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August 7, 2020
Interview with Uvi Poznansky
I had a great interview recently with fellow author Uvi Poznansky. Hop over and have a look.
Get a sneak peek at Fairy Blade Unmade!
Interview with Uvi Posnansky
I had a great interview recently with fellow author Uvi Poznansky. Hop over and have a look.
Get a sneak peek at Fairy Blade Unmade!
August 6, 2020
Santa Shortbread and other freebies
It’s your favorite day! No, not Christmas, we already did Christmas in July. This time, it is a freebie roundup. Santa Shortbread is free in the Kindle store, along with a number of other books you might be interested in.
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Somebody is stealing Christmas gifts from the Bald Eagle Falls children. At the rate that presents are disappearing, there soon won’t be a gift left in Whoville. Err, Bald Eagle Falls.
Gluten-free baker Erin Price and her friends are on the case to try to unmask the Grinch and bring him to justice, and toys to the children. But time is not on their side. Soon it will be Christmas Eve—will the winner be the Grinch or Santa?
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.ugb-79e86c8 .ugb-img{width:230px;height:auto !important}.ugb-79e86c8 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-79e86c8 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-79e86c8 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-79e86c8 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Fear of Falling
Some dreams should be stronger than our fears
Fiona Easton is a contradiction – a ski instructor who’s scared of heights, and a passionate woman who’s afraid of intimacy.
But a lost child, an approaching blizzard and a legendary Scot force her to face her fears, and re-examine her dreams. Dreams which are hanging by a cobweb-thin thread…
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Josephine Nicolson never meant to have a vampire living in her basement.
But then a journey to spread her grandfather’s ashes in Romania goes spectacularly wrong. Finding herself inexorably bound to Baron Dragomir Blasko, she’s faced with the choice of living out her days in his crumbling fortress or bringing him home with her to Alabama. It doesn’t take her long to make up her mind.
With the assistance of Josephine’s suspicious maid, the pair settle into an uneasy cohabitation… until a murder just across the street causes Josephine to wonder if Blasko is to blame. As the body count rises, Josephine and Blasko must work together to prove his innocence and to find the real killer before they become his next victims.
.ugb-5d234dd .ugb-img{width:221px;height:auto !important}.ugb-5d234dd .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-5d234dd .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-5d234dd .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-5d234dd .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Witch Hits the Beach
The Banshee Creek Witches are headed to the beach! It’s not all fun and games, though.
Fortuneteller Luanne de la Rue is organizing the Diviners’ Association’s yearly convention in the quirky coastal town of Mystic Bay, and she’s a nervous wreck. Herding black cats has nothing on managing high-maintenance mystics, especially when a star fortune-teller dramatically announces that their idyllic beach weekend will be tainted by…murder.
.ugb-75ebeb0 .ugb-img{width:333px;height:auto !important}.ugb-75ebeb0 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-75ebeb0 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-75ebeb0 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-75ebeb0 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}In for a Penny
When Lillian Summer Fairview’s husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in the small town of Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot money mess. Desperate to keep up the family name and give the man a decent burial, penniless Lil cooks up a shady deal that lands her smack-dab in the slammer.
Burdened by her shameful secret and a crumbling family estate, Lil entrusts Summer Haven’s care to her best friend, Maggie, who recruits two more over-fifty ladies to help. But when Maggie discovers that Lil’s restitution is ten times the amount she “borrowed” from the federal government, she’s convinced Lil has taken the fall for someone else’s crime.
.ugb-2ffab8d .ugb-img{width:339px;height:auto !important}.ugb-2ffab8d .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-2ffab8d .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-2ffab8d .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-2ffab8d .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Hound on the Sound
Pepper Sullivan is dying to jettison her job at the big city law firm, so when she finds a house on the water at an amazing price, she grabs it . . . only to discover that most of the folks in her old hometown believe the place is haunted.
