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Mistletoe, Moussaka & Murder by Tina Kashian – Book Tour and Giveaway

03 Saturday Oct 2020

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Mistletoe, Moussaka & Murder (A Kebab Kitchen Mystery)
by Tina Kashian

About Mistletoe, Moussaka &

Murder


(A Kebab Kitchen Mystery)


Mistletoe, Moussaka & Murder (A Kebab Kitchen Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
Publisher: Kensington (September 29, 2020)
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1496726073
ISBN-13: 978-1496726070
Digital ASIN: B082WR6DMT

Not even her impending nuptials can keep Lucy Berberian, manager of her family-owned Kebab Kitchen, from the Jersey Shore’s annual Polar Bear Plunge. But her dive into the icy ocean is especially chilling when she finds a fellow swimmer doing the dead man’s float—for real . . .

Who would kill a man in cold blood during Ocean Crest, New Jersey’s most popular winter event? When Lucy learns the victim is Deacon Spooner, the reception hall owner who turned up his nose—and his price—at her wedding plans, she can’t help wondering who wouldn’t kill the pompous caterer . . .

Perhaps the culprit is the wedding cake baker whose career Deacon nearly destroyed? Or the angry bride whose reception he ruined? With her maid of honor, Katie, busily planning Lucy’s wedding without her, Lucy will have to get to the bottom of this cold-hearted business in time for Kebab Kitchen’s mouthwatering Christmas celebration—and before her hometown’s holiday spirit washes out to sea . . .

Recipes included!

About Tina Kashian

Tina Kashian is an attorney and mechanical engineer whose love of reading for pleasure helped her get through years of academia. She is the author of the popular Kebab Kitchen Mediterranean cozy mystery series for Kensington Publishing. Tina spent her childhood summers at the Jersey shore building sandcastles, boogie boarding, and riding the boardwalk Ferris wheel. She also grew up in the restaurant business, as her Armenian parents owned a restaurant for thirty years. Tina still lives in New Jersey with her supportive husband and two daughters. Please visit her website at http://www.tinakashian.com to join her newsletter, receive delicious recipes, enter contests, and more!

Author Links

  • Website: www.tinakashian.com
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TinaKashianAuthor/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/TinaKashian1
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tinakashian/
  • Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/tina-kashian
  • Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16902011.Tina_Kashian

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  • Google Books
  • iBooks
  • Kobo

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

October 1 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT

October 1 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW

October 1 – The Cozy Pages – REVIEW

October 2 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW, RECIPE

October 2 – Heart & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT

October 2 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – SPOTLIGHT

October 3 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

October 3 – fundinmental – RECIPE POST

October 3 – MJB Reviewers – REVIEW

October 4 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW

October 4 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT

October 4 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews – REVIEW

October 5 – Christa Reads and Writes – REVIEW

October 5 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

October 5 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW

October 5 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

October 6 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

October 6 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW

October 6 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

October 7 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

October 7 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – RECIPE POST

October 7 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW

October 8 – Brianne’s Book Reviews – REVIEW

October 8 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

October 8 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW

October 9 – View from the Birdhouse – SPOTLIGHT

October 9 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW

October 9 – Author Elena Taylor’s Blog – SPOTLIGHT

October 10 – StoreyBook Reviews – REVIEW

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What’s Not Said by Valerie Taylor – Book Tour and Giveaway

29 Tuesday Sep 2020

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Adult Fiction, Chick-Lit, Giveaway, Women's Fiction

 

 

Join us for this tour from Sept 28 to Oct 16, 2020!

Book Details:

Book Title: What’s Not Said by Valerie Taylor
Category: Adult Fiction (18 yrs +), 316 pages
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Chick Lit
Publisher: She Writes Press
Release date: Sept 15, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13 + M. WHAT’S NOT SAID is rated PG-13+M because of four F-words, moderate cussing, two explicit sex scenes, and a couple of implicit sex scenes.

Book Description:

In WHAT’S NOT SAID, we meet Kassie O’Callaghan, a middle-aged woman who’s on a mission to divorce her emotionally abusive husband and start a new life with a younger man she met while on a solo vacation in Venice. When she learns her husband has chronic kidney disease, her plans collapse until she pokes around his pajama drawer and discovers his illness is the least of his deceits. Then again, Kassie is no angel. As she struggles to justify her own indiscretions, the separate lives they lead collide head-on into a tangled web of sex, lies, and DNA. Still, mindful of her vows, Kassie commits to helping her husband find an organ donor. In the process, she uncovers a life-changing secret. The problem is, if she reveals it, her own immorality will be exposed, forcing her to decide whose life to save—her husband’s or her own.

WHAT’S NOT SAID (She Writes Press) is Valerie Taylor’s debut novel. Its sequel, WHAT’S NOT TRUE (She Writes Press), will be published in the fall of 2021. While WHAT’S NOT SAID is the first installment of a series, it is written and can be read as a stand-alone novel.

