Archive for December, 2019

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Bookmarked For Murder

A Mystery Bookshop Mystery

by V.M. Burns


Bookmarked for Murder (Mystery Bookshop)
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
Kensington (November 26, 2019)
Paperback: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1496718313
ISBN-13: 978-1496718310
Digital ASIN: B07P9MR138

Amateur sleuth Samantha Washington’s shopping trip to Chicago takes a deadly detour when a man is murdered on her bus . . .

After some post-Christmas retail therapy in the Windy City, mystery bookshop owner and historical whodunit novelist Sam Washington is returning home to North Harbor, Michigan, on a chartered bus. With Nana Jo and her gal pals Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae from Shady Acres Retirement Village along for the ride, it’s a lively trip. But one passenger is not so lively—a gentleman Irma befriended is found dead in his seat after an unscheduled stop. The ladies immediately shift gears to find out who punched his ticket, while Sam slips into the driver’s seat to make sure Nana Jo and her crew steer clear of fatal conclusions . . .

About Author V.M. Burns

V.M. Burns was born in Northwestern Indiana and spent many years in Southwestern Michigan on the Lake Michigan shoreline. She is a lover of dogs, British historic cozies, and scones with clotted cream. After many years in the Midwest, she went in search of milder winters and currently lives in Eastern Tennessee with her poodles. Her debut novel, The Plot is Murder was nominated for a 2017 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Valerie is a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and a lifetime member of  Sisters in Crime. Readers can learn more by visiting her website at vmburns.com

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Brewed Awakening

A Coffeehouse Mystery

by Cleo Coyle


Brewed Awakening (A Coffeehouse Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
18th in Series
Berkley (December 3, 2019)
Hardcover: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0451488873
ISBN-13: 978-0451488879
Digital ASIN: B07GQHK51D

From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Shot in the Dark and Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the “fun and gripping” (The Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mysteries.

When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she’s been missing for the past week, or that her friends and family have been frantic with worry. Now that she’s back, everyone is overjoyed, including a handsome NYPD detective who claims to be her fiancé. But to Mike Quinn’s crushing distress, Clare doesn’t remember him, or much of anything about the last decade of her life.

Clare’s missing memory is tied to a crime she witnessed. An acquaintance of Clare’s elegant employer–and fellow member of an exclusive Gotham circle known as “The Ladies Who Brunch”–invited Clare to her posh hotel to sample gourmet wedding cakes. The pair took a stroll after their indulgent tasting and, according to security camera footage, a masked figure snatched the hotel heiress at gunpoint with Clare looking on. Did the kidnapper take Clare, too? The camera went dark, just like Clare’s memory. Soon authorities grow suspicious. Is Clare really a victim? Or merely acting like one? Evidence is mounting that she set the woman up.

To clear her name, Clare must find a way to reclaim her memories and rescue the heiress before this high-stakes crime ends in tragedy. Otherwise, instead of walking down the aisle, Clare may find herself perp-walking to prison as an accomplice to kidnapping and murder.

About Author Cleo Coyle

CLEO COYLE is the pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini.  CLEO COYLE grew up in a small town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After earning scholarships to study writing at Carnegie Mellon and American Universities, she began her career as a cub reporter for The New York Times. Now an author of popular fiction and New York Times bestselling media tie-in writer, Cleo lives and works in New York City, where she collaborates with her husband (also a bestselling author) to pen the Coffeehouse Mysteries for Penguin. Together Cleo and her husband also write the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries under the name Alice Kimberly. When not haunting coffeehouses, hunting ghosts, or rescuing stray cats, Cleo and Marc are bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for NBC, Lucasfilm, Disney, Fox, Imagine, and MGM. In their spare time, they cook like crazy and drink a lot of java. You can learn more about Cleo, her husband, and the books they write by visiting www.CoffeehouseMystery.com.

