A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbert | Blog Tour with Guest Post and Giveaway

A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbert

Series: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publication Date: December 12, 2017
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Hardcover: 336 pages

ISBN-10: 1683314395
ISBN-13: 978-1683314394

E-Book File Size: 874 KB

ASIN: B072396C2L

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Murder, She Slopes by Rachael Stapleton | Book Blast Spotlight with Giveaway

Murder, She Slopes by Rachael Stapleton
Series: A Penning Trouble Mystery, #2

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Self Published

Publication Date: November 26, 2017
Print Length: 214 pages
eBook File Size: 2469 KB
ASIN: B075CTKP2B

Purchase Link: Amazon

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Unnatural Causes by Dawn Eastman | Blog Tour with Interview and Giveaway

Unnatural Causes by Dawn Eastman

Series: A Dr. Katie LeClair Mystery, #1

Genre: Mystery / Amateur Sleuth
Publication Date: December 12, 2017
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Hardcover: 288 pages

ISBN-10: 1683313135
ISBN-13: 978-1683313137

E-Book File Size: 755 KB

ASIN: B076B3CCYH

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A Fatal Collection by Mary Ellen Hughes | Blog Tour with Guest Post and Giveaway

A Fatal Collection by Mary Ellen Hughes

Series: A Keepsake Cove Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publication Date: November 8, 2017
Publisher: Midnight Ink
Paperback: 264 pages

ISBN-10: 0738752193

ISBN-13: 978-0738752198

E-Book File Size: 2652 KB

ASIN: B01MR8L4IS

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

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

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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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Murder in Rock & Roll Heaven by Robin Ray | Blog Tour with Excerpt, Guest Post, Giveaway

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No one ever "re-dies" in Heaven; unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to singer Amy Winehouse. Her death, an unprecedented event in Heaven's history, has thrown a once docile world into unfortunate chaos. Because of the new uneasy alliance between angels and citizens, a freshly-arrived detective in the rock & roll town has been tasked with investigating the prime suspects, the members of the 27 Club — Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. To make matters worse, a powerful angel from one of the upper levels of Heaven will soon arrive to make her ten-year inspection, a task that fills the other angels with dread since she has the power to banish anyone of them to the underworld. So, with time running out, the PI and his newly acquired sidekick, both aided by rock legends such as Eddie Cochran, Mama Cass, Kurt Cobain, Karen Carpenter and others, must quickly uncover the mystery that threatens not only to close Heaven’s doors forever, but promises to send a ripple effect through the entire universe that can rip it apart.

Murder in Rock & Roll Heaven by Robin Ray
Genre: Mystery / Sci-Fi

Publication Date: November 24, 2016

Paperback: 287 pages
ISBN-10: 1520167296
ISBN-13: 978-1520167299
E-Book File Size: 1027 KB
ASIN: B01N2LXWGI
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Iced by Avery Daniels | Blog Tour with Guest Post & Giveaway

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Julienne has her ideal job as an event planner at a prestigious resort. During a luncheon event she coordinated, a renowned celebrity pastor is killed next to the buffet. All eyes turn to her as the suspect. If she wants to stay out of jail or even keep her job, Julienne needs all the help she can get to solve the crime.

She has her work cut out for her with a vengeful high school rival now reporter, the public demanding she be fired, plus family who knows what's best for her, and a boyfriend who doesn't understand her. She turns to friends and a new ally to uncover who wanted to put the pastor on ice.

Julienne goes undercover and investigates a local swingers group as she follows the trail of clues before they go cold. Can she gather enough suspects and motives to convince the police to widen their investigation? Can she do it before the killer sets his murderous sights on her? Will her personal life ever be as simple as unveiling a murderer?

Iced by Avery Daniels
Series: A Resort to Murder Mystery, #1
Genre: Cozy Mystery 
Publication Date: May 31st 2017
Publisher: Blazing Sword Publishing, Ltd
Paperback: 284 pages
ISBN-10: 0999031805
ISBN-13: 978-0999031803
e-Book File Size: 1179 KB
ASIN: B071LFD6JV
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Strong Hero(ines) of Mysteries by Avery Daniels

Riverside Lane by Ginger Black | Blog Tour with Excerpt, Guest Post, and Giveaway

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After arranging a house swap with a debonair antiques dealer, a darkly handsome American named Luca Tempesta arrives in a quaint English village. Tempesta, who claims to run a detective agency in Los Angeles, is supposedly on holiday — but the inhabitants of the village are unconvinced.

Yet, as they attempt to solve the mystery of the stranger in their midst, it gradually transpires that there are more than enough secrets to go around in the village itself, harboured by the local MP and his uptight, ambitious wife; the has-been former game show host; the respectable couple with the jailbird son; the hometown journalist, striving for a scoop that will rescue her from debt; and so on. The place is revealed as a labyrinth of deception masquerading as a picture-postcard hamlet; tension begins to mount in between the dinner parties and evenings at the pub, and soon culminates in an unexpected death.

