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To any authors/publishers/ tour companies that are looking for the reviews that I signed up for please know this is very hard to do. I will be stopping reviews temporarily. My husband passed away February 1st and my new normal is a bit scary right now and I am unable to concentrate on a book to do justice to the book and authors. I will still do spotlight posts if you wish it is just the reviews at this time. I apologize for this, but it isn't fair to you if I signed up to do a review and haven't been able to because I can't concentrate on any books. Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time. I appreciate all of you. Kathleen Kelly April 2nd 2024

15 December 2018

Sparky of Bunker Hill and the Cold Kid Case by Rosalind Barden Book Tour and Giveaway!


Sparky of Bunker Hill and the Cold Kid Case by Rosalind Barden

 About the Book
 
Young Adult Mystery Mystery & Horror, LLC
 (October 9, 2018) 
Paperback: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 1949281027 
ISBN-13: 978-1949281026
Digital ASIN: B07H49P46T
Lots of characters have it bad, in my Bunker Hill neighborhood smack dab in the middle of Los Angeles, but I’ve had it rougher than most. There may be something to this 13th business.
That's my birthday, and I’m learning to dread seeing it roll around. My mother died on one birthday. The cousins dumped me on my last. This year, 1932, I found a dead kid on a park bench. It’s my eleventh birthday, and the day me, Sparky, ended up on the run, wanted for murder.
If the dead girl wasn’t enough, the dirty newspapers pinned every body in LA on me, and even blamed me for the Great War. I wasn’t even born then. The price on my head got bigger by the day.
It was up to me to find out who killed the girl and why I got framed, before I ended up dangling from the hangman’s rope.

About the Author

Over thirty of Rosalind Barden's short stories have appeared in print anthologies and webzines, including the U.K.'s acclaimed Whispers of Wickedness. Mystery and Horror, LLC has included her stories in their anthologies History and Mystery, Oh My! (FAPA President's Book Award Silver Medalist), Mardi Gras Murder, and four of the Strangely Funny series. Ellen Datlow selected her short story “Lion Friend” as a Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention after it appeared in Cern Zoo, a British Fantasy Society nominee for best anthology, part of DF Lewis' award-winning Nemonymous anthology series. TV Monster is her print children's book that she wrote and illustrated. Her satirical literary novel American Witch is available as an e-book. In addition, her scripts, novel manuscripts, and short fiction have placed in numerous competitions, including the Writers’ Digest Screenplay Competition and the Shriekfast Film Festival. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Discover more at RosalindBarden.com

Author Links Website - http://rosalindbarden.com/ 
Amazon Author Page - https://www.amazon.com/Rosalind-Barden/e/B001KDZ344/ 
Purchase Links - 
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December 13 – Here’s How It Happened – REVIEW
December 13 – StoreyBook Reviews – GUEST POST
December 14 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT
December 14 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 15 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 15 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW
December 16 – My Journey Back- The Journey Back  – REVIEW  
December 17 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – GUEST POST
December 18 – Ruff Drafts – INTERVIEW
December 19 – Mallory Heart’s Cozies – REVIEW
December 19 – Varietats – GUEST POST 

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14 December 2018

Eggs on Ice (A Cackleberry Club Mystery) by Laura Childs Book Tour and Giveaway!