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Canadian Dreadful
Genre: Horror Anthology
with stories by
David Tocher, Nancy Kilpatrick, Caitlin Marceau, Tyner Gillies,
Jen Frankel, Pat Flewwelling, Repo Kempt, Colleen Anderson, Karen Dales,
Judith Baron, Vanessa C Hawkins, Joe Powers, Robin Rowland, Sarah C Walker 
 
“CANADIAN DREADFUL showcases some of Canada’s best voices in horror fiction.
This anthology is a harrowing tour of the northern landscape that
will leave you both dazzled and terrified.” ~David Morrell, New
York Times best-selling author of Murder as a Fine Art
In the pages of this anthology, you will not find the Canada you are
accustomed to, nor a Canada that the world has grown to know and
love. Between the covers, you will discover a dark landscape that
will challenge your perspective. From sea to shining sea, stories of
a darker Canada will arise, and within them all a kernel of truth.
Stories of sacrifice, cannibalism, ghosts, and mystical forests, the
authors will plunge you into the country that is Canadian Dreadful.

AUTHORS:
Colleen Anderson, Judith Baron, Karen Dales, Pat Flewwelling, Jen Frankel,
Tyner Gillies, Vanessa C Hawkins, Repo Kempt, Nancy Kilpatrick,
Caitlin Marceau, Joe Powers, Robin Rowland, David Tocher, and Sara C Walker.
 
 
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In the Heart of Windy Pines
by Holly Tierney-Bedord
Publication date: November 24th 2019
Genres: Adult, Cozy Mystery

SYnopsis

From the author of Kindle Unlimited All-Star winner Sweet Hollow Women comes a new novella featuring characters from Murder at Mistletoe Manor, Carnage at the Christmas Party, and The Port Elspeth Jewelry Making Club!

Klarinda Snow is the innkeeper of Mistletoe Manor in beautiful, remote, Windy Pines, Idaho, where she brings her unique brand of hospitality to the tiny mountain town.

When she finds her inn unexpectedly fully booked on a snowy Tuesday night in November, it brings back memories of a tragedy years before. Before she knows what hit her, she and her trusty team of employees (Myrtle, Pierre, and her new night manager, Josephine), have found themselves back at the task of solving another mystery at Mistletoe Manor!

While this book can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novella, if you plan to read the books in the Windy Pines Mystery series or The Port Elspeth Jewelry Making Club, it’s highly recommended you read those first, as this book contains spoilers that could affect your ability to enjoy them.

 
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About Author Holly Tierney-Bedford

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Holly Tierney-Bedord is the author of over twenty novels and novellas including Kindle Unlimited All-Star winner Sweet Hollow Women. Her books feature quirky, flawed characters and the kind of crazy scenarios that could only happen to someone you probably know. Count on her stories to have unexpected twists and turns, dark secrets, and lots of laughs.

Holly is also an artist and miniaturist, creator of the mid-century dollhouse restoration blog flipthisminihouse.com, and the author of several non-fiction books about creating miniatures.
She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. When she’s not writing or decorating her real house or mini houses, she’s traveling. Visit her website at www.hollytierneybedord.com where you can connect to her blogs and subscribe to her newsletter.

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Death By Library

A Pismawallops PTA Mystery

by Rebecca M. Douglass


Death By Library (Pismawallops PTA Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Independently Published (December 6, 2019
Number of Pages — ~280
ASIN: B07XFBJW3B
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The library can save your life… can it kill you, too?

JJ has a new job at the library, which ought to make her happy. But with all those books to shelve, the PTA to run, and a 16-year-old son to raise, there’s never enough time to spend with her sweetheart, police chief Ron Karlson. That’s especially true with Thanksgiving on the horizon and her mother coming to visit, not to mention the PTA’s Holiday Bazaar looming ahead.

When things turn deadly in the library stacks, JJ needs some answers fast, before she loses her job—or her life. She’s determined to learn everything about the victim, and for once the library doesn’t hold all the answers. JJ and Kitty may have to face the ultimate peril: a visit to Mrs. Halsey, the oldest—and crankiest—person on the island.

About Author Rebecca M. Douglass

After a lifetime of reading, and a decade or more of slinging books at the library and herding cats with the PTA, Rebecca began to turn her experiences into books of her own, publishing her first in 2012. That failed to quiet the voices in her head, but seemed to entertain a number of readers, so she wrote some more, which generated still more voices. Despite the unlimited distractions provided by raising sons to the point of leaving home (and preparing to move without forwarding address if necessary to retain that empty nest), not to mention the mountains that keep calling (very hard to resist the urging of something the size of the Sierra Nevada), she has managed to pen a total of 9 books so far.

