Blog Tour & Author Interview: Minestrone Mischief by Rosie Genova

Minestrone Mischief by Rosie Genova Series: Italian Kitchen Mysteries #4 Published by Two Roses Books on September 30th, 2022 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 285 Buy on Amazon Goodreads When a Halloween stalker shows up on Mischief Night, Vic encounters lots of tricks, no treats, and one murder … It’s the post-summer season in Oceanside Park, and mystery writer Victoria Rienzi’s hometown is preparing for one last blast on the boardwalk—its annual Mischief Night parade, held the evening before Halloween. While Nonna keeps her busy making treat bags full of Italian candy, Vic dreams up the perfect costumes for herself and Tim: Nick and Nora Charles, the famed detective pair from The Thin Man movies. Completing their look is a canine scamp, Willie, borrowed to play the part of Nora’s pet terrier. But Victoria’s excitement is dimmed by the presence of a stalker, Edward Millman, who’s seen lurking around the Rienzi family restaurant. And who shows up at the Mischief Night parade dressed as Victoria’s book sleuth, Bernardo Vitali. But halfway through the parade, Willie sniffs out trouble, leading Vic and Tim on a not-so-merry chase that brings them to a dead body—Victoria’s stalker, Edward Millman. And in a scene straight […]

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Posted October 28, 2022
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Macabre

Greetings you guys! This month just flew by. I can’t believe it’s time for Wondrous Words Wednesday again. Wondrous Words are hosted by yours truly, but this fun meme was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog and we stumbled upon it through Yvonne at Fiction Books. Of course we immediately fell in love with it. What is more wondrous in this world than words? The concept is fairly easy, all you have to do is share any new words (or new to you), you came across during the month and add your name to the linky provided at the end of the post. You can make a link-up post, or just add your new word to our comment section. English is not our first language, so there are plenty of new to us words out there. If you want more information on WWW, you can click here, or on the WWW graphic in our sidebar. We had a whole Wondrous Words post planned and just about done and dusted, then my Mommy decided that we need to stick to the Halloween theme for the week and choose a different word. Halloween comes but once a year. Very much like Christmas. My […]

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Posted October 26, 2022
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Ten Cats to Thrill your Halloween

Greetings you guys! It’s the Tuesday before Halloween and time for Top Ten Tuesday. This week is a freebie, as long as you stick with the Halloween theme. As always, TTT is hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Halloween isn’t a festival season here in South Africa, but I love the season of chills and thrills and we are ever so grateful for the blogging community to celebrate with. Seeing that I’m a cat and it took me a couple of years to grow into being not a scaridy cat, I will share all my feline friends who are bound to bring you a few thrills this Halloween. Who of my feline friends did I miss today? Have a fun Halloween you guys! Share the Meows

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Posted October 25, 2022
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Missteps Perfecting the Shutterbug Strut by J.L. Michael

Missteps Perfecting the Shutterbug Strut by J.L. Michael Published by Swanky Owl Press on August 21st, 2022 Pages: 372 Format: ARC Source: Reedsy Discovery Buy on Amazon Goodreads It is 1927. An “Era of Wonderful Nonsense.” Vague maps tout grand mysteries, each snapshot means something, and jazzy hijinks abound. Insouciant vagabond ALEXANDRA ILLYRIA BATHENBROOK sets off from Montana to capture images never photographed, hoping to earn an interview with National Geographic. Operating from her London office, she will flirt with becoming a royal mistress, reunite lustful ghosts at notorious Borley Rectory, and stir up mischief at the Winter Olympics in ritzy St. Moritz. Those are the easy ones. More perilous assignments send Alexandra in pursuit of a thrill killer through the dusty alleyways of Marrakech and into the feral bushlands of Uganda to join a hunt for man-eating lions. While seeking a famed explorer in Amazonia, she must face down her inner demons in a desperate bid for survival. Along her brazen journey, she will outwit, outcharm, and outbrave detractors and rapscallions… even romance a few. Yet most telling, Alexandra will find her best self in rekindling hope within her war-scarred brother and uncovering the scandalous reason she’s forever lost […]

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Posted October 24, 2022
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The Sunday Post #85

Greetings you guys! It’s the last week of October and I guess that makes it Halloween week? My Mommy says she always feels like the odd one out here in SA and especially at school during this season. Halloween is not a seasonal festivity here in SA and seeing that my Mommy works at a Christian School, everyone looks at her strangely when she gets all excited about ghosts and horror books during October. Lucky for her, there are fun reading challenges like Fraterfest to take part in! How’s it going with your Fraterfest Readathon this year? We only have a couple of hours left and I know we probably could have done better – but we did have loads of fun with the books we did manage to read during the past 10 days. We aren’t quite finished with The House on the Lake, but we’ll finish it up eventually. Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay might not really have qualified for Fraterfest as the ghosts weren’t really high on the fear factor scale. The House on Needless Street ticked all the boxes though! We’ve listened to it, but I think my Mommy should perhaps rather read it as well. Who wants to chat […]