Once back in Misty-on-the-Sound, Pepper has to contend with her old boyfriend the sheriff, her nosy mother, and the town’s shady lawyer. All this while starting her own law practice and trying to find time for her original passion—singing.
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For Jack Shepherd, tiger shape-shifter and former soldier, life is heading for a dead end. Dead End, Florida, to be exact. When he learns that he inherited a combination pawn shop/private investigation agency from his favorite uncle, Jack’s first job is to solve his uncle’s murder. Because sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.
Tess Callahan, who owns half a pawn shop in the strangest town in Florida, didn’t expect Jack to show up and be so very enticing. And exciting. And annoyingly over-protective. But when yet another dead body shows up on her doorstep, it’s time to take action. And if she has to team up with a sexy tiger shape-shifter to do it, well, that’s just a bonus.
Welcome to Dead End, Florida, where Bigfoot keeps a winter home. And welcome to the Tiger’s Eye Mysteries!
.ugb-8e9d955 .ugb-img{width:300px;height:auto !important}.ugb-8e9d955 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-8e9d955 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-8e9d955 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-8e9d955 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}The Mystery of the Missing Heiress
It is the summer of 1811 and Fitzwilliam Darcy is consumed with worry. His sister and her new companion were expected at Pemberley three weeks ago, but they seem to have vanished into the air. Is Georgiana safe? Is she even still alive? And is Mrs. Younge a victim in some nefarious plan or is she behind the disappearance?
Darcy’s friend Ecclesford tells him of a smart young investigator who might be able to help… and at the same time he might help Ecclesford with a romantic problem of his own.
In this prequel variation to Pride and Prejudice, private investigator Alexander Lyons makes his debut and sets his remarkable intellect to work to help Ecclesford win his bride and to solve the mystery of the missing heiress!
.ugb-87a8615 .ugb-img{width:230px;height:auto !important}.ugb-87a8615 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-87a8615 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-87a8615 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-87a8615 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Murder at Sea of Passenger X
A Honeymoon Cruise With A Boatload Of Mystery
Georgie Shaw and her handsome new husband, Detective Jack Wheeler, are living it up on Marvelous Marley World’s luxurious cruise ship when trouble strikes. “The screaming came in bursts followed by shouts of man overboard, just like in a movie.”
Who is passenger X? Did he fall or was he pushed? Does it have anything to do with the rash of jewelry thefts or the murdered man found near the spot where Passenger X went overboard?
.ugb-eca3027 .ugb-img{width:313px;height:auto !important}.ugb-eca3027 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-eca3027 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-eca3027 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-eca3027 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Death Comes in Threes
Addie Foster, owner of Smiling Dog Books, loves her small-town life. Until someone, or rather several someones, tries to end it. What secrets is she hiding?
Add one gay BFF and one dark, brooding detective into the mix and watch everything unfold.
.ugb-d2f5991 .ugb-img{width:313px;height:auto !important}.ugb-d2f5991 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-d2f5991 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-d2f5991 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-d2f5991 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Just a Happy Camper
Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it.
She’s cruising Mexico’s hauntingly beautiful Sea of Cortez when she gets a job offer she can’t refuse. Not only is the project located in her old stomping grounds in Texas Hill Country, but comes with an RV for living quarters. She has no problem driving a forty-five foot yacht, but RVing is new to her.
And as will happen, life throws her a major curve ball, and then smack dab into a nefarious plot back across the border.
.ugb-454abb0 .ugb-img{width:313px;height:auto !important}.ugb-454abb0 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-454abb0 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-454abb0 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-454abb0 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Murder in Mystic Grove
Liz Bean has a new job as a private investigator intern for Sam Nolan Investigations in her hometown of Mystic Grove.
When a longtime Mystic Grove resident is murdered, fear cuts through the village. Liz is shocked when she learns that her divorced mother’s boyfriend, Ben, is a key suspect in the murder. When her mother calls to hire Liz and Sam to clear Ben’s name, Liz hesitates. Her demanding mother has never asked for her help before.
