Different Stripes The first six quirky novels of the Windy Mountain series

If the Tasmanian Tiger really is extinct, how come it won't go away in this bundle of six amusing novels? 1. LIE OF THE TIGER Windy Mountain is a one-dog town because of a law the mayor rammed through years ago. But it's a law two funny old men will need to break. When a frighteningly familiar Irishman arrives to take charge of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum, he discovers the last manager left the building in a coffin – and the owners really don’t want him to succeed anyway. So if Oodles and Wish-Wash can’t help him, Paddy is on a hiding to nothing. 2. BLOKES ON A PLANE When the nasty old mayor disappears, someone starts stealing local landmarks from the quirky little town, and no one else seems to be overly concerned, two old men go from being unlikely tourists to unlikely sleuths. Enter the walkie-talkies and cow-camouflage trousers. Octogenarians Oodles and Wish-Wash would normally be the last people to worry the former mayor is missing. Especially not now when they are busy planning an overseas trip to explore family history sparked by a DNA test. 3. WHITEY AND THE SIX DWARFS Even when they're not there, the old men are complicating things. Find out how in this funny whodunnit. Oodles, Wish-Wash and The Mayor have gone to Ireland to research family history, and have washed their hands of the Tasmanian Tiger Museum. But the new owners are thrown into a puzzle after a garden ornament goes missing. The clues include a skeleton, a chess set, and a concrete marsupial with a secret pouch. The old men are no help. In fact, their emails just muddy the waters. 4. BLOKES IN DONEGAL St Patrick might have been so busy chasing snakes that he overlooked banishing Tasmanian Tigers from Ireland. This might explain how one ends up under the kitchen sink in the fourth book of the Windy Mountain series, which is more crazy mystery than cozy mystery. The three old men think they are flying to Donegal to trace family history and to inherit a castle. It ends in laughs and tears. Who knew Donegal has quirky characters, too? 5. BLOKES IN THE HOUSE Nobody warned the three old men that hitmen and Tasmanian Tigers were going into lockdown with them! The former mayor is 82, and not on speaking terms with the former town drunk, 83, and one of his former council employees, 85. So when they're forced to isolate in a small house together for three months to stay safe from the pandemic, there is bound to be friction. But while the old mayor resigns himself to a future of face masks, hand-sanitiser and a life of much less luxury than he is used to in the company of two buffoons he didn’t even want to see again, he gets some very unpleasant surprises 6. WHO KNEW TIGER SHARKS ALSO EAT APPLES? When someone threatens to spoil Christmas by demolishing the town's Art Deco cafe, it's time to take sides. The proposed replacement is an ugly commercial building that would tower over the district. More crazy mystery than cozy mystery, the quirkiness of this funny series goes to a new level when a Tiger Shark surfaces. The three old men are at each other's throats yet again, this time over the proposed development. But they have a new umpire. He is someone who has earned an infamous reputation in Windy Mountain before, but he returns in a surprising new role.