Sleuthing Women II by Lois Winston, et al | Blog Tour with Review, Guest Post, and Giveaway

Sleuthing Women II: 10 Mystery Novellas

by Lois Winston, Allison Brennan, Laura Griffin, Maggie Toussaint, Jonnie Jacobs,

Camille Minichino, Heather Haven, Vinnie Hansen, Mary Kennedy, Rita Lakin, and Judy Alter

Sleuthing Women II: 10 Mystery Novellas
Genre: Cozy Mysteries
Self Published
Publication Date: September 5, 2017
Print Length: 675 pages

e-Book File Size: 2232 KB
ASIN: B074TVL3HG

e-ISBN: 9781940795409

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The Blurbs

16 Millimeters by Larissa Reinhart | Blog Tour with Review, Guest Post, and Giveaway

The Blurb

Body doubles, dead bodies, and hot bodies abound... Wait, what? 

#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.

16 Millimeters by Larissa Reinhart

Series: A Maizie Albright Star Detective Humorous Mystery, #2

Genre: Cozy Mystery/Romance

Publication Date: October 17, 2017

Publisher: Past Perfect Press

Paperback: 370 pages
ISBN-10: 0997885378
ISBN-13: 978-0997885378

e-Book File Size: 18191 KB

Kindle ASIN: B074TW9MZ8

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The Review

Secrets and Pies by Jenny Kales | Blog Tour with Character Guest Post and Giveaway

Secrets and Pies by Jenny Kales

Series: A Callie's Kitchen Mystery, #3

Genre: Cozy Mystery, Culinary Mystery
Self Published
Release Date: October 19, 2017

Paperback: 245 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1549933912

e-Book File Size: 946 KB

ASIN: B075R47R7B

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The Blurb

Best-Laid Plants by Marty Wingate | Blog Tour with Guest Post

Best-Laid Plants by Marty Wingate

Series: A Potting Shed Mystery, #6
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publication Date: October 17, 2017
Publisher: Alibi / Random House
Print Length: 294 pages
ASIN: B01MSAATUW

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The Blurb

Bones To Pick by Linda Lovely | Blog Tour with Excerpt, Review, and Giveaway

Bones To Pick

by Linda Lovely

on Tour October 16 - December 16, 2017

Synopsis:

Living on a farm with four hundred goats and a cantankerous carnivore isn’t among vegan chef Brie Hooker’s list of lifetime ambitions. But she can’t walk away from her Aunt Eva, who needs help operating her dairy.

Once she calls her aunt’s goat farm home, grisly discoveries offer ample inducements for Brie to employ her entire vocabulary of cheese-and-meat curses. The troubles begin when the farm’s pot-bellied pig unearths the skull of Eva’s husband, who disappeared years back. The sheriff, kin to the deceased, sets out to pin the murder on Eva. He doesn’t reckon on Brie’s resolve to prove her aunt’s innocence. Death threats, ruinous pedicures, psychic shenanigans, and biker bar fisticuffs won’t stop Brie from unmasking the killer, even when romantic befuddlement throws her a curve.

Bones To Pick by Linda Lovely

Genre: Humorous Cozy Mystery 

Series: Brie Hooker Mystery, #1

Published by: Henery Press

Publication Date: Oct. 24, 2017

Number of Pages: 266

ISBN: 9781635112597

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Bones To Pick by Linda Lovely | Blog Tour with Excerpt, Guest Post, and Giveaway

Bones To Pick

by Linda Lovely

on Tour October 16 - December 16, 2017

Synopsis:

Living on a farm with four hundred goats and a cantankerous carnivore isn’t among vegan chef Brie Hooker’s list of lifetime ambitions. But she can’t walk away from her Aunt Eva, who needs help operating her dairy.

Once she calls her aunt’s goat farm home, grisly discoveries offer ample inducements for Brie to employ her entire vocabulary of cheese-and-meat curses. The troubles begin when the farm’s pot-bellied pig unearths the skull of Eva’s husband, who disappeared years back. The sheriff, kin to the deceased, sets out to pin the murder on Eva. He doesn’t reckon on Brie’s resolve to prove her aunt’s innocence. Death threats, ruinous pedicures, psychic shenanigans, and biker bar fisticuffs won’t stop Brie from unmasking the killer, even when romantic befuddlement throws her a curve.

