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Explore a Highland Mystery in Plaid and Plagiarism

He Drowned in Memory has been released! Check out my new release in the Zachary Goldman Mysteries and some others that you may want to pick up.

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I am reading Plaid and Plagiarism by Moly MacRae, book one in a series of five.

This is a nice little cozy set in the Scottish Highlands. Four friends arrive to set up house and open up a bookstore, teashop, and bed and breakfast, but all of their plans go out the window when a body is discovered in the shed. Fun characters, lots of interesting developments, and beautiful covers make this a series I am sure I will be returning to.

Jess pushed lank hair from her forehead with the back of her hand, then let the hand drop to her side. “Bring the rock if it makes you feel safer.”

Molly MacRae

A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel from Molly MacRae.

Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Literature Festival in Scotland, Plaid and Plagiarism begins on a morning shortly after the four women take possession of their bookshop in the Highlands. Unfortunately, the move to Inversgail hasn’t gone as smoothly as they’d planned.

First, Janet Marsh is told she’ll have to wait before moving into her new home. Then she finds out the house has been vandalized. Again. The chief suspect? Una Graham, an advice columnist for the local paper—who’s trying to make a name for herself as an investigative reporter. When Janet and her business partners go looking for clues at the house, they find a body—it’s Una, in the garden shed, with a sickle in her neck. Janet never did like that garden shed.

Who wanted Una dead? After discovering a cache of nasty letters, Janet and her friends are beginning to wonder who didn’t, including Janet’s ex-husband. Surrounded by a cast of characters with whom readers will fall in love, the new owners of Yon Bonnie Books set out to solve Una’s murder so they can get back to business.

A delightful and deadly new novel about recognizing one’s strengths and weakness—while also trying to open a new book shop—Plaid and Plagiarism is the start of an entertaining new Scottish mystery series.

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Sus Manos Estaban Quietas

by P.D. Workman


Coming Soon!
Translator: Cristina García
Genres: Spanish

eBook Price: $ 5.99 USD


Sus manos estaban quietas

La forma en que PD Workman mostró la perspectiva autista en contraste con las opiniones dominantes sobre nosotros fue encantadora. Lo aprecié más de lo que puedo expresar con palabras. Ella hizo una investigación exhaustiva sobre múltiples lados del tema y se nota. Ofrece múltiples puntos de vista de los autistas, no sólo uno, y la forma en que los presenta me hizo llorar varias veces… La historia en sí es un misterio sólido con muchos giros emocionantes en el camino. Incluso si no me interesara el tema (siendo yo mismo autista y teniendo hijos autistas), lo habría disfrutado como un misterio. Ahora que he leído este libro, es muy probable que compre más libros suyos.

De la autora superventas de USA Today, P.D. Workman.

De todos modos, es mejor que esté muerto.

Contratado para investigar la muerte de un niño autista en un centro de tratamiento, el detective privado Zachary Goldman está preocupado por las terapias que ve allí. Aunque le aseguran que los niños que allí se encuentran no sufren ningún daño, su investigación le lleva a descubrir abusos institucionales aún más profundos.

Luchando contra los fantasmas de su propio pasado, Zachary lucha por descubrir los oscuros secretos del centro y por sacar del peligro a todos los niños que pueda.

Zachary Goldman, investigador privado, tiene defectos con mayúsculas. Destrozado por las tragedias de su propia vida, de alguna manera se las arregla para levantarse y cavar un poco más profundo que los demás para encontrar las pistas vitales.

Tal vez el hecho de estar destrozado haga más fácil que otros que se han enfrentado a la tragedia confíen en él. Acompaña a Zachary en la resolución de casos que pondrán a prueba sus habilidades.

Incluso con su propia vida destrozada, Zachary Goldman sigue siendo la persona que quieres en el caso.

¡Investiga este misterio de investigador privado ahora!

Also available in English.

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New releases: He Drowned in Memory and more

It has been almost a year since the last Zachary Goldman Mystery was released, and it is time for some more!

Today, He Drowned in Memory, book #11 in the series is live. Zachary is out of the hospital and on the trail of his missing brother. Only there are a few surprises along the way, and maybe some things that he didn’t want to dig up from the family’s past.

He Drowned in Memory can be read as a stand alone mystery/suspense or as part of the series.

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Everybody has secrets.

And Zachary’s family was no different.

When his younger brother Tyrrell goes missing, PI Zachary Goldman is anxious to find him before something bad happens to him. Or is it already too late?

The last missing person case he investigated did not end well, and he can’t help worrying that whether Tyrrell’s disappearance was voluntary or not, he may be in harm’s way.

75% of missing adults are found within 24 hours. 95% are found within a week. But then there are the other 5%…

Zachary is determined that Tyrrell will not be one of those who never comes home.

The clock is already ticking.

