Amy Metz, author

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. . . and thank you for stopping in. This is the home for information about the works of Amy Metz. Amy is the author of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series. She spends a lot of time in Goose Pimple Junction with her imaginary friends and on her blog, A Blue Million Books, but occasionally she ventures out to try something new. Check below and the More page in the menu above for interviews, reviews, and guest posts Amy has done and the News page for the latest with Amy and her Goose Pimple Junction mysteries. If you've read and liked one of the books in the Goose Pimple Junction series, please consider leaving a review on Amazon.com or Goodreads. If you're new to the series, take a gander at the books here. For a quick rundown of books published and projects Amy is currently working on, keep reading . . .

Read my guest blog with Southern Writers Magazine!

Suite T Blog: When Life Imitates Art

When people ask me what I do for a living, I sometimes jokingly say I lie for a living. Isn’t that what fiction writers do? I think the difference between a writer and a liar is that a writer uses his or her imagination to tell a story and entertain, whereas a liar uses his imagination to deceive, mislead, and control . . .

Books currently published

Murder And Mayhem In Goose Pimple Junction is the first book in a series of humorous southern mysteries set in the fictional town of Goose Pimple Junction.

When Tess Tremaine starts a new life in the colorful town of Goose Pimple Junction, curiosity leads her to look into a seventy-five-year-old murder. Suddenly she’s learning the foreign language of southern speak, resisting her attraction to local celebrity Jackson Wright, and dealing with more mayhem than she can handle.

A bank robbery, murder, and family tragedy from the 1930s are pieces of the mystery that Tess attempts to solve. As she gets close to the truth, she encounters danger, mystery, a lot of southern charm, and a new temptation for which she’s not sure she’s ready.

For more information on this book and to read the first chapter, please turn the page or click here. Buy here.

Heroes And Hooligans In Goose Pimple Junction is the second book in the mystery series.

Goose Pimple Junction is just recovering from a kidnapping and a murder, its first major crimes in years, when trouble begins anew. Life is turned upside down in the quirky little southern town with the arrival of several hooligans: a philandering husband intent on getting his wife back, another murderer loose in town, a stalker intent on frightening Martha Maye, and a thief who’s stealing the town blind of their pumpkins, pies, and peace. Together, they’re scaring the living daylights out of the residents and keeping the new police chief busier than a set of jumper cables at a redneck picnic. Suddenly he has his hands full trying to apprehend a killer, stop a stalker, and fight his feelings for the damsel in distress. Buy here.

Short & Tall Tales in Goose Pimple Junction is the third book in the series, although it occurs chronologically between books 1 and 2.

This is not your average Southern town. With a hint of mystery and a lot of laughs, you'll catch a glimpse of everyday life in Goose Pimple Junction in this short story compilation. Short & Tall Tales is a fun escape that will answer readers' burning questions about the residents of this quirky, small town.

How did Johnny Butterfield become police chief?
How did Tess and Jack get engaged?
How did Ima Jean come to live with Louetta?
How do you celebrate an Apple Day?

These questions and more are answered in Short & Tall Tales in Goose Pimple Junction. Five short stories, one novella, and three recipes will give you more of the unique charm of Goose Pimple Junction, make you laugh, and have your mouth watering. If you want a feel-good read, you've come to the right place. Grab some sweet tea and escape to Goose Pimple Junction. Buy here.

Rogues & Rascals in Goose Pimple Junction is the fourth book and the third full-length novel in the series.

Sweet Southern belle Caledonia Culpepper and hit woman in training Wynona Baxter come up against crooked lawyers, restless husbands, a teenage hoodlum . . . it seems there are rogues and rascals everywhere you look in Goose Pimple Junction. When their paths cross, they prove there isn't a rogue or a rascal who can keep a good woman down. Mama always said there'd be days like this . . .
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Liars & Lunatics in Goose Pimple Junction

It’s election season, and newcomer Virgil Pepper is a charming
and charismatic candidate but someone who will say anything
(and mean none of it) to get what he wants. Three things top
   his list: to become mayor, to acquire Jackson Wright’s land,
   and to make Caledonia Culpepper one of his many conquests.

Wynona Baxter is back, and she’s a new woman. Now as
Daisy, she has a new identity, new life, and new business--
ironically named Killer Cupcakes. But the town soon finds out
that isn’t the only kind of killer in town. Book five of the
Goose Pimple Junction mystery series combines political
hijinks, delicious cupcakes, Goose Juice moonshine, the ups
and downs of finding true love, and, of course, murder.

It is said that “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that
everybody lies. The only variable is about what.” Lying in
   politics, lying for personal and professional gain, lying about
   an identity . . . What are the folks of Goose Pimple Junction
willing to lie for . . . and what are they willing to die for?