After a debate, Liz and Sam take the case. They chase down leads, following the evidence as it twists and turns through Mystic Grove and beyond. With all of the lies and deception they find, Liz realizes that Mystic Grove isn’t the innocent village she remembered.
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Living in a haunted lighthouse in the small town of Sea Breeze, California with her two elderly aunts, Agatha Bright has everything she wants. She owns and runs a bookstore / soup shop on the beach, and her soups are loved by everyone in town. Her life is regimented and organized.
But Agatha has secrets that might get her in big trouble. Dark secrets.
When a woman goes missing, the suspicion falls on Agatha, turning her life upside down. The new detective in town, Remington Cumberbatch, has seen a lot of weird things as a detective in nearby Cannes, California, but he’s in for a surprise with Agatha, her family, and the quirky town of Sea Breeze. He begins to investigate Agatha as the number one suspect, but the attraction is immediate.
When the missing woman turns out to be murdered, the mystery deepens, and Agatha must help Remington find the killer before she winds up in prison…or worse.
.ugb-6083163 .ugb-img{width:260px;height:auto !important}.ugb-6083163 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-6083163 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-6083163 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-6083163 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}A Set of Sisters
Books 1-3 of the We Sisters Three Mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller are now available as a boxed set! Meet Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme, the wacky Field sisters, in three funny, fresh romantic mysteries.
Rosemary’s Gravy:
Holistic personal chef Rosemary Field’s not a murderer. Heck, she’s barely even a chef.
But when her miserable boss dies under suspicious circumstances, she’s the number one suspect. To save her reputation and stay out of prison, Rosemary has to find the real murderer. There’s no shortage of suspects, includes a womanizing race car driver; a powerful music producer; Hollywood’s hottest leading man; and, oh yeah, Felix, the dead woman’s stepson–which gets a bit awkward when Rosemary starts dating him.
Things go from bad to worse after a romantic dinner with Felix ends in food poisoning. Rosemary finds herself unattached, unemployed, and once again on the wrong side of the LAPD.
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They Thought He Was Safe
by P. D. Workman
Series:Zachary Goldman Mysteries #5
Genres:Mystery, Mystery/Suspense, Suspense
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I’m I love with Zachary. I love him for his totally unlikeness to any hero, his kindness, his willingness to look beyond what others see – and the fact that he never gives up. Zachary is the friend we all need in our lives, and he proves this again when his friend Pat needs him.
—Elsa, Goodreads reader
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Zachary Goldman, PI is deeply flawed, unable to overcome much of his traumatic past, yet he is always ready to defend the underdog and right injustices.
When Pat asked him to look into the disappearance of an illegal, Zachary agreed to take it, but didn’t expect to find anything more than a man who had returned to his family or fled immigration officials. But the more he digs, the more missing men Zachary discovers, and it quickly becomes apparent that the disappearance that was deemed by the police not to be suspicious was just the tip of the iceberg.
As the body count grows, so does Zachary’s determination to bring the killer to justice, no matter what the cost.
The trouble is, this case might cost him dearly.
P.D. Workman has created a deeply flawed but very compelling character in Zachary Goldman. His background is tragic and his ability to interact with the world and appear “normal” is one of his greatest daily challenges, and both informs and hinders his work as a private investigator.
Paul, Goodreads reader
They Thought He Was Safe is case #5 in the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series, but each book is a separate mystery and can be read as a standalone. Get your copy now!
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August 4, 2020
Excerpt from The Glass Castle
If you are curious about what a brozy is, be sure to check out my blog post on the new genre.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I hadn’t heard of Jeannette Walls or The Glass Castle before, but I’m glad I picked it up. It is a memoir of the author’s childhood of poverty and neglect and she has some very interesting stories to tell. Her parents preferred to live an itinerant lifestyle, so she lived a lot of different places and did a lot of different things.
It is a bestseller and has been made into a movie. So other people thought it was good too!
Language warning: yes, there is a good amount of cussing in this one.
