I'm so excited to join Berkley in celebrating the November 7 release of 

NOT A CREATURE WAS PURRING

by author

Krista Davis

NOT A CREATURE WAS PURRING

is book 5 in the Paws & Claws Mysteries

Santa Claws is coming to town and checking his list for a murderer—as the New York Timesbestselling Paws & Claws Mysteries continue…

Inn owner Holly Miller finds it ruff staying cheerful over the holidays when the dead body of a beloved businessman turns up in the pet-friendly town of Wagtail, Virginia.
 
Inspired by her German heritage, Holly’s grandmother has arranged for Wagtail to have a Christkindl Market packed with goodies and decorations for the howliday tourists. But Holly’s mood takes an unseasonable turn when she learns that her old flame and childhood friend Holmes Richardson has brought his fiancée home—and she’ll be staying at the Sugar Maple Inn…
 
A love triangle becomes the last thing on Holly’s mind when her Jack Russell Trixie’s nose for trouble leads her to the corpse of a pet clothing tycoon. Now Holly and her dedicated detectives—Trixie and Twinkletoes the cat—must sniff out the killer to keep Christmas from going to the dogs…

Delicious recipes for owners and pets included!

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MY REVIEW

Author Krista Davis doesn’t disappoint with her new Paws &

Claws Mystery.

NOT A CREATURE WAS PURRING was such a fun holiday mystery. Krista Davis packed a lot into this 289 page book. This story had some many things going on. Including recipes for people and pets!

  

Author Davis introduced a new tradition to me, Christkindl Market/Christkindlmarkt or Christmas Market, which started in Germany. They originated with the celebration of Christmas during the four weeks of Advent. It’s a Market with all sorts of decorations and wonderful items for Christmas shopping. This is something I’ve never heard of but truly enjoyed reading about, and another reason I love cozies so much, learning new things.

And of course there’s a mystery. A brilliantly plotted one. NOT A CREATURE WAS PURRING had me so involved I lost all track of time. Searching for a killer with Holly and her pet detectives, while she’s also dealing with the return of her childhood friend/flame, and his fiancée, was quite a ride! I was breathless by the time I reached the conclusion.

Give the gift of NOT A CREATURE WAS PURRING to yourself, and all your reader friends!

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Now available for pre-order

Release date:

November 7

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ABOUT KRISTA

New York Times Bestselling author Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva Mysteries and the Paws & Claws mysteries for dog and cat lovers. She grew up devouring Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Agatha Christie and still loves a good mystery. Like her domestic diva, Sophie Winston, Krista enjoys cooking (okay, eating!) and entertaining, but she'd just as soon leave the cleaning to someone else. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with two cats and three dogs.

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Welcome to week 9, and the final week of the

FIVE AMIGOS FALL-O-WEEN FUN!

with Bloggers Mary Brown, Karen M. Owen, Karen Kenyon, Sheryl Hagan-Booth and yours truly!

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This week is my final Halloween cozy mystery pick is

DEATH OF A PUMPKIN CARVER

by Lee Hollis

For Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for the Island Times, Halloween is all about costume parties and holiday treats—until a killer crashes the party...

This Halloween, Hayley can’t imagine a worse trick than her ex-husband Danny returning to Bar Harbor. Her kids may be happy to see their dad, but Hayley’s determined not to be taken in by his charms, and suspects he’s in financial trouble—again.

Still, the haunted holiday is about to get a whole lot scarier after Danny’s moonshine-making uncle is found lying dead next to a tombstone in a cemetery—and Danny quickly becomes the prime suspect. To prove her ex is innocent, Hayley will have to dig deep into her own bag of tricks to unmask the real culprit . . . before anyone else—including her—ends up in the graveyard...Includes seven delectable recipes from Hayley’s kitchen!

NOPE NOPE NOPE! This can't be my last Halloween pick! You can't make me stop! What? The Amigos have something else planned? Well, why didn't you say that before? Okay!

I'm a huge fan of the Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries by author Lee Hollis. And book 8, DEATH OF A PUMPKIN CARVER is one of my favorites.

Throughout the series, we read about protagonist, and divorced mom, Hayley. She doesn't hold back when it comes to how she feels about her ex. Just because he isn't her favorite person in the world, she isn't about to let him so to jail for a murder she knows he didn't commit. 

It was nice seeing Hayley got to bat for her ex. And it's always fun, when Hayley's friends Liddy, and Mona get involved. And they always do!

You can't go wrong with any book in this series. But if you're looking for a pumpkin of a good time, DEATH OF A PUMPKIN CARVER is for you!

If you like mysteries that also make you laugh out load, check out the entire Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries!

BOOK ONE                                     BOOK TWO

BOOK THREE                              BOOK FOUR

BOOK FIVE                                     BOOK SIX

BOOK SEVEN                                BOOK EIGHT

           BOOK NINE                    BOOK TEN April 24, 2018

Short story

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My Amigos Mary, Karen & Karen, and Sheryl  want to share their fall picks for this week with you. 

Please head over to their blogs and check them out!

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Mary's blog

MJBReviewers

Karen & Karen's blog

A Cup Of Tea And A Cozy Mystery

Sheryl's blog

Booth Talks Books

Thank you so much for joining us the last 9 weeks for our Fall and Halloween picks!

Check back next to see what the Amigos have planned for you!