 Once again P.D.Workman has created an intense psychological mystery that impacts a wallop of thought induction. The writing is so well developed and draws you into the characters story … I couldn’t put this book down … I just had know how it turned out before I could finally go to sleep.
—Kat Taylor

 This book deals with family secrets, PTSD, panic attacks, depression. It’s real life and it can be hard to read at times, yet hard to put down. 
—Annmarie C. Kuyath  

Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues.

Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit.

Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case.

Investigate this P.I. mystery now!

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For a limited time, you can get books 1-4 in the series for just $2.99. but this deal won’t last forever, so pick it up while you can.

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Check out some more new releases while you’re at it!

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Ordinary people living their lives. Then bad things happen.

Do life events shape us, or do they show us who we really were all along?

INSTINCT – She was supposed to take care of the child, not take her.

REASONS WHY – She sold her kids to make a better life for herself. How do you come back from that?

MINE – He’s back and he wants her son. Needs her son, and will stop at nothing to get him.

SANCTUM – A life beyond redemption. Wait! That’s Wrong. Everyone can be redeemed. Right? Maybe…

How do ordinary people react to extraordinary circumstances? When the world they knew is no longer safe, when those they held dearest turn their backs, what is left?

To find out, read the When Bad Things Happen series of psychological thrillers.

Kindle

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The greatest unsolved mystery in two centuries!

Hiram Kane is back. This time, things are different. This time, Kane’s putting himself first.

After being approached by an enigmatic character at a bar in Cambodia, where he has been holed up for several months after the devastating events in Egypt, against his better judgment Hiram Kane gets tempted into one last mission.

However, he soon learns that all is not as it seems. Thus, what begins as a harmless treasure hunt soon descends into an electrifying fight for survival, and then, a battle for truth.

From a beach in Cambodia to the shadowy halls of Washington D.C. then from swamps of Louisiana to the mysterious Oak Island in eastern Canada, and finally to the Scottish Highlands via London, Kane battles his own demons as well as the latest in a long list of deadly adversaries. Those men want the same thing Kane wants.

The only difference is that they will kill to get it.

And if Kane fails, the very future of trans-Atlantic peace is on the line.

Kindle

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One by one the “Group of Nine” are being picked off. Two were killed last spring when the plot to kill the Mayor was uncovered. Another was just murdered. The killer’s note threatened the rest of the Group along with fledging detective, Tom O’Banion. Why Tom? Who is the killer?

Spurred into action by new evidence and the latest death, Muskegon’s police chief calls the Task Force back to the case. They need Tom’s analytical skills and insights to help find the killer. He needs Maria, his wife, to wake up from her coma so she can help him.

Can they find the killer before another life is lost? Who wants the Group dead? The brutal killings smell of vengeance. Who is angry enough to kill them in cold blood?

Kindle

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The body of an elderly woman is found in the local graveyard in a shallow grave. But she wasn’t buried there by any undertaker. She has long grey hair, a white dress and a distinctive necklace.

The police are strangely unconcerned, assuming the dead woman must have been a vagrant.

Local cemetery owner Drew Slocombe decides to investigate. It looks like the mystery woman bled to death . . . Except the only thing she was wearing — her white shroud — is spotless.

Then Genevieve Slater, a woman from Drew’s past, turns up at his door. She says the body belongs to her missing mother Gwen, but she needs help proving it.

Can Drew dig up the truth in time — or will he find himself joining Gwen six feet under?

Kindle

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As Sean O’Brien and his fiancée are planning their wedding day, someone from Sean’s past appears, and plans change. The visitor is an old friend, and he comes with bad news. His only son mysteriously died. Sean’s friend is desperate for help. Why would a healthy college student die? And who is responsible?

Following a trail is not easy, but as Sean looks closely, he sees a pattern that leads to more deaths. To solve the murders, Sean must travel into the darkest parts of an underworld that few people will ever know.

Getting in is one thing.

Getting out alive is something else.

Kindle

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The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom.

Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow.

Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. Desperate, Cork begins tracking the killers but his own skills as a hunter are severely tested by nightfall and a late season snowstorm. He knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. But his fiercest enemy in this deadly game of cat and mouse may well be his own deep self-doubt about his ability to save those he loves.

Kindle

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Fifteen years after she was snatched from her crib, Rachel Stone has suddenly returned to her family. Or has she?

Private investigator Jo Mason is quickly called in by concerned members of the Stone family. Rachel’s disappearance caused heartbreak for her parents, but has a miracle really happened? Has she returned as a young woman, ready to take her place in the family? Or is someone trying pull a scam?

Kindle

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There’s something strange going on at Clearwater Psychiatric Hospital.

Director Dr. Norman Gill has a list in his desk drawer. He keeps it locked away. It’s for his eyes only. The list has seven names, with seven dates.

Seven deaths in eleven months. Harry Starke will have to sharpen his skills for this one. Is there a lunatic loose in the hospital? A staff member, a patient? Does someone else have a list, and if so . . . how many names are on it?