One of them squeezed my hand and told me I was going to be okay.
“I know,” I said, “but if I’m not, that’s okay too.”
The nurse squeezed my hand again and bit her lower lip.
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
July 30, 2020
Will your next read be a brozy?
A brozy?
What’s that?
Brozy is a new mystery subgenre that is gaining momentum. You may have heard of a cozy mystery, a light entertaining mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Murder She Wrote. Usually a female protagonist, no gore, no swearing or sex on the page. The amateur sleuth usually has another job, hobby, or interest, and maybe pets.
But what if you are looking for a clean, entertaining mystery with a broader audience? Enter the brozy, or broader cozy. Maybe a male sleuth, not so much focus on knitting or baking, and a bit more action.
The first thing that I thought of when I heard about this subgenre was my Zachary Goldman Mysteries. Like good deals? Pick up the first four books for one low price:
.ugb-7783358 .ugb-img{width:1024px;height:auto !important}.ugb-7783358 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-7783358 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-7783358 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-7783358 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 1-4
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 four 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.
A case is only unsolvable as long as it remains unsolved.
I also have some standalones that would fall into this genre:
.ugb-17d7b4f .ugb-img{width:741px;height:auto !important}.ugb-17d7b4f .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-17d7b4f .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-17d7b4f .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-17d7b4f .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}In the Tick of Time
Things creep and crawl in the woods. Things that can wreak havoc with your life.
Things that can be deadly.
As an infectious disease expert for the DOH’s vector-borne disease division, Matt Malloy knows this. What he doesn’t know is who, or why, someone would want to deliberately infect innocent people. Adding insult to injury, his co-workers think he’s either paranoid or losing his mind because of erratic behavior and disordered sleep habits.
Behavior he can’t help. A traumatic head wound can have that effect on a man. He was clocked hard while interviewing a patient with Lyme disease weeks ago, and he’s still suffering from it.
But he’s definitely not crazy.
Or paranoid.
Someone is deliberately infecting people. Maybe even someone he knows. Very soon, that someone will know Matt’s on to him.
Can he prove his suspicions before he’s targeted, too?
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Things were going well for Abe.
Despite all of his past struggles with mental illness, he was happily married, had three wonderful children, a nice home, and a fantastic consulting business that satisfied his creativity and brought in a good income.
But you can never get too comfortable. When Abe becomes a prime suspect in a jewel heist – one of the largest successful jewel heists in history – his schizophrenia becomes unmanageable and everything begins to spiral out of control.
Abe’s own investigation into the heist has the jewel thieves hot on his tail… but are they really, or is he just losing the battle against his inner demons?
And more…
Check out a few of the other authors whose books have been classified as brozies:
.ugb-f58686a .ugb-img{width:217px;height:auto !important}.ugb-f58686a .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-f58686a .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-f58686a .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-f58686a .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}The Framed Father
Forbidden love, murder, and explosive secrets engulf Father Tom Greer in this second entry in the Father Tom Mysteries.
When the Archbishop receives an anonymous letter accusing Saint Clare’s pastor Father Leonard McCoy of inappropriate behavior with the young parish secretary, he sends Father Tom back to Myerton from the quiet of the monastery to look into the charges.
When the secretary is found dead and Father McCoy is charged with her murder, he must work against his ex-fiancee Detective Helen Parr and the State Attorney–who is also her boyfriend–to prevent a miscarriage of justice.
But everything is not as it seems…
.ugb-2d7fe26 .ugb-img{width:313px;height:auto !important}.ugb-2d7fe26 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-2d7fe26 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-2d7fe26 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-2d7fe26 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}Dead Men Don’t Smile
Henry Walsh is back to solve a puzzling mystery in Fernandina Beach when a lifelong friend confesses to a murder…
He refuses to believe Charlie Senecal is a killer. But the circumstances surrounding the crime raise far too many questions.
And if the man Henry’s known since the third grade is innocent, then why would he confess to a murder he didn’t commit?
