A Twisted Riposte

A California Fae Cozy Mystery (Pixie Twist Mysteries, Book 1)

By: Alyn Troy

Narrated by: Kasey Logan

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

A town of wonky magic. A fencer stabbed by her own blade. Can Twizzie untangle the twisted mystery?

Twizzle Twist isn’t your normal real estate pixie. Nor is St. Maurice your normal Southern California town. The magic in the valley belches at the worst time. The faerock vein in St. Mo marks the local fae in uncomfortable ways. Twizzie’s gimpy wing and bum leg are the least of her worries when she’s hired to show a cute new resident homes for sale in St. Maurice.

She has her wings busy trying to keep her mind on the sale, and not her cute client. Their house-hunting lunges off-target when the first showing comes with more than either of them bargained for. The owner is dead, stabbed in the back with her own sword.

St. Maurice’s has one of the few remaining amusement piers on the west coast. And someone is twisting the town council to tear it down. Twizzie’s home above the merry-go-round, as well as the businesses of her friends, may become a pile of timber as new development pushes into the seaside town.

With a murderer on the loose, a cute vampire she needs to sell a home to, so she won’t break her rule about dating clients, and the imminent demise of her home, Twizzie has too many strikes to dodge all at once.

Will Twizzie and her friends pull the right cord to untangle the twisted knot of intrigue in their sleepy village? If you love mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and snarky humour, buy your copy of A Twisted Riposte today to lunge into this mystery.

©2021 Alyn Troy (P)2021 Alyn Troy

Well done

Welcome to Saint Maurice , home of Twizzle a real estate agent ,a pixie, a good friend to everybody she knows.......and she has a limp
with the help of cane she goes around on her bisniss .The aera is know for it's 'fearock' what triggers defects in anyone magickal
It's good to have a setting where disabilities are not treated as something to be pitied or scorned.
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There's a nice flurry of folks around her like the wizard Hop , the mermaid coffee shop owner Amanda, Mort the cat/dragon and Billie Quinn the journalist with many hats. Everyone has a story to tell in St Maurice, because of the Faerock mine under the town it causes magic to act strangely and some of the residents were born with conditions caused by the Faerock

There were twists and turns in this book, some of them to do with the characters’ personalities and how not everyone is quite how they seem at first impression. And I loved that! That’s what I want, in a mystery, to be misled. And misled I was! I thought I knew whodunit… and boy was I wrong! Thumbs up for this book!
Alyn has the rare ability to paint with words without repeating her self over and over again .


A great start to a new series and I am looking forward to the next book

Good story, great twist robot reading?

Thought I would check this title out since I really liked Mystic Brews by the author. Good story, setting has charm and is interesting so are the effects on the environment. Feel like the characters will be fun to go on adventures with and figure out the mysteries.
Narrator sounded very mechanical like a call prompt menu. Maybe the kid in class that doesn't like to read aloud. No real emotion or inflection in her tone comes through. That is something I look for in an audio book.

Great Listening

This is a neat fast moving story that takes you right into from the first page. Lots of neat characters, everyone of whom I suspected was the culprit. The entire town is well laid out, which is good since you get to see a good bit of it.
I'm on to book two now.
Highly recommended.

very good

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

Fun Little Pixie Tale

This is a fun little well written listen. I enjoyed the story and characters. I highly recommend this cute little book with plenty of laughs.

narrator was so flat

The narrator was so bad, such a flat delivery. I almost fell asleep and never made it passed the second chapter.