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Eggs on Ice (A Cackleberry Club Mystery)
by Laura Childs
About the Book
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Cozy Mystery
8th in Series
Berkley (December 4, 2018)
Hardcover: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0425281728
ISBN-13: 978-0425281727
Kindle ASIN: B07BD23MV9
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Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of “A Christmas Carol” is just playing to type. He’s not the most beloved man in town. In fact, you’d have a dickens of a time finding someone who liked him. Still it’s a shock when the Ghost of Christmas Past stabs him during the first rehearsal. Suzanne, co-owner of the Cackleberry Club cafĂ©, Kindred’s favorite combination diner, craft store and bookshop, chases the murderer out of the building but loses him in the alley.
As the days pass the list of suspects grows longer. Is it the disgruntled partner? The former secretary whom Sharpe sexually harrassed? Or is it fellow owner of the Cackleberry Club, Toni’s almost ex-husband, Junior? The women of the Cackleberry Club are determined to find the killer before he can add another victim to his Christmas list.
About the Author
laura childs from facebook
Laura Childs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysterieshttps://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=dollycsthoug-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=26515d44645e89a96fa6aef1716fd04a&_cb=1471729767131Scrapbook Mysterieshttps://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=dollycsthoug-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=17c7fce55f60d5079ff362cce5d5d392&_cb=1471729779427, and Cackleberry Club Mysterieshttps://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=dollycsthoug-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=4045b937dda93095d128a4853d35d564&_cb=1471729792028. In her previous life she was CEO/Creative Director of her own marketing firm and authored several screenplays. She is married to a professor of Chinese art history, loves to travel, rides horses, enjoys fundraising for various non-profits, and has two Chinese Shar-Pei dogs.
Laura specializes in cozy mysteries that have the pace of a thriller (a thrillzy!) Her three series are:
The Tea Shop Mysteries https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=dollycsthoug-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=e6618dd12dd2737f2df3474ff940d6a3&_cb=1471729812160– set in the historic district of Charleston and featuring Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop. Theodosia is a savvy entrepreneur, and pet mom to service dog Earl Grey. She’s also an intelligent, focused amateur sleuth who doesn’t rely on coincidences or inept police work to solve crimes. This charming series is highly atmospheric and rife with the history and mystery that is Charleston.
The Scrapbooking Mysterieshttps://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=dollycsthoug-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=f347cf81858fd7096ba25d09384c64f0&_cb=1471729828226 – a slightly edgier series that take place in New Orleans. The main character, Carmela, owns Memory Mine scrapbooking shop in the French Quarter and is forever getting into trouble with her friend, Ava, who owns the Juju Voodoo shop. New Orleans’ spooky above-ground cemeteries, jazz clubs, bayous, and Mardi Gras madness make their presence known here!
The Cackleberry Club Mysterieshttps://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=dollycsthoug-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=cb6797f651d64970a563fca0dbbded81&_cb=1471729856464 – set in Kindred, a fictional town in the Midwest. In a rehabbed Spur station, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra, three semi-desperate, forty-plus women have launched the Cackleberry Club. Eggs are the morning specialty here and this cozy cafe even offers a book nook and yarn shop. Business is good but murder could lead to the cafe’s undoing! This series offers recipes, knitting, cake decorating, and a dash of spirituality.
Laura’s Links:
Purchase Links
Amazon    B&N    Kobo   Google Play   IndieBound 

EGGS ON ICE TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 3 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 3 – StoreyBook Reviews – GUEST POST
December 4 – Valerie's Musings – REVIEW
December 4 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 5 – Carla Loves To Read – REVIEW
December 5 – Mallory Heart's Cozies – REVIEW
December 6 – A Wytch's Book Review Blog – REVIEW
December 6 – Devilishly Delicious Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – Cinnamon, Sugar and a Little Bit of Murder – REVIEW
December 7 – MJB Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf - SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW
December 9 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Community Bookstop – REVIEW*
December 11 – Socrates' Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – A Holland Reads – REVIEW*
December 12 – The Cozy Pages – REVIEW
December 12 – Brooke Blogs – GUEST POST
December 13 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW*
December 14 – Celticlady's Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 14 – A Chick Who Reads – REVIEW*
December 15 – Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 15 – Laura's Interests – REVIEW
December 16 – Melina's Book Blog – REVIEW*

Scream Muddy Murder (Big Lake Murder Mysteries) by Lesley A. Diehl Book Tour and GIveaway!


Scream Muddy Murder (Big Lake Murder Mysteries) by Lesley A. Diehl

 About the Book
 
Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series 
Creekside Publishing (September 27, 2018) 
Paperback: 352 pages 
ISBN-10: 9780997234954 
ISBN-13: 978-0997234954
Print Length: 272 pages 
Digital ASIN: B07H2NZQ7C
EMILY RHODES DOES IT AGAIN! This time she nosedives into a mud puddle at a Seminole War battle reenactment and finds she’s sharing the muck with a dead body. As usual the hunky detective she loves to aggravate, Stanton Lewis, cautions her against getting involved in the case, and as usual she ignores him. Emily’s sleuthing pays off, revealing disturbing information about the victim’s past. Is it the reason behind his murder? With the help of her family and friends, Emily sets out to uncover secrets kept too long and puts herself and the people she loves in the killer’s path. Too late she realizes Detective Lewis was right. Her snoopiness proves to be a deadly idea.

About the Author

Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in Upstate New York. In the winter she migrates to old Florida—cowboys, scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post office, and gators make golf a contact sport. Back north, the shy ghost inhabiting the cottage serves as her literary muse. When not writing, she gardens, cooks and renovates the 1874 cottage with the help of her husband, two cats and, of course, Fred the ghost, who gives artistic direction to their work. She’s presently interviewing for a coyote to serve as her muse for her books and stories set in rural Florida.
She is the author of a number of mystery series and mysteries as well as short stories, most featuring her quirky sense of humor and a few characters drawn from her peculiar family.

