Be sure to stop by my blog tomorrow for a giveaway for Catherine Bruns’ new release PRICED TO KILL. Catherine is giving away not one, but two copies!!!!!
Day: April 18, 2016
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When Kate Davidson gets an offer to teach yoga classes at the Elysian Springs resort, she jumps at the opportunity–even if it means enduring the wedding ceremony of the center’s two caretakers. But avoiding the M-word turns out to be the least of Kate’s problems when a wedding guest is found floating face-down in the resort’s hot tub, shortly after a loud, public fight with Kate.
The police pick Kate as their number-one suspect, so she teams up with her boyfriend Michael, best friend Rene, and German shepherd sidekick Bella to find the real killer. They must solve the crime before the police arrest Kate, or her next gig may last a lifetime–behind bars. (Goodreads)
Author Spotlight: MaryJo Dawson
Today I am spotlighting MaryJo Dawson, author of the Sally Nimitz Mystery Series. There are currently five books in the series. Check them out below and then read them for yourself.
About The Author:
I was born and grew up in Wisconsin, but left right after nursing school. I’ve lived in at least six states, and one country abroad, settling at last in southeastern Colorado at the foothills of the Rockies. I’m married, a mother and a grandmother. Obstetrical nursing was my long time career, and other interests include gardening and hiking. I’ve always loved to read, and in the fiction category have a passion for mysteries of the like of Christie, Sayers, and Dick Francis. (Goodreads)
MaryJo Dawson enjoyed a satisfying career as a practicing nurse, most of it working in obstetrics. In her heroine, Sally Nimitz, she’s combined that background with a lifelong enjoyment of old-fashioned mystery novels and writing.
She lives with her husband in a small town at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern Colorado. (Amazon)
In a cozy little Midwestern town where nothing exciting ever happens, Amelia Marsh lies murdered in her own home. When Sally Nimitz discovers the body of her charming eighty-year-old neighbor she is devastated by how close violence has come to the quiet life she leads as mother, grandmother, and nurse. Though still recovering from the death of her own husband, Sally can’t put the trauma of the murder behind her until she knows who could have done it and why. With the help of a close male friend and a quirky older lady, Sally begins looking into the life and past of her neighbor and soon discovers there was much more to Amelia Marsh’s life than anyone had ever guessed. (Goodreads)
Sally Nimitz is in the middle of a family crisis when a local police detective turns up at her front door. David White and Sally are not strangers. She was the delivery nurse when his wife had a baby, and he was in charge of the investigation of the murder of Sally’s neighbor, Amelia Marsh. Now Detective White has a personal request. Would Sally use the observation and deduction skills she displayed before to help find his missing brother? Has Douglas White, a successful and respected widower, deliberately disappeared?
Her friends—and fellow amateur sleuths—George Thomas and Anne Carey, are only too happy to once again give her a hand and soon, they find themselves far from home in a very precarious situation. (Goodreads)
For the third time, Sally and her friends are working to solve a puzzle. At the request of a co-worker, Sally travels south to Mississippi to the Bradshaw family estate. She is asked to find out why the two elderly ladies living there have been urged by a nephew to move out, and why they are being harrassed.
There is definite mischief afoot on the old family estate, and shortly after Sally’s arrival a neighbor turns up dead.
Is there a connection? Sally thinks there is. Asking a lot of questions uncovers family secrets going back three generations.(less)
Sally goes on an all expenses paid trip to Florida, and it isn’t for investigative purposes, or to take a vacation. Her son and his wife have asked her to be their advocate when they are offered the opportunity to adopt a baby.
Helping Everett and Judy decide if they should agree to the adoption turns out to be the easy part. And who could argue with spending a few days as a guest of a wealthy family in a tropical paradise?
But when the biological father meets his death shortly after a meeting with Sally, life gets more complicated. A woman with a curious nature, some time on her hands, and believing killers should be caught, has to do what she can. (Amazon)
When Sally is approached by a co-worker who is terrified that her sister may be involved in a murder, her 5th adventure begins. Did Valerie Connor’s boyfriend kill his aunt because she refused to lend him money? Was Valerie herself involved? As always, Sally can count on her friends Anne Carey and George Tomas to help. Their search for answers will send them to northern Illinois, Chicago, and both rural Wisconsin and Iowa. The more they discover, the harder it is to believe anyone would have a reason to kill Lucy Bedford. (Goodreads)
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