I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SERIES!!
Bewitching Boots
(Renaissance Faire Mystery)
(Volume 8)
Paperback: 222 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1500683412
E-Book File Size: 381 KB
ASIN: B00M9NZN4E
Jessie Morton is thrilled when she finds Bill Warren, an old fashioned shoemaker, and he agrees to come back to Renaissance Faire Village with her. She’s not so thrilled when claims to have elf magic, and he falls for Princess Isabelle. The dancing slippers Bill makes for Isabelle make him a suspect when the princess takes a leap from the castle terrace. Now, Jessie must find the lady or lord who helped the princess with her last dance before she loses her star attraction.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Do you believe in magic? Bill Warren believes and after this story you may believe magic really happens at the Renaissance Faire.
This is one of my favorite cozy series. I love visiting Adventureland’s Ren Faire because there is always fun mixed in with the mystery.
This story starts out after Jessie and Chase’s wedding and already rumors are spreading that they are breaking up. Chase is training new knights and Jessie is wrapped up with the museum but as soon as they find time they are going to nip those rumors in the bud. When Princess Isabelle is found dead catching the killer becomes their #1 priority. Detective Almond is trying to catch a killer with Chase’s assistance but Jessie is doing her own investigation.
All our favorite characters are back including Wanda, the blue ghost, and they are joined by some great new characters too! It is that time of year when new people are auditioning to became actors or acts at the faire and there are some very unusual “creatures” roaming the cobblestones.
The story is so well written and contains such vivid detail that you feel like you are right there and all the drama is happening right around you. You can almost taste the jumbo turkey legs and ale, hear the minstrels playing all over the grounds and smell the bread the monks are baking. I can clearly see the jousting matches and the secret tunnels in the castle. There are also some things that only certain people can see like a certain dragon and we get to see them all through Jessie’s eyes.
The Lavenes are excellent storytellers. Mystery, humor, romance, with a bit a paranormal are all blended together perfectly. This entire series has been pure pleasure to read.
I recommend highly everything written by these authors. You just can’t go wrong with a Joyce and Jim Lavene mystery. (Or a J.J. Cook or an Ellie Grant, yep, that’s them too!)
About the authors:
Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, best-selling mystery fiction as themselves, J.J. Cook and Ellie Grant. They have written and published more than 70 novels for Harlequin, Berkley, Amazon, and Gallery Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in rural North Carolina with their family. Visit them at www.joyceandjimlavene.com.
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Website: http://www.renaissancefairemysteries.com/
Blog: www.romanceofmystery.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyceandjimlavene
Twitter: @authorjlavene
Amazon : amazon.com/author/jlavene
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I LOVE, and I do mean lovelovelove every book I have ever read by Joyce and Jim Lavene. Under any name. I have e-books, and real books. My first book by them was Wicked Weaves and I have enjoyed every book in the series. I am so excited by every new installment.
I’m looking forward to starting this series.
I like this series
Sounds like a wonderful book by an author I’m not familiar with. I’m looking forward to reading this one 🙂
Thanks for having us here today!
i cannot wait to read this book!!
thank you for the giveaway!!!
Yet another series I”m going to have to catch upon. Read the first Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade book by the authors and was hooked on their work. This one sounds grand too. I’m in on the giveaway.
Sounds like a good mystery…
I haven’t read this series but enjoy the Levine’s book that I have read. I especially like LETHAL LILY. I have review here.
They have so many books out under different names its hard to keep up! Will catch up to this series someday, hopefully soon.
Nice review, thank you.
I enjoy reading anything “supernatural” and now must start this series.
I’d really like to read this. Thanks for the giveaway
The synopsis of this book kind of reminds me of an Hands Christian Anderson fairy tale-The Danding Slippers, I think it was. I loved those stories and therefore I think I want to delve into the magic of this boot makes–be it for evil or for good!!
Looking forward to this one.
I would love to read this book.
It’s such fun to attend the MN Renaissance Faire. Now to read a series about them!
I’ve always wanted to go to a Ren Faire! This sounds like it would take me to one 🙂 That’s the great thing about books!
Fun series. Great authors!
I can always count on enjoying Joyce and Jim’s books. I’m anxious to read this one.
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I have read many of Jim & Joyce’s books. I have not read this, will have to catch up on their books.
Judy Cox