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#Midweek Mystery: Enter a Wizard, Stage Left by Connie di Marco

Julia Bonatti wasn’t always a crime-solving San Francisco astrologer.


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She was engaged to the love of her life and preparing for a teaching career when her fiancé was killed in a hit and run accident.

Julia takes refuge with her grandmother Gloria. But there’s little time to grieve. Gloria, a retired seamstress, needs Julia’s help. Gloria’s been hired to create costumes for a production of Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death at the newly opened Theatre Mars in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood.

Theatre Mars is a stunning jewel, the cast is talented and the script is brilliant.

But Julia gets the first hint of trouble when the owner of The Mystic Eye bookshop warns that all might not go well. The dire prediction comes true when the lead actress is murdered before the final curtain, echoing the play itself. Then Julia’s sleuthing puts her grandmother Gloria’s life in grave danger. Can Julia rescue her grandmother before it’s too late? And will a black cat play a leading role?

Author Connie di Marco
Author Connie di Marco

About The Author

Connie di Marco is the author of the Zodiac Mysteries, featuring San Francisco astrologer, Julia Bonatti.  Writing as Connie Archer, she is also the national bestselling author of the Soup Lover’s Mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime.  Some of her favorite recipes can be found in The Cozy Cookbook  and The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook.  Connie is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.  She lives in Los Angeles but dreams constantly of the San Francisco fog.

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#MidweekMystery: In the Soup, a San Francisco Cozy Murder Mystery

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The Fog Ladies are back, in the third installment of this endearing cozy murder mystery series.

“There was a man in the soup.” When the Fog Ladies volunteer at a San Francisco soup kitchen, these spunky elderly friends plus one overworked young doctor-in-training envision washing and chopping and serving. Not murder. Now the soup kitchen is doomed, and the mysteries have just begun. Was the death rooted in a long-ago grudge? Can they save the soup kitchen? Will they find the killer? Could the Fog Ladies, too, end up “in the soup”?

Susan McCormick

Susan McCormick

San Francisco Cozy Murder Mysteries

Susan McCormick is a writer and doctor who lives in Seattle. She graduated from Smith College and George Washington University School of Medicine, with additional medical training in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, where she lived in an elegant apartment building much like the one in the book. Susan served as a doctor in the U.S. Army for nine years before moving to the Pacific Northwest and civilian practice as a gastroenterologist. In addition to the Fog Ladies series, she also wrote Granny Can’t Remember Me, a lighthearted picture book about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and The Antidote, a timely middle grade medical fantasy released May 2021. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two sons. She loves giant dogs and has loved an English Mastiff, Earl, and two Newfoundlands, Edward and Albert.

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#MidweekMystery: Dead as a Duck by Colleen J Shogan

August has been a busy month for congressional staffer Kit Marshall. She hit the road with her boss, Congresswoman Maeve Dixon, who is considering running for the United States Senate in North Carolina. After endless town halls and meet-and-greets, Kit is happy to end the tour in Duck, an upscale beach town in the Outer Banks.

Before Kit can relax on her much-deserved vacation with her husband Doug, brother Sebastian, best friend Meg, and beagle mutt Clarence, the body of Duck’s mayor is found floating in the shallow waters of the Currituck Sound.

Kit’s brother Sebastian, who got in a public kerfuffle with the victim the day before, becomes the prime suspect. Solving the mystery takes her to popular hotspots in the Outer Banks, including a private tour featuring the wild horses of Corolla.

Kit must sacrifice sun-filled days of relaxation to clear her brother. In the end, Kit and Sebastian put their own lives on the line to secure a confession from the killer and make sure justice is served.

Colleen J. Shogan

Colleen J. Shogan

Washington Whodunits

Colleen J. Shogan has been reading mysteries since the age of six. A political scientist by training, Colleen has taught American politics at numerous universities. She previously worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative staffer in the United States Senate and as a senior executive at the Library of Congress. Currently, she’s a Senior Vice President at the White House Historical Association. A member of Sisters in Crime, Colleen splits her time between Arlington, VA and Duck, NC.

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#MidweekMystery: Choir Loft Murder by Karen Randau

Her fiance a murderer? As she digs for the truth, she must fight to survive a plot to frame the man she loves.

Frankie Shep has endured too many tragedies in her life. When she finally dares to love again, a revengeful plot threatens to cancel her wedding plans and send her fiance to death row. But this feisty modern-day rancher won’t stand for it.

A member of the church choir dies from a blowgun dart to a vital artery, and the murder weapon implicates Quint. Frankie is shocked to discover Quint was a champion blowgun competitor but quit the sport after a family disaster. And now he’s refusing to talk about his fate.

So she takes it on herself to track down the killer before Quint accepts a life-altering plea deal. She’s devastated when she unearths his motive for the crime. But someone else lurks in the shadows, and that’s who she’s determined to find. Little does she know the killer follows her every move, ready to strike her down when she gets too close.

Can she unravel the vindictive plot before she becomes a crazed killer’s next victim?

Choir Loft Murder is the riveting third book in the Frankie Shep Suspense Novellas series. If you like engaging heroines, twisty plots, and eerie settings, then you’ll love Karen Randau’s pulse-pounding thriller

Karen Randau

Karen Randau

Frankie Shep Suspense Series and Rim Country Mysteries

Karen Randau authors fast-paced mystery, suspense, and thriller books featuring intricate plots, told from the point of view of strong female protagonists. In addition to the Frankie Shep Suspense series set on a fictional ranch in Wyoming, her Rim Country Mystery Series are set in the quaint fictional mountain town of Rim Vista, Arizona. She is also one of seven authors of novellas in the Tawnee Mountain Mystery Series. She lives in the mountains of Arizona with her multigenerational family.
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#FridayFreebie Under Lock and Key, a multi-book Mystery Giveaway!

Why am I (along with over fifty fellow mystery and thriller authors) giving away our work for free? The main reason we write is to share our stories and entertain readers. If you enjoy the free stories, that’s great! But if you do like what you read, there’s more where that came from. We hope you might look into more books in the same series!

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Giveaway ends July 6, 2021

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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.

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Series: The Professor Molly Mysteries, Book 10
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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The Case of the Defunct Adjunct

A twisty campus mystery! Professor Kent Lovely is Mahina State University’s resident creep — or he was, until he collapsed face-first into his cheesecake. Now the faculty summer retreat is a crime scene, and Professor Molly Barda must do everything she can to clear her innocent friend Emma’s name… before it’s too late.

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The Musubi Murder

Professor Molly just wants to stay out of trouble until she gets tenure at Mahina State University (“Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow!”). But when the college’s biggest donor, a local lunch-shop tycoon, vanishes, Molly’s dean orders her to find him before his check bounces. Will snooping around and stirring up old secrets land Molly in the soup?

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Trust Fall

It’s another faculty retreat at Mahina State University. Professor Molly struggles to stay awake. Her best friend Dr. Emma Nakamura does her best not to throttle anyone (a particular challenge in the case of newbie know-it-all Kyle Stockhausen). But then the Trust Fall exercise goes horribly wrong. Is it murder? Or just the worst meeting of the semester?

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#FridayFreebie In the Library with a Candlestick, a Prolific Works Mystery Giveaway!

The Prolific Works team is proud to present the In The Library With The Candlestick Group Giveaway! This giveaway has all types of crime, mystery, and thriller books. Claim as many as you’d like and enjoy your new reads!

Why would mystery authors give away our books for free? We love to tell stories and we hope you enjoy them. If they’re not your cup of tea, no harm, no foul. If you like the freebies, great! And if you want more…we have sequels.

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#MidweekMystery: Remembering the Dead, A Penny Brannigan Mystery by Elizabeth J. Duncan

In award-winning author Elizabeth J. Duncan’s tenth Penny Brannigan mystery set in North Wales, Canadian amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan attends a dinner party at a posh country house–where a historic chair disappears and a waiter is murdered.

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Artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan has been asked to organize a formal dinner to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended World War One. After dinner, the guests adjourn to the library for a private exhibition of the Black Chair, a precious piece of Welsh literary history awarded in 1917 to poet Hedd Wyn. But to the guests’ shock, the newly restored bardic chair is missing. And then Penny discovers the rain-soaked body of a waiter. When Penny learns that the victim was the nephew of one of her employees, she is determined to find the killer. Meanwhile, the local police search for the Black Chair. The Prince of Wales is due to open an exhibit featuring the chair in three weeks, so time is not on their side. A visit to a nursing home to consult an ex-thief convinces Penny that the theft of the Black Chair and the waiter’s murder are connected. She rushes to Dublin to consult a disagreeable antiquarian, who might know more than he lets on, and during the course of her investigation confronts a gaggle of suspicious travelers and an eccentric herbalist who seems to have something to hide. Can Penny find the chair and the culprit before she is laid to rest in the green grass of Wales?

About The Author

Elizabeth J. Duncan

Elizabeth J Duncan is the author of two mystery series – Shakespeare in the Catskills and the Penny Brannigan mystery series set in North Wales. She is a two-time winner of the Bloody Words Award for Canada’s best light mystery and lives in Toronto.

Website: www.elizabethjduncan.com

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Twitter: @elizabethduncan

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