A Peach of a Pair by Kim Boykin | Blog Tour with Excerpt and Review

 The Blurb

Palmetto Moon inspired the Huffington Post to rave, "It is always nice to discover a new talented author and Kim Boykin is quite a find." Now, she delivers a novel of a woman picking up the pieces of her life with the help of two spirited, elderly sisters in South Carolina.


April, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has cherished her time studying to be a music teacher at Columbia College in South Carolina, but as graduation approaches, she can’t wait to return to her family and her childhood sweetheart, Brooks, in Alabama. But just days before her senior recital, she gets a letter from her mama telling her that Brooks is getting married . . . to her own sister.

Devastated, Nettie drops out of school and takes a job as live-in help for two old-maid sisters, Emily and Lurleen Eldridge. Emily is fiercely protective of the ailing Lurleen, but their sisterhood has weathered many storms. And as Nettie learns more about their lives on a trip to see a faith healer halfway across the country, she’ll discover that love and forgiveness will one day lead her home.

A Peach of a Pair by Kim Boykin 

Genre: Southern Women’s Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Random House / Berkley Books

Publication Date: August 4, 2015
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 042528199X
ISBN-13: 978-0425281994

E-Book File Size: 784 KB

ASIN: B00OQS4DI2

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The Excerpt

Exposed by Karyn Good | Blog Tour with Excerpt, Review, and Giveaway

The Blurb

Kate Logan needs a safe haven, a place to start over after her modeling career disintegrates in scandal. But her hometown of Aspen Lake isn’t the sanctuary she hoped. Her vow of a low-key life is disrupted by a break-in and other strange happenings at her boutique. As the chair of Aspen Lake’s Gothic Revival Festival, she’s also drawn the ire of a religious fanatic. Kate is up to her stilettos in drama and intrigue including one sexy carpenter who’s determined to get in her way.

New to town, Seth Stone is seeking inspiration and solitude to concentrate on his art. Short on funds, he agrees to take on a second job restoring the damage to Kate’s Closet. Trouble erupts along with the desire to get to know Kate better. When he’s used as a pawn in a smear campaign against his gorgeous boss Seth fights back. But now the whole town is watching. Including the man determined to further his own agenda. Time is running out with nowhere to hide.

Exposed by Karyn Good
Series: Aspen Lake, #2  
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Rating: Spicy
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press  
Paperback: 378 pages 
ISBN Print: 9781509202461
ISBN Digital: 9781509202478
eBook File Size: 504 KB
ASIN: B013M8PEC0 
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The Excerpt

A Geek Girl's Guide to Murder by Julie Anne Lindsey | Blog Tour with Review and Giveaway

The author of the Patience Price Mysteries is back, with a new cozy mystery series!

The Blurb

IT manager Mia Connors is up to her tortoiseshell glasses in technical drama when a glitch in the Horseshoe Falls email system disrupts security and sends errant messages to residents of the gated community. The snafu’s timing couldn’t be worse — Renaissance Faire season is in full swing and Mia’s family’s business relies on her presence.

Mia doesn’t have time to hunt down a computer hacker. Her best friend has disappeared, and she finds another of her friends murdered — in her office. When the hunky new head of Horseshoe Falls security identifies Mia as the prime suspect, her anxiety level registers on the Richter scale.

Eager to clear her name, Mia moves into action to locate her missing buddy and find out who killed their friend. But her quick tongue gets her into trouble with more than the new head of security. When Mia begins receiving threats, the killer makes it clear that he’s closer than she’d ever imagined.

A Geek Girl's Guide to Murder by Julie Anne Lindsey
Series: The Geek Girl Mysteries, #1

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Carina Press

Publication Date: August 31, 2015

eISBN: 978-1459290082

e-Book File Size: 808 KB
Print Length: 248 pages

ASIN: B00XPTDGXG

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 The Review

That's Not My Suitcase by Laina Turner | Release Day Blitz with Review and Giveaway

The Blurb

Sterling Towne decided to take a last minute vacation to a sunny paradise to cheer herself up after a divorce. When the airline misplaces her luggage, she thinks it's just a typical airline snafu until she gets her luggage back only to find out it’s not hers. Rather the suitcase belongs to someone who thought it a good idea to transport a gold Buddha statue via commercial airlines.

Sterling turns the statue into hotel security for safe keeping but then her room is ransacked, and she’s sure there was someone following her in town. Does the owner of the statue think she still has it? But if so, why not just ask? She’s getting nervous, and even her new friend Steve thinks she might be in danger.

