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 Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse   Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse (A Marygene Brown Mystery) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series   Publisher: Kensington (May 26, 2020)   Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages   ISBN-10: 1496721470   ISBN-13: 978-1496721471   Digital ASIN: B07W4MRDKR On Georgia’s picturesque Peach Cove Island, a killer is serving up a two-for-one special . . .   After their mama's passing, Marygene Brown returned to Peach Cove Island to help her sister Jena Lynn run the family diner, renowned for its homemade peach desserts. But Mama is never too far away—her sassy spirit haunts the island, and more specifically Marygene. Lately Mama has been warning her that the dead will seek her out to solve their murders, an idea Marygene is far from peachy keen on.   But that prophecy appears to be coming true when she goes skinny-dipping off the island and swims right into a woman's charred corpse floating in the waves. And when Marygene and her brot

No Filter (Barks & Beans Cafe Cozy Mystery) by Heather Day Gilbert   No Filter (Barks & Beans Cafe Cozy Mystery)   Cozy Mystery 1st in Series   Publisher: WoodHaven Press (May 26, 2020)   Number of Pages: ~280 Pages   Digital ASIN: B085BX4N96 Welcome to the Barks & Beans Cafe, a quaint place where folks pet shelter dogs while enjoying a cup of java...and where murder sometimes pays a visit.   Fed up with her go-nowhere job, newly single Macy Hatfield moves back to her small hometown in West Virginia. She joins forces with her brother Bo in his crazy new venture—the Barks & Beans Cafe, which caters to dog lovers and coffee drinkers alike.   When a golf instructor is murdered at the nearby spiritual center, Macy winds up adopting his Great Dane. Just after Macy finds a mysterious message sewn under the dog's collar, her Dane is dognapped. She launches into a relentless search for her newfound canine friend, but along the way, she di

  HOME By Alison Neuman Children Fluffy, the cat, knew the minute she met Levi that he would become fast friends with the friendly mouse using a special wheelchair. In the third installment of their adventures, join Fluffy, Levi, and his family on their final leg of adventure to find their forever homes together. ORDER YOUR COPY Amazon → https://amzn.to/2Va96Ox Smashwords → https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1015552     It was a playful neighbourhood dog named Buster, and a winter storm that had brought Fluffy, the Persian cat, to a warehouse where she’d met a little mouse named Levi. Levi had taken his new friend to meet his family who made their home in an old car. Now Fluffy, Levi and his entire mouse family were headed to Fluffy's home, in a swing the cat had made his new little friend to help transport him and his custom-made wheelchair.  “I’m going to miss this car. It’s been a good home

A Cornish Summer Holiday at the Little Duck Pond Café The Little Duck Pond Cafe girls are looking forward to a well-earned break in the Cornish seaside town of Pengully Sands, where Sylvia’s sister, Aggie, owns a holiday home. With the glorious golden sands, sparkling azure sea and an ice-cream parlour only yards away, it seems like the perfect location to relax and watch the surfers riding the waves (and maybe even have a go themselves). But when they arrive, the girls find it’s not quite the seaside idyll they were expecting.  The house is less ‘holiday home’ and more ‘creepy, dilapidated haunted house.’ Gracie, who runs the ice-cream parlour, has problems of her own and the last thing she needs is a bunch of high-spirited girls arriving to disturb the peace and isolation she craves. And when a handsome stranger looks set to destroy her livelihood, it seems like the last straw. Will Gracie get her happy ending - and maybe even make friends with the girls next-d

Killing Time (A Dodie O'Dell Mystery) by Suzanne Trauth   Killing Time (A Dodie O'Dell Mystery)   Cozy Mystery 6th in Series   Publisher: Lyrical Press (June 2, 2020)   Number of Pages: 215   Digital ASIN: B07W8ZX8JV With Halloween just around the corner, Dodie O’Dell is making preparations to transform the Windjammer Restaurant on the Jersey Shore into a haunted house, while the Etonville Little Theatre is staging Dracula. But casting the titular Transylvanian is proving challenging. The amateur actors in the company are not shy about chewing the scenery, but who among them can convincingly sink their fangs into a victim's neck? When a mysterious newcomer with a transfixing Eastern European accent lands the part, rumors that he might be an actual vampire start to take flight—not unlike the bat who's recently been spotted in the town park.   But everyone’s blood really runs cold when a stranger is found in the cemetery with a real stake in

