Archive for May 31, 2025

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Night of the Living Bread (Sugar & Spice Mysteries)
by Mary Lee Ashford


Night of the Living Bread (Sugar & Spice Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Setting – Iowa
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oliver Heber Books (May 27, 2025)
Print length ‏ : ‎ 223 pages
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F17HPMMT

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Sugar Calloway and Dixie Spicer are up to their aprons in community cookbook projects, but Sugar can’t resist when the Jameson County Historical Society asks for their assistance with a cookbook featuring bread recipes. But they’ve barely begun when suddenly troubles are on the rise. Marla, the board’s president is stabbed with a bread knife, her best friend, Mame, is a suspect & some dough (of the money kind) is missing.

As Sugar and Dixie try to save the cookbook project and help Mame, things take a twist with a second body. But what’s the connection? And who in St. Ignatius has been keeping secrets? And, mostly importantly, will Sugar and Dixie be able to figure out whodunnit before the killer catches up with them and they are toast.

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About Mary Lee Ashford

Mary Lee Ashford is a national best-selling author, a lifelong bibliophile, an avid reader, and a supporter of public libraries. In addition to writing the Sugar & Spice series for Oliver Heber Books, she also writes the Pampered Pets mystery series as half of the writing team of Sparkle Abbey. Prior to publishing, Mary Lee won first place in the Daphne du Maurier contest and was a finalist in Murder in the Grove’s mystery contest and Killer Nashville’s Claymore Dagger contest.

She is the founding president of Sisters in Crime – Iowa and a former board member of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest chapter, as well as a member of Novelists, Inc., and Sisters in Crime Guppies.

She loves encouraging writers and is a frequent lecturer and workshop presenter for writers’ groups. Mary Lee has a long-time interest in creativity and teaches a university-level course on creative management. She also presents workshops and blogs about creativity and the writing craft.

She currently resides in the Midwest with her husband, Tim, and Zoey, her feline coworker. When she’s not writing, her passions are reading, travel, and time with her family, especially her six grandchildren.

Author Links: Facebook / BookBub / Threads / Instagram / Goodreads
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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

May 27 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

May 27 – Carstairs Considers – REVIEW

May 28 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

May 28 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

May 29 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT  

May 30 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

May 31 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – RECIPE POST

May 31 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

June 1 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

June 2 – Frugal Freelancer – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

June 3 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST

June 3 – Novels Alive – REVIEW

June 4 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

June 5 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

June 6 – Reading Is My SuperPower – AUTHOR GUEST POST

June 7 – Baroness Book Trove – REVIEW

June 8 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST

June 9 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW

 

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Wheeler-Dealer – A Ghost & Camper Kooky Mystery
by Rita Moreau


Wheeler-Dealer Ghost & Camper Kooky Mystery
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Independently published (April 1, 2021)
Paperback: 332 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8676266394
Digital ASIN: B08YP5NJNV

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Solving a murder might raise her spirits. But will it spring her spectral friend from Purgatory?

Mabel Gold still isn’t sure what happened. Traded by her husband for a busty bimbo the same age as their youngest daughter, the feisty sixty-something rejects the retirement community and heads west in a vintage camper. But the RV comes complete with a ghost who needs a good deed to get into Heaven, and cracking open a homicide at their first stop in Savannah could give them both a new lease on life.

Determined to dig up the dirt on the dead wheeler-dealer, Mabel and her phantom companion tackle the crime. But with two rich dudes from Dubai, a Willie Nelson lookalike mobster, and a widow nicknamed The Barracuda all on the suspect list, conjuring up the truth could take a real live miracle.

Can Mabel catch the killer before she’s the next soul crashing the Pearly Gates?

Wheeler-Dealer is the high-spirited first book in the hilarious Ghost & the Camper kooky mystery series. If you like golden-girl sleuths, zany characters, and sardonic humor, then you’ll love Rita Moreau’s witty whodunit.

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About Rita Moreau

Rita Moreau is the author of  two cozy with a lot of kooky mystery series: The Mary Catherine Mahoney series and The Ghost & Camper series.

A workaholic by nature, upon retirement, Rita Moreau began to work on her bucket list, writing a book. Traveling the national parks with her husband, George in a vintage Bluebird motor home (on George’s list), Rita completed her first novel, Bribing Saint Anthony. Back home, she was having so much fun she completed four more novels in the Mary Catherine Mahoney mystery series. The year we entered the twilight zone, Rita decided to put this time to good use and wrote the first two novels in a new Ghost & the Camper mystery series. She kept going. The third in the series – Murder in the Badlands released fall 2021 and Murder in the Rockies released fall of 2022. Murder in Wacky Florida in  2023 and Murder in Wacka-Doodle Florida in 2023.

Rita lives in a postcard called Florida where George, the love of her life, always had fun telling everyone he’s the author’s husband. He was her lightning rod. Rita lost George in December 2021. She honors his memory daily. He lived life to the fullest. When not writing she joins PatZi Gil on the Joy on Paper radio program with Book Buzz Mysteries, or you can find her teaching Silver Sneaker fitness classes and walking the beach. She loves connecting with readers. Visit her at www.RitaMoreau.com and sign up for her newsletters and download a free copy of the Russian & Aunt Sophia.

Visit her at www.RitaMoreau.com or find her on Facebook at facebook.com/RitaMoreauAuthor and say hello.

Author Links: Website / Facebook / Goodreads

Purchase Link – Amazon

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

May 26 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

May 27 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – CHARACTER GUEST POST

May 28 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT 

May 28 – Frugal Freelancer – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

May 29 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW

May 30 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT 

May 30 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT

May 31 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

May 31 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT

June 1 – Baroness Book Trove – REVIEW

June 2 – Angel’s Book Nook – SPOTLIGHT

June 2 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

June 3 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR GUEST POST

June 4 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – REVIEW

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