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September 2, 2017
Dairy-Free Death
Dairy-Free Death Coming Soon!
by P. D. Workman
Series: Auntie Clem's Bakery #2
Genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery
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I did not see it coming… Thank you for all of your amazing writing I can't wait to read the third book.
Erin thought that after Angela Plaint’s murder was solved, everything would settle back to normal in Bald Eagle Falls and she could become part of the Norman Rockwell lifestyle. But the peaceful life that she had pictured remains elusive as her family’s past and her own past come knocking on her door.
Between running the bakery and dealing with her interpersonal relationships, Erin doesn’t have a lot of time to spend delving into Auntie Clem’s genealogical records, but her chances at a happy future in Bald Eagle Falls may depend on it.
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—I did not see it coming… Thank you for all of your amazing writing I can’t wait to read the third book.
+ Praise for Auntie Clem's Bakery Series
—It was very good! But made me hungry!
—Oh my goodness I loved it! The murder mystery was so awesome… I couldn’t put this book down. Props to you again for another amazing read!
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+ Praise for P.D. Workman
“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”
“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”
“This is one author I certainly will be looking out for, I can’t recommend her enough.”
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Dairy-Free Death
Excerpt from Red Mist
About P. D. Workman
Award-winning author P.D. Workman writes riveting young adult/suspense fiction about mental illness, addiction, and abuse. P.D. Workman is a devout wife and a mother of one, born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She loves to read and is a technology geek with a love for all kinds of gadgets and tools. For as long as she can remember, the blank page has held an incredible allure, leading her to write her first complete novel at the age of twelve.
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September 1, 2017
Gluten-Free Murder
Gluten-Free Murder Coming Soon!
by P. D. Workman
Series: Auntie Clem's Bakery #1
Genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery
Links: Amazon
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Warning, this cozy mystery may result in craving of baked goods and resultant weight gain!
Erin Price moves to Eagle Falls a place where everyone knows everyone as well as everyone else’s business, taking over the store left to her by her aunt to start up a gluten-free bakery. The grand opening is marred by just one thing, the death of her business rival, Angela Plaint. It appears that Angela was poisoned by one of Erin’s cupcakes, making her a prime suspect.
Equipped with cupcakes, her desire for the truth, and new bakery assistant Vicky’s help, Erin goes head-to-head against Detective Terry Piper to solve the murder. Rumors of treasure hunting, drug dealing, and a missing boy swirl around Eagle Falls as Erin tries to sort the clues from the red herrings and find the killer before the killer can take care of her.
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+ Praise for Gluten-Free Murder
—It was very good! But made me hungry!
—Oh my goodness I loved it! The murder mystery was so awesome… I couldn’t put this book down. Props to you again for another amazing read!
+ Book Club Resources
Gluten-Free Pinterest Board
Disease and Disorder Pinterest Board
+ Praise for P.D. Workman
“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”
“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”
“This is one author I certainly will be looking out for, I can’t recommend her enough.”
+ Gluten-Free Murder on my Blog
Gluten-Free Murder
Excerpt from Red Mist
Excerpt from The Throwaway Children
About P. D. Workman
Award-winning author P.D. Workman writes riveting young adult/suspense fiction about mental illness, addiction, and abuse. P.D. Workman is a devout wife and a mother of one, born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She loves to read and is a technology geek with a love for all kinds of gadgets and tools. For as long as she can remember, the blank page has held an incredible allure, leading her to write her first complete novel at the age of twelve.
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August 29, 2017
Excerpt from Invisible by James Patterson
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
Here’s my newest James Patterson read. Invisible is about tracking down the worst serial killer of all time. In the beginning, Emmy Dockery is the only one who believes he even exists. Everyone thinks she has gone over the edge after the “accidental” death of her twin, but of course you and I know… Emmy is right…
Dreams suck. You think you’ve conquered something, you work on it over and over and tell yourself you’re getting better, you will yourself to get better, you congratulate yourself on getting better. And then you close your eyes at night, you drift off into another world, and suddenly your own brain is tapping you on the shoulder and saying, Guess what? You’re NOT better!
James Patterson, Invisible
Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire.
Not even Emmy’s ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison “Books” Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can’t afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day–and they’re all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?
August 26, 2017
Randy’s Review of She Wore Mourning
Another review by my sweet hubby! He really enjoyed this one.
