Gulfport Galleria author
Cozy Little Murder Mysteries
Terry I. Miles has now written a total of ten Cozy Little Murder Mysteries, stories set in a fictionalized but familiar variation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and surrounding areas.
Each stars Bea Winslow, Private Investigator, and her Aunt, amateur sleuth Mrs. Julia McKenna, whom Bea fondly calls Aunt Jewels.
Feisty but gullible, Aunt Julia always wants to help her niece solve the crime, but just as often manages to tug them both into harm's way.
Ms. Miles tells her tales with warmth. Beguiling characters intertwine giving suspense to the multitude of suspects. You will not only get caught up in the mysteries, but also the personal lives of Sheriff Jim Travis and the rest of the charming citizenry of Lafouchfeye County.
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Terry I. Miles lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and is currently employed at the University of Southern Mississippi in the College of Education and Psychology. Having acquired an Associates Degree from Jefferson Davis Junior College in 1997 and a B.A. in English and History in 1999 from USM, she is continuing her education down various avenues.
She has been the Secretary of the Gulf Coast Writers Association for the past four years and is also a member in good standing in The National Scholars Honor Society. Recently she was contacted by the Cambridge Registry of Who’s Who.
She is an accomplished actress for Coast community theater. In addition to her Cozy Little Mystery Series, she has also published two children’s books: Gussie the Christmas Goose and Other Stories and A Christmas Carousel of Children’s Stories.
Terry I. Miles' books can be purchased online here, or at the Gulfport Galleria of Fine Art.
Ms. Miles can be emailed here.
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I'll Love You Till You Die When Mrs. Julia McKenna purchases a used car, she has no suspicion that she has acquired
much more than meets the eye: she has a mystery on her hands. Thankfully, she also
has a niece, Beatrice Winslow, Private Investigator, who’s up to the challenge.In
this first of the Cozy Little Murder Mystery Series, Bea has her hands full as a
receipt, a body and a cruise to the Caribbean unravel into a tangle of murder, greed
and jealousy. A disappearance and a late romance, a deftly-
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A Catnip Christmas
In Moriah County, Mississippi on Christmas Eve 2001, Sheriff’s deputies believe they have cornered a boatload of currency smugglers. But… something goes wrong. The Sheriff’s patrol boat explodes. The thieves escape. Five years later, Bea Winslow receives a phone call from Mack Dupree, one of the suspected smugglers, referred to as the “Christmas Jewels”. After driving over to Moriah County with her Aunt Jewels and Sheriff Jim Travis of Lafouchfeye County, they find Mack Dupree murdered. When bodies begin piling up and Aunt Jewels is hijacked...well, murder doesn't take a holiday and mystery, suspense, and intrigue keeps your mind guessing and your fingers eagerly turning the pages during this dazzling Christmas surprise!
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Say A Little Prayer For Me
Young Sara Millicent Forrester is found strangled in the old Winslow boathouse. Her uncle Garrett Forrester hires his college sweetheart, Bea Winslow, to solve the crime. When Garrett’s fiancée Rachel disappears, Bea suspects the worst. And, when she discovers
that Garrett is the beneficiary of a four- To complicate matters, just when Bea believes she has the killer cornered, “Aunt Jewels” falls under police suspicion! Now, Bea is faced not only with solving the crime, but also keeping her aunt out of harm’s way…again! Exciting and captivating, Say A Little Prayer For Me is a heart-
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Death Has No Appeal
Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, in Lafouchfeye County, Mississippi, distinguished
Judge Joseph Patrick Winslow was found murdered. Mrs. Julia McKenna, a long- December 23, one day earlier. Julia McKenna stood on the lower deck of the Coral Princess, waiting to get underway for a Christmas in the Bahamas, intently watched by… Judge Joseph Patrick Winslow. Simultaneously, Julia’s niece Bea Winslow boarded All Nippon Airways, Flight 1073, bound for Luizhou, China. She didn’t know the plane had been sabotaged. Slowly Judge Winslow withdrew his cellphone from his overcoat pocket and dialed the Captain’s number. He smiled as the Captain handed Julia the phone. “Hello, Julia,” he softly spoke, “I have some tragic news…”
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Laughing All The Way
It's Christmas time and Bea Winslow and Aunt Jewels are shopping with friends in the French Quarter. Aunt Jewels has previously spied a painting of a laughing clown, juggling three striped balls, and must have it! But so must Errol Frazer, a gigolo, con man and thief. Recently released from prison, Frazer aims to reclaim the painting he heisted forty years ago from El Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain and sent to his partner, art collector Simon Dufuss, in Lafouchfeye County, Mississippi. When plucky Aunt Jewels is kidnapped, Bea's exciting, climatic ride through New Orleans escalates as she races against time to save her! With its multiple storylines, jovial characters and exciting plot, Laughing All The Way is a delightful read.
