite character was Nico, the cat. The plotting/pacing/flow were all top-notch. The danger to characters was very real, the red herrings plentiful, and the suspense palpable. I did find two proofing errors and there were a couple of things I didn't like, but on the whole, I found the novel to be a quick and interesting read and I would recommend it to mystery fans.

If you don't care about my picky didn't-likes, stop reading here.

The I-didn't-likes:

Two proofing errors. The first was a badly written, and I think erroneous sentence. At location 778 (27%), Chapter 6, Todd/Balthazar is speaking: "...We don't want to preserve the scene as much as we can for the police..." I would assume (or maybe hope) the author meant to say "We do want to preserve," or "We don't want to disturb" the scene. I read that several times, which of course, popped me right out of the story at an inopportune time, wondering if I misread it, or was it intended to be more snark on the part of the character, but, in the end couldn't come up with anything more probable than it was a mistake. The second was simply poor grammar where Katherine says "When did Aunt Liz start treating you bad?" Yes, I know we speak differently than we write, and this was dialogue, but still it's 'start treating you bad𝐥𝐲' not 'treating you bad.'

The rest of the items on my unlike list are simple my own opinions, so your mileage may vary. Overall, I found the first one-third to one-half of the book to be unnecessarily snarky. While I know the author was attempting to set the scene of an unlikable boss and unhappy employees, I cannot imagine 6 people so unfeeling and rude as to continually make jokes and complain about a woman lying dead on the floor, especially in front of her niece whom they did not know at all. Maybe in scenes where Katherine was not present -- but certainly not so nonchalantly in front of her. As the story progresses, the snark calms down. However, it almost made me put the book down and not finish it.

And my final complaint has to do with the inclusion of things that had no real reason to be in the story or that were pretty cliche. The first was at about location 894, when there is a discussion about whether there might be glitter in the colored chalk used to outline the body. Here is that entire conversation:
Carl looked at Diana. "I'll take the pictures if you'll trace the body with the rainbow chalk." "Does the chalk have glitter?" Diana asked. "No." Morgan said. "Good. Because I hate glitter." "Why would they put glitter in chalk?" I asked. "Why do they put glitter in anything?" "To appeal to teenage girls," Zen said.
I never did find a reason in the rest of the book as to why the glitter was a subject of conversation. It did not move the story along. It did not give any hint as to whodunit. For me it didn't help flesh out any of the characters. Finally, believe me, as a 45-year veteran of the belly dance subculture, lots of grown men and women love glitter. SMH

The cliche came in the form of this comment at about 1125: "Don't like Colorado weather?" I asked. "Wait ten minutes." Is there any state in the union that doesn't use some variation of that old saw?

But, for the most part, I enjoyed this first-in-the-series novel and plan to read the second when it is published. I hope it includes not only more Nico, but more about Aunt Clara's ghost cat, Hannah Rose.

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A retreat, a super sleuth cat and murder

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019

A good read. A wonderfully thought out plot that just felt as if the ending didn't do it justice. Yes all the ends were tied up but it just felt weaker then the rest of the read. The characters, just a select few, we're varied from the doped out to the highly controlling and totally immune to the feelings of others. Our main character is a downtrodden divorcee who is just finding herself again after being married to a manipulating, cheating spouse.
A phone call from one of her aunts (she claims she is psychic and is going to be murdered) has her journeying back. Not really believing it but still accompanying her aunt on the business's yearly murder retreat. When her aunt is actually murdered (with an athame she has gifted the guests at the retreat) it is up to her to find the killer. Take six different individuals, a super sensitive cat, a missing journal, affairs, another murder and being snowed in with no phone reception. Will she work out who killed her aunt and the straying husband?

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DavidDL

A quick-moving, fun read!

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2019

I wish that there was a 4.5-star option in these reviews, because that's what I would have given "The Chakra Outline." The story is tightly plotted and even believable; it moves quickly; the dialogue is crisp and the characters are well-drawn. One of the best things about the folks who populate "The Chakra Outline" is that each comes off as a real person with a distinct character and plenty of unique idiosyncrasies. Cabot avoids the too-common cozy mystery faux pas of treating the supporting cast as two-dimensional cardboard cutouts whose sole purpose is to showcase the brilliant and intrepid main character.
Throw in an isolated mansion shut off from the world by a mountain blizzard and some violent murders - what else do you need?
Finally, Katherine Sinclair is an engaging protagonist, and I want to read about her coming adventures.
"The Chakra Outline" is well worth your time and attention, and is likely to make you want to see what the future has in store for Katherine!

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