Is she? Or is her imagination just working over time?

That's Not My Suitcase by Laina Turner

Genre: Cozy Mystery, Chick Lit
Publisher: Laina Turner Media, LLC

Publication Date: August 24, 2015
e-Book File Size: 4449 KB
Print Length: 125 pages
ASIN: B011JDNKYY
ISBN: 1230000567107
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The Review

In the Drink by Allyson K. Abbott | Blog Tour with Review, Recipe, and Giveaway

Castle meets Cheers in the third Mack's Bar Mystery, featuring bar owner Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton!

The Blurb

Mack’s Bar and its crime-solving clientele are quickly gaining notoriety for helping solve some high-profile cases. But Mack is learning the hard way that not all press is good press…

By day, Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton is the proprietress of a popular Milwaukee watering hole. But after last call, she uses her unique cocktail of extra perceptive senses to help solve some of the city’s most grisly homicides. Now, Mack and her barstool detectives are happy to help when Tiny, one of the bar’s newest patrons, asks them to look into his sister’s murder. Though the case has gone cold, Mack’s heightened senses quickly put her on the killer’s trail. But when a throng of reporters intrigued by her talents descends on Mack’s Bar, her efforts are muddled as a real-life Moriarty begins putting her infamous skills to the test, leaving Mack feeling shaken and stirred…

* Includes drink recipes *

In the Drink by Allyson K. Abbott
Series: A Mack's Bar Mystery, #3
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Kensington
Publication Date: July 28, 2015
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 075828019X
ISBN-13: 978-0758280190

e-Book File Size: 765 KB
ASIN: B00P53BX30

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The Review

Crushed Velvet by Diane Vallere | Blog Tour with Review, Guest Post, and Giveaway

 

The author of Suede to Rest is back with another Material Witness Mystery!

The Blurb

Fabric shop owner Polyester Monroe is back in business — this time getting wrapped up in a diabolical but crafty case of murder.

 

With opening day of Material Girl approaching, Poly is stocking up on lush fabrics, colorful notions, and best of all, a proprietary weave of velvet. But upon delivery, it’s not quite the blend she expected, being ninety-percent silk and ten-percent corpse. Crushed under a dozen bolts of fabric is Phil Girard. His wife, Genevieve, local tea shop owner and close friend of Poly, is the prime suspect.

Granted, Phil may not have been the perfect husband, but surely Genevieve had no reason to kill him! There’s just the small matter of Genevieve’s own incriminating confession: I’m afraid I killed my husband. Now, as Material Girl’s grand opening looms, Poly is torn between a friendship pulling apart at the seams — and finding a smooth killer with a velvet touch…

INCLUDES A CRAFT PROJECT

Crushed Velvet by Diane Vallere
Series: A Material Witness Mystery, #2
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime / Penguin
Publication Date: August 4, 2015
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0425270580
ISBN-13: 978-0425270585

e-Book File Size: 2087 KB
ASIN: B00QH832E0

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The Review

A Good Kind of Trouble by Ellie Ashe | Blog Tour with Review, Guest Post, and Giveaway

From the award-winning author of the Miranda Vaughn Mysteries comes the first book in the Trouble in Twin Rivers series of fun, romantic mysteries!

The Blurb

There's always trouble in Twin Rivers... 

Beacon news reporter Lindsey Fox is on the verge of breaking a huge story of political corruption that will make her career and make her famous journalist parents proud — or she could be thrown in jail and fired. It really could go either way. Her recent streak of bad luck continues when Lindsey finds herself facing a bogus contempt charge — and attorney Ben Gillespie is appointed to get her out of the slammer. They once had a bad date of epic proportions — stilted conversation, food poisoning, burglary, towed car. Then there was the incident with the pepper spray. Lindsey never believed she’d see the sexy lawyer again.

Ben can totally believe that Lindsey is behind bars. The woman is trouble. Now he has to get his new client out of jail, keep her out of the grasp of a crazed bike messenger and a shady P.I., help her save her job, and convince her to put down the pepper spray and give him another chance.

A Good Kind of Trouble by Ellie Ashe
Series: A Trouble in Twin Rivers Novel, #1
Genre: Romantic Mystery
Publisher: Self / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: April 7, 2015
Paperback: 422 pages
ISBN-10: 1508515808
ISBN-13: 978-1508515807

e-Book File Size: 860 KB
ASIN: B00UPIUPF2

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The Review