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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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The second book in the Order Out of Chaos Mystery Series will be published on January2, 2026. Here’s a preview:

Getting better at organizing? Check.
Getting better at attracting murder? Unfortunately, also check.

Izzy Bishop is finally starting to find her footing—both at her sister-boss Lauren’s organizing company and in her newly chaotic life. But when a job at retired baseball legend Victor Ri

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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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Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress by Lynn Rankin-Esquer
"Wonderful read! Order out of chaos combined with psychic abilities was so good! Want to read more of the series. Love the sisters!"
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"This was such a cute and fun book! So happy to have won this via Goodreads and look forward to the next book in the series!"
Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress by Lynn Rankin-Esquer
"I really loved Izzy and am excited for more from this series. Izzy is working with her sister organizing people’s homes when she senses a message from a clients dead husband her already chaotic life gets a little more complicated. I really enjoyed th" Read more of this review »
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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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Really enjoyed this book! Loved the elegant, almost understated wit and noirish historical setting. The characters were vividly drawn, and the dynamic between Judge Dee and Lao She had a wonderful Sherlock-and-Watson quality. Thoroughly enjoyable!
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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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