Behind perfect privets and brightly painted front doors, the lives of Riverside Lane’s residents slowly unravel. Tempesta, guarding his secrets with a vengeance, is suddenly threatened with exposure by the elderly religious zealot Ivy Midwinter, whose own past involved keeping professional confidences. When she challenges him in church, she learns that Tempesta will stop at nothing to protect his privacy ...

Set against the exquisite backdrop of a gastronomic village by the Thames, Riverside Lane is a tautly paced page-turner that also gently satirises middle-class English manners: the upstanding denizens of the village watch and whisper behind a mask of English hauteur, whilst their own fragile lives come undone.

Riverside Lane by Ginger Black
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Publication Date: January 25, 2016
Print Length: 260 pages
E-Book File Size: 2087 KB
ASIN: B01B3BJP1O
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A Margin of Lust by Greta Boris | Blog Tour Spotlight with Giveaway

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Gwen Bishop, wife, mother, and struggling real estate agent, has two big fears: claustrophobia and being buried in suburban obscurity. When she signs her dream listing, a multi-million dollar beachfront property in Laguna Beach, California, she’s sure her problems are behind her. And they would be, if it wasn’t for the secret in the basement and the body in an upstairs bedroom.

When the crime scene tape comes down, Gwen enlists the aid of a handsome co-worker with a background in construction to help her ready the house for sale and bolster her flagging courage. But every time they’re ready to put it back on the market, something goes horribly wrong. Gwen must face old fears and new ones, temptations and buried truths, if she’s going to survive.

All Signs Point to Murder by Connie di Marco | Blog Tour Spotlight with Excerpt and Giveaway

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The stars predict a wedding-day disaster, but San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti never expected murder.

Julia Bonatti is alarmed by the astrological signs looming over Geneva Leary’s wedding day, but nobody asked Julia’s opinion and being a bridesmaid means supporting the bride no matter what. Even with the foreboding Moon-Mars-Pluto lineup in the heavens, no one’s prepared for the catastrophes that strike: a no-show sister, a passed-out wedding planner, and a lethal shooting in the dead of night.

With anger and grief threatening to tear the Leary family part, Julia is determined to understand how such a terrible tragedy could occur. As she digs deeper into the family’s secrets, her astrological insights will lead her to the truth about a criminal enterprise that stretches far beyond the California coast.

Praise:

"Di Marco crafts an intricate, twisting plot and layers on the astrological details that fans of psychic mysteries so enjoy." — Booklist

All Signs Point to Murder  by Connie di Marco
Series: A Zodiac Mystery, #2

Genre: Cozy Mystery, Psychic Mystery  

Publication Date: August 8th 2017
Publisher: Midnight Ink
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0738751073
ISBN-13: 978-0738751078
e-Book File Size: 3456 KB
ASIN: B01M14L2YK

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Audition for Murder by P.M. Carlson | Book Blast with Excerpt and Giveaway

Book Blast on August 1, 2017

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Actors Nick and Lisette O’Connor need a change. They leave New York City for a semester as artists-in-residence at a college upstate, where they take on the roles of Claudius and Ophelia, two of the professional leads in a campus production of Hamlet. Threats and accidents begin to follow Lisette, and Nick worries it might be more than just petty jealousy. Maggie Ryan, a student running lights for the show, helps investigate a mystery steeped in the turmoil of 1967 America.

Don't Miss These Great Reviews:

"P.M. Carlson's energetic and insightful novels are back in print — hallelujah!" — Sara Paretsky

"An extremely well-written tale, with a plotline that offers a jolt per page." — CF, Booklist

"Very literate, sprinkled with surprises and offering that rarity of rarities — fully fleshed out characters." — Bob Ellison, Los Angeles Daily News

Audition for Murder by P.M. Carlson
Series: A Maggie Ryan Mystery, #1

Genre: Mystery 

Publication Date: September 28, 2012; 2nd Ed.
Publisher: The Mystery Company / Crum Creek Press 
Paperback: 236 pages
ISBN-10: 1932325212
ISBN-13: 978-1932325218
e-Book File Size: 601 KB
ASIN: B009J1D4ZY
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Come Helen High Water by Susan McBride | Blog Tour with Excerpt and Giveaway

Helen Evans returns in Susan McBride's fourth River Road Mystery!

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Spring has sprung, the river is rising, and when Luann Dupree, the head of River Bend's Historical Society, vanishes into the night, everyone in town is convinced she's run off with her Internet Romeo. But her lifelong friend, Sarah Biddle, is convinced Luann is the victim of foul play. No one believes her — not even her husband, the local sheriff, so she turns to Helen Evans for help.

