Cozy Wednesday with Linda Wiken – Author of Toasting Up Trouble – #Review / #Giveaway too!

Welcome to Cozy Wednesday!

I am thrilled to welcome Linda to Escape With Dollycas today!
Linda’s new book, Toasting Up Trouble was released yesterday. 

ESCAPE WITH DOLLYCAS INTO A GOOD BOOK
By Linda Wiken

Yesterday was release day for my sixth book but actually, it’s the first book of my new series, the Dinner Club Mysteries. You’d think that with each book it becomes less of an ‘event’. But let me tell you, each time is like Christmas! It’s that exciting.

Now that I’m writing as my real self, rather than as Erika Chase, the Dinner Club Mysteries have given me an entirely new focus, food. Along with a healthy dose of murder, too. But I’ll let you in on a spoiler – poison is never the murder weapon. Why? Because the cookbooks I mention, the ones the members of the Culinary Capers Dinner Club use, are real cookbooks. You can find them on the shelves in your local bookstore, or at least on line.

The way it works, is the club meets monthly and as each of the five members hosts a dinner, it’s that person’s choice of cookbook. All dishes have to be out of that book. In Toasting Up Trouble, book number one, the evening is Italian themed. Wonder if you can guess which cookbook they’re using.

J.J. Tanner is my event planner, dinner club foodie, and super sleuth. She’s hooked on cookbooks with lots of pictures, and justice when murder happens. In this she’s ably aided by her club cohorts and a mysterious but very handsome and sexy private eye. Okay, maybe he’s not helping her so much as trying to keep her out of his way, and out of trouble.

The setting is Burlington, VT, in a fictitious village in the city’s North end, on the shores of beautiful Lake Champlain. I’ve had a lot of fun building this cozy location and filling it with some of my favorite kinds of shops. And, of course, many restaurants.

I enjoy spending time with J.J. – we have a lot in common seeing as we’re both cookbook junkies. And I am in awe of her determination to get at the truth. She’s quite a bit more spunky than I, braver in fact, and no pushover. Who says cozy chicks can’t save the world!

Toasting Up Trouble also includes some recipes. Again, no poison involved whatsoever!

~Linda

Event planner Jennifer “J.J.” Tanner has a full plate, but that’s the way she likes it. First, it’s her turn to choose the recipe for the next meeting of the Culinary Capers Dinner Club, a gathering of foodie friends who experiment with entrées for their creative and gastronomical pleasure. Second, she’s organizing an Italian princess party for the twenty-one-year-old daughter of a high-tech millionaire.

But one thing J.J. didn’t plan on is that the caterer for the event—hotshot chef Antonio Marcotti—would end up murdered the night of the party. Or that she’d end up being a prime suspect after having had a heated argument with the unscrupulous chef. Now it’s up to J.J.—with help from her fellow Club members and a handsome if mysterious private eye—to turn the tables on the real killer…

About The Author

Linda Wiken is a former mystery bookstore owner and a short story writer. The first in her new Dinner Club Mystery series, TOASTING UP TROUBLE, debuts in July, 2016. In a parallel life writes the Ashton Corners Book Club Mysteries, as Erika Chase. She is a member of those dangerous dames, The Ladies’ Killing Circle. She has been short-listed for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel, and an Arthur Ellis Award, Best Short Story, from Crime Writers of Canada. She admits to a passion for choral singing, chocolate and Siamese cats!
Written  as Erika Chase

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. Receiving a complimentary copy in no way reflected my review of this book. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”