Welcome to Cozy Wednesday!
I am over the moon to have Larissa at Escape With Dollycas today as part of her Great Escapes Book Tour!
20 Quick Questions with Larissa Reinhart
Favorite Color – orange
Favorite Candy – Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
Favorite Snack – Fried Apple Pie
Favorite Soft Drink – Tea
Favorite Hard Drink – Lemon Sour (a drink in Japan made from fresh lemon, seltzer water, and Japanese grain alcohol—kind of a vodka made from rice)
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor – dark chocolate with raspberry
Favorite Movie – Lost in Translation
Favorite TV Show – Cops
Favorite Book – This one’s too hard, I have many favorites 😉 The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is my earliest favorite.
Favorite Fictional Character – Edward Rochester
Favorite Super Hero – Black Widow
Favorite Singer/Group/Band – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Favorite Carnival Ride – bumper cars
Favorite Spring Activity – Eating BBQ
Favorite Summer Activity – Floating or tubing (inner tube on a river)
Favorite Fall Activity – Going to the North Georgia Mountains and eating fried apple pie
Favorite Winter Activity – Reading
Favorite Place to Read – In bed
Favorite Place to Write – In my inherited Danish chair with a footstool
Dream Vacation Destination – Singapore
Thank you so much Larissa for plating 20 Quick Questions!
Now let me tell you about her new book!
16 Millimeters: A Maizie Albright Humorous Mystery
Cozy Mystery/Romance
2nd in Series
Past Perfect Press (October 17, 2017)
Print Length: 320 pages
Kindle ASIN: B074TW9MZ8
#StillAWannabeDetective In continuing her career-makeover quest as a for-real detective, ex-teen and reality star Maizie Albright has a big learning curve to overcome. A sleuthing background starring in a TV show— Julia Pinkerton, Teen Detective—does not cut the real life mustard. It doesn’t even buy her lunch, let alone extra condiments. Her chosen mentor, Wyatt Nash of Nash Security Solutions, is not a willing teacher. He’d rather stick Maizie with a safe desk job and handle the security solution-ing himself. But Maizie’s got other plans to help Nash. First, win Nash’s trust. Second, his heart.
Wait, not his heart. His respect. His hearty respect.
So when a major movie producer needs a babysitter for his hot mess starlet, Maizie eagerly takes the job. But when her starlet appears dead, and then not dead, Maizie’s got more than an actress to watch and a missing corpse to find. Body doubles, dead bodies, and hot bodies abound when the big screen, small screen, and silent screams collide. Maizie’s on the job, on the skids, and on thin ice, hunting a killer who may be a celebrity stalker. And Maizie just might be the next celebrity who gets snuffed.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Maizie Albright is working at Nash Security Solutions but as a bookkeeper instead of getting the training she needs for her private detective license. That changes when she brings the firm a new case that entails keeping a movie starlet out of trouble and to the set on time. Should be easy, right? But what starts out a basically a babysitting job turns into a full blown case with dead bodies and body doubles. It also brings Wyatt closer to admitting his feeling for her. Now she just needs to stay alive and solve the case so she can maybe take their relationship to a whole new level.
Hollywood comes to Georgia and brings a whole bunch of trouble. I liked that Maizie had a history with actress she is supposed to be “watching” and quickly finds out she really doesn’t know her very well at all. It isn’t long before Nash is brought in because with the sighting of more than one dead body that goes missing before the cops can arrive, Maizie is clearly in over her head. Maize still has the spunk she had in the first book, standing up to her overbearing mother and not giving up on the case. Finding herself in some sticky situations she is able to think on her feet, but some situations could be avoided if she would think before she acts. That is why she is still in training and #StillAWannabeDetective.
The author has packed a lot of action, danger, humor, and romantic tension in this story. Twists and turns are “off the chain” 🙂 The relationships and conversation are realistic and had me laughing so many times. Maize is truly one of a kind and I just can’t get enough. Unlike her former Hollywood persona, Julia Pinkerton, there is no script and the dead bodies and the danger are all real. And so is steamy Wyatt Nash. Another awesome character that I love.
I dove right into this book and completely escaped. Yes, I think I am channeling my much younger self a little bit in this review. Maizie just brings that out of me. This was a fun read and I can’t wait for the next Maizie Albright Humorous Mystery! I really want to follow her wherever she goes and whatever messes she gets herself in and out of.
#AMUSTREAD #5STARS #GETYOURCOPYTODAY
About The Author
Larissa is a 2015 Georgia Author of the Year Best Mystery finalist, 2014 finalist for the Silver Falchion and Georgia Author of the Year, 2012 Daphne du Maurier finalist, 2012 The Emily finalist, and 2011 Dixie Kane Memorial winner. Her family and Cairn Terrier, Biscuit, have been living in Nagoya, Japan, but once again call Georgia home. See them on HGTV’s House Hunters International “Living for the Weekend in Nagoya” episode. Visit her website, LarissaReinhart.com, find her chatting on Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads, or join her Facebook street team, The Mystery Minions.
Author Links
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Purchase Links
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TOUR PARTICIPANTS
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October 18 – Cassidy’s Bookshelves – REVIEW
October 18 – Celebrating Authors – SPOTLIGHT
October 19 – My Reading Journey – REVIEW
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October 21 – 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, &, Sissy, Too! – SPOTLIGHT
October 22 – Lori’s Reading Corner – GUEST POST
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October 24 – Teresa Trent Author Blog – SPOTLIGHT
October 25 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – COZY WEDNESDAY – INTERVIEW
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This books sounds like it has fun characters.
Thanks so much for stopping in, Melody! I hope you enjoy 16 MM!
Book sounds really good. I love characters that make me laugh! Had an aunt that made really good fried apple pies. Sadly, I lost her several years ago. Have her recipe but have never made them. I know they won’t taste the same.
I’m so sorry to hear about your aunt. I think homemade fried pies are becoming a lost art, at least the kinds that are not from fast food. They make such good ones up in the North Georgia Mountains, I like to get up there at least once a year to have one during apple season.
This book sounds like an exciting read. I, too, love to read in bed, so I guess I’m also a librocubicularist!
So comfortable, Suzanne! I have to read in bed before I sleep. It’s such an awesome habit. 😉 lol
Thank you so much, Lori! I’m so happy you liked 16 MM!!! And those pics you found are pretty on the mark. Particularly the lemon sour. That’s exactly how it looks in Japan. lol
Sounds like a good read.
Thanks so much!
Sounds like a great book–can’t wait to read it.
What a fun blog! Thanks Larissa and Lori!
Thanks for commenting Celia!
Hope to read your book soon. Trying to catch up on some others, but soon. 15 Minutes and 16 Millimeters sounds like interesting books. I have some of your A Cherry Tucker Mystery books too.
Thanks Cathy! I hope you enjoy 15 & 16!! I hope you enjoy them!
I am always happy to discover something new about one of my favorite writers I found out about ORANGE today. Humm. Thought it might be pink!!! Larissa writes super books and I am looking forward to what’s in store for her readers next.
Sincerely
Cynthia B
Congratulations to our winner! Thanks so much for everyone who participated! xoxo