Bones To Pick by Linda Lovely

Genre: Humorous Cozy Mystery 

Series: Brie Hooker Mystery, #1

Published by: Henery Press

Publication Date: Oct. 24, 2017

Number of Pages: 266

ISBN: 9781635112597

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The Case of the Clobbered Cad by Debra E. Marvin | Blog Tour Review, Guest Post, Giveaway

The Blurb

Inspired by the famous Girl Detective, the members of the Olentangy Heights Girls' Detective Society, affectionately known as the Nosy Parkers, spent their formative years studying criminology, codes, and capers. Unfortunately, opportunities to put their unique skills to work were thin on the ground in the post-war boom of their little corner of suburbia and they eventually grew up to pursue more sensible careers. Until... 

Heather Munro’s youthful devotion to The Girl Detective led to a passion for digging around in history. Now pursuing her Master's Degree in Celtic Studies, Heather must balance exploring Edinburgh with her determination to excel in her all–male classes at the University. Unfortunately, on her first night working in the Archives room, she discovers the dead body of a visiting professor, the same would-be Lothario she’d hoped never to see again. 

As clues come to light, it’s clear someone hopes to frame Heather for the murder. Besides her quirky landlady, whom can she trust? How can she clear her name? The police and the American Consul have plenty of suspects, but only two seem to have both motive and opportunity: Heather and the quiet Scottish historian she longs to trust.

The Case of the Clobbered Cad by Debra E. Marvin

Series: Nosy Parkers Mysteries, #2
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publication Date: August 1, 2017
Publisher: Journey Fiction

Paperback: 302 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1946892027

E-Book ASIN: B0749K9NZX

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The Review

Cold As Ice by Julie Mulhern | Blog Tour with Guest Post and Giveaway

The Blurb

Ellison Russell’s life resembles a rollercoaster ride. And rollercoasters make her ill. Her daughter Grace has a crush on a boy Ellison doesn’t trust and she’s taken to hosting wild parties when Ellison goes out for the evening. Worse, the bank which represents Grace’s inheritance from her father may be in trouble.

When a meeting with the chef at the country club leads to the discovery of a body, Ellison can’t afford cold feet. She must save the bank, find the killer, and convince Grace (and herself) that powerful women don’t need men to rescue them.

Books in the Country Club Murders Humorous Mystery Series:

THE DEEP END (#1), Five-Kitty Review here

GUARANTEED TO BLEED (#2), Five-Kitty Review here

CLOUDS IN MY COFFEE (#3)

SEND IN THE CLOWNS (#4)

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (#5)

COLD AS ICE (#6), Five-Kitty Review here and here

Cold As Ice by Julie Mulhern
Series: The Country Club Murders, #6
Genre: Humorous Mystery 
Publication Date:October 17, 2017
Publisher: Henery Press
Paperback: 268 pages
ISBN-10: 1635112672
ISBN-13: 978-1635112672
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1635112702
ISBN-13: 978-1635112702
e-Book File Size: 503 KB
ASIN: B07481MPV2
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The Guest Post

by Julie Mulhern

Deadspeak 2 by Ruth Bainbridge | Book Blast with Excerpt and Giveaway

The Blurb

DEADSPEAK2. The chilling new entry in the Deadspeak Mystery Series.

Things look different when you're dead.

It’s Halloween and a group of teens throw a party at Harbinger Falls’ most celebrated haunted estate. It’s all fun and games until a session with a Ouija board guides the partygoers to the body of a young girl hidden in the attic. 

Detective Kimberly Trent is assigned the case and quickly discovers that all is not as it seems. First, there’s the connection between the death and a string of petnappings terrorizing the neighborhood. Then there’s the suicide note that only leaves more questions than answers. A visit from Kimberly’s ghostly friend Griff Lindon sheds an unwelcome light. It seems she’s had a run in with the newly deceased who tells her she’s been murdered. 

This is the second in The Deadspeak Mysteries. The entries are meant to be read in sequential order and do not stand alone. In each book, you’ll find a new murder for Kimberly Trent to solve. You’ll also find the continuing search for who murdered Kim’s sister Elizabeth. Each book will take you closer and closer to finding out the identity of The Hex Killer, the serial killer who ended Elizabeth’s short life. It will also bring you to the heart of the evil that’s come back to life to wreak revenge.

