Murder Strikes a Chord by Heather Weidner – Book Tour and Giveaway

10 Thursday Apr 2025

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Murder Strikes a Chord: A Pearly Girls Mystery
by Heather Weidner

About Murder Strikes A Chord

Murder Strikes a Chord: A Pearly Girls Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Virginia
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Keylight Books; 1st edition (March 18, 2025)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684426561
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684426560
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684426502
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684426508
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DPL47ZV5

Veronica Mars meets The Golden Girls as event planner Cassidy Jamison and her four sixty-year-old employees race to solve a rocker’s murder before the curtains close on their show and their business.

When Cassidy Jamison inherited her late grandmother’s event planning business, she also inherited her grandmother’s friends—four sixty-year-old women known around town as the Pearly Girls—as part-time employees. Now Cassidy barely has time to breathe between spending every waking hour trying to keep her business afloat and the Pearly Girls out of trouble and focused on event planning.

So when she lands a three-weekend event complete with a chart-topping band, she’s thrilled. Until she and her chihuahua mix Elvis find the body of the Weathermen’s lead singer in her venue’s koi pond. With the help of the not-so-helpful Pearly Girls, Cassidy must stave off the bad publicity, navigate the prying questions of the local police department, and solve the murder before the media frenzy shutters her business for good, and takes one of the Pearly Girls with it.

About Heather Weidner

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.

Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.

Social Media Links

Website and Blog: http://www.heatherweidner.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeatherWeidnerAuthor

Threads: https://www.threads.net/@heather_mystery_writer

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Amazon Authors: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00HOYR0MQ

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/HeatherBWeidner/

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/heather-weidner-d6430278-c5c9-4b10-b911-340828fc7003

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/HeatherWeidner1

Purchase Links – Amazon – B&N – Bookshop.org

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April 1 – Ascroft, eh? =CHARACTER INTERVIEW

April 2 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – REVIEW

April 3 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST

April 4 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

April 4 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR GUEST POST

April 5 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

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April 6 – Storybook Lady – REVIEW

April 7 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – REVIEW

April 8 – CelticLady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

April 9 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

April 9 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

April 10 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

April 11 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW

April 12 – Frugal Freelancer – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

April 13 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

April 14 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

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No Roast for the Weary by Cleo Coyle – Book Tour and Giveaway

03 Thursday Apr 2025

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No Roast for the Weary (A Coffeehouse Mystery)
by Cleo Coyle

About No Roast for the Weary

No Roast for the Weary (A Coffeehouse Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
21st in Series
Setting – New York
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (April 1, 2025)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593642287
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593642283
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D8KDMP6S

When the Village Blend opens a Writer’s Block Lounge, a cold case crime turns up the heat on Clare and her crew in this gripping new entry in the beloved Coffeehouse Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.

As much as master roaster Clare Cosi adores coffee, the landmark shop she manages won’t survive if she doesn’t sell enough of it. So when the Village Blend’s customer traffic grinds to a halt, she turns to her staff for creative ideas, and the Writer’s Block Lounge is born.

Madame, the eccentric octogenarian owner of the shop, is upset by this news. Years ago, a group of accomplished writers used the shop’s second-floor lounge to inspire each other, but the group disbanded when something dark occurred. Though that history is shrouded in mystery, Clare presses forward…

Soon the Village Blend tables are filled with aspiring novelists, playwrights, and poets, all happy to be coaxed, cajoled, and caffeinated by her coffeehouse crew. Clare admires the stamina of these scribes, many of them toiling at night jobs—driving taxis, tending bar, ushering for Broadway—while penning projects during the day.

Then one of their fictions turns fatal when a shocking secret leads to a deadly end. Unless Clare can untangle this mystery, uncover the truth, and stop a desperate killer, she fears more of these weary writers may be marked for eternal rest. ~ Includes a knockout menu of recipes.

