Rotten Peaches by Lisa de Nikolits Book Tour and Giveaway! @lisadenikolits

Rotten Peaches

by Lisa de Nikolits

on Tour February 1-28, 2019

Synopsis:

Rotten Peaches is a gripping epic filled with disturbing and unforgettable insights into the human condition. Love, lust, race and greed. How far will you go? Two women. Two men. One happy ending. It takes place in Canada, the U.S. and South Africa. Nature or nurture. South Africa, racism and old prejudices — these are hardly old topics but what happens when biological half-siblings meet with insidious intentions? Can their moral corruption be blamed on genetics — were they born rotten to begin with? And what happens when they meet up with more of their ilk? What further havoc can be wreaked, with devastating familial consequences?

"Wow. Just wow. Lisa de Nikolits’ Rotten Peaches blew me away. A dark, compulsive, and addictive story in which the characters’ secrets and needs conflict with each other and fold back in on themselves in an ever-tightening noose, Rotten Peaches will keep readers gripped until the very last page. Highly recommended!" —Karen Dionne, internationally bestselling author of The Marsh King’s Daughter

Book Details:

Genre: Noir Suspense Thriller
Published by: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Publication Date: September 20th 2018
Number of Pages: 300
ISBN: 1771335297 (ISBN13: 9781771335294)
Purchase Links: Amazon | Inanna | Goodreads

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Read an excerpt:

I am not a killer. I just fell in love with the wrong man. I went too far this time, and there’s no going back. There’s no going anywhere, period. I nearly stayed afloat, but my luck ran out. Luck, that mystical mythical glue that holds the shards of despair together and makes life navigable. But fragmented despair, that’s what sinks you.
It’s the middle of the day and the ghost of a cat walks across my bed. I am hidden in the downy softness of bleach-laundered sheets, sheets ironed with starch and cleansed of their filthy sins by scalding Catholic water.
The bed is high and wide and the pillows are like clouds ripped from a summer’s sky. I bury my head in cotton balls, puffy meringues and whipped cream, and try to ignore the ghost of the cat that is walking the length of my back.
The cat settles at my feet but it gets up again and pads along my legs. When it first started its prowl, I sat up and reached for it but, like all ghosts, it immediately vanished and waited for me to turn away before settling in a warm, heavy lump against my side. Its weight is comforting in a way, like being massaged by the hand of God, but it isn’t God. It can’t be,because God, like luck, has left the building of my life.
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Excerpt from Rotten Peaches by Lisa de Nikolits. Copyright © 2018 by Lisa de Nikolits. Reproduced with permission from Lisa de Nikolits. All rights reserved.

Bonus Content!

In addition to Lisa's amazing new thriller, she's also released a new cookbook. To celebrate she's sharing the recipe for one of the South African desserts mentioned in Rotten Peaches!

Download your copy today & start baking your way to a nourished body and spirit!

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 Author Bio:

Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits has lived in Canada since 2000. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy and has lived in the U.S.A., Australia and Britain. Her seventh novel, No Fury Like That will be published in Italian, under the title Una furia dell'altro mondo, in 2019. Previous works include The Hungry Mirror, West of Wawa, A Glittering Chaos, Witchdoctor’s Bones; Between The Cracks She Fell and The Nearly Girl. Lisa lives and writes in Toronto and her very new book, Rotten Peaches is hot off the press to reader and literary acclaim. Lisa a member of the Sisters in Crime, Toronto Chapter, Sisters in Crime, Mesdames of Mayhem, The International Thriller Writers.

Catch Up With Lisa On:
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Lisa de Nikolits picture credit Richard Picton

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HWY 550 by Freya Barker Book Spotlight and Giveaway!

Title: HWY 550  

Author: Freya Barker 

Genre: MC Romance 

Release Date: February 17th, 2019 

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC. 

Special Agent Luna Roosberg lives and breathes her job. Who needs a personal life when work is so rewarding? When a new case sends her to investigate a local motorcycle club, covering as the president’s new flavor of the week, the lines between professional and personal quickly start to blur. Although the Arrow’s Edge MC stays mostly on the right side of the law since Ouray took the gavel, the appearance of the feds at their gate can still rattle his cage. When a string of robberies points squarely in Ouray's direction, he’s forced to cooperate and put the blonde, prim and proper half-pint on the back of his bike. With pressure mounting both in—and outside—the club, Ouray no longer knows who he can trust, except the woman who is shaking up his life—and stirring his blood.

 

 

Freya Barker inspires with her stories about 'real’ people, perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy.

She is the author of the Cedar Tree and Portland, ME Series, the Northern Lights Collection and the Rock Point Series. She is also co-author of the SnapShot Series.