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I'm so excited to join Berkley in celebrating the November 7 Paperback release of 

THE CHOCOLATE BUNNY BROUHAHA

by author

JoAnna Carl

THE CHOCOLATE BUNNY BROUHAHA

is book 16 in the Chocoholic Mysteries

From the national bestselling author of The Chocolate Falcon Fraud comes an Easter-candy caper featuring chocolatiers Lee Woodyard and her aunt Nettie, and a killer who’s hopping mad…
 
The approach of Easter means a rush of business at TenHuis Chocolade, and Lee Woodyard and her aunt Nettie need all the help they can get to make their famous chocolate bunnies. Unfortunately, new hire Bunny Birdsong is a klutzy basket case. But to Lee’s surprise, she’s a wiz with computers and fixing the store’s website, so they decide to keep her.
 
However, Bunny receives a few visitors they could do without: Her soon-to-be ex-husband Beau, his wealthy aunt Abigail, and his new girlfriend and her brother all descend on the shop one day and have a bitter argument. Lee hopes they can find a peaceful way to settle their dispute, but when Abigail’s body is discovered in the vacant store next door, it’s clear to Lee there’s a bad egg in her midst. Now she’s on the hunt to find out who it is…

Includes tasty chocolate trivia!

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THE CHOCOLATE BUNNY BROUHAHA

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MY REVIEW

Imagine sweet milk chocolate dipped in rich dark chocolate, and dipped again in milk chocolate, and there you have the yummy goodness of the Chocoholics Mysteries! 

THE CHOCOLATE BUNNY BROUHAHA, the sixteenth adventure in the Chocoholics Mysteries, is every bit as delicious at the first fifteen. Being back with Lee and her Aunt Nettie at TenHuis Chocolade is always so inviting. Seriously, I can smell the chocolate as soon as I open the book! We just seem to keep getting those pesky dead bodies showing up. Who am I kidding? That’s what keeps us coming back as much as the chocolate! ;-) 

Easter is fast approaching in this newest installment from Joanna Carl, and the ladies at TenHuis are hard at work. But they are having Bunny problems. Not bunny of the chocolate variety, Bunny as in the new hire variety. See, she’s a sweet girl, but a bit of a klutz. Too make matters worse, trouble comes knocking by way of Bunny’s family. Let the mystery and mayhem ensue! 

Author Joanna Carl serves up a wonderfully tasty story with THE CHOCOLATE BUNNY BROUHAHA. Everything that makes this series wonderful and enduring is present and accounted for. Likable characters, humor, mystery and intrigue, yummy tummy growling chocolate, Carl uses all her writing finesse to pen a great cozy that that will delight readers both old and new to the Chocoholic Mystery series. 

Readers will also enjoy the “Who’s Who in Chocolate” feature that can be found throughout the book, as well as a cozy recipe that has nothing to do with chocolate! (We have to eat something else once in a while, don’t we?)

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Release date:

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ABOUT JOANNA

JoAnna Carl and Eve K. Sandstrom both write mystery novels relying on regional settings for atmosphere, background and clues.

JoAnna writes about the shores of Lake Michigan and has been reviewed in Michigan newspapers as a “regional writer.”

Eve writes about Southwest Oklahoma and once won an award for the best book of the year with an Oklahoma setting.

It’s no particular secret that Eve and JoAnna occupy the same body.

Talk about your split personalities!

But how did this happen?

Eve K. Sandstrom is an Oklahoman to the teeth: she was born there, as were five previous generations of her mother’s family. Both her grandfathers and her father were in the oil business, once the backbone of Oklahoma’s economy. One grandmother was born in the Choctaw Nation, and Eve is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Eve and seven other members of her immediate family are graduates of the University of Oklahoma. Eve even knows the second verse of “Boomer Sooner.”

Eve wrote two mystery series: the “Down Home” books, set on a ranch in Southwest Oklahoma, and the Nell Matthews mysteries, semi-hard-boiled books laid in a mid-size city on the Southern Plains.

But Eve married a great guy whose family owned a cottage on the east coast of Lake Michigan, not far from the Michigan towns of Fennville, Saugatuck, and Douglas. Every summer for more than forty years she, her husband, and various combinations of children and grandchildren have trekked to the community of Pier Cove for vacations that lasted from two weeks to three months.

The area features gorgeous beaches, lush orchards, thick woods, and beautiful Victorian houses. Eve grew to love it. So when her editor asked her to come up with a new mystery series, Eve set it in a West Michigan resort town, scrambling up Saugatuck, Douglas, South Haven, Holland, Manistee, Ludington, and Muskegon with her own ideas of what a resort ought to be to create Warner Pier.

As further background, she plunked her heroine into a business which produces and sells luscious, luxurious, European-style bonbons, truffles and molded chocolates. Most small towns couldn’t support a business like this, but the resorts of West Michigan – with their tourists and wealthy “summer people” – can. The “Chocoholic Mysteries” were on their way.

Eve’s editor requested that she use a pen name for the new series, and Eve picked the middle names of her three children, Betsy Jo, Ruth Anna, and John Carl. “JoAnna Carl” was born.

So that’s how JoAnna/Eve became a regional author in two widely separated regions.

JoAnna/Eve earned a degree in journalism at the University of Oklahoma and also studied with Carolyn G. Hart and Jack Bickham in the OU Creative Writing Program. She spent more than twenty-five years in the newspaper business, working as a reporter, editor, and columnist at The Lawton Constitution in Lawton, Oklahoma. She took an early retirement to write fiction full-time.

She and her husband, David F. Sandstrom, ha

ve three grandchildren, whom they love introducing to the lore of their two homes – Oklahoma and Michigan.

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