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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Bubba Done It by Maggie Toussaint | Blog Tour with Review, Guest Post, and Giveaway

The Blurb

Which Bubba killed the banker?

Amateur sleuth and dreamwalker Baxley Powell is called in on a stabbing case. She arrives in time to hear the dying man whisper, “Bubba done it.”

Four men named Bubba in Sinclair County, Ga., have close ties to the victim, including her goofball brother-in-law, Bubba Powell.

She dreamwalks for answers, but the dead guy can’t talk to her. Baxley sleuths among the living. The suspects include a down-on-his-luck fisherman, a crackhead evangelist, a politically-connected investor, and her brother-in-law, the former sweetheart of the new widow.

The more Baxley digs, the more the Bubbas start to unravel. Worse, her brother-in-law’s definitely more than friendly with the new widow.

Between petsitting, landscaping, and dreamwalking, Baxley’s got her hands full solving this case.

Bubba Done It by Maggie Toussaint
Series: A Dreamwalker Mystery, #2

Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Five Star

Publication Date: May 20, 2015
Hardcover: 308 pages
ISBN-10: 1432830678
ISBN-13: 978-1432830670
eBook File Size: 762 KB
ASIN: B00XK2DURU

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The Tell-Tail Heart by Monica Shaughnessy | Blog Tour with Review, Guest Post, Giveaway

The Blurb

The untold story behind Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

Philadelphia, 1842: Poe’s cat, Cattarina, becomes embroiled in a killer’s affairs when she finds a clue to the crime — a glass eye. But it’s only when her beloved “Eddy” takes an interest that she decides to hunt down the madman. Her dangerous expedition takes her from creepy Eastern State Penitentiary to Rittenhouse Square where she runs into a gang of feral cats intent on stopping her.

As the mystery pulls Cattarina deeper into trouble, even Eddy becomes the target of suspicion. Yet she cannot give up the chase. Both her reputation as a huntress and her friend’s happiness are at stake. For if she succeeds in catching the Glass Eye Killer, the missing pieces of Eddy’s unfinished story will fall into place, and the Poe household will once again experience peace.

The Tell-Tail Heart by Monica Shaughnessy
Series: Cattarina Mystery, #1

Genre: Historical Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Jumping Jackalope Press

Publication Date: June 17, 2014
Paperback: 176 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0988562974

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The Devil’s Music by Pearl R. Meaker | Blog Tour with Excerpt, Guest Post, Review, Giveaway

The Blurb

Emory Crawford doesn't do martial arts nor is she an athletic, leggy woman who is built like a model. She's a wife, grandmother, and empty nest lover of crafts, reading, birding and bluegrass music.

When an acclaimed scholar, best-selling author and fellow bluegrass musician is found murdered on the Twombly College campus where her husband teaches chemistry and forensics, Emory takes up her knitting caddy, to help her channel the spirit of Miss Marple, and heads off to help solve the crime.

The Devil’s Music by Pearl R. Meaker
Series: An Emory Crawford Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publication Date: May 1, 2015
Publisher: Promontory Press
Paperback: 218 pages
ISBN-10: 1927559642
ISBN-13: 978-1927559642
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

The Deep End by Julie Mulhern | Blog Tour with Review, Excerpt, Guest Post, and Giveaway

The Blurb

Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband’s mistress tends to ruin a woman’s day, but becoming a murder suspect can ruin her whole life.

It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art. She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes — kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail.

As the body count approaches par on the seventh hole, Ellison knows she has to catch a killer. But with an interfering mother, an adoring father, a teenage daughter, and a cadre of well-meaning friends demanding her attention, can Ellison find the killer before he finds her?

The Deep End by Julie Mulhern

Series: The Country Club Murders, #1

Genre: Humorous Mystery, Women’s Fiction

Publisher: Henery Press
Publication Date: February 17, 2015
Hardcover: 276 pages
ISBN-10: 1941962262
ISBN-13: 978-1941962268
Paperback: 280 pages
ISBN-10: 1941962238
ISBN-13: 978-1941962237

eBook File Size: 518 KB

ASIN: B00PWE819Q

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The Excerpt

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

A Twist of Fortune by Mike Martin | Book Excerpt Tour with Giveaway

The Blurb

A Twist of Fortune is the fourth book in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series and it continues the adventures of Sgt. Windflower as he tries to solve crime and experience the joy and the sadness of life in a small maritime community. Follow along as he feels the sometimes bitter taste of an east coast winter and the unique culinary delights of this part of the world.

A Twist of Fortune by Mike Martin

Series: A Sgt Windflower Mystery, #4

Genre: Mystery, Crime Fiction
Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc.

Publication Date: April 1, 2015

ASIN: B00W4CKGBA

eBook File Size: 447 KB

ISBN-10: 1634903803
ISBN-13: 978-1634903806

Paperback: 278 pages

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

The Ghosts of Peppernell Manor by Amy M. Reade | Blog Tour with Review and Giveaway

The Blurb

“Do you know what stories Sarah could tell you about the things that happened in these little cabins? They’d curl that pretty red hair of yours.”

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, beyond hanging curtains of Spanish moss, at the end of a shaded tunnel of overarching oaks, stands the antebellum mansion of Peppernell Manor in all its faded grandeur. At the request of her friend Evie Peppernell, recently divorced Carleigh Warner and her young daughter Lucy have come to the plantation house to refurbish the interior. But the tall white columns and black shutters hide a dark history of slavery, violence, and greed. The ghost of a former slave is said to haunt the home, and Carleigh is told she disapproves of her restoration efforts. And beneath the polite hospitality of the Peppernell family lie simmering resentments and poisonous secrets that culminate in murder — and place Carleigh and her child in grave danger…

The Ghosts of Peppernell Manor by Amy M. Reade

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Kensington Lyrical Press

Publication Date: April 28, 2015
Paperback: 246 pages

ISBN-10: 1601833024
ISBN-13: 978-1601833020

E-Book File Size: 1251 KB

ASIN: B00OEW5SR0
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