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Jun 142017

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Scarlet Fever: A Novel (“Sister” Jane) by Rita Mae Brown

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
November 25 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – SPOTLIGHT
November 25 – Reading Is My SuperPower – SPOTLIGHT
November 26 – Rosepoint Publishing – REVIEW
November 26 – Baroness’ Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT
November 27 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW
November 27 – Hearts & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT
November 28 – THANKSGIVING – OFF
November 29 – Ebook addicts – SPOTLIGHT
November 29 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
November 30 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
November 30 – StoreyBook Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 1 – I Read What You Write – SPOTLIGHT
December 1 – This Is My Truth Now – SPOTLIGHT
December 2 – Literary Gold = SPOTLIGHT
December 2 – fundinmental – SPOTLIGHT
December 2 – The Book Diva’s Reads – SPOTLIGHT
December 3 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 3 – A Chick Who Reads – REVIEW
December 4 – My Reading Journeys – SPOTLIGHT
December 4 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT

Fire, Fog and Water (Sgt. Windflower Mysteries) by Mike Martin

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
November 25 – A Blue Million Books – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
November 25 – The Power of Words – REVIEW
November 26 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
November 27 – Lisa Ks Book Review – AUTHOR INTERVIEW – canceled by blogger
November 27 – StoreyBook Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
November 28 – THANKSGIVING – OFF
November 29 – The Book Diva’s Reads – SPOTLIGHT
November 30 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT
December 1 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW, GUEST POST
December 2 – I Read What You Write – REVIEW, GUEST POST
December 3 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 3 – Readeropolis – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 4 – Literary Gold – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 5 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW
December 6 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 9 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST

Death on the Danube: A New Year’s Murder in Budapest (Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series) by Jennifer S. Alderson

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
November 29 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – GUEST POST
November 29 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT
November 30 – I Read What You Write – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 1 – A Blue Million Books – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 2 – TBR Book Blog – REVIEW
December 2 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
December 3 – Mysteries with Character – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 3 – The Book Decoder – REVIEW
December 4 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW
December 4 – Hearts & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW
December 5 – Here’s How It Happened – REVIEW
December 6 – StoreyBook Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 6 – Brooke Blogs – GUEST POST
December 7 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 9 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW
December 9 – This Is My Truth Now – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Book Club Librarian – REVIEW
December 10 – eBook addicts – REVIEW
December 11 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 11 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
December 12 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
December 12 – That’s What She’s Reading – GUEST POST

A Fatal Fondness (Mary MacDougall Mysteries) by Richard Audry

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 2 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 3 – A Blue Million Books – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 4 – I Read What You Write – REVIEW, GUEST POST
December 5 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 6 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 6 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 7 – StoreyBook Reviews – GUEST POST
December 8 – Baroness’ Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 9 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Ascroft, eh? – GUEST POST
December 11 – The Book Decoder – REVIEW
December 12 – Here’s How It Happened – REVIEW
December 13 – MJB Reviewers – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

Brewed Awakening (A Coffeehouse Mystery) by Cleo Coyle

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 2 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 2 – My Journey Back-The Journey Back – REVIEW
December 3 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
December 3 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT
December 4 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 4 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 5 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – Devilishly Delicious Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 6 – Moonlight Rendezvous – REVIEW
December 7 – I Read What You Write – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – This Is My Truth Now – SPOTLIGHT
December 9 – The Book Diva’s Reads – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW
December 12 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW
December 12 – Mysteries with Character – REVIEW
December 13 – Brianne’s Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 14 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 15 – Ruff Drafts – REVIEW

Death By Library (Pismawallops PTA Mysteries) by Rebecca M. Douglass

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 2 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
December 2 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 3 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
December 4 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – GUEST POST
December 5 – StoreyBook Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – Eskimo Princess Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 6 – Devilishly Delicious Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 6 – I Read What You Write – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – Laura’s Interests – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – Brianne’s Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 9 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 10 – Mysteries with Character – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 10 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – Jemima Pett, Author – REVIEW
December 12 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW
December 13 – This Is My Truth Now – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – Melina’s Book Blog – REVIEW

