Capri Capers

by Karen GoatKeeper

Harriet Zeigenhirt should be living her dream life. After all, she won millions in the lottery, bought her perfect property and her long desired goats.
Instead Harriet's life lurches from crisis to crisis. Even her favorite kid Capri ends up in the thick of things.
Leroy Rogue and Roscoe Rascal want their share of those millions and will do almost anything to get it.
Dan Janus loves fine restaurants and clothes. This takes money. Harriet needs a husband and he wants it to be him by fair means or foul.
Harriet's friend Deputy Arthur Carlson tries to lead Harriet through this maze of perils in this wild race reminiscent of an old time movie serial.

185 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 17, 2016

About the author

The year is melting away. There will be a new picture book: "Ducks Love Hats" from a Creating Picture Books class I held over the summer.
For my own writing, I have started the first of the Opal and Agate series of picture books. The Carduan Chronicles will end up a series of four books. The draft for Ship Eighteen is almost done, although there are a couple of things to check on still.
Life's Rules is getting close to done. However, this book will need input from at least three people before the draft is done. Other people are not always reliable in a timely manner.
Weather has brought many problems this year including floods and drought. The goats and garden have had problems from this.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was charming and fun. The setup is much like the old-time melodrama serial, with each chapter ending on a cliffhanger. There's plenty of peril and some love interest; all the expected melodramatic ingredients and some capricious goats to top it off.

While nobody gets tied to the railroad tracks, there is at least one honest-to-goodness classic Cad who obviously attended the Snidely Whiplash school of "charm". Many of the character names are amusing and giggle-inducing. Overall the pacing is quick, and the writing is straight-forward, so it's entirely suitable for readers of any age. I found it entirely enjoyable, and I even learned something about goats.

It's an indy publication. The editing is good and basically typo-free throughout, although I may take up a collection to buy the author an extra carton of commas, since I'm sure Dan must have swiped her supply on his way through.

(Disclosure: I had a coupon for a copy of this book, with no obligation to review.)

[Sally Wragg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harriet and Brian are a young couple trying to educate themselves which leaves them struggling financially. In despair one day, Brian scrapes together enough money and for the first time in his life, he buys a lottery ticket. Unfortunately then, disaster strikes because the store where he buys the ticket from is held up by two masked gun men and he is shot and killed. Harriet is thus left alone and grieving if the money leaves her able to realise her dream of buying a house on a hundred and twenty acres, surrounded by the state forest and where she plans to rear goats. But the criminals are after her money and what follows next makes for an enjoyable read and one in which the serial type endings of the chapters made the pages turn quickly. Well written with a dash of humour provided once the herd of goats make their appearance.
(I obtained a coupon for a free copy of the book with no obligation)

[Sue Hieber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this entire book in one sitting because I couldn't wait to see what else could happen to the gal in the story. She had the luck of job! I really got a kick out of the goats. I won this book from Goodreads giveaways and am glad I did. For a fun read, get this book!

[Gwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet little book. I found the last names of the characters cute. The story could have been fleshed out a bit, but it was a good story. I got a few laughs from the goat kidnapping portion of the story.

I received this book free from Goodreads First Reads.