Author Links 
Twitter @lesleydiehl 
Facebook lesley.diehl.1@facebook.com
Webpage www.lesleyadiehl.com 
Blog www.lesleyadiehl.com/blog 

Purchase Links - 
Amazon
B&N 

TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 7 – Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – Mallory Heart’s Cozies – REVIEW
December 9 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 10 – T’s Stuff – SPOTLIGHT, RECIPE POST
December 10 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 12 – A Blue Million Books – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 13 – FUONLYKNEW – REVIEW
December 14 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 15 – MJB Reviewers – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
December 16 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 17 – Devilishly Delicious Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 18 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 19 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT  
December 19 – Books Direct – GUEST POST
December 20 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
December 20 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT

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Eggs on Ice (A Cackleberry Club Mystery) by Laura Childs Book Tour and Giveaway!


Eggs on Ice (A Cackleberry Club Mystery) by Laura Childs

About the Book

Cozy Mystery 8th in Series 
Berkley (December 4, 2018) 
Hardcover: 304 pages 
ISBN-10: 0425281728 
ISBN-13: 978-0425281727 
Kindle ASIN: B07BD23MV9 
Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Carol" is just playing to type. He's not the most beloved man in town. In fact, you'd have a dickens of a time finding someone who liked him. Still it's a shock when the Ghost of Christmas Past stabs him during the first rehearsal. Suzanne, co-owner of the Cackleberry Club café, Kindred's favorite combination diner, craft store and bookshop, chases the murderer out of the building but loses him in the alley. As the days pass the list of suspects grows longer. Is it the disgruntled partner? The former secretary whom Sharpe sexually harrassed? Or is it fellow owner of the Cackleberry Club, Toni's almost ex-husband, Junior? The women of the Cackleberry Club are determined to find the killer before he can add another victim to his Christmas list.

About the Author

laura childs from facebook
Laura Childs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbook Mysteries, and Cackleberry Club Mysteries. In her previous life she was CEO/Creative Director of her own marketing firm and authored several screenplays. She is married to a professor of Chinese art history, loves to travel, rides horses, enjoys fundraising for various non-profits, and has two Chinese Shar-Pei dogs.
Laura specializes in cozy mysteries that have the pace of a thriller (a thrillzy!) 

Her three series are:
The Tea Shop Mysteries - set in the historic district of Charleston and featuring Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop. Theodosia is a savvy entrepreneur, and pet mom to service dog Earl Grey. She’s also an intelligent, focused amateur sleuth who doesn’t rely on coincidences or inept police work to solve crimes. This charming series is highly atmospheric and rife with the history and mystery that is Charleston.

The Scrapbooking Mysteries – a slightly edgier series that take place in New Orleans. The main character, Carmela, owns Memory Mine scrapbooking shop in the French Quarter and is forever getting into trouble with her friend, Ava, who owns the Juju Voodoo shop. New Orleans’ spooky above-ground cemeteries, jazz clubs, bayous, and Mardi Gras madness make their presence known here!

The Cackleberry Club Mysteries - set in Kindred, a fictional town in the Midwest. In a rehabbed Spur station, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra, three semi-desperate, forty-plus women have launched the Cackleberry Club. Eggs are the morning specialty here and this cozy cafe even offers a book nook and yarn shop. Business is good but murder could lead to the cafe’s undoing! This series offers recipes, knitting, cake decorating, and a dash of spirituality.

Laura’s Links: 
Webpage - http://www.laurachilds.com/ 
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/laura.childs.31 
Purchase Links 
Amazon 
B&N 
Kobo 
Google Play 
IndieBound 

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 3 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 3 – StoreyBook Reviews – GUEST POST
December 3 – The Power of Words – REVIEW
December 4 – Valerie’s Musings – REVIEW
December 4 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 5 – Carla Loves To Read – REVIEW
December 5 – Mallory Heart’s Cozies – REVIEW
December 6 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – REVIEW
December 6 – Devilishly Delicious Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 7 – Cinnamon, Sugar and a Little Bit of Murder – REVIEW
December 7 – MJB Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – SPOTLIGHT
December 8 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW
December 9 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Community Bookstop – REVIEW*
December 10 – My Journey Back – REVIEW
December 11 – Socrates’ Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – A Holland Reads – REVIEW*
December 12 – The Cozy Pages – REVIEW
December 12 – Brooke Blogs – GUEST POST
December 13 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW*
December 14 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 14 – A Chick Who Reads – REVIEW*
December 15 – Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
December 15 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW
December 16 – Melina’s Book Blog – REVIEW

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