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Zachary Goldman is a Private Investigator who is messed up. Add in a crazy ex-wife, and together they made one ugly recipe. The one thing Zachary can keep on track in his life is his work.
Well, that is up until now. He finds himself taking a case that everyone tells him it is an open-and-shut case. There is nothing there. But who speaks for Declan Bond? Declan’s death was investigated, but all the evidence points to an accident. Something drives Zachary to pursue it, a choice that turns his life upside down.
There are plenty of suspects. Was it a stranger? Could it be the mother, Isabella Hildebrandt, who is battling depression? Or Spencer, the father, the caregiver with a big heart? Then there is meddling mother-in-law Molly, who demands answers which cause more trouble than she is worth.
Zachary does himself no favours with his mixed-up social life, seeing new love interest Kenzie while hoping to reconcile with Bridget, the ex-wife who cannot make up her mind whether to smack him or help him. Zachary just can’t seem to let her go.
Zachary’s wacky life will draw you in. A wonderful, offbeat mystery that you won’t be able to put down.
August 22, 2017
Excerpt from V is for Vengeance
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
It’s been years since I read one of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone books. I think it was somewhere around the middle of the alphabet! I’m most of the way through V is for Vengeance now, and enjoying sassy P.I. Kinsey’s adventures as she tries to sort out the mystery behind an apparent suicide.
Dante was under indictment on racketeering charges, and Phillips had expected an atmosphere both tense and sinister. He’d worn an expensive sport coat, thinking to show respect, but now he realized the image was all wrong.
Sue Grafton, V is for Vengeance
A woman with a murky past who kills herself-or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring working for the Mob, racking up millions from stolen goods. A wandering husband, rich and ruthless. A dirty cop so entrenched on the force he is immune to exposure. A sinister gangster, conscienceless and brutal. A lonely widower mourning the death of his lover, desperate for answers, which may be worse than the pain of his loss. A private detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.
And an elegant and powerful businessman whose dealings are definitely outside the law: the magus at the center of the web.
August 17, 2017
Five Characters I Love to Hate
[Possible spoilers]
Last time, I wrote Five Characters I Love. This time, I will change it up and tell you the Characters I Love to Hate.
Before I get into my list, I thought I would give you an insight on why I picked them. I have a hard time with people who manipulate children into thinking they’re in control when in reality, they’re just doing what the person wants them to do. Nothing seems to get my dander up more than people taking advantage of the vulnerable.
So keeping that in mind, let’s get on with the blog.
[image error]I loathe this woman because of the way she controls Parker. She leads him into a sense of the false security; Parker has no idea he is about to get his life turned upside down. She tugs and tugs until she pulls him in. You will despise her by the end of the book. I have a hard time finding even one trait in her that I admire.
By-Pass, Breaking the Pattern #3 – Katya
[image error]Another quality I loathe is child abandonment. There is nothing I hate than a mother who is too busy with her own life to show some compassion to her child.
Meet Katya. The only thing she cares for is herself. And keeping her daughter Xenia under her control. She has her own idea of how her children should behave, and if they step out of that little world, she squashes them like a bug. You continue to worry about Xenia’s welfare because Katya sure doesn’t. Reading this book makes me very grateful for the mother I have!
Deviation, Breaking the Pattern #1 – Henry
[image error]I almost get mad at Pamela herself for this character. Henry is a real piece of work as he cares for Bobby, yet has no compassion for his victims. He puts you through the wringer worrying about Sandy’s welfare. Can you imagine having someone like Henry close to you? How safe are you with this kind of person in the world?
Proxy Medical Kidnap files #3 – Leva
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The mother from heck. Leva’s son Seth is constantly in the hospital. I mean — 48 times! It makes you really feel sorry for Leva. What is wrong with 14-year-old Seth? There is no way that she could be the reason he has been there 48 times. Can someone really be that sick? I could not put this book down.
[image error]Preston rejects her baby simply because it is not perfect. How could anyone do that to their own child? What exactly goes through a person’s mind in making such a despicable moral choice? This is the kind of person who needs to be stopped! A heart-warming book that will pull you in and never let you go.
August 16, 2017
Awesome August Reads
August 15, 2017
Excerpt from Hide Your Fear
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I’m in the middle of an intriguing mystery/thriller right now. Hide Your Fear by Kevin O’Brien. I have an idea of how all of the clues fit together and who the culprit is, but I’m not quite sure yet! It’s not quite your usual serial killer thriller.