Secrets and Lies: A Claire Callahan Mystery by P.H. Turner

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 2 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT, EXCERPT
December 3 – Christa Reads and Writes – REVIEW
December 4 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT, EXCERPT
December 5 – Mysteries with Character – GUEST POST
December 5 – My Reading Journeys – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 6 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT, EXCERPT
December 7 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 8 – Baroness” Book Trove – REVIEW
December 9 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT, EXCERPT
December 10 – I Read What You Write – REVIEW, GUEST POST
December 10 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 11 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT, EXCERPT
December 12 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 12 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
December 13 – StoreyBook Reviews – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 14 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT, EXCERPT
December 15 – Readeropolis – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

Bookmarked for Murder (Mystery Bookshop) by V.M. Burns

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 2 – Readeropolis – SPOTLIGHT
December 2 – The Ninja Librarian -REVIEW
December 2 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 3 – Carla Loves To Read – REVIEW
December 3 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW
December 4 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW
December 4 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 5 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 6 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW
December 6 – Teresa Trent Author Blog – REVIEW
December 7 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
December 8 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
December 9 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
December 9 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 10 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Cassidy’s Bookshelves – REVIEW
December 11 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 11 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
December 12 – I Read What You Write – SPOTLIGHT
December 12 – The Book Diva’s Reads – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – Book Club Librarian– REVIEW
December 13 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

Murder, She Encountered (Murder, She Reported Series) by Peg Cochran

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 2 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
December 3 – The Book Diva’s Reads – SPOTLIGHT
December 4 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – The Cozy Pages – REVIEW
December 6 – View from the Birdhouse – SPOTLIGHT
December 6 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW
December 6 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews
December 8 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW
December 9 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW
December 11 – eBook Addicts – REVIEW
December 12 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT
December 14 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – SPOTLIGHT
December 14 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 15 – OFF
December 16 – I Read What You Write – REVIEW
December 17 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
December 17 – Book Club Librarian – SPOTLIGHT
December 18 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
December 19 – Here’s How It Happened – REVIEW
December 19 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
December 20 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – REVIEW

Southern Harm: A Southern B&B Mystery by Caroline Fardig

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 3 – Here’s How It Happened – SPOTLIGHT
December 4 – eBook Addicts – SPOTLIGHT
December 5 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
December 6 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 8 – OFF
December 9 – I Read What You Write – REVIEW
December 10 – TBR Book Blog – REVIEW
December 11 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 12 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW
December 13 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
December 13 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW
December 14 – The Book Diva’s Reads – SPOTLIGHT
December 15 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – SPOTLIGHT
December 16 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
December 16 – Brooke Blogs – REVIEW
December 17 – Diary of a Book Fiend – REVIEW
December 17 – Cassidy’s Bookshelves – SPOTLIGHT
December 17 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT
December 18 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
December 18 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW
December 18 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 19 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 19 – MJB Reviewers – REVIEW
December 20 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT
December 20 – Melina’s Book Blog – REVIEW

Load Up (Lark Davis Mysteries) by Annabelle Hunter

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 4 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 5 – I Read What You Write – SPOTLIGHT
December 6 – TBR Book Blog – REVIEW
December 7 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 7 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
December 9 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog– REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 10 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW
December 10 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf -AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 11 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 12 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
December 12 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 13 – A Blue Million Books – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 14 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
December 15 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW
December 16 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 17 – Mysteries with Character – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

Elizabeth J. Duncan

This is award-winning author Elizabeth J. Duncan's tenth Penny Brannigan mystery!

Remembering the Dead:
A Penny Brannigan Mystery
by Elizabeth J. Duncan

Set in North Wales, Canadian amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan attends a dinner party at a posh country house--where a historic chair disappears and a waiter is murdered.

Artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan has been asked to organize a formal dinner to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended World War One. After dinner, the guests adjourn to the library for a private exhibition of the Black Chair, a precious piece of Welsh literary history awarded in 1917 to poet Hedd Wyn. But to the guests' shock, the newly restored bardic chair is missing. And then Penny discovers the rain-soaked body of a waiter.

