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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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If This Sounds Like You, You Might Be My Reader

I’ve been thinking about the kind of reader I am writing for (who, oddly enough might be a lot like me?). Maybe this sounds like you . . .

She knows that it is all going to work out in the end . . . but she’s absolutely here for the drama along the way.

Up for a little bit of spice, a dash of romance – it isn’t the main story but it is in there (because, life).

A few swear words don’t scare

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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, Hijinks, and the Peridot Cufflinks by Lynn Rankin-Esquer
"A year ago, Izzy Bishop had a near-death experience that super charged her already average sense of others. In the last book, she finally accepted that she might have some psychic abilities. Now, she's fully embraced the idea but is trying to figure " Read more of this review »
Murder, Hijinks, and the Peridot Cufflinks by Lynn Rankin-Esquer
"Ghost-whispering psychic and amateur sleuth causes chaos
Izzy has found a new way to solve crime. She listens to the ghosts who now inhabit her landscape since a near-death experience. These ghosts know things and they teach Izzy that there are approp" Read more of this review »
Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman
"3.5 Very good book. Takes places in Pennsylvania during 1912 in a Coal Mining Town. Lots of tragedy, quick tidy ending."
The Secret of The Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
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Tender, luminous, and deeply comforting, this story unfolds at a gentle, unhurried pace—meandering like the rivers Theo loves so much. As I read, I felt folded into the rhythms of this small community, as if I might be someone Theo himself would noti ...more
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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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