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Lynn Rankin-Esquer, Ph.D. is a psychologist and author living in the SF Bay area, and according to her children she is ‘the goddess of potato buttering.’

Her latest work is on a cozy mystery series set in the professional organizing world. Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress: An Order Out of Chaos Mystery Book 1 (XandL Press, 2025) is the first released and the second will be released Jan 2, 2026. She is also the author of the family dramedy 'The Unmooring of Mrs. Mango' (XandL Press, 2020), and the YA novel 'My Paperback Cape: The Unlikely Odyssey of a Bookworm' (XandL Press, 2013).

Lynn is blogging at: https://lynnrankinesquer.wordpress.com/

She also recently started a substack called Married to Baseball chronicling the life of a basebal
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Gifts From Over the Fence

Look at this pink jasmine coming over our fence from our neighbor’s yard! It smells so divine and looks so pretty and it arrived in my life with zero effort from me. Someone else planted and watered it and it snuck over the top of the fence to hang out in my yard. I mean, come on, it doesn’t get any easier than that.

It makes me realize just how many things I enjoy in this life came from other

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Lynn Rankin-Esquer Lynn Rankin-Esquer said: " I’m excited to share Izzy Bishop’s next adventure. This story dives deeper into her messy, intuitive gifts—and the trouble they cause—when a simple organizing job at Victor Rivera’s mansion turns into a psychic flash of murder.
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"An enjoyable read. The highs and lows of the characters personalities are leveling out a little from the first book. A nice complex mystery with an interesting twist at the end. Look for more in this series."
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The Badass Widows is both riveting and utterly charming—a perfect blend of Killers of a Certain Age and The Thursday Murder Club.
Recently widowed former FBI agent Beth Winstead suddenly finds herself with too much time and not enough to do—until she
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“It's from Rainer Maria Rilke. The whole quote is ‘Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”
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