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Death by a Whisker: A Cat Rescue Mystery by T. C. LoTempio - Paperback Edition Book Tour and Giveaway! @RoccoBlogger

Death by a Whisker: A Cat Rescue Mystery by T. C. LoTempio - Paperback Edition

About the Book

Death by a Whisker: A Cat Rescue Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Crooked Lane Books (February 13, 2018) Paperback: 320 pages ISBN-10: 1683319494 ISBN-13: 978-1683319498 Digital ASIN: B072395VJN

Getting used to life back home in Deer Park, North Carolina, Sydney McCall and her right-hand tabby, Toby, are helping her sister Kat run the local animal shelter. Syd and Kat are all excited about the prospect of the shelter’s newest fundraiser: shopping channel queen Ulla Townsend. Shelter admin Maggie Shayne vehemently refuses to have anything to do with the woman, but the fundraiser ensues as planned. That is, until Ulla turns up dead in the middle of the event.

The cause of death is determined to be an allergic reaction, but Syd and Toby are sniffing out something fishy. When Syd met Ulla, it was clear she was distasteful and rude. And right before the event, Syd spotted some behind-the-scenes drama between Ulla and her manager. As they begin to investigate, they realize there is no shortage of suspects, and Maggie is at the top of the list.

Now Syd and Toby must claw their way to the truth before everything goes paws up at their animal shelter in Death by a Whisker by national bestselling author T. C. LoTempio.

About the Author

While Toni Lotempio does not commit – or solve – murders in real life, she has no trouble doing it on paper. Her lifelong love of mysteries began early on when she was introduced to her first Nancy Drew mystery at age 10 – The Secret in the Old Attic. She (and ROCCO, albeit he’s uncredited) pen the Nick and Nora mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime – the first volume, MEOW IF ITS MURDER, debuted Dec. 2, 2014. Followed by #2, CLAWS FOR ALARM. #3, CRIME AND CATNIP, was released in December. She, Rocco and Maxx make their home in Clifton, New Jersey, just twenty minutes from the Big Apple – New York. Catch up with them at www.tclotempio.net and www.catsbooksmorecats.blogspot.com

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Website: https://www.tclotempio.net/ 
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/toni.lotempio.5 
Twitter: @RoccoBlogger - https://twitter.com/@RoccoBlogger 

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Consuming Fire by Catherine Fearns Book Tour and Giveaway! @rararesources @metalmamawrites

Consuming Fire

What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen…

Liverpool is in the grip of an intense heatwave, and strange things are happening.

A woman dies in an apparent case of Spontaneous Human Combustion; a truck explodes on the dock road; the charred corpses of pets litter the city; forest fires ravage the pinewoods…and there are birds everywhere, silent flocks drawing in ominously.

Detective Inspector Darren Swift thinks there are connections, and his investigation delves into the worlds of football, nightclubs and organised crime. But is he imagining things?

Dr. Helen Hope doesn’t think so. And she believes the key lies in a mysterious seventeenth-century occult book which has gone missing from Liverpool Library.

In the blistering sequel to Reprobation, DI Swift is forced to confront some inconvenient ghosts from his past, as a terrifying shadow lies over his city’s reality….

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This extract is, in fact, the first page of the book, and therefore needs no introduction!

Eliza Bektashi was walking across Crosby’s pedestrianized shopping square, as slowly as possible to conserve her energy in the oppressive heat, laden with carrier bags that caused her to list from side to side. Sweat salted her eyes, trickled down her back, and stuck her long sleeves and long skirt clammy against her skin.

She stopped and put down her bags for a moment to catch her breath; there was no rush. She had bought almost everything on the list in the main supermarket, but she couldn’t understand why these people didn’t buy what they could in the discount stores across the square. There were pounds to be saved every week, and if her employers couldn’t be bothered to pocket the difference, then she would. It was not yet midday but already the tables outside the cafes and pub were filling up with customers. Liverpool was in the grip of a June heatwave that showed no signs of abating. The initial stages of British summer euphoria – bare legs, ice creams, barbecues,and electric fan sales – had morphed into the inevitable sprinkler wars, newspaper warnings to keep an eye on pensioners – and this too had now waned as a collective lethargy had settled over the city. People were doing the bare minimum and the scent of body odour and knocking off work early had become standard.

Eliza stood for a few moments in the shady part of the square until she had accepted and bathed in her new level of discomfort. Outside the newsagent the local newspaper sandwich board lamented yet another animal burned to death. That made two cats and two dogs in the past month, Crosby pets set on fire in acts of seemingly mindless violence by local thugs, leaving their owners distraught. Eliza shuddered, despite the heat, and fingered for the amulet she usually wore on a necklace, but her neck was bare. She had left it at home. She surreptitiously muttered a prayer, took a deep breath and steeled herself for the blinding sunshine that lay between her and the Homesaver store. But just as she was about to set off, her phone rang; no doubt Madam with something else for her to buy. She fumbled for the phone in her cross-body handbag. The bag’s metal clasp had been heated so much by the sun that she could hardly bear to touch it, and she winced as her fingers were scalded. The small piece of metal caught the sun’s rays and blinded her as she finally retrieved the phone.

