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Title: Heart of a Cowboy Series: Elk Heights Ranch #1 Author: Kristin Vayden Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp Genre: Western Romance Release Date: December 19, 2017 Blurb A stubborn cowboy has sworn never to forgive or forget—but one special woman may find a way to change his mind . . .   Hospice nurse Laken Garlington helps people face the end with peace and dignity, surrounded by their loved ones. But the son of her new patient didn’t come home to reunite with his dad. So why  is  Cyler Myer back in horse country? It’s clear the sexy, six-three hunk with the steely eyes has a score to settle, and Laken doesn’t plan on being collateral damage . . . no matter how irresistible she finds the prodigal cowboy. Dying is too good for the father Cyler will never forgive—not in this lifetime. Showing up at his family’s Washington State ranch is the first step in his plan. But revenge takes a back seat to desire when Cyler meets a bossy ...

Unnatural Causes: A Dr. Katie LeClair Mystery by Dawn Eastman   Unnatural Causes: A Dr. Katie LeClair Mystery   Mystery/ Amateur Sleuth   New Series   Crooked Lane Books (December 12, 2017)   Hardcover: 288 pages   ISBN-13: 978-1683313137   Digital ASIN: B0767G2XLL Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, MI. After years of moving, schooling, and training, she wants nothing more than to find a place she can call home, and a small town outside of Ann Arbor seemed perfect. Katie quickly gets to work in building a life for herself in Baxter, and beyond reviving her love life, she also finds a pair of business partners in a team of father and son family practitioners. But that idyllic dream is immediately shattered when one of her patients is found dead. That wouldn't be the worst thing, except the death is ruled a suicide, and as evidence has it, the suicide was a result of the medication Kati...

Character Guest Post – Jenna Flowers – Honey-Baked Homicide by Gayle Leeson All Grown Up Hi, there. I’m Jenna, Amy’s mom. I don’t get down here to the Down South Café as often as I’d like to. I’m afraid to leave Aunt Bess alone for too long. Who knows what she’d get into. Aunt Bess is my late mother’s sister. She moved in with Mom a few years after Pop died. Aunt Bess was a widow too, and they decided they’d rather live together than alone. It was a good arrangement for both of them. They took care of each other and, although they bickered almost nonstop, they had fun together. Come to think of it, Aunt Bess and I bicker quite a bit too. The woman’s just a bickerer…what can I say? My niece Jackie is up at the big house with Aunt Bess now, so I’m visiting the café for a nice change of pace. We call Mom’s house “the big house” because there are two houses on the property. One—the one I lived in with Amy before Mom died, and the one where Amy still lives—was built as a...

Egg Drop Dead (A Cackleberry Club Mystery) by Laura Childs Mass Market Paperback Egg Drop Dead (A Cackleberry Club Mystery)   Series: A Cackleberry Club Mystery (Book 7)   Publisher: Berkley (December 5, 2017)   Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages   ISBN-13: 978-0425281710   E-Book ASIN: B01CZCW4MW Synopsis In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni—co-owners of the Cackleberry Club café—are back to track down another bad egg… Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club café’s success, so Suzanne doesn’t mind going out to Mike Mullen’s dairy farm to pick up some wheels of cheese. She’s looking forward to a nice visit with the mild-mannered farmer before heading back to their hectic kitchen. But when she arrives, Mike’s nowhere to be found. The moaning of his cows leads her to look in the barn, where she discove...

Murder, She Slopes (A Penning Trouble Mystery)   Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series   Release Date - November 26, 2017   Print Length: 214 pages   ASIN: B075CTKP2B Sirens ring. Are you listening? Near Candy Cane Lane. A Body is glistening. A murderous sight. Trubble's investigating tonight. Walking through this winter wonderland. It's the week before Christmas and Investigative Journalist Penelope Trubble has reluctantly agreed to investigate the death of a woman at the Sleighs & Slopes Adventure Resort in the hopes of exonerating her her husband—who just happens to be Penny’s ex. But with so many suspicious characters lurking in the trees, Penelope risks being strangled by clues, Christmas lights, conjecture, and catastrophe. It doesn’t help that Penny's still a little frosty with the man accused of icing his bride, and she must prove he's no cold-blooded killer. At least there’s candy-cane cocoa, a roaring fire, and the Laurentian Mountai...

Running Out of Time (A Dodie O’Dell Mystery)  by Suzanne Trauth Restaurant manager Dodie O’Dell’s themed food ideas have been called cute, clever, and delicious, but never revolutionary—until now. Running out of Time (A Dodie O’Dell Mystery) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Lyrical Underground (October 10, 2017) Paperback: 220 pages ISBN-13: 978-1601837240 Digital ASIN: B01NBUM1LD Dodie’s Windjammer Restaurant is stocking the Etonville Little Theatre’s concession stand with colonial-era desserts and drinks: Swamp Yankee applesauce cake, pumpkin bread, hot cider punch, and mulled wine to complement the latest production. A local playwright has adapted Thornton Wilder’s Our Town into Eton Town, shifting the story to colonial America and the founding of Etonville, New Jersey, shortly after the Revolutionary War. On opening night, hours before the curtain rises, Dodie runs into an agitated actress backstage with blood on her hands. Then a stranger is found among t...

Down to No Good by Earl Javorsky on Tour October 30, 2017 - January 6, 2018 Synopsis: Private investigator Charlie Miner, freshly revived from his own murder, gets a call from Homicide Detective Dave Putnam. Self-styled “psychic to the stars” Tamara Gale has given crucial information about three murders, and the brass thinks it makes the Department look bad. Dave wants Charlie to help figure out the angle, since he has first-hand experience with the inexplicable. Trouble is, Charlie, just weeks after his full-death experience, once again has severe cognitive problems and may get them both killed. Earl Javorsky’s DOWN TO NO GOOD is wildly original, wildly energetic, wildly funny – it’s just straight up wild, and I mean that in the best possible way. – Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE It's a shame you missed Down Solo: “Earl Javorsky’s bold and unusual Down Solo blends the mysterious and the supernatural boldly and successfully. T...

The Discombobulated Decipherers by Julie Seedorf   The Discombobulated Decipherers: A Brilliant, Minnesota Mystery   Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series   Self Published (November 21, 2017)   Print Length: 195 pages   ASIN: B076Z3YFYQ It’s Christmas in Brilliant, Minnesota, and Brilliant is known for its glitzy Christmas traditions. A world-renowned Christmas pageant, the town square decked out with Santa’s Village and a live nativity scene bring visitors to Brilliant each year. Just as the tourists arrive, Jezabelle Jingle and her mystery writer friend, Miranda, find the body of Ernest the elf dead and wrapped in a bundle of Christmas lights in the town square. Is Ernest part of a new holiday puzzle the Discombobulated Decipherers need to solve? Or is dead Ernest part of a bigger plot? Will Jezabelle decipher the clues so Brilliant can celebrate Christmas in peace? Or will Jezabelle be the next gift-wrapped box under the village tree? ...