Winters’ Gift: A heart warming, feel good romantic comedy.  ‘I absolutely adored this book. It gave me all the feels! A charming read full of warmth and heart.’ ***** Kim the Bookworm Bea Winters is in desperate need of a fresh start. Being bullied at work is not her idea of fun and she longs to follow her dream of becoming a published author. When an advert appears in her local paper to work in a publishing house in the sleepy village of Bloomsdale, it sounds too good to be true.   She strikes up an instant friendship with gorgeous aspiring author, Eddie Richards and her dashing millionaire boss Scott Summers  But all isn’t as it seems in the sleepy village of Bloomsdale. How does the local clairvoyant know her name? Who does the little black dog that keeps appearing belong to and why does she keep bumping into the mysterious Charlie?   As she starts to unravel the truth, it seems that everyone in Bea’s life is keeping secrets.   An uplifting rom

Hostage to Fortune   Hostage to Fortune: A Tea and Tarot Cozy Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series   Publisher: misterio press (May 21, 2020)   Number of Pages: 250   Digital ASIN   B0858V8YJC   Abigail and Hyperion uncork a murder… Tea and Tarot room owner Abigail Beanblossom is used to running interference for her socially-awkward former boss, tech billionaire Razzzor. So when he invites her on a stakeout to investigate the sale of counterfeit wine from his latest venture – an upscale winery – she barrels on in. But the two stumble across the corpse of a wine merchant, and new wine in old bottles is now the least of their problems. Good thing amateur detectives Abigail and her partner, tarot reader Hyperion Night, have a nose for murder. Their investigation takes them from elegant wine cellars to chic tea parties on the California coast. But just as the investigation starts to get its legs, Abigail discovers there’s more than wine at the bottom of this crime…

 The House That Vanity Built Book 2 of the Misty Dawn Trilogy                                            The House That Vanity Built (A Misty Dawn Mystery)   Paranormal Cozy Mystery   2nd in Series   Publisher: Henery Press (May 12, 2020)   Hardcover: 242 pages   ISBN-10: 1635115981 ISBN-13: 978-1635115987   Digital ASIN: B084BN2B37 Misty Dawn, a former Hollywood psychic to the stars, knows the dark and sometimes glamorous streets of Los Angeles are full of secrets, broken promises, and dashed hopes. When a young woman comes to her door because she’s lost her engagement ring and is afraid to tell her fiancé (the son of one of the world’s biggest cosmetics empires), Misty senses it’s no accident. Together Misty Dawn and her psychic charge, Wilson Thorne, must not only sneak behind the walls of the Conroy Estate (aka The House That Vanity Built), but go beyond the veil where the luminaries have laid plans to seek revenge. Murder, lust, and a quest for a

"The plot was original, fresh and fast paced in spite of the "traditional elements" employed which can normally be found in any other thriller of this genre. The USP of this story would be its unpredictability. When you think you have it all guessed up, the plot would change its course keeping you hooked. There were a lot of suspense twists and turns that kept the momentum up. Needless to say, the writing was simply perfect. One thing that writer needs to be lauded for is the humor she inculcated in the book. Minus those humorous parts, the book would have been one serious read." - Reviewer: Book and Ink Book Details: Book Title : Kill and Run by Lauren Carr Series : Thorny Rose Mystery Series (Volume 1) Category :  Adult fiction, 422 pages Genre :  Murder Mystery Publisher :  Acorn Book Services Release date :  September, 2015 Format available for review :  audible (download code), ebook (mobi, ePub, PDF) Tour dates