New Releases For The Week Of April 4th, 2021–Part 3

Hairdresser Maisie McDonald loves her life in Happenstance, but when private investigator Sam Kowalczyk comes to town, Maisie is spooked. Will Sam’s questions reveal secrets relegated to the past and ruin her present and her future? And who hired him?

When mysterious newcomer to Happenstance, Julia Freemont, purchases an abandoned shop to turn it into a bistro, everyone is excited. But is Julia’s presence valid, or a ruse to get to Maisie?

Maisie will do anything to protect her family, but can she fight the power that money can buy? Revisit the townspeople of Happenstance as they rally round to help her through her struggle between fear and trust.

Crazy About Maisie is a cozy mystery, the second in the Happenstance Chronicles, about a little town that offers fresh choices and second chances. It’s sure to capture your heart and leave you wanting more. (Amazon)

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An inheritance worth millions. A killer with a list…and Smiley’s on it.

A phone call from out of the blue leads blind PI Steve Smiley to become executor of a large Texas estate—one which includes the last undeveloped lakefront property in the state. While the sheriff is hunting for the rancher’s killer, a second death occurs. The ranch foreman is found murdered.

Someone is intent on getting their hands on that property. Any of the four siblings could be guilty of one, or both, of the murders. There’s no love lost in the dysfunctional family. But which one wanted the land bad enough to kill for it? Or was it a conspiracy?

Steve and his partner Heather are hired to find out who killed the ranch foreman. They unearth a long-buried family secret that could solve the mystery, but will it also lead to more killing? A person desperate not to be discovered attacks Heather. Steve needs to stop the killer or the next funeral will be his. (Amazon)

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Before the magic… there was still mystery.

I knew better than to take my old boss at his word. I should have checked into things a lot more thoroughly before taking the wedding photographer contract.

But it was cold here in Michigan, and an out-of-state trip to a private island destination sounded really good. The fact that the gig paid three times what it should have kind of helped too. Especially with the current state of my bank account. Which happened to be dangerously close to empty.

As I said, I should have dug deeper, but I didn’t. Live and learn.

Of course, being stuck on a locked down private island with nowhere to run and a killer on the loose, the live part of that equation wasn’t exactly guaranteed.

***If you’re a fan of the Accidental Familiar Series and have been itching for a closer look at Amie’s life before her magic hit… this book will scratch that itch for you. A clean, fun paranormal cozy mystery with just a hint of magic.

And if you haven’t read the Accidental Familiar Series yet? Well, this one is a great place to start!*** (Amazon)

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Piper Ashwell might be a gifted psychic P.I., but premonitions still aren’t her strong suit. So when her boyfriend and partner, Detective Mitchell Brennan, brings her a new case, she’s convinced it’s the murder she saw in a recent vision. Only it’s not. 

Now, Piper can’t shake the feeling that what she saw hasn’t yet happened. But how can she prevent one murder while she’s busy investigating another? 

When a second body turns up, Piper’s convinced the cases are linked even though the victims didn’t know each other and are seemingly not connected in any way. 

Can Piper find the killer before the body count goes up again and her vision becomes a reality? 

Fans of Joanne Fluke and Victoria Laurie will enjoy this psychic cozy mystery series.

Scroll up and grab your copy today! (Amazon)

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From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto comes the next hauntingly fun Gianna Mancini Mystery…

Reluctant ghost whisperer and newly hired party planner, Gianna Mancini, finds herself helping to plan an over-the-top wedding unlike any she’s ever seen—gaudy carnations, mermaid-inspired bridal party gowns, and a piña colada infused wedding cake. Whatever the client wants. But when Lexi, an author and the maid of honor, is found dead at the bridal shower, Gianna’s job becomes much more difficult. Especially when Lexi’s ghost appears to Gianna, demanding answers.

