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Midweek Mystery: Murder in Tranquility Park by J.D. Griffo

Alberta Scaglione and her twentysomething granddaughter, Jinx, love to spend time—and solve crime—together . . .

Ever since Alberta Scaglione inherited her spinster aunt’s Cape Cod cottage, she’s been enjoying the good life in Tranquility, New Jersey, with her black cat, Lola. But since things are mostly quiet in this town, she finds other things to do—like joining Jinx for morning jogs in Tranquility Park. She has to do something to stay healthy, as long as it doesn’t involve Jinx’s healthful tofu sausages and gluten-free pasta. But when they stumble across a treehouse hidden in the trees, and a dead body underneath it, they take a detour into solving a murder. Now the Ferrara ladies will have to exercise extreme caution to avoid a permanent decline in their health . . .
Includes Italian recipes from Alberta’s kitchen!
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About the Author

Italian by birth, Jersey by upbringing, J. D. Griffo is an award-winning playwright and author who has written ten novels, over twenty plays, and a handful of screenplays that have yet to see the light of day.
Griffo studied Journalism and Marketing at New York University, graduating magna cum laude many, many years ago, as well as Creative Writing at the New School and Gotham Writer’s Workshop.
And the J. D. stands for the author’s mother – Jean Dolores – who absolutely loved to read and tell stories.
Website – https://michaelgriffo.com/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/Michael2264
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/j.d.griffo/

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New Historical Cozy: Deadly Deception by Kate Parker

Olivia Denis discovers her father kneeling over the body of a man…a man who supposedly drowned in the Channel years before. Olivia wants to ring for help, her father wants to hide the body, but a mysterious phone call brings Scotland Yard to the murder scene.


Olivia can’t stand by and let her father hang. To prove his innocence – and learn his secrets – she must work with a master spy. The search for clues takes Olivia to the continent and the Kent countryside, Hastings and London, pushing her deeper into the world of danger and deception.

As war between Germany and Britain comes closer, the hunt for a Nazi collaborator intensifies. With a mounting death toll, Olivia knows she must unmask the killer or be the next to die.

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About the Author

Kate Parker grew up in Washington, D C, spent several years along the Carolina coast, and now finds herself in the Colorado front range. All the time, she has been busy plotting to spend more time in her favorite city, London, where her books are set. So far, she hasn’t been able to build a time machine, so she has to visit historical sites and books to immerse herself in the details of life in bygone days.

2019 sees publication of her fourth Deadly Series book, Deadly Deception, as well as a novella, The Mystery at Chadwick House. Chadwick House will both be for sale at the usual retailers plus given away to the readers of her newsletter. It is her first contemporary mystery. Later in the year, Kate plans on publishing the second Milliner Mystery. Her daughter has informed her this year she will also become the servant of a large, exuberant dog.

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First in series: An Au Pair to Remember, A Male Housekeeper Mystery by Stephen Kaminski

In his mind, Cam Reddick has failed—as a husband, as a father, and as a professional.

After recognizing that his vanilla credentials didn’t stack up in a big city brimming with overachievers, Cam returns to his childhood hometown—the quaint and quirky village of Rusted Bonnet, Michigan. Determined to resuscitate relationships with his ex-wife Kacey (who doubles as the village’s Deputy Chief of Police) and their first grader, Emma, Cam takes the helm of his mother’s housekeeping business—Peachy Kleen. What better way to demonstrate his new maturity, and build a stable life for himself?
But Cam’s plan for a quiet return to Rusted Bonnet is dashed when a beautiful German au pair is found dead–and the resulting police investigation creates a mess that Cam can’t clean up so easily.
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About the Author


Stephen Kaminski writes the award-winning Damon Lassard Dabbling Detective books.  He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the trade association representing the United States’ poison control system and its fifty-five centers.  Stephen lives with his daughter and rescue kitty in the Washington, DC area.
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Pinot Red or Dead? A new Wine Trail Mystery by J.C. Eaton

As the vineyards in Seneca Lake, New York, prepare for the seasonal “Deck the Halls Around the Lake” festivities, someone is determined to keep pinot noir off the wine list. Hijacked trucks and sabotaged ingredients have made it a hard-to-acquire vintage for the six local wineries—including Norrie Ellington’s Two Witches Winery.

The case of the stolen and spoiled wines gets stranger when Arnold Mowen, owner of the company distributing the wine, is found dead, the apparent victim of a hunting accident. As Norrie tries to find the connections between the pinot’s problems and Arnold’s death, she uncovers a conspiracy among many locals whose hatred for the wine distributor was bottled up for far too long . . .
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About the Authors

Ann I. Goldfarb

New York native Ann I. Goldfarb spent most of her life in education, first as a classroom teacher and later as a middle school principal and professional staff developer. Writing as J. C. Eaton, along with her husband, James Clapp, she has authored the Sophie Kimball Mysteries  with Kensington. In addition, Ann has nine published YA time travel mysteries under her own name. Visit the websites at www.jceatonauthor.com and www.timetravelmysteries.com

James E. Clapp

When James E. Clapp retired as the tasting room manager for a large upstate New York winery, he never imagined he’d be co-authoring cozy mysteries with his wife, Ann I. Goldfarb. His first novel, Booked 4 Murder (Kensington) is set for release in June 2017. Non-fiction in the form of informational brochures and workshop materials treating the winery industry were his forte along with an extensive background and experience in construction that started with his service in the U.S. Navy and included vocational school classroom teaching.

