Cutting for Fun & Profit

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Meet Tracy Lemon, owner of the popular Citrus Salon in her small Western town. Tracy is married to a cop who wants to become detective. But the police chief has passed over Carl’s application and hired a fancy L.A. detective whose influence chases away community policing in favor of “never give ’em an even break.” From traffic fines to arresting grieving widows to incarcerating a pet boa constrictor, Chief Fort Dukes and his sidekick Dwight Bassoon are changing the tenor of the town. When mother of five Dixie Service is arrested for stealing credit card numbers at the Pay & Go gas station and husband Carl is kicked off the investigative team, Tracy realizes she needs to step in. Meanwhile, her octogenarian customer Mrs. Oscar has welcomed a cousin home from the Korean War who has suffered from amnesia for 60 years. He cuts open an old safe and discovers a scandal that could cost Chief Fort Dukes his job. Will sweet justice prevail? Cutting for Fun & Profit is a fast-paced, cozy mystery about a small town hairdresser who wants to help her policeman husband solve crimes. But when Carl is kicked off the investigation team and Tracy must pursue the truth. Who stole thousands of credit card numbers from the Pay & Go gas station? Why did Mrs. Oscar lose her rightful inheritance? And how can community policing return to her town where the police chief and his cynical new detective believe citizens are guilty until proven innocent. At the turn of the millennium, Lola Beatlebrox changed her hair color. Since then she’s logged more than 500 hours in the hairdresser’s chair. The Citrus Salon mysteries were born from an infatuation with accounts in the newspaper that cause readers to marvel at the folly of mankind. That, and a keen sense of American social issues, inspired her to create the character of Tracy Lemon, a hairdresser who solves crimes for her policeman husband. Lola lives on a ranch near Park City, Utah, with her husband, two dogs and four llamas.

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