Will Harry Starke break this case wide open?

Kindle

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A nice family living in Florida is rocked to their core when their precious twelve-year-old daughter, Skylar, is abducted.

Her father, Dr. Jack De La Croix, learns of the quirky private investigator from Phoenix named Blake Moran. Dr. Jack is able to get past Blake’s less than stellar tagline, “We Find Stuff” and hires him to help find his daughter. The perpetrator is smart and careful, but Blake is tenacious and has a new FBI sidekick named Winston!

Blake will use every skill he has to find Skylar, but will he succeed before her time runs out?

Kindle

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Sisters at heart …

After a long, adventurous and exhausting spring break, Kallie’s almost ready to go back to school just so she can forget about her mother, trouble with Azure, and especially everything that happened with Zeus.

But trouble never takes a break, especially when Kallie’s certain AB’s enemy is targeting her friends and turning them into Alterants — and when Amory reaches out to Fatgirl over her website, Kallie fears the worst.

But her worst fears are nothing compared to Amory’s …

Kindle

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Get your coffee fix with Roast Mortem

September 15 is Cozy Mystery Day. Be sure to check out my blog post and pick out some new mysteries in addition to Roast Mortem! I have a limited time sale on Auntie Clem’s Bakery 1-3. Get it before it’s too late!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

I am currently reading Roast Mortem, book 9 in Cleo Coyle’s Coffeehouse Mystery series. Cleo Coyle is the pen name of award-winning author Alice Alfonsi, collaborating with her husband, Marc Cerasini. It is obvious from what I have read so far that they did plenty of research to get all of the details of the firefighters and coffee-making business right. Even as a non-coffee-drinker, you might find yourself salivating over the descriptions of the perfect cups of espresso, lattes, and every other variation on coffee that you can think of.

But of course, the mystery is not about Clare’s coffee, but about the firebomb that could have killed her employer and friend, not to mention herself. With advice from her detective boyfriend and the unspoken approval of the arson investigator, Clare is on the case, determined to prove who tried to burn down Enzo’s coffeeshop.

And all the while, the perpetrator is watching *her*.

Tonight Caffè Lucia will burn. If people get in the way, it’s their own stupid fault.

Cleo Coyle, Roast Mortem

The New York Times bestselling author brews up another culinary mystery—and this time, it’s New York’s Bravest that get burned: 

After local firefighters pull Clare out of a blazing café, she happily comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But matters really heat up when somebody is torching cafes around the city and firefighters begin to die in suspicious ways…

Believing the two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bake sale and sniffing out clues in the pizza ovens of Brooklyn. When her detective boyfriend, Mike Quinn, is pulled into the fire of a false accusation, Clare is desperate to put out the flames. But will she be able to come to Mike’s rescue before someone tries to extinguish her?

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Celebrate Cozy Mystery Day

We are rapidly approaching Cozy Mystery Day!

Dame Agatha Christie’s birthday is on September 15, so that was selected as the date to celebrate cozy mysteries! Time to catch up your reading on your favourite amateur sleuths. Jessica Fletcher stumbling across another body in Cabot Cove? Miss Marple peering out her window or listening in on the latest village gossip? A baker or knitter who just can’t be held responsible for the rash of murders in her small town?

Let’s take a look to see who is hitting the tops of the lists this year…

But first, a look at the first book in my culinary cozy mystery series, Gluten-Free Murder:

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Erin Price moves to Bald 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 Bald 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.

P.D. Workman has done it again! This introduction to a new series involves a fresh start, sympathetic characters, and a murder. I spent the last ten minutes of the book standing up to read because I was off to do something but just couldn’t put it down until I got to the end. I haven’t been that invested in a book in a while.

Couldn’t put it down !! From a cute kitten to a police dog to a bakery for people with allergies ! Highly recommend!

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And the first in my paranormal mystery series, What the Cat Knew

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Reg Rawlins, professional con, has really gotten herself into a bind this time.

The fortune teller gig started as a scam, but she suddenly finds herself tangled up in the case of Warren Blake, a man who she thought was dead. It turns out he may still be alive, but in mortal peril.

Reg has always taken the quick exit, the easy way out, but running out on this racket might mean someone else’s death.

Staying in it might mean hers.

 It sounds like a fairly gentle story, but there is a lot of suspense involved. Add a bunch of humor to the mix and you are in for a treat … This is a story that you don’t want to put down.

 This book has all my favourite things: heart, great writing, nearly-flawless editing, something unusual in the air, and a cat.

Like paranormal mysteries? Psychics, witches, fairies, and more! Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman waves her wand to transport readers to the myth- and magic-filled small town of Black Sands for a paranormal cozy mystery to be solved by Reg Rawlins and her friends.

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More great cozies

Okay, now for some more cozies from other authors!

