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Night of the Living Bread by Mary Lee Ashford – Book Tour and Giveaway

01 Sunday Jun 2025

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Night of the Living Bread (Sugar & Spice Mysteries)
by Mary Lee Ashford

About Night of the Living Bread


Night of the Living Bread (Sugar & Spice Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Setting – Iowa
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oliver Heber Books (May 27, 2025)
Print length ‏ : ‎ 223 pages
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F17HPMMT
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Sugar Calloway and Dixie Spicer are up to their aprons in community cookbook projects, but Sugar can’t resist when the Jameson County Historical Society asks for their assistance with a cookbook featuring bread recipes. But they’ve barely begun when suddenly troubles are on the rise. Marla, the board’s president is stabbed with a bread knife, her best friend, Mame, is a suspect & some dough (of the money kind) is missing.

As Sugar and Dixie try to save the cookbook project and help Mame, things take a twist with a second body. But what’s the connection? And who in St. Ignatius has been keeping secrets? And, mostly importantly, will Sugar and Dixie be able to figure out whodunnit before the killer catches up with them and they are toast.

About Mary Lee Ashford

Mary Lee Ashford is a national best-selling author, a lifelong bibliophile, an avid reader, and a supporter of public libraries. In addition to writing the Sugar & Spice series for Oliver Heber Books, she also writes the Pampered Pets mystery series as half of the writing team of Sparkle Abbey. Prior to publishing, Mary Lee won first place in the Daphne du Maurier contest and was a finalist in Murder in the Grove’s mystery contest and Killer Nashville’s Claymore Dagger contest.

She is the founding president of Sisters in Crime – Iowa and a former board member of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest chapter, as well as a member of Novelists, Inc., and Sisters in Crime Guppies.

She loves encouraging writers and is a frequent lecturer and workshop presenter for writers’ groups. Mary Lee has a long-time interest in creativity and teaches a university-level course on creative management. She also presents workshops and blogs about creativity and the writing craft.

She currently resides in the Midwest with her husband, Tim, and Zoey, her feline coworker. When she’s not writing, her passions are reading, traveling, and spending time with her family, especially her six grandchildren.

Author Links
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/maryleeashford1
BookBub – https://www.bookbub.com/profile/mary-lee-ashford
Threads – https://www.threads.net/@authormaryleeashford
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/authormaryleeashford/
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17806883.Mary_Lee_Ashford

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May 27 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

May 27 – Carstairs Considers – REVIEW

May 28 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

May 28 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

May 29 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

May 30 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

May 31 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – RECIPE POST

May 31 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

June 1 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

June 2 – Frugal Freelancer – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

June 3 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST

June 3 – Novels Alive – REVIEW

June 4 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

June 5 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

June 6 – Reading Is My SuperPower – AUTHOR GUEST POST

June 7 – Baroness Book Trove – REVIEW

June 8 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST

June 9 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW

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Shudder Pulp by Vanessa Westerman – Book Tour and Giveaway

23 Friday May 2025

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Shudder Pulp: A Charley Scott Mystery
by Vanessa Westerman

About Shudder Pulp


Shudder Pulp: A Charley Scott Mystery
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting – Canada’s Cottage Country
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cormorant Books (May 3, 2025)
Paperback : 368 pages
ISBN 978-1770867741
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F336CQDS
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Leaves are turning red in cottage country, and Charley Scott is putting on an immersive Halloween pulp art installation based on a local lake monster legend. But life imitates art when Laura, a mercenary newcomer with a controversial agenda for the dam, claims she was attacked by a lake monster she accuses Charley of raising.

Hours later, Laura is found dead by dry drowning.

Accident, murder, or a lethal encounter with a mythical beast? Tension mounts as snaking tracks, an animal carcass, and a witch’s ladder are found near the lake, but could there truly be supernatural forces at work?

Charley teams up with chocolatier Matt Thorn to investigate, but it’ll take more than seafoam toffee to bait this trap. To find the truth, Charley will have to risk it all to look the monster in the eye.

