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A Secret Never Told by Shelley Noble – Book Tour and Giveaway

22 Monday Nov 2021

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A Secret Never Told (A Lady Dunbridge Mystery)
by Shelley Noble

About A Secret Never Told


A Secret Never Told (A Lady Dunbridge Mystery) (Affiliate link)
Historical Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Forge Books; 1st edition (November 23, 2021)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250750458
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250750457
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08PSNGTZF

Miss Fisher meets Downton Abbey in A Secret Never Told, the fourth installment in the critically acclaimed mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble.

Philomena Amesbury, expatriate Countess of Dunbridge, is bored. Coney Island in the sweltering summer of 1908 offers no shortage of diversions for a young woman of means, but sea bathing, horse racing, and even amusement parks can’t hold a candle to uncovering dastardly plots and chasing villains. Lady Dunbridge hadn’t had a big challenge in months.

Fate obliges when Phil is called upon to host a dinner party in honor of a visiting Austrian psychologist whose revolutionary theories may be of interest to the War Department, not to mention various foreign powers, and who may have already survived one attempt on his life. The guest list includes a wealthy industrialist, various rival scientists and academics, a party hypnotist, a flamboyant party-crasher, and a damaged beauty whose cloudy psyche is lost in a world of its own. Before the night is out, one of the guests is dead with a bullet between the eyes and Phil finds herself with another mystery on her hands, even if it’s unclear who exactly the intended victim was meant to be.

Worse yet, the police’s prime suspect is a mystery man who Phil happens to be rather intimately acquainted with. Now it’s up to Lady Dunbridge, with the invaluable assistance of her intrepid butler and lady’s maid, to find the real culprit before the police nab the wrong one . . .

About Shelley Noble

Shelley Noble is the author of the Lady Dunbridge Gilded Age mysteries beginning with ASK ME NO QUESTIONS, and The Newport Gilded Age mysteries. As Shelley Freydont she has written several amateur sleuth series.

She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nine novels of women’s fiction. WHISPER BEACH and BEACH COLORS, were Amazon and Nook bestsellers. The latest, LUCKY’S BEACH, was published in June 2020.

A former professional dancer and choreographer, Shelley lives at the Jersey shore where she indulges her passion for lighthouses and vintage carousels.

Author Links

Website – https://www.shelleynoble.com

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ShelleyNobleAuthor/

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/shelleynobleauthor/

GoodReads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5560617.Shelley_Noble

Purchase Links – Amazon (Affiliate link) – B&N – Kobo – Google Play – Indie Bound –

TOUR PARTICIPANTS

November 18 – Novels Alive – GUEST POST

November 18 – Reading Reality – REVIEW

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

November 19 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT

November 20 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT

November 20 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

November 21 – StoreyBook Reviews – GUEST POST

November 21 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW

November 22 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

November 22 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

November 23 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW

November 23 – Author Elena Taylor’s Blog – REVIEW

November 24 – BookishKelly2020 – SPOTLIGHT

November 24 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

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Deadly Cypher: A World War II Mystery by Kate Parker – Book Tour and Giveaway

24 Tuesday Aug 2021

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Deadly Cypher: A World War II Mystery (The Deadly Series)
by Kate Parker

About Deadly Cypher


Deadly Cypher: A World War II Mystery (The Deadly Series)
Historical Cozy Mystery
7th in Series
Publisher ‏ : ‎ JDP Press (August 24, 2021)
Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08XSRRQCV

Could a murder at Bletchley Park cost Britain the war?

November, 1939. The British government has assembled a small group of intellectuals at an estate north of London as part of a top-secret codebreaking effort. Everything about it is clandestine. The facility is ringed with a veil of silence until one of the young female linguists is murdered.

Britain’s counterintelligence spymaster tasks Olivia Redmond with finding the killer and the motive. Olivia is sent in alone, without clues or suspects.

Did the murder victim uncover a mole? Could Britain’s program to break German enigma cyphers be compromised?