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Sweet, adorable Lacy has stolen Marcia Banks’ heart, but money is tight. Like it or not, the service dog trainer needs to complete the human phase of the training and deliver the dog to her new owner in order to get paid. But the former Army nurse client turns out to be a challenging trainee. On top of her existing neuroses–which go beyond the psychological damage from a sexual assault during her second tour in Afghanistan–the veteran is now being stalked.

When Marcia receives a bizarre warning to stay away from her client and Lacy is also caught in the stalker’s malicious orbit, Sheriff Will Haines steps in to investigate. Marcia finds this both endearing and annoying, especially when he expects her to stay on the sidelines. The training fee would make her solvent again, but how can she put her dogs at risk?

Maybe Marcia should be more worried about herself, since the stalker has decided to pay her off in a very different way.

Multiple Stores

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Abigail Truelove believes her champion standard smooth dachshund, Chloe, has a lock on the Ladies Kennel Club Best in Show trophy. That is, until she discovers her nemesis, Petra Sullivan, has been sleeping with the show judge–and with Abi’s boyfriend. Understandably, Abi’s upset. Might even have threatened blood-thirsty consequences.

In front of a show ring full of witnesses…

So, later, when Abi trips over Petra’s dead body in a dark alley, she knows she must find Petra’s killer–the only clue–an expensive designer dog leash knotted murderously around Petra’s neck. Or she could end up showing her wiener dog, in prison.

To help catch the killer, Abi and her two best friends, Molly, a virgin romance-writer and Dana, a ball-busting mother of two, revive their High-school sleuthing group, The Gumshoe Chicks. But when the list of suspects becomes longer than a week’s grocery list, the Chicks quickly discover that sleuthing isn’t as easy as the Nancy Drew books portray.

The local dog show world is full of angry wives, irate competitors and a Mick Dundee type guy with a yard full of man-eating crocodiles–all cheated, tricked or dumped by Petra. But which one would stupidly waste their big-ticket luxury dog leash for a murder weapon? The same one who is now determined to collar Abi?

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When Jemma James takes a job at Burns Books, the second-worst secondhand bookshop in London, she finds her ambition to turn it around thwarted at every step. Raphael, the owner, is more interested in his newspaper than sales. Folio the bookshop cat has it in for Jemma, and the shop itself appears to have a mind of its own. Or is it more than that?

Gradually Jemma starts to make a difference … and then the anonymous letters start arriving. Who is behind them, and why?

As the threats escalate, and the shop becomes increasingly turbulent, Jemma and Raphael must work together to find the culprit. And what else will Jemma find in her investigations?

Every Trick In The Book is the first in the Magical Bookshop humorous mystery series, set in modern London.

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When Charlie agrees to accompany her friend Claire to her late grandmother’s reading of the will, she assumes she is simply there for moral support.

She doesn’t expect things to get so … strange.

It’s odd enough that it takes place over a weekend, but that’s just the beginning …

They also need to stay in Claire’s grandma’s supposedly haunted house with Claire’s estranged family.

Things get even worse when a huge storm snows them in. No electricity, no phone, and no way out.

Throw a dead body into the mix, and there’s no question it’s now the world’s worst family gathering. Ever.

At least Charlie brought lots of tea, which she’s going to need as she races to solve this closed-circle mystery before her friend’s dysfunctional family get-together results in anyone else being murdered.

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Ghost of a chance?

Fortune is thrilled when Ben Harrison, her former CIA partner, and his fiancée, Cassidy, decide to leave DC and move to the Louisiana bayous. They’ve already secured jobs and are only lacking a place to live, so everyone is excited when they quickly find a home. There’s only one problem—the house has a reputation. It’s haunted.

Fortune doesn’t believe in ghosts, but when Cassidy starts seeing a woman in white inside her house and can’t determine how she’s entering or exiting, Fortune knows she’s got to figure out what’s going on before things get worse. As Swamp Team 3 takes on the “spirited” case, they dive into a decades-old mystery of love, money, voodoo curses, and a missing woman. But can they get answers before Ben and Cassidy give up the ghost and go back to DC?

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When a heartbroken Samantha “Sammy” Kane returns to her hometown of Heartsford, WI, for her best friend Kate’s funeral, she learns that Kate’s much-loved craft store is in danger of perishing with its owner. Confounding all her expectations of the life she would live, Sammy moves back home with her golden retriever and takes over Community Craft. A few doors down Main Street, fellow new arrival Ingrid Wilson has just opened the Yarn Barn, a real “purl” of a shop. But when Sammy strolls over to see if Ingrid could use a little help, she finds Ingrid’s dead body—with a green aluminum knitting needle lodged in her throat.

Detective Liam Nash is thrown for a loop as every single citizen of Heartsford seems to have a theory about Ingrid’s murder. And nearly everyone in town seems to be a suspect. But the last time Sammy did any sleuthing was as a little moppet. And this is not fun and games. Sammy is eager to help the handsome Liam—who seems to be endlessly inventive in finding reasons to talk with her—and when Liam arrests affable woodworker Miles Danbury, Sammy puts everything on the line to help clear Miles.