‘Hello?’

She could just make out a faint whispering on the line.

‘Hello? Hello?’

The whispering became louder but no clearer. It sounded as if there were many voices, perhaps thousands; infinite voices, all whispering in strange tongues that she didn’t recognise. The sound was pitchless and insistent and if she didn’t know better she would have said that it was not human. Then suddenly there was a searing pain in the pit of her belly, and she screamed and doubled over, clutching at her abdomen. A man moved towards her to try and help, but he stumbled back in terror, falling into an elderly couple behind him because Eliza was screaming, but instead of noise, flames were licking out of her mouth. Suddenly her entire body was engulfed in fire as if a switch had been flicked on a gas appliance. She began to run around in circles, in a blind panic, her eyeballs gone now, her arms flailing. She tried to grab at people to help, and they ran from her screaming. Someone came running out of the pub with a fire extinguisher, someone from the bank with another. The foam was unleashed with a hiss but to no avail; if anything the flames rose higher.

The square was empty now except for Eliza’s flaming, fading body; people cowered in shop doorways, a few filming on their mobile phones, having decided to commit their enforced voyeurism to public record. Eliza stopped running now, the flames became smaller and were replaced by a pungent black smoke. Her body seemed to disintegrate before people’s eyes; flesh burned away and blackened bones crumbled to dust. And then, as quickly as it had appeared, the fire died down and extinguished itself. All that remained was a smouldering pile of white ashes scattered around a pair of feet, which were seemingly untouched. Two severed, cauterised ankles at the top of two charred stumps. The gaudy cheerfulness of the purple-painted toes and pink rubber flip-flops was an affront, an indignity, and yet the only reminder that a human had been there. Every other trace of the woman had vanished. There was an eerie silence for a moment, and then the collective horror took over and the screams began.

Author Bio –

Catherine Fearns is from Liverpool, UK. In previous incarnations, she was a financial analyst, a cocktail pianist and a breastfeeding counselor, but nowadays she likes to write. Her first novel, Reprobation, was published by Crooked Cat Books in October 2018 and quickly became an Amazon bestseller in several categories. The follow-up, Consuming Fire, is currently on pre-order and will be available in early 2019.

Catherine writes for music website Pure Grain Audio, and her music journalism has also appeared in Broken Amp and Noisey. Her short fiction and non-fiction pieces have been published in Here Comes Everyone, Toasted Cheese, Offshoots & Metal Music Studies. She holds a degree in History from Oxford University, a Masters from the London School of Economics, and is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association.

When Catherine is not writing, she plays guitar in a heavy metal band, mainly to annoy her four children.

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Past Due for Murder: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery by Victoria Gilbert Book Tour and Giveaway! @VGilbertauthor

Past Due for Murder: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery by Victoria Gilbert

 About the Book

Past Due for Murder: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery 

Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series 

Crooked Lane Books (February 12, 2019)

Hardcover: 304 pages 

ISBN-10: 1683318749 

ISBN-13: 978-1683318743

Digital ASIN: B07D2GYM25

Has a curse fallen on the small town of Taylorsford, Virginia? After a young woman goes missing during a spring bonfire, library director Amy Webber must wade through the web of lies only to find a truth that she may not want to untangle.

Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town’s long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. All seems well at first—but spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire.

The local police cast a wide net to find the missing woman, but in a shocking turn of events, Amy’s swoon-worthy neighbor Richard Muir becomes a person of interest in the case. Not only is Richard the woman’s dance instructor, he also doesn’t have an alibi for the night the student vanished—or at least not one he’ll divulge, even to Amy.

When the missing student is finally discovered lost in the mountains, with no memory of recent events—and a dead body lying nearby—an already disturbing mystery takes on a sinister new hue. Blessed with her innate curiosity and a librarian’s gift for research, Amy may be the only one who can learn the truth in Past Due for Murder, Victoria Gilbert’s third charming Blue Ridge Library mystery.

About the Author

Raised in a historic small town in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Victoria Gilbert turned her early obsession with books into a dual career as an author and librarian.

Victoria’s first cozy mystery series, the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series, garnered her a three-book deal with Crooked Lane Books, which has since been expanded to five books. The first two books in the series have been optioned by Sony Pictures Television, and the first three were or will be produced in audiobook by Tantor Media.

Victoria also just inked a 2-book deal with Crooked Lane for a new cozy series, the Booklovers B & B series, set in historic Beaufort, NC.

A member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and Sisters in Crime, Victoria is represented by Frances Black at Literary Counsel.

Author Links: 
Website/blog: http://victoriagilbertmysteries.com/ 
Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaGilbertMysteryAuthor/ 
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