Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs: A Jules Keene Glamping Mystery
About Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs
Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs: A Jules Keene Glamping Mystery
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
Setting – Virginia
Publisher : Level Best Books
Publication date : December 9, 2025
Print length : 244 pages
Paperback
ISBN-13 : 979-8898200756
Digital ASIN : B0G87WV2C1
The town of Fern Valley, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, has overdosed on cuteness for its first teddy bear and toy festival. Adorable bears have taken over every inch of the town, and Jules Keene can barely keep up with all the guest check-ins at her glamping resort. To add to the fun, a team of paranormal investigators set their sights on her vintage trailers and the new treehouse as they investigate the local haunts.
It quickly becomes evident that things aren’t all sweet and cuddly when someone absconds with collectible toys. Then, to make matters worse, Jules and her friends trip over something not so other-worldly at an abandoned motel during a paranormal investigation. The very real corpse is the prickly vendor who raised a ruckus about his stolen merchandise and the weird things that were afoot in the cozy, one-stop light town.
Jules has to calm frayed nerves and solve the mystery before there are any other thefts or grisly murders.
RECIPE
Lula Belle’s Teddy Bear Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter
1 ¼ cup light brown sugar
¾ cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
2 ¼ cups of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
2 teaspoons of baking soda
½ teaspoon of baking powder
2 cups of old-fashioned oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Baking sheet
Parchment paper
Brown M&Ms
Mini chocolate chips
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, mix the butter and sugars. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Then add the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon. Combine all the ingredients. Add the oats.
Use a cookie scoop to drop the batter on your baking sheet. This is for the bear’s head. Flatten the ball with a glass. Then roll three smaller balls (about a ½ inch) for the ears and nose. Place the nose in the center of the face and flatten carefully. Then put the ears at the top (attached to the head). Flatten these carefully too.
Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are golden. Let the cookies cool for 2 minutes and then move them to a cooling rack.
Add an M&M for the nose. Use two chocolate chips for the eyes. Move the cookies to a cooling rack.
About Heather Weidner
Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.
Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, Murder by the Glass, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder, and Crime in the Old Dominion, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a crazy Mini Aussie Shepherd named Cooper.
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