When Penny learns that the victim was the nephew of one of her employees, she is determined to find the killer. Meanwhile, the local police search for the Black Chair. The Prince of Wales is due to open an exhibit featuring the chair in three weeks, so time is not on their side. A visit to a nursing home to consult an ex-thief convinces Penny that the theft of the Black Chair and the waiter's murder are connected. She rushes to Dublin to consult a disagreeable antiquarian, who might know more than he lets on, and during the course of her investigation confronts a gaggle of suspicious travelers and an eccentric herbalist who seems to have something to hide. Can Penny find the chair and the culprit before she is laid to rest in the green grass of Wales?

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12/15/2019

Nancy J. Cohen

New from Nancy J. Cohen

A Bad Hair Day Cookbook: Recipes from Nancy J. Cohen's Cozy Mystery Series by Nancy J. Cohen

Are you having a bad hair day? Whip out your whisk, snatch up your spoon, and prepare your palate. Inside the pages of this cookbook are recipes that will bring you good cheer.

Enjoy 160+ tasty recipes from Nancy J. Cohen's popular Bad Hair Day cozy mystery series. Included in this cookbook are excerpts, cooking tips, and anecdotes written by hairstylist and savvy sleuth Marla Vail. From appetizers to desserts, Marla offers cooking tips and tricks along with commentary about the dishes she prepares for her family. Whether you're a skilled cook or an eager novice, this cookbook will unravel the mystery of cooking. Put on your apron and plan to make some killer recipes. Bonuses Include:

*Meet the Sleuth
*Introduction by Marla Vail
*Cooking Tips
*Excerpts from Series Titles
*Themed Menu Suggestions
*"A Sabbath Dinner" by Nancy's Mother

For Home Cooks, Food Lovers, Mystery Fans and Cookbook Collectors

Author Links

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The Bad Hair Day Mysteries

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1/5/2020

Mildred Abbott

Estes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, delightful bakeries, a cozy bookstore… and murder.

Winifred Page and her corgi, Watson, move to Estes Park to hit the Reset button on life. Fred is about to open her dream bookshop, and the only challenges she anticipates are adjusting to small-town life, tourists, and living close to her loveable mother, Phyllis, and hippy stepfather, Barry.

When Fred steps into her soon-to-be-bookshop for the first time, she expects dust bunnies and spiders… not the dead body in the upstairs kitchen. The local police have an easy suspect—Barry.

Determined to prove quirky Barry innocent of murder, Fred puts on her detective hat, and with Watson by her side, she explores her new town and gets acquainted with her fellow shopkeepers. Could one of her friendly neighbors be the real culprit? And what would be the motive for killing the owner of the Sinful Bites candy store? The secrets Fred discover put her at odds with the local police sergeant and threaten her cozy future in Estes.

With snow falling outside, all Fred wants to do is curl up by the fire with a good book and Watson snuggled at her feet. But before she can begin her new life and put her plans for her bookshop into action, Fred and Watson have a mystery to solve…

(This culinary cozy mystery includes a recipe for delectable lemon bars.)

Author Links
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The Rest of the Series

Coming December 25, 2019

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2/15/2019

Kirsten Weiss

The truth is out there…
Way out there.

Close Encounters of the Curd Kind:
A Doyle Cozy Mystery
(A Wits' End Cozy Mystery)
by Kirsten Weiss
3rd in Series

Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening jail time if she interferes in one more investigation.

So when her neighbor is murdered, Susan exerts all her willpower to stay out of the sheriff’s business. But her neighbor’s daughter, Clare, needs Susan’s help. Clare’s been experiencing lost time, a sure sign of alien abduction. Helping Clare is only neighborly… and totally not interfering.

Right?

Worse, Clare’s not the only one with UFO issues. Weird lights in the sky, vanishing cows, and little green men are bringing the mountain town of Doyle to the edge of a panic. Can Susan unearth the truth before her town spirals into chaos?

If you like laugh-out-loud mysteries with complicated heroines (and breakfast recipes), you’ll love Close Encounters of the Curd Kind, book 3 in the Wits’ End series of cozy mystery novels. Read this twisty cozy caper today!

Author Links
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1/31/2020

Richard Audry

A Fatal Fondness (Mary MacDougall Mysteries)
by Richard Audry
Historical Mystery
4th in Series

It’s September 1902, and Mary MacDougall has fulfilled her greatest dream—opening her own detective agency. But the achievement doesn’t come without complication.