It just doesn’t add up.
But Henry knows Charlie hasn’t been himself since he lost his job as police chief. And with his wife now gone, his state-of-mind has to be questioned
.ugb-e7c5917 .ugb-img{width:332px;height:auto !important}.ugb-e7c5917 .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-e7c5917 .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-e7c5917 .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-e7c5917 .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}The Reluctant Coroner
Blood is thicker than oil–until murder is involved.
Fenway Stevenson doesn’t want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home–and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father’s oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?
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Friends help you move; best friends help you move the body!
Storm ‘Ketch’ Ketchum, a damaged emigre to the coastal town of Avon on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, likes to mind his own business and isn’t any kind of detective – until he’s forced to become one by extraordinary circumstances.
On the verge of losing his modest waterfront home to an unscrupulous developer, Ketch stumbles onto the scene of a crime that might expose the perpetrator of an unsolved murder and enable him to save not only his own home, but also the similarly threatened Bohemian boatyard community he’s inexorably drawn into. And in case Plan A fails, he’s hard at work on a Plan B that’s both laudable and pitiable.
Together with his loyal dog, a salty charter boat captain, the sketchy denizens of the boatyard, and an alluring scuba diving instructor who may or may not have a hidden agenda, Ketch struggles to make sense of his new reality, while trying to save some of the things that really matter along the way.
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Welcome to the island of Kaua`i where things under the water could make you rich or get you killed!
Lucia Santerez puts her education on hold and returns home to help her brother Nicholás run his new dive shop. When she arrives, he’s nowhere to be found. She’s told he’s run off with his girlfriend without a word to her.
Befriended by a vacationing firefighter and twin elderly sisters who run the C’Mon Inn B&B, together they try to unravel the mystery of her brother’s disappearance. They soon learn someone doesn’t want him found.
Aloha Nicholás! But will this be a hello or a goodbye?
.ugb-15a546e .ugb-img{width:312px;height:auto !important}.ugb-15a546e .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-15a546e .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-15a546e .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-15a546e .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}A Murder in Concord
Meet the Mahoney’s, one of the richest families in the state of North Carolina. Owners of the wildly successful Mahoney’s line of restaurants, they are a picture-perfect family and pillars of the community of Concord—until the morning the owner, Trent, is found dead in the middle of the highly secure Mahoney’s, Inc. parking lot.
There are no witnesses and no suspects. Trent seemingly had no enemies, leaving the police baffled. The only person who appears on the police’s radar is Trent’s assistant, Lucas Caine—the person who found Trent and the last person to see Trent alive.
When Lucas finds himself in the crosshairs as a potential suspect, he launches his own investigation using his intimate knowledge of the Fitzgerald family to try to clear his name. He finds a dark side to this family no one knew about, and what he finds could lead to his death.
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Death takes a (working) holiday!
Becca Cole is a big fish in a small pond. The former big-city homicide detective is now the Chief of Police in Summer Haven, a sleepy Florida beach town where nothing ever happens. But all that changes when she is summoned to the scene of a grisly murder. A naked young woman lies dead on the beach, a knife sticking out of her back, and the supposed killer stands over the body. It looks like an open-and-shut case, but not all is as it seems.
The victim, who was tangled up in Santeria and drug-trafficking, didn’t die from a stab wound. In fact, an autopsy can’t determine what killed her. The chief suspect turns out to be Silas Mot, an enigma in his own right. In fact, as Becca digs deeper into Silas’s identity, she discovers the startling truth. He’s the Grim Reaper. The personification of Death. The guy who decides who dies and when. It seems he’s in town in order to determine why unsanctioned deaths have been occurring in and around Summer Haven, and he can’t leave until he’s cracked the case.
Becca and Silas will have to team up to discover who killed the young woman if they are to put a stop to the unscheduled departures, but for Silas, confined to a body of flesh and blood for the first time in his existence, the distractions of the world of the living may be the Death of him!