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A new Lizzie Stuart mystery from criminologist Frankie Y. Bailey: A Dead Man's Honor

Crime historian Lizzie Stuart goes to Gallagher, Virginia for a year as a visiting professor at Piedmont State University. She is there to do research for a book about a 1921 lynching that her grandmother, Hester Rose, witnessed when she was a twelve-year-old child.

Lizzie’s research is complicated by her own unresolved feelings about her secretive grandmother and by the disturbing presence of John Quinn, the police officer she met while on vacation in England. When an arrogant but brilliant faculty member of Piedmont State University is murdered, Lizzie begins to have more than a few sleepless nights. A Dead Man’s Honor is a haunting story that will keep you awake nights, too.

About the Author

Frankie Y. Bailey is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany (SUNY).  Her areas of research are crime history, and crime and mass media/popular culture. She is the author of the Edgar-nominated Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction (Greenwood, 1991), and African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study (McFarland, 2008), nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Agatha awards, and winner of a Macavity award. She is the recipient of the George N. Dove Award (2010).

Frankie is a member of Sisters in Crime (SinC), Romance Writers of America (RWA), and Mystery Writers of America (MWA).  She served as the 2009-2010 Executive Vice President of MWA and as the 2011-2012 President of Sisters in Crime (SinC).  Find her at frankieybailey.com.

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Would you travel to the past to solve a murder? Witch after Time Ava Mallory

Mariana Galvin is afraid of ghosts. Unfortunately. As a medium and a member of the world’s most elite paranormal crime-solving team, paranormal entities are part of the deal.
So Mariana hits on a foolproof plan – an early retirement.
The plan seems simple enough, until she’s summoned to solve a disturbing case in 1968 Chicago.
Now she has to choose – leave her teenagers and husband behind to travel back in time or ignore her calling and hope her abilities don’t go into overdrive.
Either way, she’s bound to find trouble. Fingers crossed, she makes it out this time.
 

Witch After Time is the fourth book in the A Witch in Time Mystery Series, five cozy mysteries about time-traveling witches. Each is a standalone book, and each is written by a different author, but you’ll have more fun if you read all five.

A Witch in Time Mysteries:

Better Witch Next Time by Stephanie Damore
A Devil of a Time by Mona Marple
Time After Time by Jenna St. James
Witch After Time by Ava Mallory
Right Witch. Wrong Time by K.M. Waller
All five are available on Kindle

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A dessert recipe and a sweet deal for Valentine's Day

Cozies With Heart: 9 Sweet Valentine Cozy Mysteries

Cozies with Heart
Grab a cup of cocoa and get ready to spend Valentine’s Day with a heart-warming collection of ten Valentine’s themed Cozy Mysteries from some of the most popular authors in the genre: Jodi Rath,
Stephanie Damore, Summer Prescott, Karin Kaufman, Gretchen Allen, CeeCee James, and Donna Walo Clancy. There are short stories, novellas and full-length books in the set, all of which are sure to grab you from the first page and take you on a thrill-filled ride through the sweetest holiday of the year.

Valentine’s Day Berry Cake from author Jodi Rath


Use a mini cast iron when baking for one or two!
Recipe adapted from: https://toasterovenlove.com

Ingredients

 2 tablespoons whole wheat flour
 1 tablespoon + 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar, divided
 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
 A pinch of salt
 2 tablespoons milk
 1/8 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
 1 teaspoon mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
 1/4 cup frozen berries (do not thaw)
Optional Toppings
 Ice cream, melted chocolate chips, whipped cream, yogurt

Instructions

1. Preheat toaster oven to 350 F and lightly oil a 3.5 inch cast iron skillet.
2. In a small bowl mix together the flour, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, baking powder, and
salt. Stir in the milk, vanilla, and 1 tablespoon vegetable oil until well combined, and no
oil is sitting on the top. Stir in mini chocolate chips.
3. Pour batter into prepared skillet. Top with frozen berries and sprinkle remaining brown
sugar over fruit.
4. Bake at 350 F for 17 to 22 (times may vary depending on your oven) minutes until the
cake is lightly golden and the fruit is bubbly. Allow cake to cool 5 to 8 minutes and serve
warm with your favorite toppings.
Enjoy!

About Jodi

Jodi Rath
 
Moving into her second decade working in education, Jodi Rath has decided to begin a life of crime in her Cast Iron Skillet Mystery Series. Her passion for both mysteries and education led her to combine the two to create her business MYS ED, where she splits her time between working as an adjunct for Ohio teachers and creating mischief in her fictional writing. She currently resides in a small, cozy village in Ohio with her husband and her seven cats.

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