Mary’s father insists that an older cousin come to work with her—as both secretary and minder. Jeanette Harrison pledges to keep the plucky sleuth away from danger, as well as from her unsuitable suitor Edmond Roy. This arrangement, embarrassingly, makes Mary the only detective in the state with a chaperone.

The new agency’s first cases hardly seem to portend danger or significance. There’s the affair of the nicked napkin rings…the problem of the purloined pocket watch...and the matter of the four filched felines.

Mary and Jeanette have not the slightest notion that one of these modest little matters will blow up into the most consequential and perilous case of the heiress-sleuth’s budding career. What begins in triviality mushrooms into disappearance, betrayal, international intrigue, and murder. As she learns more and more, Mary’s prospects for making the acquaintance of an assassin’s blade improve dramatically.

Author Links
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12/31/2019

Peg Cochran

A gutsy Manhattan socialite encounters murder and corruption at the World’s Fair.

Murder, She Encountered (Murder, She Reported Series)
by Peg Cochran
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Alibi (December 3, 2019)

New York City, 1939. A rising star at the Daily Trumpet, Elizabeth “Biz” Adams has been sent to the World’s Fair—billed as the “World of Tomorrow,” a look toward a brighter future even as the drumbeats of war grow louder—to cover a robbery. What she stumbles upon instead is a dead woman, dumped into the Aquacade’s pool with a nylon stocking wrapped around her neck.

Elizabeth snaps a photo as the police arrest Joey Dorman, a gentle young hot dog vendor who made no secret of his obsession with the murder victim. Even though she’s thrilled that her photo makes the front page, the fear and confusion evident on Joey’s face are haunting. So Elizabeth vows to prove his innocence—or his guilt—with her partner at the Daily Trumpet, Ralph Kaminsky. Meanwhile, her romance with Detective Sal Marino is heating up, and Elizabeth is more determined than ever to follow her heart.

But when Kaminsky’s efforts to expose the real killer land him in the hospital, Elizabeth is forced to continue the investigation on her own. And as she tries to narrow down the long list of suspects, she discovers a dark secret running through the Fair—a secret some would kill to protect.

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1/31/2020

Connie Berry

American antique dealer Kate Hamilton's Christmastime jaunt to a charming English village leads to an investigation of a missing ruby...and a chain of murders.

A Legacy of Murder:
A Kate Hamilton Mystery
by Connie Berry
Amateur Sleuth Mystery
2nd in Series

It's Christmastime and antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is off to visit her daughter, Christine, in the quaint English village of Long Barston. Christine and her boyfriend, Tristan, work at stately-but-crumbling Finchley Hall. Touring the Elizabethan house and grounds, Kate is intrigued by the docent's tales of the Finchley Hoard, and the strange deaths surrounding the renowned treasure trove. But next to a small lake, Kate spies the body of a young woman, killed by a garden spade.

Nearly blind Lady Barbara, who lives at Finchley with her loyal butler, Mugg, persuades Kate to take over the murdered woman's work. Kate finds that a Burmese ruby has vanished from the legendary Blood-Red Ring, replaced by a lesser garnet. Were the theft and the woman's death connected?

Kate learns that Lady Barbara's son fled to Venezuela years before, suspected of murdering another young woman. The murder weapon belonged to an old gardener, who becomes the leading suspect. But is Lady Barbara's son back to kill again? When another body is found, the clues point toward Christine. It's up to Kate to clear her daughter's name in Connie Berry's second Kate Hamilton mystery, a treasure for fans of traditional British mysteries.

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Book 1 in this Series

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12/15/2019

Debra Sennefelder

Kelly Quinn won me over immediately. . . the characters jump right off the pages, filled with their own personalities. ~Socrates’ Book Reviews…

Murder Wears a Little Black Dress
(A Resale Boutique Mystery) by Debra Sennefelder

Every woman would kill for one . . .

Manhattan fashionista Kelly Quinn thought she’d left her upstate New York town far behind . . . until the Seventh Avenue expat returns home to revamp her grandmother’s consignment shop into an upscale boutique—and unwittingly sets a trend for murder . . .