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DOG Gone Christmas
Seven years ago, Horace Fletcher, Director of Shady Rest Funeral Home, was found dead at his desk. Cyrus Dedeaux, one of Shady Rest’s three morticians, was convicted of murder. However, new DNA evidence, presented by his lawyer, had proven Mr. Dedeaux innocent and he has been set free. And now, three days after Cyrus’ return, there has been an alleged attempted murder
on Horace's widow Rose, a body has washed up on the beach, and to cap it all, Mrs.
Julia McKenna and a dog named Maggie May are suddenly kidnapped from her newly- Unsavory characters, funeral parlors, environmentalism, and Holiday festivities in Bay St. Louis make for one entertaining DOG Gone Christmas.
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Looks Can Be Deceiving
After Hurricane Katrina, Bea Winslow drives her Aunt Jewels to search through the debris on the beach in Lafouchfeye County, Mississippi, looking for lost treasure. With her new metal detector, Aunt Jewels discovers not one but two bodies, one a woman who has been dead for over a hundred years! The investigation leads Bea, Aunt Jewels and company to exotic Black Bayou Plantation… Add a feisty heroine, a snoopy mailman, several shady characters and a motel any Hitchcock buff would recognize and viola! You have the makings of a Cozy Little Murder Mystery… enjoy!
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Until Death Do Us Part
Terry Miles’ novel, Until Death Do Us Part, with its multiple story lines and exciting
plot devices, is a fast-
This is the eighth Cozy Little Murder Mystery in the Bea and Jewels series.
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This One's Gonna Kill Ya
Lenny Faison has served six years in Parchman Prison for assault and battery. During this time he has honed his comedy skills. When he is released, he hits the comedy circuit and finally is going to get his big break at the Saenger theatre in Biloxi, MS. While daydreaming about his premiere performance, someone takes several shots at him. He falls and his sight is impaired. While attending Lenny’s performance several nights later, Bea Winslow and Aunt Jewels, accompanied by Bea’s fiance, Sheriff Jim Travis of Lafouchfeye County, and Aunt Jewel’s boyfriend and Lenny’s uncle, Captain Eric Von Boatner, witness another attempt on his life. From then on, murder doesn’t take a holiday and Bea and Aunt Jewels end up with Lenny staying at their house. There are enough twists and turns to keep the pages turning, wondering what is going to happen next!
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Girls Of The Garden Club
The Christmas holidays are just around the corner and Aunt Jewels has stumbled off the curb and broken her ankle. Her niece Bea Winslow has admitted her Aunt to the Hodgekiss Hospital in Lafouchfeye County, Misissippi, where she is immobile with a cast up to her thigh. While in ‘bondage’, as Aunt Jewels puts it, she observes shady shenanigans happening outside from her hospital window, at the attached building named The Rogers Eye Clinic. When she attempts to have some acquaintances snoop around… she learns a few of her Garden Club friends have turned up missing, and… well, the fun begins! Throw in the discovery of a seven-
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