For those who enjoy murder and mayhem with a sense of humor, Rebecca’s Pismawallops PTA mysteries (Death By Ice Cream and Death By Trombone, Death By Adverb, and Death By Library) provide insights into what PTA moms are really like. If you prefer tall tales and even less of a grip on reality, visit Skunk Corners in The Ninja Librarian and the sequels Return to Skunk Corners and The Problem of Peggy. For those who’ve always thought that fantasy was a bit too high-minded, a stumble through rescues and escapes with Halitor the Hero, possibly the most hapless hero to ever run in fear from any and all fair maidens, should set you straight.

Why does Rebecca write so many different kinds of books (there’s even an alphabet picture book in the mix!)? We could argue that it’s because she has a rich lifetime of experience that requires expression in—squirrel!

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Reading, Read, Peaceful, Woman, Dusk, Outside, Outdoors

This is my own version of a weekly book haul and all things new on fuonlyknew.

I’m also linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly @Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

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Some chit chat.

It was crazy busy at work this week and I had to be there for Thanksgiving so I didn’t do much besides work and sleep. It looks like things will just get busier the closer we get to Christmas, so I’ll be grabbing every chance I get to relax, read and watch the telly. I’m working my way through Game Of Thrones again right now. On Season Two and I’m loving how good this show is no matter how many times I watch it.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone.

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My new books this week.

The Slay of the Santas: The Jennifer Hunter Mysteries (The Jennifer Hunter Series Book 1) by [Gene, Kacey]  Mummified Meringues (Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery Series Book 10) by [Dobbs, Leighann]Christmas Beyond the Box by [Langston, Josh, Galler-Smith, Barbara]

Wicked Wildlife (Cozy Corgi Mysteries Book 8) by [Abbott, Mildred]Malevolent Magic (Cozy Corgi Mysteries Book 9) by [Abbott, Mildred]Killer Keys (Cozy Corgi Mysteries Book 10) by [Abbott, Mildred]

Perilous Pottery (Cozy Corgi Mysteries Book 11) by [Abbott, Mildred]Ghastly Gadgets (Cozy Corgi Mysteries Book 12) by [Abbott, Mildred]Meddlesome Money (Cozy Corgi Mysteries Book 13) by [Abbott, Mildred]

Beast Navidad: An Urban Fantasy With Bite (A Werewolf Whisperer Novella Book 1) by [Ochlan, Camilla, Gutierrez, Bonita]

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Fur-miliar Felines (A Wonder Cats Mystery Book 7) by [Lin, Harper]  Miss Kane's Christmas : A Novella (A Christmas Central Romantic Comedy Book 1) by [Mickelson, Caroline]  A Bleu Streak Christmas (The Bleu Series Book 2) by [Lowe, T.I.]

Against The Odds (Anna Dawson Book 1): Anna Dawson Mystery Series by [Jacobs, Mara]  The Cult Called Freedom House: Sophia Rey Book 1 by [Evelyn, Stephanie]  All Eyes on Me (A Miranda and Parker Mystery Book 1) by [Lanier, Linsey]

Jax (A Cocky Cage Fighter Novel Book 1) by [Hart, Lane]  Juliana - An LGBT Historical Fiction: Book 1 (Juliana Series) by [Vanda] Jax: A Christmas Story (A Cocky Cage Fighter Novel Book 10) by [Hart, Lane]

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This weeks reviews. Click on the covers to view them.

From Wild to Mild by Sunny Weber

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Other posts on my blog this week.

Ghosts Of Painting Past by Sybil Johnson ~ Spotlight and Giveaway

Sleepless Nights by Tobias Wade ~ Spotlight and Giveaway

From Wild To Mild by Sunny Weber ~ Review and Giveaway

Tasting Her Christmas Cookies by Alina Jacobs ~ Spotlight and Giveaway

Dead & Busy Series by Kfir Luzzatto ~ Spotlight and Giveaway

Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young ~ Get your free copy!

Scarlet Fever by Rita Mae Brown ~ Spotlight and Giveaway

Figments and Fragments by Deborah Sheldon ~ Spotlight and Giveaway

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