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New Release and Giveaway! LAST SEEN IN HAVANA by Teresa Dovalpage (A Havana Mystery #4)

Last Seen in Havanaby Teresa Dovalpage(A Havana Mystery #4)Publication date: February 6th 2024Genres: Adult, Mystery, Thriller A Cuban American woman searches for her long-lost mother and fights to restore a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco home in the heart of Havana in this moving, immersive new mystery, perfect for fans of Of Women and Salt. Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes’s life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes’s hopes…

New Release and Giveaway! TAKE THE HONEY AND RUN by Jennie Marts

Take the Honey and Runby Jennie Marts(A Bee Keeping Mystery #1)Publication date: July 18th 2023Genres: Adult, Comedy, Mystery The town is all abuzz when a murder occurs in Jennie Marts’ debut cozy mystery, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Amanda Flower. As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster and Marigold—which is why she drops…

Release Day Review! DEAD & BREAKFAST by Emma Hart (Fox Point Files #1)

Title: Dead and Breakfast (Fox Point Files #1)Genre: Romcom MysteryTropes: Second chance romance, small town, amateur sleuth Add to Goodreads: https://geni.us/DeadAndBreakfastGR   Amazon Universal Buy Link: https://geni.is/DQIO I remember the first time I ever saw Detective Inspector Noah George. We were seven, stupid, and he threw sand in my eye. I’m pretty sure that’s when I fell in love with him. Hey—I did say I was stupid. Summers in Fox Point, my grandfather’s seaside hometown, were all we had together. Then we turned eighteen, life happened, and he never spoke to me again. Until my grandfather’s death calls me back…

New Release and Giveaway! SERENADE by Morgan Shamy (The Dark Nocturne #1)

Serenadeby Morgan Shamy(The Dark Nocturne #1)Publication date: May 31st 2022Genres: Mystery, Paranormal, Young Adult St. Paul’s Academy of the Arts isn’t your usual boarding school…When November Huntington is sent away to live with her long-lost family, she’s forced to attend a music school for the gifted—which wouldn’t be a problem if November were musical. She’s an athlete through and through, and hates being different. The kids at the school don’t welcome her, they’re wary of her presence, especially Vincent, a brooding teenage boy involved with dark spirits, who can make time stop when he plays his piano. In fact, all her classmates are all obsessed with…

New Release and Giveaway! SCATTERED LEGACY by Marlene M. Bell (Annalisse #3)

We’re celebrating the release of the third book in the Annalisse series, Scattered Legacy! Today, we interview author Marlene M Bell. Next, she shares an excerpt from the book. On the final day, we learn the author’s Top Ten activities for winter. Plus, there’s an awesome 3-winner giveaway to enter below. Enjoy! For those interested in exploring the subject or theme of your book, where should they start?  The best place to start is at the beginning with book one, Stolen Obsession. Annalisse’s love interest is a Greek/Italian-American. With his ancestry, this gave me plenty of places to take my…

New Release! INVENTING VIVIAN by Jennifer Moore

Ladies of London’s High Society are known for their social graces and poise. Vivian Kirby boasts neither of these enviable qualities, though she does offer impressive conversation on chemical compositions. Unfortunately, it appears that not many men want a brilliant wife. So it is that Vivian finds kinship with a group of young women who embrace each other’s differences: The Blue Orchid Society. After an extended stay in China, Lord Benedict has returned transformed to his family’s estate, where an encounter with Vivian, whose scientific knowledge he once undermined, leaves him determined to make amends. He arranges to help forward…

New Release Review! INTO THE FIRE by Adrienne Giordano and Mary Jo Briscione (A Rose Trudeau Mystery #1)

A socialite and a cub reporter join forces to solve a thirty-year-old cold case in this gripping mystery from USA Today bestselling author Adrienne Giordano. Hollywood socialite Rose Trudeau understands loss. As a survivor of the legendary–and unsolved–Grande hotel fire thirty years ago, she still mourns her closest friend who perished in the blaze. And now, the sudden death of her beloved husband forces Rose to once again battle grief. When pain-in-the-rear cub reporter RaeLynn Demming shows up at Rose’s Bel-Air estate begging for a scoop on the Grande fire, Rose can’t help but admire the young woman’s gumption. Hungry…

Book Tour Grand Finale and Giveaway! AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGMENT by B.T. Polcari (Mauzzy and Me Mystery #1)

On Tour with Prism Book Tours We hope you enjoyed the tour! If you missed any of the stops you’ll find snippets, as well as the link to each full post, below: Launch – Author Interview What do you hope readers will take with them after they’ve read it? A smile on their faces, laughter in their hearts, and the knowledge that being true to yourself and believing in your convictions will carry you a long way. Ultimately the story is about perseverance and self-belief. Read. Write. Love. – Guest Post Sara Donovan’s Top Ten Things to Take on a Stakeout Sara…

New Release Review and Giveaway! TRIPLICITY by J. Mercer

TriplicityJ. MercerPublication date: January 6th 2019Genres: Mystery, Romance, Young Adult One week on an Alaskan cruise, three teens, and an endless trail of lies. Enter a series of thefts on board and they all fall under scrutiny. Though Navy acts a proper preacher’s daughter, she did end up with someone else’s purse in her hands, and Jesse knows way more than he should about what’s gone missing. Isaiah, however, is the one with motive—enough money and he could get back to his ranch. Each holds a piece of the truth, but exposing the thief could damn them all. They must…

Blitz! DEATH UNDER THE MISTLETOE: A VALENTINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY by Jenna Harte

About DEATH UNDER THE MISTLETOE Tess is excited to spend her first Christmas with her sexy husband, Jack Valentine, that is until the mall Santa staggers in her shop and drops dead underneath the mistletoe on Christmas Eve. There’s no shortage of suspects who wanted Santa dead. Was it his jealous elves? His estranged wife? The in-laws who never thought Santa was good enough for their daughter? Or the neighbor who secretly coveted Santa’s wife?Although Tess and Jack are happy to let Detective Daniel Showalter deal with the case, somehow the newlyweds end up a target of Santa’s killer who…