About Vanessa Westermann

An avid reader of mysteries, Vanessa Westermann is a former Arthur Ellis Awards judge, holds an M.A. in English Literature and a Bachelor of Education, and has taught creative writing. Cover Art, first of the Charley Scott Mysteries, was published to great acclaim in 2022. At the heart of all of Westermann’s stories are strong female protagonists inspired by the heroines in her own life. She currently lives in Ontario.

Author Links

Website: www.vanessa-westermann.info

Facebook: @VanessaWestermannAuthor

Instagram: @vanessawestermann_

GoodReads: Vanessa_Westermann

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

May 19 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

May 19 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

May 20 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

May 20 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT

May 21 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

May 21 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

May 22 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR GUEST POST

May 22 – Infinite House of Books – SPOTLIGHT

May 22 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT

May 23 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

May 23 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – SPOTLIGHT

May 24 – Frugal Freelancer – CHARACTER GUEST POST

May 24 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

May 25 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – REVIEW

May 25 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

May 25 – Christa Reads and Writes – SPOTLIGHT

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Whisper of Treasure and Lies by Trish Esden – Book Tour and Giveaway

16 Friday May 2025

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Whisper of Treasure and Lies:
(A Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery)
by Trish Esden

About Whisper of Treasure and Lies


Whisper of Treasure and Lies: (A Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery)
Traditional Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – Vermont
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Patricia AR Esden (May 5, 2025)
Paperback: 308 pages
ISBN: 979-8992697506
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F3KCPVCJ
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Some secrets die with their owners. Others hide in silence, waiting to be set free.

Edie Brown despises the bigwig antique and art dealer Felix Graham. She even suspects he had a hand in her mom being set up for the art forgery charge that sent her to prison. However, when Graham is drugged and robbed after purchasing a valuable antique bottle and a box of local historical items, Edie agrees to hunt down the thieves for him. In payment, she wants one thing: everything Graham knows about her mom being set up—who was involved, how they did it…all the information that could lead to her mom’s freedom.

But the number of possible thieves is as plentiful as the potential motives. Graham’s womanizing ways and slippery business practices barely outweigh the stolen pieces’ rarity and value. As Edie, her uncle Tuck, and enigmatic employee, Kala, dive into the dangerous search, evidence that the crime is tied to the stolen pieces’ history surface. Both the bottle—known as the Glass Widow—and the box of ephemera are related to a tragedy that occurred the night before the grand opening of a Victorian-era hydropathic resort, a shocking fragment of Vermont history that involved a peculiar dowry, concealed murder, and a fire that claimed lives and gutted the lavish resort.

With her mom’s mental health rapidly declining in prison, Edie must fight against the clock to expose the thieves by untangling a mystery with roots that stretch from the Victorian-era to the recent robbery, and perhaps into Edie’s own past as well.

About Trish Esden

Trish Esden is an award-winning author of mystery novels that deliver feisty heroines, devious criminals, and as many twists as a back-country road. Set in contemporary, small-town New England, Trish’s stories promise skillfully crafted whodunnits fraught with secrets, cunning schemes, and sometimes a touch of romance. Though a dead body or two might surface, Trish’s novels tend to focus on crimes other than murder. If you’re a fan of traditional mysteries with a diverse cast of friends and adversaries, you are in the right place. Immerse yourself today in an atmospheric world where danger, mystery, and a passion for justice collide.

Author Links

Website: https://trishesden.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066846565777

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trishesden/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/patesden

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/trish-esden

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

May 14 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

May 15 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – AUTHOR GUEST POST

May 15 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

May 16 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

May 16 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – RECIPE

May 17 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

May 17 – Baroness Book Trove– SPOTLIGHT

May 18 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

May 19 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – CHARACTER GUEST POST

May 19 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST

May 20 – Frugal Freelancer – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

May 20 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

May 21 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

May 22 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

May 23 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT

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