About Cleo Coyle

CLEO COYLE is a pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. Both are New York Times bestselling authors of the long-running Coffeehouse Mysteries and Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, now celebrating more than 20 years in print. With more than one million books sold, their works have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Czech; received multiple Best of Year selection honors from reviewers; and have been recommended by Booklist as among the best culinary mysteries for core library mystery collections. Alice and Marc are also bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, Toho, and MGM. They live and work in New York City, where they write independently and together, wrangle their rescue cats, drink a lot of java, and cook like crazy. Connect with Cleo at CoffeehouseMystery.com

Author Links
Webpage: https://www.coffeehousemystery.com/

Free Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/cleocoylerecipes/newsletter

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CleoCoyle/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CleoCoyle

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/cleo-coyle

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/51488.Cleo_Coyle

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

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

April 3 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

April 3 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

April 4 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

April 4 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW

April 5 – The Plain-Spoken Pen – REVIEW

April 5 – The Mystery of Writing – SPOTLIGHT

April 6 – The Editing Pen – AUTHOR GUEST POST

April 7 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

April 8 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

April 9 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST

April 9 – Novels Alive – REVIEW

April 10 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

April 11 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW

April 12 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

April 12 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

April 13 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

April 14 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW

April 15 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT

April 16 – Frugal Freelancer – SPOTLIGHT

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Waters of Destruction by Leslie Karst – Book Tour and Giveaway

24 Monday Mar 2025

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Waters of Destruction (An Orchid Isle Mystery)
by Leslie Karst

About Waters of Destruction

Waters of Destruction (An Orchid Isle Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting – Hawaii
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House; Main edition (April 1, 2025)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1448312183
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1448312184
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DKXTRTX5

Retired caterer Valerie Corbin investigates a suspicious drowning in this Orchid Isle cozy culinary mystery, featuring a feisty queer couple who swap surfing lessons for sleuthing sessions in tropical Hilo, Hawai‘i

After a vacation of a lifetime in Hilo, Hawai‘i, retired caterer Valerie Corbin and her wife Kristen have decided to move permanently to the beautiful – if storm-prone – Big Island. The couple are having fun furnishing their new house, exploring their new neighborhood and playing with their new little dog, Pua. But while they’ve made good friends with local restaurant manager Sachiko and her partner Isaac, they can’t help but feel a little lonely.

So when Sachiko begs Val to fill in for a member of her bar team who’s gone AWOL, Val dusts off her cocktail shaker and happily agrees. It’s a great chance to meet more people – and learn the local gossip.

Such as about Hank, the missing bartender, who vanished after a team-building retreat at a local beauty spot a week ago, and hasn’t been seen since. Until, that is, his body turns up at the bottom of the waterfall, and the police seem very interested in where Sachiko was at the time of his death.

Sachiko couldn’t have killed him . . . could she? Val dives into the murky waters of the case, determined to find out.

This mouth-watering cozy mystery is perfect for fans of Ellen Byron, Jennifer J Chow, Lucy Burdette and Raquel V Reyes, and includes a selection of delicious Hawaiian recipes to cook at home.

About Leslie Karst

Leslie Karst is the author of the Orchid Isle mysteries Waters of Destruction and Molten Death, of the Lefty Award-nominated Sally Solari mystery series, and of the IBPA Ben Franklin and IPPY award silver medal-winning memoir, Justice is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG. After years waiting tables and singing in a new wave rock band, she decided she was ready for a “real” job and ended up at Stanford Law School, then returned to school to study the culinary arts. Now retired from the law, Leslie splits her time between Hilo, Hawai‘i and Santa Cruz, California, spending her days writing, cooking, cycling, gardening, and observing cocktail hour promptly at five o’clock.

Author Links

Website http://www.lesliekarstauthor.com/

Chicks on the Case https://chicksonthecase.com/

Mystery Lovers Kitchen https://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lesliekarstauthor/

BookBub https://www.bookbub.com/authors/leslie-karst

GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14220589.Leslie_Karst

Purchase Links – Amazon – B&N

TOUR PARTICIPANTS

March 24 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

March 25 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR GUEST POST

March 26 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT