#MidweekMystery: Strangled by Simile

Southern transplant Emma Lovett and best friend/colleague Leslie Parker can hardly believe it: They’ve gotten all the way through Homecoming with no one dying.

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Strangled by Simile: A Chalkboard Outline Mystery

At the end of October, Emma finds the strangled body of Charlie Foreman, one of Leslie’s favorite nemeses. And the first clue implicates Leslie in the crime! To make things worse, Emma’s feeling a little oogy: tired, dizzy, and something’s up with her eyes. What’s going on?

All Emma and Leslie are trying to do is find new methods for teaching the youth of America, hopefully using lessons from The Great Bard—their hero—William Shakespeare.

But someone has a different idea: more schooling in murder.

About the Author

Kelley Kaye

“Kelley Kaye” taught High School English and Drama since 1992 in California, then Colorado and now Cali again, but her love for storytelling dates back to creating captions in her high school yearbook. Maybe back to the tales she created for her Barbie and Ken—whatever the case, the love’s been around a long time. She’s married to an amazing man who cooks for her, and they have two funny and wonderful sons.

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#MidweekMystery: Raiders of the Campsite

Welcome to Bushwhack, New Mexico: home to tourists, the great outdoors, and murder…

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Raiders of the Campsite: A Southwest Exposure Mystery

Camping for spring break should be a piece of cake for outdoor guide Andie Sullivan. She has her best friend and the sheriff tagging along as chaperones for the Wilderness Explorers. It should be all S’mores and ghost stories…but then Vivian is attacked and they discover a corpse.

Dang. The campsite went up in smoke.

With everything at stake, Andie must find answers about the attack—she has to dig deep into a community she’s called home since birth by asking all the right questions, sometimes at not the right time. As she tracks down clues to a suspect, Andie stumbles on a secretive treasure hunting group in Bushwhack. But one wrong move and Andie could become her own buried treasure.

About the Author

Jodi Linton

Jodi Linton is an author of several romance novels and cozy mysteries. She pens funny, romantic, whodunnits during her days in between being a carpool mom. She lives in Texas with her husband, with who she runs the family day business with and two kids. When she isn’t writing her next page turner, she likes to delve into her hobby of finding all the cool, new makeup products to buy.

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Midweek Mystery: The Corpse with the Iron Will by Cathy Ace

Welsh criminal psychologist and globetrotting sleuth, Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are enjoying some well-deserved peace and quiet at home, in moody, mountainous British Columbia. The sudden death of a neighbor is a significant loss for them both, so Cait’s honored when Gordy Krantz’s “unusual” will requests that she eulogize him at his memorial.

However, delving into the dead man’s background becomes a pressing priority when a puzzling theft, and some surprising discoveries, put our favourite sleuths on high alert. Might someone living in their seemingly tight-knit – and certainly off-beat – rural community have wanted their neighbor dead? And if so, are more people they know at risk?

The tenth Cait Morgan Mystery from Bony Blithe Award-winning author Cathy Ace, The Corpse with the Iron Will, forces Cait and Bud to use the skills they’ve honed tackling cases around the world to unmask a killer who’s too close to home for comfort!

About the Author

Cathy Ace

Cathy Ace

The Cait Morgan Mysteries

Born and raised in Wales, now-Canadian Cathy Ace is the author of the Cait Morgan Mysteries, featuring her Welsh Canadian criminology professor sleuth who travels the world tripping over corpses, and The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries, featuring a quartet of female PIs, working from a Welsh stately home. Both series are traditional, entertaining, and have been well reviewed.
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#MidweekMystery: Four Cuts Too Many

Four Cuts Too Many
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Sarah Blair gets an education in slicing and dicing when someone in culinary school serves up a main corpse in Wheaton, Alabama . . .

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Four Cuts Too Many: A Sarah Blair Mystery

Between working as a law firm receptionist, reluctantly pitching in as co-owner of her twin sister’s restaurant, and caretaking for her regal Siamese RahRah and rescue dog Fluffy, Sarah has no time to enjoy life’s finer things. Divorced and sort-of dating, she’s considering going back to school. But as a somewhat competent sleuth, Sarah’s more suited for criminal justice than learning how many ways she can burn a meal.

Although she wouldn’t mind learning some knife skills from her sous chef, Grace Winston. An adjunct instructor who teaches cutlery expertise in cooking college, Grace is considering accepting an executive chef’s position offered by Jane Clark, Sarah’s business rival—and her late ex-husband’s lover. But Grace’s future lands in hot water when the school’s director is found dead with one of her knives in his back. To clear her friend’s name, Sarah must sharpen her own skills at uncovering an elusive killer . . .

