This would not be good for her secret mission. Fortune is needed to move ahead carefully with the murder investigation in order to prevent herself from blowing her cover and getting killed in the process. To add to her problems, the local deputy tends to ask too many questions to Fortune, which makes her to dislike him despite finding him handsome. She decides to team up with a couple of old ladies of the town, who seemed to be sweet and had the looks that belied their hold on the small town. Unwantedly, Fortune is thrust into the murder mystery of the bayou. She has not even unpacked her suitcase and is required to get involved in the investigation of the dead body. As soon as she reaches the town of SInful, Fortune sees her dog digging up a human body in the backyard of her new house. However, she seems to be determined to stay below the radar until the CIA, finds the leak in their unit and puts the stops the dangerous arms dealer from coming behind her trail. Fortune enters the small, bayou town of Sinful as a librarian, but feels worse than. She decides to lay a low profile by disguising herself as a previous beauty queen turned librarian. She had never experienced anything like this in her career and had never been forced to stay out of her element for this long. In order to stop her from playing a spoil sport for them, they put a bounty price on her head.Īs a precautionary measure for saving herself and the mission, Fortune decides to go off grid for a little while. There seems to be a leak at the CIA due to which the largest arms dealers of the world get a tip about her mission. She is asked to move to a town named Sinful, in Louisiana for a secret mission by the CIA.

In the opening sequence of the plot of the novel, Fortune Redding is shown as undertaking the most difficult mission of her life as a CIA assassin. It was titled ‘Louisiana Longshot’ and introduced the protagonist Fortune Redding as an assassin working for the CIA. The first novel of the Miss Fortune Mystery series was published in the year 2012 as a Kindle edition by author Jana herself. She is about to publish it very soon in the coming months. The series is still going on and author Jana DeLeon is working on the latest novel of the series. There is a total of 7 novels in the series published between the years 20. As Fortune tries to hide her identity, dead bodies begin to appear no sooner than she reaches the town. Fortune Redding tries to live with a low profile in a fictional town named Sinful, in Louisiana. All the novels of the series feature a protagonist named Fortune Redding, who is described by the author as a CIA assassin. The Miss Fortune Mystery series is a series of suspense and cozy mystery novels written by the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon.

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