Grave Yard Shift: A Jake Wyler Mystery, #8

By Bob Moats

Jake Wyler bought a cemetery. It was one of those impulse buys and now he was having to spend a large portion of his life savings to be a property owner. He had returned to his hometown to find his life turned upside down and involved in murder, missing money and love letters. He meets an old high school classmate and she handles his money in the bank where she works. Jake has no idea how to run a cemetery and since the former owner was murdered, he was now really lost. It seems Jake gave the former owner the purchase money in cash and someone murdered him for the money, hidden in the house on the cemetery property. Jake and the son of his lady banker turn the house over to find the hidden cash and come up with nothing. Two times the house had been broken into and was almost the cause for Jake's own murder. A new series about an ordinary guy caught in mysteries and dead bodies. This book is a novella.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Moats
• Release date: Mar 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215023822

Bob Moats

Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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JAKE WYLER BOUGHT A cemetery. It was one of those impulse buys and now he was having to spend a large portion of his life savings to be a property owner. He had returned to his hometown to find his life turned upside down and involved in murder, missing money and love letters. He meets an old high school classmate and she handles his money in the bank where she works. Jake has no idea how to run a cemetery and since the former owner was murdered, he was now really lost. It seems Jake gave the former owner the purchase money in cash and someone murdered him for the money, hidden in the house on the cemetery property. Jake and the son of his lady banker turn the house over to find the hidden cash and come up with nothing. Two times the house had been broken into and was almost was cause for Jake’s own murder. A new series about an ordinary guy caught in mysteries and dead bodies. This book is a novella.

Extra special thanks to:

To the proof readers , Amy Morningstar, Carolyn Linington and Al Norris for proofing the final copy and hopefully catching all those annoying little errors that slip through.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE people who purchased this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

THE BOB MOATS FAMILY of Readers is listed in the back of the book.

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Chapter 1

Jake Wyler, owner of the cemetery where his house was situated on the edge of the cemetery proper, came down from the second floor bedroom of his mini mansion ready to start the day. Becky, his wife, was still getting ready, since Jake got in the bathroom before her.

He entered the office and found Sheila already at her desk Didn’t you sleep? he asked her.

I got up early and decided that I still had paperwork to take care of, she replied.

Well, take care of business, but don’t work yourself to death. I do have a gravesite reserved for you out there, but not now, old age has to take you before you can claim that hole.

"Thank you Jake, I appreciate that. I also thank you for everything you have done for me since I first brought my