As River Bend's resident puzzle-solver, Helen's tackled many a local mystery before. So she agrees to help Sarah, even though she's not so sure herself that Luanne is really in trouble. But as the town's flood waters slowly recede, dead fish and muck aren't the only things Helen finds. She begins to uncover town secrets, false identities... and the very real chance that Luanne might not be discovered alive....

Come Helen High Water by Susan McBride

Series: A River Road Mystery, #4

Genre: Cozy Mystery  

Publication Date: June 27, 2017

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

ISBN-10: 0062427970

ISBN-13: 978-0062427977

e-Book File Size: 2356 KB

ASIN: B015WXQE5Y

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Calamity at the Continental Club by Colleen J. Shogan | Blog Tour with Guest Post & Giveaway

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The Mayflower Society is about to hold its annual meeting at Washington D.C.’s swanky gathering place for the elite, the Continental Club. That means Kit Marshall’s upper-crust future in-laws, Buffy and Winston Hollingsworth, are coming for a visit. Annoyed that Kit has not set a date to marry Doug, Buffy wants her to commit to a high society wedding at the club. Kit, though chief of staff for a congresswoman, feels uncomfortable with Buffy and Winston’s crowd.

Kit receives an unexpected reprieve in the form of murder. En route to her morning jog, she encounters the corpse of the leader of the Mayflower Society, conservative multimedia tycoon Grayson Bancroft. On the security cameras, no one was seen entering or leaving the club, which means the culprit had to be an overnight guest. Little love was lost on Bancroft, but the police have their prime suspect: Doug’s father.

Buffy and Winston, formerly disdainful of Kit’s sleuthing, urge her to investigate. With her future in-laws’ freedom and reputations at stake, Kit sets out once again to solve a murder mystery, this time aided by her fiancé Doug in addition to her friends Meg and Trevor and her dog Clarence. Her search for clues will take her from the club to the Smithsonian Museum, the National Archives, and Mount Vernon.

Book 3 of the Washington Whodunit series, which began with Stabbing in the Senate and continued with Homicide in the House [reviewed here].

Calamity at the Continental Club by Colleen J. Shogan
Series: A Washington Whodunit, #3

Genre: Cozy Mystery  

Publication Date: July 15, 2017

Publisher: Camel Press

Paperback: 272 pages

ISBN-10: 1603813357
ISBN-13: 978-1603813358

eBook File Size: 2141 KB

ASIN: B073QZ622R

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Booked 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | Book Blast with Excerpt and Giveaway

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Never judge a book by its cover...

Sophie “Phee” Kimball is not a cop. She’s a divorced, middle-aged mom who works as an account clerk for the police department in a small city in Minnesota. But her retired mother, Harriet Plunkett, is convinced Phee is the only one who can solve the mystery of a cursed book. According to Harriet, four members of her book club have already succumbed to the deadly curse. Harriet insists Phee catch the next plane to her retirement community in Sun City West, Arizona, to investigate.

Is her mother just bored and lonely? She does have a new pet — a long-haired chiweenie (half Chihuahua, half Dachshund) — for company and a host of pals (although that number is admittedly dwindling). Phee is certain that their book club selection isn’t cursed, but is somebody really knocking off the ladies? As Phee starts to uncover dark secrets hidden in plain sight under the blazing Arizona sun, she’ll need to read between the lines before it’s someone else’s final chapter....

Booked 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton
Series: A Sophie Kimball Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery 

Publication Date: June 27, 2017
Publisher: Kensington
Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1496708555
ISBN-13: 978-1496708557
e-Book File Size: 1091 KB
ASIN: B01LYPJE1G
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A Crime of Passion Fruit by Ellie Alexander | Book Blast and Giveaway

The author of Fudge and Jury is back, with another Bakeshop Mystery!

Iced by Avery Daniels | Book Blast with Excerpt and Giveaway

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Julienne has her ideal job, as an event planner at a prestigious resort. During a luncheon event she coordinated, a renowned celebrity pastor is killed next to the buffet. All eyes turn to her as the suspect. If she wants to stay out of jail or even keep her job, Julienne needs all the help she can get to solve the crime.

She has her work cut out for her — with a vengeful high school rival, now reporter; the public demanding she be fired; plus family who know what's best for her, and a boyfriend who doesn't understand her. She turns to friends and a new ally to uncover who wanted to put the pastor on ice.

Julienne goes undercover and investigates a local swingers group, as she follows the trail of clues before they go cold. Can she gather enough suspects and motives to convince the police to widen their investigation? Can she do it before the killer sets his murderous sights on her? Will her personal life ever be as simple as unveiling a murderer?

Iced by Avery Daniels
Series: A Resort to Murder Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery 

Publication Date: May 31st 2017
Publisher: Blazing Sword Publishing, Ltd
Paperback: 284 pages
ISBN-10: 0999031805
ISBN-13: 978-0999031803
e-Book File Size: 1179 KB
ASIN: B071LFD6JV
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