Lexi is not all that happy she’s been killed before her latest book can be published—a scandalous drama not-so-loosely based on the secrets of those in her real life. She wants revenge for her death, but there are more suspects to the killing than Gianna can keep straight. On top of that, the bride-to-be asks Gianna to step into Lexi’s ridiculously high stilettos and become her new maid of honor. With only a week before the wedding, the clock is ticking down for Gianna to find a killer. Seven days of giggly women, angry relatives, and a ghost who is more vengeful than helpful. While Gianna keeps her attention on a houseful of suspects, a killer watches her every move…and if Gianna isn’t careful, they just may strike again!

Gianna Mancini Mysteries:
Lipstick, Lies & Dead Guys (book #1)
Miniskirts, Mai Tais & Dead Guys (book #2)
Cupcakes, Butterflies & Dead Guys (book #3)
Stilettos, Bow Ties & Dead Guys (book #4)
Diamonds, Pies & Dead Guys (book #5)
Christmas, Spies & Dead Guys (short story in the “Cozy Christmas Shorts” collection)

What critics are saying about the Gianna Mancini Mysteries:

“Quirky but oh so fun cozy mystery. If you like your cozy mysteries on the humorous side, then look no further!”
—Fresh Fiction

“Jennifer Fishetto serves up a delicious cozy mystery with this fun ghost story. If you are a fan of the genre this is a fun read that will leave you with a smile.”
—Night Owl Reviews (Amazon)

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Tonya Kappes is leading the camping craze with A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery. Be sure you join Tonya’s newsletter for all of her adventures on and off the page while she writes and travels in her own camper, her readers have lovingly named Tonya’s Shamper (she camper). Don’t miss out on her very informative CAMPING CHIT CHAT blog where she gives you tips, tricks, hacks and delicious campfire recipes: https://www.tonyakappes.com/

Kickbacks, Kayaks, and Kidnapping BOOK 12

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky~ where nothing is normal. A Campers and Criminal Mystery Series is another brainchild of USA Today Bestselling Author Tonya Kappes. If you love her quirky southern characters and small town charm with a mystery to solve, you’re going to love her new cozy mystery series!

Deep in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest, Mae West has spent the last few years bringing the rundown Happy Trails Campground and the small southern and cozy town of Normal, Kentucky back to a thriving economic community.

Mae’s efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. Not only is Happy Trails Campground in the running to be named Campground Hospitality of the Daniel Boone National Park, but she landed the coveted Paddle Fest kayak competition that secures the winner a spot on the Olympic team.

When champion and Olympian kayaker Bryce Anderson turns over in his kayak dead…there’s more than paddling going on and his death has been ruled a homicide. News of Bryce’s death spreads fast and Happy Trails becomes the center of bad publicity.

Come camping with Mae West and the Laundry Club Ladies as they put their sleuthing, well nosy, caps on and put their skills to the test so they can figure out who killed the Olympian and save Happy Trails from financial ruin.

GEAR, GRILLS, & GUNS BOOK 13

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky~ where nothing is normal.

Mae West is bound to prove she deserves the seat she was appointed to on the National Park Committee when she brings a big car show to Normal during the slower fall month. But, when Wendell Holliday’s body is found dead in one of Happy Trails Campground bungalows and one of the rentable campers is burning to the ground, Mae along with the help of the Laundry Club Ladies once again put on their sleuthing caps to figure out who is trying to sabotage Mae and her new position on the committee.

EGGNOG, EXTORTION, & EVERGREENS BOOK 14

Mae West is busy this Christmas season. She’s running around Normal getting the town ready for the first Winter Festival, which she hopes will become an annual event for the tourist town.

The freshly fallen snow sure does make the Daniel Boone National Park beautiful and ready for Santa’s arrival, but it also makes the curvy roads through the forest very slick. Unfortunately, Mae finds out just how slick the roads are after her car slides off the road and hits a tree, putting Mae into a deep coma.

Mae is one of the lucky patients who does wake up and happy to celebrate Christmas with family and friends.

One of the patients in the emergency room with Mae didn’t die that night of natural causes, and Hank Sharp has himself a new homicide case on his hands.

Mae starts having memories about the fire that took her family and a memory of a murder plot that she thinks happened when she was in her coma. Only, she’s having a hard time distinguishing between the two memories and the clues seem to have blurred lines. There’s one thing she does know for sure, both incidents come with clues that neither were accidents.