Includes quick and easy recipes!

About the Author

Debra H. Goldstein

Judge Debra H. Goldstein writes Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series (One Taste Too Many, Two Bites Too Many, Three Treats Too Many ). She also wrote Should Have Played Poker and IPPY winning Maze in Blue. Her short stories, including Anthony and Agatha nominated The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place and Derringer Finalist Pig Lickin’ Good, have appeared in numerous publications. Debra serves on the national boards of SinC and MWA and is president of SEMWA.

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Mother’s Day (Book Cover) Makeover

A fundraising scheme at Mahina State University (“Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow”) forces pregnant Professor Molly into the role of “tutierge” (that’s tutor-concierge). While she’s battling morning sickness, a meddling mom, and the Student Retention Office. The last thing she needs to deal with right now is murder.

But here we are.

Mother’s Day, Professor Molly #6

The physical book covers for the Professor Molly series have been undergoing a minor makeover. The back covers have been reworked to have similar layouts, and the name-title order on the books’ spines is now the same. (There is no universally-accepted convention for which comes first, but it was bugging me that half of the Professor Molly book spines had the name at the top and the title at the bottom, and the other half were the opposite. Now they’re consistent.)

There have been no major changes to any of the cover designs. With one exception: Mother’s Day. That cover had always been my least favorite. It was supposed to evoke Professor Molly approaching an imposing lava-rock dwelling, but I didn’t think it accomplished its goal. It didn’t evoke the sense of a venerable, once-grand house gone to seed. Nothing about it said “Hawaii” [1]. And in my opinion, the design wasn’t particularly pleasing to the eye.

At first glance, the new cover says less about the plot. There’s no decrepit old mansion in the jungle, just Molly standing with her briefcase on a Hawaiian beach. We don’t know whether she is walking toward the water or away from it. In the story, we learn that she’s pregnant, but the front-facing direction of her silhouette disguises any tummy bulge. In Mother’s Day, Molly is trying to conceal her delicate condition from the administration at her family-unfriendly workplace.

In the new cover illustration, Molly might have walked down to the water’s edge to take a break and think over what to do about the murder plot she’s sure will come to fruition any day now. But while the setting is somewhat foreboding with its hint of shadow, it’s also colorful and evocative of her island home. Molly’s silhouette takes up a smaller portion of the picture, allowing the viewer to appreciate the beauty of her Hawaiian home.

If you’ve read the previous books (specifically The Cursed Canoe) you know that Molly lives on the east side of the island, so she is watching a sunrise, not a sunset. Despite the indignities heaped upon her by the Mahina State University fundraising machine, Professor Molly can look forward to a brighter day ahead.


[1] The Fever Cabinet cover doesn’t really evoke Hawaii either, but in this case I think it’s okay. The theme of the abandoned asylum and the archaic medical equipment are so central to the plot that it seems right for the cover design to focus on those elements.

Treasure Most Deadly by Terry Ambrose

Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast owner Rick Atwood is again called on to assist his friend, Chief of Police Adam Cunningham, with a murder investigation. The case seems straightforward enough.

Clive Crabbe, who has a quick temper and a strong jealous streak, was found hunched over the victim after the man made advances toward Clive’s ex-wife.


A murder investigation is the last thing Rick wants right now. The B&B is booked solid. The town is inundated with tourists and news reporters chasing stories about treasure thieves. And Rick’s
wedding to Marquetta Weiss is just weeks away. As if that wasn’t enough, Rick’s eleven-year-old daughter Alex is not only itching to help the cops solve another murder, but she’s forming an
unhealthy friendship with a B&B guest.


The worst part is that Alex may be the one person capable of cracking the case.

Terry Ambrose

Terry Ambrose

Trouble in Paradise and Seaside Cove Mysteries

Once upon a time, in a life he’d rather forget, Terry Ambrose tracked down deadbeats for a living. He also hired big guys with tow trucks to steal cars-but only when negotiations failed. Those years of chasing deadbeats taught him many valuable life lessons such as-always keep your car in the garage. Today, Terry likes fast, funny mysteries and cool photography. He writes the Trouble in Paradise McKenna Mysteries and organized an anthology to benefit Read Aloud America. He fondly likens his efforts to those of a blind man herding cats.
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Whole Latte Murder by Lena Gregory #MidweekMystery

Ex-New Yorker and local diner owner Gia Morelli is still getting used to the sweltering Florida sun. But this summer she’ll have to deal with a more dangerous kind of heat—when she’s hot on the trail of another murderer . . .

Summer in Boggy Creek has arrived, and Gia’s best friend, successful real estate agent Savannah, is getting hitched. Now she’s enlisted Gia’s sleuthing talents in a desperate search for the perfect wedding dress. But when Savannah mysteriously vanishes after showing a mansion to a bigwig client, Gia investigates the house Savannah was trying to sell. The first clue she finds is Savannah’s car in the driveway. Inside the house, they stumble on Savannah’s potential buyer—dead. Someone had apparently closed the deal—with a two by four full of nails to the client’s head. Soon afterward, a woman’s body is fished from the lake near the same house. The townsfolk are now sweating bullets over the murders, and the heat comes down on poor Gia to find her missing friend, and track down the killer . . .

Lena Gregory

About the Author

Lena Gregory is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mysteries, which take place on a small island between the north and south forks of Long Island, New York, and the All-Day Breakfast Café Mysteries, which are set on the outskirts of Florida’s Ocala National Forest.
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Professor Molly Mysteries now available on audio

The Case of the Defunct Adjunct, The Musubi Murder, The Cursed Canoe, and the short story Trust Fall are available on audio. Coming up next: The Black Thumb!

#MidweekMystery Now on Audio! Damned if She Does by K.K. Reardon

Young professor Meg Doherty has a dark secret.

When a renowned professor is viciously murdered at a Manhattan hotel, Meg stumbles upon the scene and quickly comes under police scrutiny. After another professor is killed, it falls to her brother, Shamus, to help prove Meg’s innocence. Caught in NYC’s blinding media spotlight, gilded society and criminal underworld, the pair must confront not only Meg’s secret but a long-suppressed family mystery. When is a secret so toxic it must be revealed? When is a woman damned if she does?

About the narrators:

Brendan Conroy is a native of Tuam, Co Galway. His career stretches back to the late 70’s when he became known playing the role of Peter Cadogan in The Irish RM, a show which continues to be repeated regularly up to this day. He has toured to Russia, Europe and the United States with the Abbey Theatre playing Jimmy Jack in Translations, Philly Cullen in The Playboy of the Western World and Tadhg in The Field.

Camilla Griehsel has been singing in front of an enraptured audience since she was five years old and living in Sweden. When she was ten, she won a place in the prestigious Adolf Frederik Musik School in Stockholm where her love of choral work and collaboration blossomed.

Her late teens saw her singing in a Baptist church choir in Virginia, busking in a Sweet Adeline group in Stockholm’s Old Town, and entertaining holiday makers in Gran Canaria and skiers in Switzerland.

About the Author

Kathleen Kelley Reardon is the author of several acclaimed nonfiction books, professor emerita at USC’s Marshall School of Business, a featured political blogger at The Huffington Post since 2005, and the recipient of the 2013 Humanitarian Award from the UConn Alumni Association.

She has appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News and Good Morning America. Her research and writings have been covered in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and broadcast news segments.

Dr. Reardon is also a visual artist, capturing Irish landscapes and waterways in watercolors and oils. 

In her debut mystery SHADOW CAMPUS, and its sequel, DAMNED IF SHE DOES, Dr. Reardon has taken her knowledge of politics in the workplace to fiction. The results are deeply unsettling and strangely satisfying. 

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The latest Professor Molly Mystery is available now!

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a new Professor Molly mystery! Newsblogger Pat Flanagan returns to Mahina to help Molly and Emma investigate the disappearance of Molly’s tenant, social media sensation Jandie Brand. The irepressible business law instructor Harriet Holmes volunteers her expertise as well, while Molly’s curious neighbors on Uakoko Street jockey to get a close-up peek at fame.

The Influencer

The Influencer

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Series: The Professor Molly Mysteries, Book 11
Genre: Mystery

There's no such thing as bad publicity. Until it happens to you.

Professor Molly's new renter is a social media star seeking privacy in remote Mahina, Hawaii. The arrangement seems to be working out...until the celebrity influencer vanishes. Molly and her best friend Emma Nakamura call in the Mahina PD and try to stay out of the way. But the unthinkable happens: The saturnine Detective Medeiros actually asks for Molly and Emma's help. As they confront nosy neighbors, fanatical followers, and the missing woman's has-been husband, Molly and Emma find themselves at the center of the story. And when fame creates its own reality, that's a dangerous place to be.

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