July 28, 2020
Changing Fortune Cookies
Work in Progress!
Series: Auntie Clem's Bakery #14
Genres: Cozy Mystery
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Scheduled for April 2021 Release
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Fortune Cookies Favor the Bold
The baker turned sleuth is hard at work once more, trying to run her business while at the same time tracking down a missing boy. Is he missing by his own choice, as the police suggest, or has he been kidnapped and held against his will?
The clues are all there, but can Erin decipher them before it is too late?
+ Praise for Auntie Clem's Bakery Series
—This lady knows how to write!! I read this during hurricane Irma on my Kindle so I didn’t care the power was out!
—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!
—I really enjoyed this book … Would make a great Hallmark movie.
—This very enjoyable story with uncomplicated characters and a sweet and easy storyline was well done.
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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.”
“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!”
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Excerpt from The Bitterroots
I know it’s hot out (if you’re in the northern hemisphere), and nobody is wishing for snow, but how about Christmas in July? Check out my blog post for some chilling, thrilling reads.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I’ve read a number of C.J. Box’s books, including the Cody Hoyt and Cassie Dewell series. The Bitterroots is a Cassie Dewell book. She is now a private investigator, and she’s investigating what appears to be an open and shut rape case. But of course, things are never quite what they seem.
There is also a stalker after Cassie and her family. Is it someone from the current case or a previous one? I’m still figuring it out.
Since she’d opened her agency she’d never once been in a situation where it was necessary to draw any of her lethal or nonlethal weapons. She hoped the streak would continue.
C.J. Box, The Bitterroots
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The ties that bind can burn you.
Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family.
Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out by the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, twisted family loyalty runs as deep as the ties to the land, and there’s always something more to the story. The Kleinsassers have ruled this part of Montana for decades, and the Iron Cross Ranch is their stronghold. They want to see Blake Kleinsasser, the black sheep of the family, put away forever for the assault. As Cassie attempts to uncover the truth, she must fight against a family whose roots are tangled and deadly—as well as the ghosts of her own past that threaten to bring her down.
July 23, 2020
It’s Christmas in July!
How about we celebrate Christmas in July with some holiday-themed books? Beat the heat with a few chilly thrillers!
I have just released Santa Shortbread, so of course that is the book on the top of the list today.
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A full-length Christmas mystery.
Somebody is stealing Christmas gifts from the Bald Eagle Falls children. At the rate that presents are disappearing, there soon won’t be a gift left in Whoville. Err, Bald Eagle Falls.
Gluten-free baker Erin Price and her friends are on the case to try to unmask the Grinch and bring him to justice, and toys to the children. But time is not on their side. Soon it will be Christmas Eve—will the winner be the Grinch or Santa?
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Reg learns about Yule in this full-length paranormal cozy.
What kind of a monster poisons a psychic’s cat?
When Starlight first fell ill, Reg thought that she was the cause of it. She should have been watching him more carefully. She should have found out about household plants and chemicals that could hurt her familiar. She was clearly a negligent owner.
But it soon becomes clear that there is some darker force at work, and Reg is going to need all of her resources to find the culprit before it is too late if she is to have any chance of saving her furry companion’s life.
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The first book in the Zachary Goldman series is on sale now for $0.99. A great time to get into a new series.
While She Wore Mourning is not Christmas-themed, it is set at Christmastime, which is a very difficult time of year for PI Zachary Goldman.
A dead child.
A mother deep in mourning.
Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.
Declan’s death has been ruled an accident, but his grandmother thinks there is more to it. She fears Declan’s mother will not be able to find peace until Zachary can give them an answer once and for all. But as Zachary digs into the circumstances surrounding Declan’s death, he finds that all is not as it seems, and somebody doesn’t want him to find the truth.
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Vic is looking forward to Christmas with her new Bald Eagles Falls family. Erin—not so much. But she wants to make it a special day for Vic.
An unexpected turn in events changes all of their carefully-laid plans.
