Death by Coffee by Alex Erickson | Blog Tour with Review and Giveaway

The Blurb

When Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki decide to open a bookstore café in their new town of Pine Hills, they decide to call it “Death by Coffee,” after Krissy’s father’s most famous mystery novel. Little do they know how well the name fits…

On their very first day of business, Brendon Lawyer huffily takes his coffee…to the grave. It seems he had a severe allergy to peanuts…but how could there have been nuts in his coffee? And who stole his emergency allergy medication?

Fortunately, Krissy’s love of puzzles and mysteries leads her not only to Officer Paul Dalton, but also to many of her new neighbors, who aren’t terribly upset that the book is closed on Brendon. But one of them is a killer, and Krissy needs to read between the lies if she wants to save her new store — and live to see how this story ends…

Death by Coffee by Alex Erickson
Series: Bookstore Café Mystery #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Kensington

Publication Date: May 26, 2015
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

ISBN-10: 1617737518
ISBN-13: 978-1617737510

E-Book File Size: 2463 KB

ASIN: B00ONTS5RY
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The Review

Lowcountry Boneyard by Susan M. Boyer | Blog Tour with Review

Welcome to the final tour stop

of the TLC Blog Tour for

Lowcountry Boneyard

by Susan M. Boyer

The Blurb

Where is Kent Heyward? The twenty-three-year-old heiress from one of Charleston’s oldest families vanished a month ago. When her father hires private investigator Liz Talbot, Liz suspects the most difficult part of her job will be convincing the patriarch his daughter tired of his overbearing nature and left town. That’s what the Charleston Police Department believes.

But behind the garden walls South of Broad, family secrets pop up like weeds in the azaleas. The neighbors recollect violent arguments between Kent and her parents. Eccentric twin uncles and a gaggle of cousins covet the family fortune. And the lingering spirit of a Civil-War-era debutante may know something if Colleen, Liz’s dead best friend, can get her to talk.

Liz juggles her case, the partner she’s in love with, and the family she adores. But the closer she gets to what has become of Kent, the closer Liz dances to her own grave.

Praise

Has everything you could want in a traditional mystery: a credible and savvy protagonist, a meaty mystery, and setting that will make you want to spend time in South Carolina. I enjoyed every minute of it. 

– Charlaine Harris, New York Times Bestselling Author of Day Shift

Lowcountry Boneyard by Susan M. Boyer

Series: A Liz Talbot Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Henery Press

Publication Date: April 21, 2015
Hardcover: 300 pages
ISBN-10: 1941962505
ISBN-13: 978-1941962503

Paperback: 292 pages 

ISBN-10: 1941962475
ISBN-13: 978-1941962473

eBook File Size: 609 KB  

ASIN: B00SHNYOWW

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The Review

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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The Review

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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The Review

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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The Excerpt

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

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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The Excerpt