“I’ve got a ride,” Aaron said, sitting down on a bench to put on his sneakers. “My aunt lives close by, and she’s picking me up.” That was a lie. To get to the meet, Aaron had ridden his bike to the downtown stop in Mount Vernon and loaded it on the rack at the front of the public bus. Then after thirty minutes, he got off in Everett and furiously pedaled to the high school.
Kevin O’Brien, Hide Your Fear
THE ONLY WAY
A home provides more than comfort and shelter. It stores memories . . . and hides secrets. Divorcée Caitlin Stoller and her children recently moved into a charming old Tudor-style house in the coastal town of Echo, Washington. The place was a bargain, but as weeks pass, Caitlin starts receiving messages—first friendly, then unsettling, hinting at the property’s dark past . . .
YOU’LL STAY ALIVE
Caitlin’s teenage daughter, Lindsay, isn’t fitting in at school. To make matters worse, there are stories about local high school students who’ve disappeared without a trace—all star athletes, like Lindsay. Then there are the rumors that their new home is cursed. Caitlin doesn’t want to believe the whispers, but something strange is going on. Personal items go missing, and there are too many accidents . . .
IS IF HE NEVER FINDS YOU
The Watcher knows how to get inside the Stollers’ home—and inside their heads. The rumors are true . . . but the full horror is even worse. There’s no escaping the nightmare that started here long ago, and no place to hide from a killer who knows exactly how this story will end…
August 9, 2017
Randy’s five favourite characters
Here is another blog by my hubby, Randy!
P.D. Workman has written many books, and each time I think she can’t surprise me, she does. The characters she has brought to life stir emotions in me that I didn’t know I had.
Pam has the incredible talent of bringing her characters to life. She reels us in because they are believable. She has me forgetting that the book is fiction. As an author, she has the uncanny ability to scare you with a story because it could easily be true. Trust me; I watch her at times doing so much research; she catches me once in a while staring at her with admiration. I admire her ability to write. She is a very talented author who is only going to get better.
So, it is very hard for me to pick out my top five characters from Pam’s books. There is a huge assortment of characters to chose from. But I will take a shot at this. Here goes.
Abe – Looking Over Your Shoulder
[image error]The reason I love Abe is he reminds me of myself. When I was growing up, I often thought people were out to get me and often questioned their motives for being nice. Abe is a believable person with the real personality. I love the way Pam portrayed him. She is dead on with his character.
Nadie – Questing for a Dream
[image error]Nadie is a typical teenager who thinks she knows everything. After facing a tragedy, she goes out to confront the world. She faces her demons to find meaning in her life. As a parent, you want to choke her, then hug her for dear life. She is a lovable hateable (I know it has to be a word) character. She is a believable character who will tug at your heartstrings.
Gabriel – Mito, Medical Kidnap Files
[image error]Gabriel is man’s man. He is there for the people who can’t speak. His determination to fight for those who can’t speak. He trusts no one; he has the determination I wish I had. In a way, he represents the rebel in all of us. I find myself pulling for him throughout all the series.
Bobby – By-Pass, Breaking the Pattern Series
[image error]Bobby is a teenager who pretty much lost in the system. Has never found a place where he has fit in. He still has that will to be happy. To find his niche somewhere, anywhere he can be happy. Against all the odds, he still finds enough love in his heart to trust one more time. You will find yourself pulling hoping maybe this time he will find the right home.
Kelli – Making Her Mark
[image error]A compelling teenager who is not completely satisfied with who she is. Somehow, she feels her mother is hiding something. She has never been one to settle. She will not rest until she finds the truth. You will love her desire to be loved. You will be heartbroken for how hard it is for her to find. A real life character who everyone can relate to.
August 8, 2017
Excerpt from Refugee
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
This is an amazing book. Award-winning Alan Gratz brings us Refugee, three intertwining stories of refugees from each of Nazi Germany, Cuba, and Syria. Gratz takes you into the lives of these three children, their families, and the heartbreak they go through in trying to reach freedom. Gripping, heartfelt, and engaging, put this one on your TBR list.
“Don’t be so quick to grow up, boy” the Brownshirt told Josef. “We’ll come for you soon enough.”
Alan Gratz, Refugee
JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world…
ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America…
MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe…
All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers — from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.
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