This Christmas short, part of the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series, is only available through my website. The series—and your holiday—won’t be complete without it.
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Another Zachary Goldman mystery set around Christmas, a year after She Wore Mourning. While this is a difficult case for Zachary, there is a Christmas surprise for him when it is all over.
He met with tragedy
Richard Harding was walking alone when he was struck by a vehicle and died.
A tragic accident that was no one’s fault.
But if that was so, then why was his girlfriend so sure that it was intentional homicide?
Zachary Goldman is on the case. With Christmas approaching, he is as determined to distract himself from his own troubles as he is to ferret out the truth of Harding’s death.
The pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place and Zachary finds that there are more parallels between Harding’s life and his own than he would have guessed.
If he doesn’t identify the sinister force behind Harding’s death in time, he could suffer the same fate.
And more holiday reads
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As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women’s Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner’s office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist
Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco.
Then a fearsome criminal known only as “Loman” seizes control of the headlines. Solving crimes never happens on schedule, but as this criminal mastermind unleashes credible threats by the hour, the month of December is upended for the Women’s Murder Club. Avoiding tragedy is the only holiday miracle they seek.
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Love and romance aren’t only for the under forty crowd.
Donna St. James gets the surprise of her life when her new next-door neighbor turns out to be her former high-school sweetheart. Left heartbroken all those years ago, Donna is not keen to reconnect. But they’re soon thrown together when they’re assigned to the same committee for the town’s annual Snow Ball festival. But Donna is determined not to revisit the past. If only she could resist Jim’s blazing blue eyes and feelings toward him that might have always been there.
Jim O’Hara returns to Orchard Falls after a thirty-year career in the military. He never forgot the girl he left behind. He’s determined to catch up with her even if she isn’t. But when a shocking revelation comes to light, they are forced to confront the mistaken assumptions of their past and each other.
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As December turns Lake Eden into the North Pole, the heat is on in Hannah Swensen’s kitchen to honor two Christmas promises: baking irresistible holiday cupcakes and preventing a person who attempted murder from succeeding the second time around!
While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa’s waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michele’s love life is becoming complicated, Lisa needs Hannah’s advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she’s not willing to share. But nothing dampens the holiday mood more than the chilling mystery surrounding the man found near death in an abandoned storefront two doors down from Hannah’s bakery . . .
The befuddled John Doe can’t recall a thing about himself—except for his unusual knowledge of restoring antique furniture. With a smattering of clues and barely enough time to frost Christmas cookies, Hannah must solve a deadly puzzle that could leave her dashing through the snow for her life!
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Can the present unlock the past?
It’s the week before Christmas and Travis Reidan is trying hard to find his holiday spirit. He has recently moved with his wife to his Aunt Lily’s house which he inherited months earlier. This is the couple’s first Christmas together there, but he is haunted by dreams of his older brother who disappeared twenty years before.
What happened to his brother Brent? Did he just leave, was he murdered, or will he return one day?
Travis needs to be brave and face the past if he has any hope of finding what happened to his brother so he can move on with his new life. If he fails, the mystery never gets solved, and he won’t be able to honor his promise to his dying aunt to find the truth.
If you like cozy Christmas stories and small town mysteries, you will love this short story.
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As the holidays draw near in Caerphilly, Mother volunteers to take part in in a big Christmas-themed decorator show house—each room of a temporarily untenanted house is decorated to the hilt by a different decorator for the public to tour.
Of course, Mother insists that Meg pitch in with the organization, and she finds herself surrounded by flamboyant personalities with massive egos clashing and feeling their professional reputations are at stake. Then the rooms start to be sabotaged, and an unfortunate designer turns up dead—making Mother a prime suspect.
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Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to Los Angeles in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people’s essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.
David Baldacci’s THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN is filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief…and shows how we do get second chances to fulfill our deepest hopes and dreams, especially during this season of miracles.
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In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder—and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.
Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.
When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man. . . .
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Winner of Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016.
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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.
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