Once again, Mae West with the help of the Laundry Club Ladies put on their ameatur sleuth cap to help solve the mystery of the murders before the killer sends her Christmas (Amazon)

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The year is 1965 and Patty Byrne is flying high as stewardess… until her life crashes when she finds her neighbor murdered.

While cooperating with the police, she meets FBI agent Bill Hart, who shows an interest in both her and the victim’s activities. When he asks Patty to introduce him to a couple of the suspects she knows, she immediately agrees, harboring groovy visions of leaving her stewardess job behind and becoming the first female FBI agent.

But as they dive deeper into the case, it only becomes more confusing. When Patty’s life is threatened, she realizes murder investigations aren’t for the faint of heart. Can she untangle the web of clues to find the killer, or will she be the next victim?  

One-click this historical 1960s cozy mystery today! (Amazon)

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Darcy’s got an interview with a local paper. Cool, right? Well, maybe not. Why’s she got reservations about doing the interview when anyone she tells about it encourages her to jump at the chance. So, Darcy jumped. Only she finds her remote interview over Zoom comes to an untimely end when her interviewer is attacked.

Luckily, Darcy manages to extricate herself from the situation unscathed because the attacker doesn’t know who the witness to the crime was.

Until he does.

Now Darcy’s in a race to find out who the perpetrator is before he can find her. (Amazon)

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When two chefs wind up dead at a quaint bed-and-breakfast, it’s up to sleuthing witch Kyla to solve the case. But with trouble brewing in the kitchen and no shortage of suspects, are Kyla’s magical abilities any match for the devious culprit?

A spellbinding paranormal cozy mystery series that you won’t want to miss!

Box Set Contains:
Magically Poisoned (Prequel)
Magically Murdered (Book 1)
Magically Attacked (Book 2)
Magically Missing (Book 3)

700 Pages of Fun! (Amazon)

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Stashes of ashes turn trust to dust…

Psychic Selena thinks she’s seen it all while working at the paranormal Kindred Spirits Inn — until a prominent guest has an allergic reaction to fairy dust. The only problem? Fairies haven’t lived in Starfall Valley for centuries.

Fearing the financial fallout of her guest’s affliction, Selena has no choice but to dust up the truth — and what she learns is nothing to sneeze at.

Unfortunately, Selena’s guest might not be the only carried away by the fairies because the curious culprit has plenty of trouble to sprinkle around.

Can Selena’s sleuthing clean up the marauder’s mess? Or will she be next to bite the dust?

Dead And Dusted is the fourth book in the Visions and Victims series of paranormal cozy mysteries. If fickle fairies, dubious dust, and supernatural secrets get your wand waving, then you’re sure to fall under the spell of this new spinoff series that expands Lily Webb’s magical universe.

Buy Dead And Dusted to continue conversing with the spirits of Starfall Valley today! (Amazon)

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When her friend’s uncle is accused of murder, Anna McGregor dives into the boating life to prove his innocence. She soon learns that while lounging on a luxury yacht might be fun, matching wits with a killer can be deadly.

Life has finally settled down for Anna. The Cape May B & B she inherited from her Great Aunt Louise is fully booked and Anna is looking forward to a successful summer. Her peace is shattered when a body washes up in Spicer Creek and the police focus their investigation on her friend’s uncle. Determined to find the truth, Anna turns to skills she developed in her previous career in medical anthropology.

Once again, Anna teams up with her best friend Sammy, her young cousin Eoin and the local librarian to use their knowledge of the town and its people to solve this crime. But the disappearance of two local teenagers reminds Anna this is the wrong time for free fishing trips or relaxing on a yacht enjoying a Bee’s Knees cocktail. She needs to find the missing teenagers and identify the killer before anyone else gets hurt. (Amazon)

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Rosa Kay is playing a dangerous game.