As the case comes dangerously close to unraveling, Sammy must stitch the clues together. But the killer has other plans—and if Sammy’s not careful, she may wind up in a perilous knot in A Crafter Knits a Clue, the first warm and woolly yarn of Holly Quinn’s new Handcrafted mysteries.

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Embracing a sweet escape from her usual routine at The Cookie Jar, Hannah gets asked for her help in baking pastries at the local inn for a flashy fishing competition with big prizes and even bigger names. But the fun stops when she spots a runway boat on the water and, on board, the lifeless body of the event’s renowned celebrity spokesperson…

Famed TV show host Sonny Bowman wasn’t humble about his ability to reel in winning catches, and no one knew that better than his tragically overworked sidekick, Joey. Did Joey finally take bloody revenge on his pompous boss—or was Sonny killed by a jealous contestant?

With goodies to bake and a mess of fresh challenges mixed into her personal life, it’s either sink or swim as Hannah joins forces with her sister, Andrea, to catch a clever culprit before another unsuspecting victim goes belly up…

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Lady Eleanor Swift isn’t normally one for grand social occasions, but who can resist a wedding? Especially when it’s her old friend, Constance Grainger, marrying the most eligible bachelor in town, Lord Peregrine Davencourt. Eleanor is taking Gladstone the bulldog as her plus one, with a smart new bowtie to match her bridesmaid’s dress.

But the big day is ruined when the groom is arrested for murder before he makes it to the altar. In a baffling twist, it turns out he was already engaged to the lovely Daisy Balforth, who has been found dead at the local inn with Lord Davencourt kneeling over her. The gossip pages will have a field day!

The distraught bride-to-be asks Eleanor to clear her fiancé’s name, as she’s certain he wouldn’t hurt a fly. With help from handsome Detective Seldon, Eleanor examines the evidence. But she’s barely had time to write down her suspect list before Constance’s father is set upon by a bearded stranger on the golf course. Clearly there is more to this story than Eleanor first thought, but can she catch the real killer before the wedding turns into her wake?

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Ava and Drew are getting married!

SQUEE!

But it’s not going to be easy. C’mon, this is Ava we’re talking about.

As her powers go completely bonkers, everything that can go wrong suddenly does. After all, she’s a witch and her beloved is technically a witch hunter.

Drew’s family isn’t helping matters either. Everyone Ava loves turns out to be a creature that freaks them all out.

Witches? Check.
Vampires? Check.
Shifters? Check.
Ghouls? Check (Check, check.)
Add in the devil, a snarky talking cat, and the fae (boy, they are not helpful at all).

It seems like the only direction anyone will be marching is away from each other as quickly as possible.

The last thing Ava needs as she tries to get to the altar is an old nemesis turning up, so surprise, surprise that’s exactly what happens. As chaos wreaks havoc for the witches and hunters alike, Luci decides that now is the perfect time to go MIA. The devil is in the details, and it turns out no one knows anything about this demon king after all.

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USA Today Bestselling author Kathi Daley brings you a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers and fostering hope while building friendships and embracing the magic of life by the sea and small town holidays.

Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to.

Ainsley hoped that by finding these answers, she’d also find healing. She hoped that once she’d resurrected the memories buried deep in her mind, she’d find peace.

The Cottage at Gooseberry Bay is a series about, not only finding answers, but finding hope.

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When widow Talitha Robinson buys an old store on the boardwalk in Lantern Beach, North Carolina, she’s in for a surprise . . . or several. She plans to renovate the space and open Beach Bound Books and Beans, but never expects to find a decades-old skeleton hidden inside one of the walls.

As word of the discovery spreads across the island, strange occurrences begin to occur around her. It soon becomes clear someone still knows something about the dead person—something they don’t want discovered.

Thankfully, former police chief and current mayor Mac MacArthur seems just as eager to unravel the mystery behind the skeletal remains as Tali. But as the two bind together to solve the case, a devastating secret is revealed.

Will their newfound friendship come unglued before they find the answers to the past? Or will their blooming relationship die like the man hidden in the wall?

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Nero Wolfe in The Battered Badge

In September, we are observing Pain Awareness Month, a time to educate ourselves on chronic pain conditions and sufferers and to support those in our life who deal with pain on a daily basis. Check out my blog post for some resources and my fiction book on Pain.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

I have just finished The Battered Badge, a Nero Wolfe Mystery by Robert Goldsborough. This is the first of Goldsborough’s series that I have read, but I am familiar with the original Nero Wolfe Mystery series by Rex Stout (although noting that it is 45 books long, I suspect I have not read all of them!