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Posted October 23, 2022
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Blog Tour & Author Guest Post: Too Much to Candle by Sarah E. Burr

Too Much to Candle by Sarah E. Burr Series: Glenmyre Whim Mysteries #2 Published by Independently Published on October 13th, 2022 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 251 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads Candlemaker Hazel Wickbury sets out again to bring the truth to light. Iggy Alewell, Hazel Wickbury’s friend and candle shop assistant, is eager to purchase his own home with the advance from his first big book deal. Iggy is on the hunt for something with character, so what could be better than the old Cragmire house that’s rumored to have buried treasure somewhere on its property? Hazel is thrilled her friend has found success, but things in Crucible take a nasty turn when another potential buyer for the Cragmire house goes missing. He was last seen taking a boat out on Lake Glenmyre, and when the rental is found empty, it’s clear to police that foul play is involved. What’s worse is that Iggy becomes the prime suspect in the man’s disappearance, and Detective Holden Whitfield’s thorny, new partner is certain Iggy is guilty. To clear Iggy from suspicion and dispel the darkness penetrating their beloved town, Hazel and her Aunt Poppy team up […]

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Posted October 20, 2022
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Wednesday Wisdom from The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Published by Penguin Classics on October 16th, 1959 Genres: Horror Pages: 242 Format: eBook Source: My Kindle Goodreads The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust […]

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Posted October 19, 2022
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Blog Tour & Excerpt: The Question is Murder by Mark Willen

The Question is Murder by Mark Willen on May 14th, 2021 Genres: Mystery Pages: 305 Format: ARC Source: Lola’s Blog Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads Washington, DC, newspaper columnist Sam Turner, known to his readers as Mr. Ethics, faces his toughest moral dilemma yet: Can murder ever be justified? That’s the question posed to him by a mysterious young woman who says she is being stalked and threatened by an ex-lover too powerful to be stopped any other way. Sam knows that journalists should never get personally involved in a story, but he can’t help being drawn deeper and deeper into this one. So when Senator Wade Morgan turns up murdered, Sam fears the worst. Worried about his own involvement, the man who normally has all the answers is now the one making questionable decisions. As his investigation into the senator’s death begins to spin out of control, Sam finds he can’t let go—even as the case grows more complicated and the threats against his life become more immediate. With the fate of a young woman at stake and his own life in jeopardy, Sam can’t back down until the killer is brought to justice. But this is DC, and […]

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Posted October 15, 2022
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Weekend Book Friends #35 – Fraterfest Day 1!

Greetings you guys! It’s Friday and day 1 of Fraterfest. Whaa haa haaaa haaa!! Yea! The weather is perfect here with us. Rainy, misty, the wind is howling…. Ooooe we need to get into bed and start reading. We don’t really have a very clear cut reading schedule for this year’s Fraterfest, we’ll just grab the books as we go along. Tonight we will start with this one: The sun is shining on the golden castle on Rainbow Bay – and change is in the air! Amelia is a single mother, doing her very best to look after her young son, Charlie – but money is tight and times are tough. When she first hears that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and that she has inherited a Real-Life Castle by the sea, Amelia can’t quite believe her ears. But it’s true! She soon finds that owning a castle isn’t quite the ticket to sorting out her money problems that she’d first hoped: she can’t sell, because the terms of the ancient bequest state that any Chesterford who inherits the castle, must live there and work towards the upkeep and maintenance of the family home. So ever-practical […]

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Posted October 14, 2022
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Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’ve read on vacation (I have proof!)

Greetings you guys! It’s Tuesday and time for Top Ten Tuesday, hosted as always by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is Books I’ve read while on vacation. Apparently you get bonus points if you can remember where you were too. School is starting for the last term of the year today, so my Mommy will make this a quick one. Luckily she has photographic proof of all the books she read on vacation. Well, mostly. The trusted Kindle is the normal travel companion. Not me. Unfortunately for you, you won’t see me in any of the photos, as I never go with on holidays. How terribly sad, I know. Added bonus points if you can remember dates as well? Morgan’s Bay, South Africa – June 2017 Wildernis, South Africa – March 2020. Yes, Mommy and Daddy were on holiday when COVID 19 hit our shores. Yes, they had to go home…. Malelane, Kruger Park, South Africa – July 2020. Daddy had a working permit and had to travel. Flying was no option, so they drove 1000 kilometers. Luckily Mommy had books with her. The Grags (Plettenberg Bay) South Africa – September 2020 Keurboomstrand, South Africa – September 2020. Same […]

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Posted October 11, 2022
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