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Meet the Author:

Valerie Taylor was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. She earned a B.S. Marketing degree and an MBA from Sacred Heart University, as well as a graduate certificate in health care administration from Simmons University (formerly Simmons College). She had a thirty-year career in the financial services industry as a marketer and writer. After her divorce, she spread her wings and relocated her career to Boston and then to Seattle. When she retired, she resettled in her home state to be near her two grown children and granddaughter. She’s a published book reviewer with BookTrib.com; and a member of Westport Writers’ Workshop, Independent Book Publishers Association, and Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She enjoys practicing tai chi and being an expert sports spectator. WHAT’S NOT SAID (She Writes Press) is her debut novel. Its sequel, WHAT’S NOT TRUE (She Writes Press), will be published in the fall of 2021.

Connect with the author:

website ~ twitter ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ goodreads

Tour Schedule:

Sep 28 – Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review
Sep 29 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 30 – Pick a Good Book – book review / giveaway
Oct 1 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
Oct 1– Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 2 – A Mama’s Corner of the World – book review / spotlight
Oct 5 – All Booked Up Reviews – book review
Oct 6 – Thoughts on This ‘n That – book review / author interview / giveaway
Oct 6 – Stephanie Jane – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 7 – Alexis Marie Chute Blog – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Oct 7 – On My Book Shelf – book review / giveaway
Oct 7 – I’m Into Books – book spotlight
Oct 8 – Rajiv’s Reviews – book review
Oct 8 – Books for Books – book spotlight
Oct 9 – Sefina Hawke’s Books – book spotlight
Oct 9 – Cheryl’s Book Nook – book review / guest post / giveaway
Oct 12 – Momfluenster – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 13 – eBook Addicts – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 13 – Falling Into A Good Book – book review
Oct 14 – Book Lover In Florida – book review / giveaway
Oct 14 – 411 ON BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND PUBLISHING NEWS – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 14 – Celticlady’s Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 14 – Novels N Latte Review – book review / giveaway
Oct 14 – Books and Zebras @jypsylynn  – book review
Oct 15 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 15 – Amy’s Booket List – book review / giveaway
Oct 16 – melanatedreader – book spotlight
Oct 16 – Adventurous Jessy – book review / giveaway
Oct 16 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway

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Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron – Book Tour and Giveaway

15 Tuesday Sep 2020

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Murder in the Bayou Boneyard: A Cajun Country Mystery
by Ellen Byron

About Murder in the Bayou Boneyard


Murder in the Bayou Boneyard: A Cajun Country Mystery
Cozy Mystery
6th in Series
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books (September 8, 2020)
Hardcover: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1643854607
ISBN-13: 978-1643854601
Digital ASIN: B082H3BT6F

Maggie Crozat has the Halloween heebie-jeebies in USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron’s howlingly funny sixth Cajun Country mystery.

Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October–and Halloween–approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana.

Five local plantation B&Bs host “Pelican’s Spooky Past” packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. But all the witchcraft has inevitably conjured something: her B&B guests are being terrified out of town by sightings of the legendary rougarou, a cross between a werewolf and vampire.

When, in the Dupois cemetery, someone costumed as a rougarou stumbles onstage during the play–and promptly gives up the ghost, the rougarou mask having been poisoned with strychnine, Maggie is on the case. But as more murders stack up, Maggie fears that Pelican’s spooky past has nothing on its bloodcurdling present.

About Ellen Byron

Maria DiRico

Ellen’s Cajun Country Mysteries have won the Agatha award for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty awards for Best Humorous Mystery. Her Catering Hall Mystery series, written as Maria DiRico, launched with Here Comes the Body and was inspired by her real life. She’s an award-winning playwright and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like WINGS, JUST SHOOT ME, and FAIRLY ODD PARENTS, but she considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart. A native New Yorker who attended New Orleans’ Tulane University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and rescue furbaby. Sign up for her newsletter at https://www.ellenbyron.com/

Author Links

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/ellenbyronauthor/

https://www.facebook.com/CateringHallMysteries/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/ellenbyronmariadirico/

BookBub:

https://www.bookbub.com/profile/ellen-byron

https://www.bookbub.com/authors/maria-dirico

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23234.Ellen_Byron?from_search=true&from_srp=true

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19130966.Maria_DiRico?from_search=true&from_srp=true

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Ellen-Byron/e/B00J7NW9IM?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1591801316&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Maria-DiRico/e/B07SF86ZM2?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1591801389&sr=1-1

Purchase Links – Penguin Random House – Amazon – B&N – Kobo – IndieBound

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

September 14 – This Is My Truth Now – REVIEW

September 14 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT

September 15 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – GUEST POST

September 15 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

September 15 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

September 16 – Island Confidential – REVIEW

September 16 – Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

September 17 – Author Elena Taylor’s Blog – REVIEW

September 17 – eBook Addicts – SPOTLIGHT

September 18 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW

September 18 – Angel’s Guilty Pleasures – SPOTLIGHT

September 19 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW

September 19 – StoreyBook Reviews – REVIEW

September 20 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW

September 20 – I Read What You Write – SPOTLIGHT

September 21 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

September 21 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW, RECIPE

September 22 – Mysteries with Character – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

September 22 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST

September 23 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW

September 23 – Literary Gold – CHARACTER GUEST POST

September 24 – Sneaky the Library Cat’s Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

September 24 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

September 25 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

September 26 – fundinmental – SPOTLIGHT

September 26 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT

September 26 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW

September 27 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW

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