The more modern series appears to be pretty true to the original. The characters, setting, and Wolfe’s daily routine were all familiar and true to Stout’s creation. No weird shifts in personality, gender, or era. In this episode, it is Cramer, the chief of homicide, who falls under suspicion, and although reluctant to investigate, Archie and Wolfe would prefer Cramer remain as chief of homicide over the alternative.

Well written. I would be happy to read any of the other books in Goldsborough’s 16 book series.

“Well, he certainly is no favorite of yours. Of course, neither is Cramer, for that matter.”

Robert Goldsborough, The Battered Badge

When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the public outcry forces the NYPD to restructure its homicide department. As the deceased was highly critical of Inspector Lionel Cramer, the longtime head of homicide is temporarily relieved of his badge. But it seems Cramer was not just a scapegoat: He was seen dining in Little Italy with mob kingpin Ralph Mars.
 
All of which amounts to little more than conversational fodder for PI Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. But if Cramer’s provisional replacement, Capt. George Rowcliff, becomes permanent, Wolfe’s future dealings with the force will be much compromised. Loath to depart from his routine, Wolfe makes the unusual decision to take on a case without an actual client.
 
His investigation quickly points toward Pierce’s organization, Good Government Group, where high-minded idealism is often trampled under the competing ambitions of the staff—several of whom would clearly have benefited from Pierce’s demise. Despite the burgeoning list of suspects, Wolfe hasn’t ruled out the involvement of the underworld and its connection to Cramer. But in order to untangle an abundance of motives and end the inspector’s forced furlough, Wolfe may have to venture out of his comfort zone—and the premises of his brownstone.
 
Continuing his beloved series—which also includes Archie Meets Nero Wolfe, Murder in the Ball Park, Archie in the Crosshairs, and Murder, Stage Left—Nero Award–winning author Robert Goldsborough “demonstrates an impressive ability to emulate Rex Stout’s narrative voice” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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Reading for Pain Awareness Month

As well as doing fun posts on peach pie and cherry turnovers or ice cream cones, I also discuss a lot of less-comfortable topics like human trafficking, abuse, mental illness, and so on. This is one of the less pleasant topics — chronic pain.

The US observes National Pain Awareness Month in September, initially organized by The American Chronic Pain Association. Canada observes National Pain Awareness Week in November and The Canadian Pain Task Force has a lot of good resources on their website. Since my book on chronic pain is about a child/teen, I would especially like to spotlight these resources for parents/teachers and kids:

Pain Management Apps and Online ResourcesGuide to Chronic Pain in Students

Take some time out this month to support the people in your life who experience chronic pain. There are a lot more than you would think, it is a very prevalent problem.

One story that I found really fascinating before writing Pain, Medical Kidnap Files #5, was the story of Annabel Beam, as told in the movie Miracles from Heaven. And it wasn’t just the story of the miraculous healing Annabel received after a terrible accident that interested me, but the chronic pain condition that she lived with before that and the amazing doctor that worked with her. You can learn more about Dr. Nurkel here.

What to read if you are dealing with chronic pain? While there are a lot of books that show up in searches on chronic pain, most of them do not have very many reviews, so it is hard to say which one is better than another. The exception to this observation is this one, with over 3500 reviews and an average of 4.6 stars:

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Pain Free shows readers how they can readily self-diagnose, treat and eliminate agonizing conditions such as stiff necks, sore shoulders and elbows, aching backs, hips and knees, shin splints, twisted ankles, and a variety of foot problems. Even many symptoms of arthritis can be eased, along with TMJ, severe migraine headaches, asthma attacks, and repetitive stress injuries.

In this natural, head to foot guide to musculoskeletal pain, Pete Egoscue demonstrates that the body is designed to maintain and renew itself through adequate and correct motion, and then leads the reader through brief sequences of motioncises matched to each pain symptom, combatting the root cause of the pain: motion starvation.

Each chapter covers a portion of the body vulnerable to chronic pain, leading the reader through the movements that ultimately solve the pain problem, without resorting to drugs, traumatic surgery or expensive physical therapy.

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Here are a couple of lists of books on chronic pain that looked like they might be useful:

60 Must-Read Chronic Pain Books For Those Living In PainGoodreads Chronic Pain Books

And that brings me down to my offering, a fiction book involving a teen battling chronic pain and some other tough challenges.

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When your child is in pain, everything else takes a backseat.

Fae Glover has put everything else on hold while she tries to help her daughter to get a diagnosis and effective treatment. Unfortunately, DFS has other ideas and in short order has apprehended Hannah. And they have no intention of ever giving her back.

Gabriel and Renata are in a race against the clock to keep the family together and reunite Hannah with her mother before the court severs all of Fae’s rights permanently.

“Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start. Love the well-fleshed-out characters and found them believable. Great suspense and action with wonderful world building that adds so much to the story. Such a thrilling read that I couldn’t put it down.”

Looking for something new in young adult literature? A fast-paced adventure with diverse characters that will keep you turning the pages.

