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#TagMe for Murder by Sarah E. Burr

#TagMe for Murder by Sarah E. Burr

#TagMe for Murder by Sarah E. Burr Series: Trending Topic Myteries #2 on April 25th, 2023 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 327 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads When murder trends too close to home, social media influencer Coco Cline will have to swipe through a sea of trolls to tag a killer. After cracking her first case, Cordelia “Coco” Cline’s life is finally getting back to normal—or as normal as life can be when you have over three million followers online. With a thriving business, a devoted boyfriend, and her two besties living right up the street, Coco is set to have the most fun summer of her life until Larry and Rosalynn Dunmer move into the condo next door. Coco and her friends do their best to avoid the confrontational duo, but when a party at a swanky new wine bar brings everyone together, things become less than neighborly faster than a celebrity-themed hashtag goes viral. Larry levels some super shady threats toward Coco and her BFF Jasper, which could have dire consequences for their multimedia empires. Just as Coco begins to wonder if she’ll have to spend the rest of the summer looking over […]

Posted May 8, 2023
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Review & Guest Post: Bakeries an Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley

Review & Guest Post: Bakeries an Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley

Bakeries and Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley Series: Magical Mystery Book Club #4 on February 15th, 2023 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 310 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads It’s a magical book club! When this group chooses a book, magic happens. The mystery comes to life, and they find themselves part of the story. To exit the book and get back home, they need to solve the mystery and reach The End. This time, the club chooses a book called The Great Cake Rivalry, because, well … cake! They read the back cover and it’s unanimous. So off they go into another grand adventure into a town aptly named Frosting. Frosting is a rural town in an idyllic setting. The people live quiet lives most of the year. But in the spring, things change. The Annual Cake Competition becomes the focus of every man, woman, and child. They take this competition seriously. The cakes are spectacular. The festival is fabulous. For a week there are contests featuring all kinds of cakes. The people of the community become official tasters and vote for the winning cakes in each category. The grand finale is a display of finely decorated […]

Posted February 27, 2023
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In the Frame by Lyn Farrell

In the Frame by Lyn Farrell

In the Frame by Lyn Farrell Series: Rosedale Investigations #3 on January 10th, 2023 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 218 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads Rosedale Investigations team has two cases this time: a missing woman and a client who wants a provenance created for an antique painting. The missing woman dies in an accident but the team doubts it was accidental. Researching the century-old painting reveals that it’s considered cursed and then it’s stolen. Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Camel Press (January 10, 2023) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 218 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 168492037X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684920372 Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B8Q11WG2 Greetings you guys! You will never believe what happened to me. I was a real Wednesday’s Child and woe is me. I completely forgot about this book and the tour. Can you believe that. Luckily we have the best tour host ever and Lori quickly helped to make a plan. Through a very hectic week, we’ve managed to squeeze this book in and it was a welcome escape from reality. It took a bit of time to get all the characters in line as this is the 3rd instalment of […]

Posted February 11, 2023
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Blog Tour & Review: Dial M for Meow by Ruth J. Hartman

Blog Tour & Review: Dial M for Meow by Ruth J. Hartman

Dial M for Meow by Ruth J. Hartman Series: Bookshop Kitties Mysteries #1 on January 10th, 2023 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 263 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads When children’s book author, Christy Bailey, receives a call from her aunt Betty to help out at her bookshop, she drops everything to go. Christy packs up her two cats—Milton and Pearl, the stars of her children’s mystery books—and leaves busy Philadelphia for tiny Green Meadow, Indiana. The timing of the call is perfect, as Christy’s letch of an ex-boyfriend has just cleaned out her savings, leaving Christy with a pile of unpaid bills and a desire to start over. And what better place to do that than a charming small town in Middle America? But when Christy reaches her aunt’s bookshop, instead of small town hospitality she finds a dead body! Even worse, her aunt is passed out in the corner, hands covered in blood. The dead woman is an old frenemy of her Aunt Betty, and while Christy knows her aunt is innocent, the local detective isn’t so sure. With Milton and Pearl prowling for clues, Christy is determined to find the real killer and clear […]

Posted January 11, 2023
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Blog Tour & Review: Death Checked Out by Leah Dobrinska

Blog Tour & Review: Death Checked Out by Leah Dobrinska

Death Checked Out by Leah Dobrinska Series: A Larkspur Library Mystery #1 Published by Level Best on December 6th, 2022 Genres: Mystery Pages: 315 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads When in doubt, go to the library…and solve the murder mystery! Greta Plank, library director in the small, lakeside town of Larkspur, Wisconsin, prefers her rose-tinted glasses extra rosy, thank you very much. It’s how she copes with the hard stuff in life…like her sister’s death and her ex-boyfriend’s deception. But Greta’s cheery resolve takes a hit when she stumbles upon a dead body on her way home from work. What she assumes is a terrible accident Greta soon learns is something more sinister, and to make matters worse, a new-to-town detective cites her as not only his primary source for the case, but his top suspect. To clear her name and save her reputation, Greta decides to do some off-the-books clue cataloging of her own. After all, asking questions is what she does best. With the help of her fellow librarians and her lawyer mom, Greta flips through the pages of the murder, uncovering details about Larkspur’s real estate market and the deceased’s rare book […]

