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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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Book 1 – Game of Scones is FREE now and through this tour.

TOUR PARTICIPANTS

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

Purchase Links:

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    • IndieBound/Bookshop.org

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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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A Pawsome Summer For Murder by S. A. Kazlo – Book Tour and Giveaway

12 Monday May 2025

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A Pawsome Summer For Murder (Samantha Davies Mystery)
by S. A. Kazlo

About A Pawsome Summer For Murder


A Pawsome Summer For Murder (Samantha Davies Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
7th in Series
Setting – New York
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Adk Foothills Publishing (May 1, 2025)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8230299592
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DXC8QFZH
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It’s summer in Wings Falls, New York and Samantha Davies is geared up for the annual trout tournament sponsored by Al Gorman, owner of the Sport’s Shop. Sam, along with her Southern Belle cousin, Candie Parker-Hogan, are determined to beat the pants off their significant others, Sam’s new fiancé, Hank Johnson, a detective on Wings Falls police force and Mark Hogan, Candie’s husband. The ladies feel they have a secret weapon-they learned from the best fisherman in Hainted Hollar Tennessee, Grandpop Parker. Sam once won a trophy for the largest fish in the Fins and Tails Fishing Derby.

To Sam’s surprise instead of reeling in the day’s biggest catch, she “hooked” into the body of the town’s most vocal activist, Luna Wheeler.

Raylene Carrigan, owner of a traveling doggie daycare Sam uses for her lovable dachshund, Porkchop, becomes a prime suspect, when it becomes known Luna tried to shut down the town’s doggie park she depends on for the pets in her care. Since Sam has successfully helped solve murders in the past, Raylene begs her for help to prove her innocent.

Sam reluctantly agrees but knows her fiancé won’t be happy with her involvement in yet another murder case.

Determined to help Porkchop’s buddy, Sam starts digging for clues only to discover that Luna, with her over-zealous demands to many of the town’s businesses to recycle, upset more than a few of her friends. Can Sam land Luna’s murderer before she gets ‘hooked’ by the killer?

About S. A. Kazlo

Syrl, a retired teacher, lives in upstate New York with her husband and two lively dachshunds. She writes the Samantha Davies Mystery series, featuring Samantha Davies and her loveable dachshund, Porkchop. When not writing, she is busy hooking, rug hooking that is, and enjoying her family. Her newest book, number seven in the series, A Pawsome Summer For Murder, was released May 1, 2025

Author Links

Website – https://www.sakazlo.com/

Blog – https://www.sakazlo.com/blog

Twitter-@sakazlo

Instagram- sakazlo

Facebook- sakazlo

LinkedIn- sakazlo

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

TOUR PARTICIPANTS

May 7 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

May 7 – Deal Sharing Aunt – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

May 8 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

May 8 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER GUEST POST

May 9 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW

May 9 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

May 10 – Frugal Freelancer – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

May 10 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – REVIEW

May 10 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT

May 11 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST

May 12 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

May 12 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

May 13 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST

May 14 – Sneaky the Library Cat’s Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

May 14 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

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