Join Gabriel and Renata on their mission today!

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Time to Hit the Books! Back 2 School Survival Pack

To me, September always means Back to School. And while that was a really high-anxiety time for me, I did love getting new school supplies and school book sales!

So I have pulled together some of my YA books into a book box for you and combined them with some “school supplies” for you. This package is offered in digital or physical format. With the premium book box, you also get your choice of bonus: a Leuchtturm Notebook and fountain pen, sketch pad and colored pencils, or Rocketbook and folio case. 

A digital download of the five ebooks is also offered if you are looking for a lower-cost option or are not within the shipping area for the physical book boxes (USA and Canada). 

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The physical book boxes include autographed copies of:

Cynthia Has a SecretStand AloneIntersexionTattooed TeardropsQuesting for a Dream 

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Your choice of:

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Cynthia Has a Secret

One day, fifteen-year-old Carmina Knight’s life was perfect, and the next, she’d lost everything. Her family, her home, almost everything that she knew. Alone on the streets, she can’t trust anyone, but she also can’t make it alone.

Neil Crowther is the investigator on the Knight case. He knows that he has to unravel the web of deceit and track Carmina down quickly, or there will be no one left to save.

It takes a while to learn Cynthia’s secret. The author keeps us in suspense, which keeps us riveted to the story. I would recommend this book to boys and girls from upper grade school to high school. This is a great story of a young girl’s struggle to survive

—Victoria, Goodreads Reader

Stand Alone

Is Justine crazy?

Everyone thinks so…

Her mother. The kids at school, and the teachers and administrators too. Even the police who pick her up from her night rambles. Maybe them most of all.

Justine’s therapist says she is ‘troubled’, but it means the same thing. He thinks that her vivid, reoccurring nightmares and atrocious behavior point to some trauma in her past; but Em, Justine’s mother, can’t explain it.

Justine used to have Christian, her best friend and skateboard partner. He was the only one who accepted her. Maybe because skating is the only time that Justine is really free to be herself. Now that Christian is gone… Justine keeps thinking things can’t get any worse.

Even as she sees her life spinning further and further out of control, Justine can’t give up her sense of who she is—someone far different than the loving daughter Em expects her to be—to just fit in and be happy. She is sure that Em secretly holds the key to who Justine really is. But if she does, Em isn’t talking.

The portrayal of Justine felt very true to me. I had a troubled childhood and youth myself and I really identified with Justine’s feelings, words, and actions. Some of the things Justine said and did were things I said and did when I was her age. The characters felt very three-dimensional and real. The story pulled me in and I just had to know how it ended! I swayed back and forth in my opinions about all the characters and was very satisfied with how everything played out in the end.

—Sparrow, Amazon reader

Intersexion

Taylor is a teen teetering on the edge of a steep precipice. Disowned by his family, living on the street, battling abuse and prejudice, he struggles to discover who he really is and how to carry on with life.

The last person you would expect to touch him is Roz, whose foremost identity is a Christian wife and mother. But her world is about to be shaken. Through all that happens, Roz understands she has to be there for Taylor, knowing he is only one step from despair and self-destruction.

Absolutely loved this book, I sure hope there’s a sequel. Taylor’s life is so interesting I need to know more…

Reading Taylor’s journey from parental abuse, to the group home, to peer abuse is heartbreaking, inspiring and such a great read giving opinion and fact from the religious to the scientific spectrum. A great read and so well written.

Tattooed Teardrops

Winner of Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016.

I don’t plan on getting in any trouble.

Tamara had thought that when she got out of juvie, things would be easier. But before long, it seems like her life is spiraling into chaos.

If she can’t prove to her probation officer that she is innocent of the allegations against her, she’s going back to prison, and Tamara just can’t let that happen.

Readers will appreciate the realistic details about Tamara’s release, her issues dealing with a foster family, her emotional triggers, and the challenges facing someone trying to maintain the conditions of parole. For those teens who love books where all that can go wrong does go wrong (isn’t that almost all of them?), this is a winner.

– School Library Journal

Questing for a Dream

Nadie is a bright, caring teen growing up Manitoba Cree growing up in abject poverty. She tries to balance school attendance, caring for her younger cousin Luyu, and spending time with handsome, impish Mouse, her best friend and confidante. Together, they strive to find the path to happiness on the reservation.

But tragedy strikes and Nadie’s is devastated by Luyu’s accidental death. Unable to find comfort in Mouse’s arms or Grandfather’s traditional mourning rites, Nadie leaves the band and strikes off on her own, searching for meaning and a new life in the outside world.

Can Nadie find happiness and a place of her own in a foreign world where she is abused and discriminated against? Completely alone for the first time in her life, it is a challenge such as Nadie has never before faced.

