Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

About Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

It all started when I saw myself dead. I’ve survived twenty-four years with an overbearing momma, a dead-end DMV job, and visions that usually reveal thrilling things like overflowing toilets. But when I see my own dead body, even I have to admit my Friday has taken a turn.

But when momma winds up murdered on our sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and I’m the prime suspect. I realize I’ve wasted twenty-four years of living, so I make a list on the back of a Walmart receipt: twenty-eight things I want to do before my vision comes true. I’m well on my way with the help of my next-door neighbor Joe.

He has no problem giving me my first kiss and teaching me the rules of drinking but refuses to help me with number fifteen—do more with a man. Joe’s new to town, but it doesn’t take a vision to see that he’s got plenty of secrets of his own. Then my house is ransacked.

Another person is murdered. And someone starts hunting for something they’re convinced I have. Now I have to figure out who killed my mother, what Joe is keeping from me, and how to stay alive long enough to check off the rest of my list.

Funny, romantic, and full of small-town Southern trouble, Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes is the first book in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series.