After her rising career as a Manhattan buyer is derailed, Kelly has mixed feelings about relocating back to Lucky Cove, in spite of her big plans for the soon-to-be-renamed Curated by Kelly Resale Boutique. What’s left of her luck starts running out when a customer puts on a black lace dress that triggers visions of someone being murdered. As if the haunted “Murder Dress” isn’t enough to kill business, the psychic’s doppelganger cousin has just been found bludgeoned to death.

Was Maxine LeMoyne the real target or was it a case of mistaken murder? With some creepy pre-Halloween bargain hunters walking the night and Kelly suddenly a person of interest, a second murder rocks the close-knit town. Now Kelly could be the one who ends up talking to dead people when she’s stalked by a killer determined to take her out in high style . . .

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Coming January 7, 2020!
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Silenced in Sequins
(A Resale Boutique Mystery Book 2)

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12/31/2019

Caroline Fardig

A little Southern charm never killed anybody—until now—

Southern Harm: A Southern B&B Mystery
by Caroline Fardig
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Publisher: Alibi (November 12, 2019)

After solving a murder at a local restaurant, Quinn Bellandini just wants to get back to her comfortable life running her grandfather’s B&B in Savannah, Georgia, with her sister, Delilah. But those plans get buried when Quinn and her new boyfriend, Tucker Heyward, dig up an old skeleton while doing some landscaping in his aunt Lela’s backyard. Before long, Lela becomes the prime suspect in the thirty-three-year-old unsolved murder of a high school homecoming queen.

Tucker is devastated. But Quinn’s conscience won’t let her risk an elderly woman spending her twilight years in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. And Delilah, bored by the quiet B&B biz, has been itching to do some more investigating of her own.

Soon they’re questioning a growing list of suspects, from nosy neighbors and snooty Savannah socialites to mild-mannered teachers and old high-school friends of the victim—including Quinn and Delilah’s own parents. But no one is safe from a killer who’s totally old school.

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Book 3
Coming February 11, 2020

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1/31/2020

Cleo Coyle

New York Times bestseller Cleo Coyle's "delightfully twisty" new Coffeehouse Mystery!

Brewed Awakening
(A Coffeehouse Mystery)
by Cleo Coyle
Cozy Mystery
18th in Series

When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she's been missing for the past week, or that her friends and family have been frantic with worry. Now that she's back, everyone is overjoyed, including a handsome NYPD detective who claims to be her fiancé. But to Mike Quinn's crushing distress, Clare doesn't remember him, or much of anything about the last decade of her life.

Clare's missing memory is tied to a crime she witnessed. An acquaintance of Clare's elegant employer--and fellow member of an exclusive Gotham circle known as "The Ladies Who Brunch"--invited Clare to her posh hotel to sample gourmet wedding cakes. The pair took a stroll after their indulgent tasting and, according to security camera footage, a masked figure snatched the hotel heiress at gunpoint with Clare looking on. Did the kidnapper take Clare, too? The camera went dark, just like Clare's memory. Soon authorities grow suspicious. Is Clare really a victim? Or merely acting like one? Evidence is mounting that she set the woman up.

To clear her name, Clare must find a way to reclaim her memories and rescue the heiress before this high-stakes crime ends in tragedy. Otherwise, instead of walking down the aisle, Clare may find herself perp-walking to prison as an accomplice to kidnapping and murder.

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2/28/2020

Congratulations to Cherisse T. (Kentucky). She has won a copy of Whack n Roll by Gail Oust.

Congratuations to Bev R. (Michigan). She has won a copy of The Chocolate Shark Shenanigans by JoAnna Carl.

Congratulations to Nancy P. (Florida). She has won a copy of Shot Through the Hearth by Kate Carlisle.

Congratulations to Michelle H. (Maryland). She has won a copy of Penny for Your Secrets by Anna Lee Huber.

Congratuations to Deborah D. (Pennsylvania). She has won a copy of City of Scoundrels by Victoria Thompson.

Congratulations to Veronica B. (New Jersey). She has won A Woman of Two Minds by Bourne Morris.