A game started by her parents before their untimely deaths years ago. A game secretly continued by her sister, Lucia, who is now missing. A game thrust upon Rosa before she could learn the rules. The only thing she knows for sure is that the stakes of this game are deadly and that she must emerge the victor to keep herself and her family alive.

Keeping secrets in the border town of Naco, Arizona, has never been easy. Everyone knows everyone else, and even minor infractions are fodder for ongoing gossip. The Kay family is no stranger to the vagaries of small-town life, but things have changed since a recent murder dredged up echoes of their dark past.

With the help of her friend Dr. Mark Fell, FBI Agent Reis, and the mysterious Mr. Melbourne, Rosa must navigate through secrets and lies to unravel a plot decades in the making to move closer to justice for her family and peace for her town.

If you like mystery suspense books, then you will love The Kay Sister.
Click the Buy NOW or Read NOW button at the top and join her search today. (Amazon)

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As Naomi finally settles into her childhood home town, her past comes back to hound her with bad dog results. And her life was going so well…

Naomi is taken aback when she spies her ex-boyfriend strolling through downtown Harmony Grove. She thought she left him behind in Charleston. With him is his best friend (and notorious troublemaker), and a girl who has mysterious connections to a shady resident of Naomi’s small town.

His arrival couldn’t have come at a worse time. Naomi’s relationship with Chief Reed has stepped up a notch and things are getting serious. That is, until her ex’s best friend is found face down at the edge of her property.

The whole drama has Winston and Daisy on alert since her ex-boyfriend can’t seem to leave her alone. And people keep lurking outside her house.

Now, she’s tangled in a mess she didn’t ask for when her ex is arrested for the murder of his best friend, and it’s up to Naomi to figure out why he was killed, and how he ended up in her back yard.

Can she find the connection between her past and her present before her ex-boyfriend upends her tranquility or is she doomed to have her past dig its way back into her life and threaten the blooming relationship with the chief?

The seventh book in the southern, small town Naomi & Winston Mysteries, Home Away From Bone contains no adult situations or gore, only fun and high jinks as the heroine solves mysteries and chases behind her perpetually confused, endearingly curious, and continuously chatty Chihuahua. This story has a light paranormal element. (Amazon)

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Willow Hollow faces its greatest challenge yet as Harper Dade’s past and a murder victim return to haunt her.

Which isn’t surprising since a side effect of a lingering curse causes her to manifest ghosts. But the current threat to the town’s existence brings a cauldron full of danger and is very much alive.

Still, at the end of the trail of ganache-smeared footprints, the discovered victim is not.

In this magical tourist town, Harper, a semi-reluctant witch, stands accused of murder.

Join Harper Dade in the Taste of Magic paranormal cozy mystery series featuring a cat who talks on full moon nights, ghostly visitations, and murders to solve. (Amazon)

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There’s a new sleuth in Little Chiswick! Meet Ginger Burnet, the amateur baker, cat loving, daring detective of our hearts!

Ginger Burnet has been away from her hometown of Little Chiswick for some years now, following what she thought was her dream of a career. Recently returned from big city life, and in an attempt to reconnect with her roots and restart her life, she takes up the job of school baker at the esteemed Chiswick Park Academy. Further turning her back on her recent past and following her true aspirations as an amateur baker, stars seem to finally align in Ginger’s life.

When a mysterious invitation to a bake-off challenge for a new TV reality show comes up, Ginger takes the opportunity to further cement her presence in the small town. She still has a month until her new job starts, so what harm could possibly be done?

As the contestants gather at the highly gated Manor, things take a bloody turn, and all of a sudden ten strangers will need to work together to get out of their host’s murdering sight.

Can Ginger solve the mystery and save her life in time? Will her natural instincts protect her from the mansion’s death traps?

Find out in this page-turning mystery full of wild turns and family secrets that will rock Little Chiswick to the core, and announce the arrival of a new amateur sleuth in town!

*If you like quirky characters, witty dialogue, heart-wrenching twists and turns, and lots of mystery, then you’ll love “The Way the Cookie Crumbles”!

Download “The Way the Cookie Crumbles” and unlock the exciting first mystery of Ginger today!

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