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Jinx Schwartz is the USA TODAY Best-selling author of the award-winning Hetta Coffey series.

JUST ADD WATER, first in the series, introduces Hetta, a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she's not afraid to use it. JUST ADD SALT, JUST ADD TROUBLE, JUST DESERTS, JUST THE PITS, JUST NEEDS KILLIN', AND JUST DIFFERENT DEVILS get her into hot Mexican Waters. JUST PARDON MY FRENCH, BOOK 8, FINDS HETTA IN FRANCE and Book 9: JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY, takes a wild ride on two continents, and JUST FOR THE BIRDS, Book 10, gets her afowl of exotic bird smugglers. Book 11 finds her in Texas, and living in an RV until her boat goes missing back in Mexico, and in Just On Porpoise (12 ) her attention is drawn to the almost extinct Vaquita, and JUST SO WRONG (1 ...more

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JUST FOR THE BIRDS, HETTA #10 AD

Where, or where, does the time go?
That age old question can be easily answered by anyone who writes book! It goes into writing, editing, marketing and all the work required to actually publish a book.

So, it is with great delight that I am able to release another Hetta Coffey novel on July 17 (available for preorder now.) Hetta Coffey #10, Just for the Birds

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Published on June 27, 2018 17:42 • Tags: cozy, mexico, mystery, parrots, smugglers

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Average rating: 4.27 · 20,210 ratings · 1,868 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Just Add Water (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 2,529 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Add Salt (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 2,342 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Pardon My French (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #8) 4.38 avg rating — 1,683 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Needs Killin' (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #6) 4.15 avg rating — 1,520 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just The Pits (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #5) 4.17 avg rating — 1,491 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubled Sea 4.19 avg rating — 1,471 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Add Trouble (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #3) 4.15 avg rating — 1,426 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Deserts (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #4) 4.18 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Different Devils (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #7) 4.46 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just A Happy Camper (Hetta Coffey Series, #11) 4.57 avg rating — 655 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.—Noel Coward”
― Jinx Schwartz, Just The Pits

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“Hell, Frijòle, it ain’t against the law to drink whiskey in Texas. Yet. If it was, we could just build a fence around the whole territory and call it a jail,”
― Jinx Schwartz, The Texicans

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“Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
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“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
― Mae West

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

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“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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message 7: by Linda

Jan 31, 2018 05:45PM

Jinx! When is the next Hetta book going to be released? I miss her!

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message 6: by Reece

Sep 18, 2016 11:01PM

Thank you for liking my Goodreads page. I hope your reading experience
is giving you satisfaction. Maybe you would like to check out my books; I’d
love you to read one or two and maybe rate and write a review.
Let me know and I will do the same for you?
Reece Pocock

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message 5: by E.D.

Mar 07, 2015 10:35PM

Thanks for being my friend on Goodreads – Please visit my website www.bittersweetbyedbird.com for information on this novel and its author. Please also ‘like’ its Face Book page www.facebook.com/violencesexandswearing

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message 4: by Jinx

Jul 18, 2012 06:51AM

Ha! BTW my boat is named High Jinx.
This weekend my YA (but suitable for all ages) will be free on Amanzon at http://amzn.to/r9QYuR, so maybe you can start with that one.
I will have a free book (Including the ones you missed) on Amazon for the next 2 1/2 months!
Tnaks for friending me.

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message 3: by Zoë

Jul 17, 2012 11:33PM

Hi Jinx (LOL, just realised how that sounds. In future I'll put 'Hello Jinx', as I have to with friends called 'Jean')

Thanks so much for Friending me here. Love the idea of your Hetta Coffey Mystery Series. I'm now kicking myself that I just missed your promotion. I'll just have to go out and buy a copy of the first one instead :)

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message 2: by Beth

Jul 12, 2012 09:16AM

Hi Jinx,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author on Goodreads!

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message 1: by Nancy

Nov 15, 2009 07:23PM

Bisbee is the setting in the first two books of my historical trilogy--three generations of women who survive by their own cleverness. Love visiting. The history of the area is so exciting.

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