Easily one of the most thought-provoking and compelling reads of the year, Ms. Workman has written a masterful contemporary account of one native teen’s journey from home and the possibilities for hope even for those drowning in poverty, prejudice, and addiction. Examining hard concepts such as death, rape, abuse, neglect, addiction, and wounds passed down from generation to generation, this story is full of raw emotion that will bring the reader to tears, yet unable to put the smoothly-paced story down. With true-to-life characters both good and bad, Nadie is inspirational. It isn’t because she’s perfect but rather because she is far from it and somehow manages to find the courage in the end to become someone who can help bring her tribe forward. A must-read tale for any book lover!—Sarah E. Bradley, InD’tale Magazine

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Come back to Booktown for: Not the Killing Type

I hope you caught my delicious Peach Pie and Cherry Turnover post last week! Great books and tasty looking recipes go together like… peach and pie.

Looking for a YA Book Box? Check out Time to Hit the Books Back 2 School Survival Pack.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

I have read several of Lorna Barrett’s Booktown cozy mystery series in the past, so was happy to return to the fictional village full of bookstores (what kind of a dream town would that be?) with Not the Killing Type, book #7 in the series. So nice to get back to Tricia, her employees Mr. Everett and Pixie, and of course her cat, Miss Marple in the Haven’t Got a Clue mystery bookstore.

Of course Tricia has again stumbled over the body of the newly-deceased and is once again at the center of the mystery, trying to figure out whodunnit at the same time as helping sister Angelica with her election campaign and preparing for the Black Friday sale. The characters are familiar and fun and I really wish I could go visit the bookstore!

*One warning note, however: I did find a fat-phobic/fat-shaming subplot in this volume that rather surprised me. I don’t remember running across anything like that in any of the other books in the series. It’s not a big part of the book, but be prepared if that might bother you.

She yanked the door open and, to her horror, found Stan Berry sitting on the toilet. It looked like he’d found Eleanor’s letter opener.

Lorna Barrett, Not the Killing Type

It’s November in Stoneham, New Hampshire, and time for the Chamber of Commerce elections. The long-standing Chamber president is being challenged by a former lover—Tricia’s own sister, Angelica. Also throwing his hat in the ring is small business owner Stan Berry. Unfortunately, Stan isn’t in the race for long.

When Stan is found murdered, his political rivals become suspects. Angelica is going to need more than a vote of confidence from her sister—she needs Tricia to clear her name so she can win the election.

Tricia soon uncovers a ballot box full of lies and betrayals, and a chamber full of people who had grudges against the victim. But were they serious enough to lead to murder? It’s up to Tricia to pull the lever on a killer before it’s curtains for someone else.

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Death of a Corpse

by P.D. Workman


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Series: A Kenzie Kirsch Medical Thriller #7
Genres: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery/Suspense

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From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!

It was the wrong body

The search for a missing girl comes to a tragic end when her body is found partially submerged in a body of water in the Vermont wilderness. But when Kenzie examines the remains, she finds that it is not the girl they were looking for, but someone who has been dead for much longer than that.

Each discovery Kenzie and Dr. Wiltshire make throws yet another wrench in the works as they try to untangle the strange circumstances that brought this body to their table, who she is, and what happened to her.

The question that underlies it all is, “What really happened to Petty Pond’s Jane Doe?”

P.D. Workman never fails to deliver an intriguing mystery with plenty of thrills, drama, and unexpected twists that will hold your attention from start to finish. The characters are believable, with flaws and attributes that will endear them to the reader. The stories always have, at their heart, socially relevant topics that are explored with compassion, intelligence, and dignity.

If you are a reader of the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series, you have already met Kenzie Kirsch. This series is a spinoff from Zachary Goldman Mysteries, giving Kenzie a front-and-center position in solving medical mysteries.

Looking for a strong female lead in an engaging medical mystery? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings you an up-and-coming Medical Examiner’s Assistant who is right up your alley.

Join Dr. Kenzie Kirsch as she uncovers mysteries, conspiracies, and thrills!

“P.D. Workman has done it again. she has managed to write a book that will push your buttons. If it doesn’t then you need to take another look.”

“This is a brilliant read. Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start. Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable. Great suspense and action with wonderful world building that adds so much to the story. Can’t wait to see what the author brings us next!”

“Absolutely fabulous as always.”

Author Notes may contain spoilers

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“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.”

“I’ll read anything by P. D. Workman that I can get my hands on.”

“Every book by PD Workman that I’ve read has been a gripping one, however different the genres are, going from lighter mysteries to really dark ones… this is one of my favourite, most dependable authors.”

“P.D. Workman is an incredibly versatile writer. No matter which of her books I read I am drawn into a great story and honestly, I don’t think I’ve followed another author that could go from cozy mystery to YA to a PI series dealing with mental health issues. Really enjoy her books!”

“[P.D. Workman’s] stories are so believable and you can’t help but feel like you know these people. You find yourself crying, laughing and feeling the characters emotions. Now if an author can make you cry and feel every emotion in a story, she is one hell of an author.”

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