Posted December 15, 2022
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Blog Tour & Review: The Socialite’s Guide to Murder by S.K. Golden

Blog Tour & Review: The Socialite’s Guide to Murder by S.K. Golden

The Socialite’s Guide to Murder by S. K. Golden Series: Pinnacle Hotel Mystery #1 Published by Crooked Lane Publishers on October 11th, 2022 Genres: Mystery Pages: 320 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads The hotel was her refuge, but scandal is afoot—and a killer stalks the halls in this charming series debut perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Ashley Weaver. It’s 1958 and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and what’s more, it’s her father’s hotel, and everything she needs is there. Evelyn’s always been good at finding things, she discovered her mother dead in a Manhattan alleyway fifteen years earlier. Now she’s finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist Billie Bell, his newest work is stolen, and Evelyn’s fake boyfriend (and real best friend), movie star Henry Fox, is accused of the theft. But just as Evelyn sets out to prove Henry’s innocence, she finds Billie Bell dead. The murder weapon links the crime to the hotel’s chief of security. But why would he use a knife with his initials on the handle? With her beloved home in disarray, Evelyn […]

Posted December 10, 2022
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Blog Tour, Review & Character Interview: Cowboys and Chaos by Elizabeth Pantley

Blog Tour, Review & Character Interview: Cowboys and Chaos by Elizabeth Pantley

Cowboys and Chaos by Elizabeth Pantley Series: Magical Mystery Book Club #3 Published by Better Beginnings Inc on November 30th, 2022 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 268 Format: ARC Source: Author’s Copy, Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads This is no ordinary book club! When the group chooses a book, they are whisked away from reality to find themselves totally immersed in the story. The characters, the setting, and the murder all come to life. In order to exit the book, they’ll need to solve the mystery and reach The End. This time, the club chooses a mystery that takes place in a quaint western town – in the old Wild West. That sounds like great fun, until they arrive in the dusty old town in the Arizona desert, among cowboys and saloons. They discover that the outhouse isn’t the worse thing about this trip. The good news is that Paige, Glo, Zell, Frank, and the other members of the club discover plenty of surprises here, and they have a great time visiting a piece of history. They’ll get to live through many exciting moments as they unravel this cozy mystery story. Greetings you guys! Welcome to our stop on […]

Posted December 5, 2022
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Blog Tour & Review: The Ghost and the Stolen Tears by Cleo Coyle

Blog Tour & Review: The Ghost and the Stolen Tears by Cleo Coyle

The Ghost and the Stolen Tears by Cleo Coyle Series: Haunted Bookshop Mystery #8 Published by Berkley Books on October 4th, 2022 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 336 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads With the help of her gumshoe ghost, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure sets out to clear an innocent woman of a shocking crime in this all-new entry in the “utterly charming” (Mystery Scene) Haunted Bookshop Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. Norma is a modern-day nomad. Living out of her van and teardrop trailer, she revels in self-reliance, solitude, and reading in the glorious peace of nature. Jovial, wise, and scrupulously honest, she’s become an uplifting presence in the little town of Quindicott, Rhode Island, where bookseller Pen is thankful to have her part-time help. But it’s Norma’s other job, working as a housekeeper at the Finch Inn, that gets her into terrible trouble. Norma is accused of stealing jewels from a guest’s room: the legendary Valentino Teardrops, an antique necklace and earring set, inherited by a young socialite. Pen doesn’t believe Norma is guilty of the crime—though the evidence is distressingly strong. And when the spirited Norma vanishes before her […]

Posted October 31, 2022
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Giblet & Belle, The Case of The One Still Too Many by Robert S. Lay

Giblet & Belle, The Case of The One Still Too Many by Robert S. Lay

The Case of the One Still Too Many by Robert Lay Series: Giblet & Belle #2 on September 13th, 2022 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 248 Format: ARC Source: Reedsy Discovery Buy on Amazon Goodreads Giblet & Belle are back, and this time the crime is personal… The family is taking a working vacation to the beautiful little mountain town of Busby, West Virginia. But this town holds dark secrets that some will kill to keep. Soon Belle, Giblet, and the rest of the animals are up to their whiskers in murder, moonshine, and a decade-old secret that involves one of their own. However, Belle and her mentor, Mittens, are no ordinary cats; they are highly trained Protectors, an ancient secret society helping humanity for thousands of years, always working from the shadows, with only a handful of humans who know about them. Will Giblet & Belle sort out the clues in time to prevent another murder and bring justice? “Wherever there are humans and cats, there are Protectors. Protectors, the ancient secret order of cats that have watched over and defended humans and their settlements for thousands of years, mostly without people realizing. In One Still Too Many, Giblet & […]

Posted October 29, 2022
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Blog Tour & Author Guest Post: Too Much to Candle by Sarah E. Burr

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 […]

Posted October 20, 2022
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