Deadspeak 2 by Ruth Bainbridge 
Series: The Deadspeak Mysteries, #2
Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Paranormal
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Self Published 
eBook File Size: 1557 KB
Print Length: 481 pages
ASIN: B0759YG1Z4  
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The Excerpt

Poison and Prejudice by Chelsea Field | Review

Chelsea Field returns to Jane Reads with another Eat, Pray, Die Humorous Mystery!

The Blurb

Izzy and the gang are back in book four of this funny, romantic, mystery series. And the stakes have never been higher…

When Izzy agreed to become an undercover poison taster, she didn’t anticipate that it might involve driving around the streets of Los Angeles with a corpse in the trunk.

Because the police asked her to.

She also didn’t think finding a body together could be considered a bonding experience until she met Connor’s family.

But fate delights in marking its territory all over Izzy’s expectations. And this time she’ll be caught between the powers of Homeland Security, an evil human trafficking ring, and the Taste Society all working toward different ends…

Poison and Prejudice by Chelsea Field

Series: An Eat, Pray, Die Humorous Mystery, #4

Genre: Cozy Mystery  

Publication Date: June 13, 2017

Publisher: JFP Press

Paperback: 334 pages
ISBN-10: 0994575688
ISBN-13: 978-0994575685

e-Book File Size: 3174 KB

ASIN: B072BFNTFS

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Click here for an excerpt from Chapter One, on Author Chelsea Field's website.

The Review

Vangie Vale And The Corpseless Custard by R.L. Syme | Review

The Blurb

What could be wrong with attending a Bunco group with a friend, in a nearby town, and making a few custards for the guest of honor?

Nothing at all... except that guest of honor never shows up. And when her body is discovered, everyone at the Bunco group is a murder suspect. Vangie has to work overtime to fulfill all her responsibilities back in Saint Agnes, and also keep herself out of the murder-spotlight. 

Vangie Vale finds herself in another predicament, trying to solve a murder in a neighboring small town before her mugshot shows up in the local anonymous gossip blog. And just when she hoped her Sherlocking days were done. No rest for the wicked… or the clergy.

Pick up your second book in The Matchbaker Mysteries today. The Corpseless Custard is a clean, cozy, crazy romp with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end. You’ll never guess whodunit.

“R.L. Syme is a fresh voice in the cozy mystery genre.”

-Zara Keane, USA Today bestselling author of the Movie Club Mysteries series 

RECIPE INCLUDED: The Corpseless Custard

Vangie Vale And The Corpseless Custard by R.L. Syme
Series: A Matchbaker Mystery, #2

Genre: Cozy Mystery, Culinary Mystery 

Publication Date: September 18, 2017
Publisher: Hummingbird Books
Paperback: 364 pages
ISBN-10: 1977524664
ISBN-13: 978-1977524669
e-Book File Size: 4967 KB
ASIN: B074RP5CHZ
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Links for Author R.L. Syme

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The Review

In The Stars by Zanna Mackenzie | Blog Tour with Review, Guest Post, and Giveaway

The Blurb

One desperate phone call is all it takes to turn Amber’s previously dull day into one speeding scarily out of control!

Amber Reed’s at work making up the horoscopes for the local newspaper and wishing for some excitement in her life, when she gets a phone call offering her just that.

Plunged into the middle of a celebrity murder investigation she’s desperately trying to convince the scarily handsome special agent assigned to solve the case that she can help him catch the killer.

Amber’s soon battling something far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined — and it has nothing to do with the equally scary chemistry fizzing between her and special agent Charlie.

Is it Amber’s wish for more excitement in her life which has landed her in big trouble — or is her fate written in the stars?


In The Stars is part of the fun, romantic Amber Reed Mystery series:

* In The Stars (book 1)
* On Trial ( book 1.5)
* Precious (book 2)
* Forever Mine (book 3)
* Past Perfect (book 4)
* Stop The Beat (book 5)
* Paradise Lost (book 6)

In The Stars by Zanna Mackenzie
Series: An Amber Reed Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Self Published
Publication Date: December 11, 2014

Print length: 364 pages
ASIN: B00QXFNP62

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The Review