Congratulations to LuAnn W. (UT). She has won a copy of Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders by Tessa Arlen.

Congratulations to Susan H. (Florida). She has won a copy of A Catered Murder by Isis Crawford.

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Fall's Killer Vintage
(Calla Lily Mystery Series)
by Anna Celeste Burke
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series

In wine country, a federal judge is murdered and Aunt Lettie’s old friend, Judge Colin Brinkley, quickly becomes a suspect.

Lily, Austin, and her friends are excited about the Calla Lily Winery vintages entered in this year’s Taste of Napa Challenge. The event turns out to be more challenging than anyone imagined when a fire ends the awards ceremony. The plot thickens when one of the wines entered in the competition turns out to be a killer vintage. The U.S. Marshals Service is on the job, but when Aunt Lettie’s old friend becomes a suspect, Lily and her friends are soon caught up in the mystery too. Is the murder of a federal judge about a rivalry among vintners, one of the judge’s cases, or something more personal? Join Lily and Austin as they try to discover who’s responsible for fall’s killer vintage.

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Laura Childs – Cackleberry Club Mysteries

Eggs on Ice (A Cackleberry Club Mystery)
by Laura Childs

The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club café is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series.

Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Carol" is just playing to type. He's not the most beloved man in town. In fact, you'd have a dickens of a time finding someone who liked him. Still, it's a shock when the Ghost of Christmas Past stabs him during the first rehearsal. Suzanne, co-owner of the Cackleberry Club café, Kindred's favorite combination diner, craft store and bookshop, chases the murderer out of the building but loses him in the alley.

As the days pass the list of suspects grows longer. Is it the disgruntled partner? The former secretary whom Sharpe sexually harrassed? Or is it fellow owner of the Cackleberry Club, Toni's almost ex-husband, Junior? The women of the Cackleberry Club are determined to find the killer before he can add another victim to his Christmas list.

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Laura Childs – Tea Shop Mysteries

Broken Bone China (A Tea Shop Mystery)
by Laura Childs
(March 5, 2019)

Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.

It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out.

As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the drone, hovering like some angry, mechanized insect, deliberately crashes into the balloon next to them. An enormous, fiery explosion erupts, and everyone watches in horror as the balloon plummets to the earth, killing all three of its passengers.

Sirens scream, first responders arrive, and Theodosia is interviewed by the police. During the interview, she learns that one of the downed occupants was Don Kingsley, the CEO of a local software company, SyncSoft. Not only do the police suspect Kingsley as the primary target, they learn that he possessed a rare Revolutionary War Union Jack flag that several people were rabidly bidding on.

Intrigued, Theodosia begins her own investigation. Was it the CEO's soon-to-be ex-wife, who is restoring an enormous mansion at no expense? The CEO's personal assistant, who also functioned as curator of his prized collection of Americana? Two rival antiques' dealers known for dirty dealing? Or was the killer the fiancée of one of Theodosia's dear friends, who turns out to be an employee—and whistle-blower—at SyncSoft?

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5/31/2019

Laura Childs – Terrie Farley Moran – Scrapbook Mysteries

A shocking murder strikes a sour note during Jazz Fest in the latest New Orleans Scrapbooking Mystery.

Mumbo Gumbo Murder
(A Scrapbooking Mystery)
by Laura Childs and
Terrie Farley Moran
Cozy Mystery
16th in Series

It's Jazz Fest in New Orleans, and the giant puppets from the Beastmaster Puppet Theatre are parading through the French Quarter. Some are very spooky and veiled, others are tall and gangly, like strange aliens.

As the parade proceeds, Carmela Bertrand and her best friend, Ava, follow behind, down Royal Street and past the food booths. Suddenly, they hear a terrible crash from Devon Dowling's antiques shop. They rush inside to find Devon collapsed with blood streaming down the side of his face. Has he been shot? Stabbed? 911 is hastily called, and the police and EMTs show up. After the police examine Devon's body, they tell Carmela and Ava that their friend was murdered with an icepick. They're shocked beyond belief—and now Mimi, Devon's little pug, is left homeless.

Carmela and Ava are determined to catch the murderer, but the list of suspects is long. How long do they have before they find themselves on the killer's list?

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