Buyer, Beware by Diane Vallere | #Samanthapalooza! Tour w/ Review & Giveaway

The Blurb

Samantha Kidd: Bag Lady?
Out-of-work fashion expert Samantha Kidd is strapped. But when the buyer of handbags for a hot new retailer turns up dead and Samantha is recruited for the job, the opportunity comes with a caveat: she's expected to find some answers. With shoe designer Nick Taylor off in Italy her romantic life is on hold--until she turns to a sexy stranger for help (with humorous results!). But as the walls close around her like a snug satin lining, Samantha must get a handle on the mystery or risk being caught in the killer's clutches.

Buyer, Beware by Diane Vallere
Series: A Samantha Kidd Mystery, #2

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Polyester Press

Publication Date: March 6, 2013
Paperback: 258 pages
ISBN-10: 1939197015
ISBN-13: 978-1939197016
eBook File Size: 623 KB
ASIN: B00BPD587G

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The Review

Designer Dirty Laundry by Diane Vallere | #Samanthapalooza! Tour w/ Review & Giveaway

To Celebrate the 5 Year Anniversary of the Samantha Kidd Humorous Mystery Series

by Diane Vallere, Great Escapes Book Tours is hosting #Samanthapalooza!

The Blurb

Meet Samantha Kidd.
Ex-buyer turned Trend Specialist turns amateur sleuth! She designed her future with couture precision, but finding the Fashion Director's corpse on Day One leaves her hanging by a thread. And when the killer fabricates evidence that puts the cops on her hemline, even a chance run-in with hot shoe designer Nick Taylor can't keep her life from unraveling. She trades high fashion for dirty laundry and reveals a cast of designers out for blood. Now her job, her love life, and her future are put on hold as she tries to expose a diabolical designer before getting marked down for murder.

Designer Dirty Laundry by Diane Vallere
Series: A Samantha Kidd Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Polyester Press

Publication Date: June 5, 2012
Paperback: 274 pages
ISBN-10: 0984965300
ISBN-13: 978-0984965304
eBook File Size: 614 KB
ASIN: B0088IEQPQ

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The Review

Bloodline by Vicki Vass | Blog Tour with Review and Giveaway

The Blurb

Fleeing from the witch trials in Salem, Terra Rowan finds herself in modern day Asheville, North Carolina. A dark spirit from the past hunts this last witch of Salem. With the help of the ladies of the Biltmore Society, Terra must discover the secret within the forest to preserve the bloodline.

Bloodline by Vicki Vass

Series: A Witch Cat Mystery, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery, Paranormal Mystery
Publisher: Tedeschi Publishing
Publication Date: May 11, 2017

Paperback: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 0692873317
ISBN-13: 978-0692873311
e-Book File Size: 3173 KB

ASIN: B072575HNR
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The Review

Murder Between the Lines by Radha Vatsal | A Solve-the-Mystery Blog Tour, Clue #2

The White House Wedding

A Solve-the-Mystery Blog Tour by Radha Vatsal

At 8:30 PM on Saturday, December 1915, President Woodrow Wilson married Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt. The new Mrs. Wilson would go on to become one of the 20th Century’s most powerful first ladies and shepherd the United States through turbulent times. 

 In the course of this week-long blog tour, I describe four different aspects of their wedding plan: The Location, Guest List and Attendants, Ceremony and Officiants, Dress and Flowers. The wedding went off as arranged, except for one significant last-minute change — which provides an insight into the future First Lady’s personality. 

Your mission is to guess what changed and why. The answer will be revealed in the final blog post. 

For more on the president and Edith Bolling/Wilson’s relationship, see the Introduction on Katherine’s Chronicle. 

Murder Between the Lines by Radha Vatsal | A Solve-the-Mystery Blog Tour

The White House Wedding

A Solve-the-Mystery Blog Tour by Radha Vatsal

At 8:30 PM on Saturday, December 1915, President Woodrow Wilson married Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt. The new Mrs. Wilson would go on to become one of the 20th Century’s most powerful first ladies and shepherd the United States through turbulent times. 

 In the course of this week-long blog tour, I describe four different aspects of their wedding plan: The Location, Guest List and Attendants, Ceremony and Officiants, Dress and Flowers. The wedding went off as arranged, except for one significant last-minute change — which provides an insight into the future First Lady’s personality. 

Your mission is to guess what changed and why. The answer will be revealed in the final blog post. 

For more on the president and Edith Bolling/Wilson’s relationship, see the Introduction on Katherine’s Chronicle. 

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My clue, #2, will be posted tomorrow, May 2.

Please come back, and play along.

Can you solve the mystery?

A Staged Murder by Jo A. Hiestand | Blog Tour with Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway

The Blurb

Bonfire Night! The four hundred-year-old tradition of burning the straw effigy is beginning in Upper Kingsleigh, England. The torch extends… But it’s no mock figure at the end of the rope; it’s the body of a man, an American tourist. Brenna Taylor, Derbyshire C.I.D., is assigned to the case on a team of detectives under Detective-Chief Inspector Geoffrey Graham. It is the chance Brenna has been waiting for, and she is anxious to impress him.

Most villagers suspect an outsider as the killer. But when the frost-covered body of a resident is discovered, apprehension shifts and suspects multiply. Among them are the American's brother-in-law, still angry over his sister's death; the husband, who fears his wife will desert him for the American; the inebriated, penniless uncle, who clings to his nephew's fortune tighter than a cork in a wine bottle. Then Brenna becomes the target of a series of frightening pranks — the work of a harassing male colleague, or a deadly warning to leave the case? Her hunt is personal now.

A Staged Murder is the newly rewritten/edited edition of Death of an Ordinary Guy
(A Taylor & Graham Mystery #1), first published in 2004.

A Staged Murder by Jo A. Hiestand
Series: A Peak District Mystery, #1

Genre: Mystery  

Publication Date: March 27, 2017; 2nd edition
Publisher: Cousins House
Paperback: 326 pages
ISBN-10: 1544695152
ISBN-13: 978-1544695150
e-Book File Size: 2363 KB
ASIN: B06XTPBZLK
BOOK WILL BE $0.99 DURING THE TOUR 
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Exclusive Excerpt

Monday Mini-Reviews | No Way Home; Cat Got Your Diamonds; First Degree Mudder

No Way Home | Cat Got Your Diamonds | First Degree Mudder

Here are mini-reviews of some of the cozy mysteries that I've read recently. I enjoyed them all very much, and I think you will enjoy reading these books also!