If Olivia fails, it could mean the destruction of Britain.

Deadly Cypher will be on sale until August 30, 2021 when it will be sold at full price.

Deadly Cypher, book seven of the Deadly Series, is for fans of World War II era spy thrillers and classical cozy mysteries, of intrepid lady sleuths with spunk and smarts. No explicit cursing, sex, or violence.

Preorder your copy today!

About Kate Parker

With her love of travel, Kate Parker sets her novels overseas. Once home from her research trips and armed with hot tea and chocolate, she can be found clicking away on her keyboard, hiking the hills of central North Carolina, and spoiling her 90 pound muse puppy. She’d tell you what she did before she retired, but then she’d have to use certain skills to eliminate you. She pens stories to entertain readers who enjoy action and murder in tales about plucky heroines, quirky characters, and difficult situations in a bygone era. Her stories are sweet, as in no graphic sex, violence, or language. Her heroines remain ladylike while chasing murderers and escaping danger. Well, as ladylike as scratching, punching, and kicking can be.

Author Links

Website – www.KateParkerbooks.com
Deadly Series Website – www.thedeadlyseries.com
Facebook – www.Facebook.com/Author.Kate.Parker/
Deadly Series Facebook – www.facebook.com/thedeadlyseries
BookBub – http://www.bookbub.com/authors/kate-parker
GoodReads – www.goodreads.com/author/show/7123001.Kate_Parker

Purchase Links – Amazon – Apple – Kobo – B&N

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August 20 – Novels Alive – GUEST POST

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August 21 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT

August 21 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

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August 22 – Diane Reviews Books – GUEST POST

August 23 – Literary Gold – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

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August 24 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

August 24 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT

August 25 – Christa Reads and Writes – REVIEW

August 25 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

August 26 – Laura’s Interests – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

August 27 – I Read What You Write – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

August 27 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT

August 28 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW

August 28 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

August 29 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

August 29 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

August 30 – BookishKelly2020 – SPOTLIGHT

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Grace in Hollywood by Kari Bovee – Book Tour and Giveaway

29 Tuesday Jun 2021

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Giveaway, Historical, Mystery

Join us for this tour from June 22 to July 19, 2021!

Book Details:

Book Title:  Grace in Hollywood – A Grace Michelle Mystery by Kari Bovee
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +), 336 pages
Genre:  Historical Mystery
Publisher:  Bosque Publishing
Release date:  May 25, 2021
Content Rating:  PG + M. Book has mature themes; adultery, murder, bigamy, but there is no bad language.

Book Description:

All that glitters… is sometimes blood. With her golden ticket buried in the ground, can she save a wrongly accused teen from the gallows?

Hollywood, 1924. Promoted to lead costume designer of a star-studded film, Grace Michelle should be on top of the world. But between her husband’s debt, her sister’s recent death, and the troubled teenaged girl she’s fostering, she’s struggling to please everyone and still keep a smile on her face. And when a Tinseltown shindig turns deadly, Grace is horrified to discover her young charge unconscious alongside the director’s grisly corpse.

Determined to prove the girl’s innocence, Grace’s own haunted past fills her sleep with prophetic nightmares. And no sooner has she sought clarity from a medium than a second body lands the scared teenager in the slammer.

Can Grace turn the camera on the real culprit before another victim ends up on the cutting room floor?

Grace in Hollywood is the second book in the riveting A Grace Michelle Mystery historical series. If you like fiercely loyal heroines, thrilling whodunits, and the magic of old cinema, then you’ll love Kari Bovee’s enthralling tale.

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Book Details:

Book Title: Grace in the Wings – A Grace Michelle Mystery by Kari Bovee
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 340
Genre: 
Historical Mystery
Publisher:  Bosque Publishing
Release date:   September 19, 2019
Content Rating:  PG + M. Book has mature themes; adultery, murder, bigamy, but there is no bad language. 


Book Description:
 

A ghost from her past. Her sister murdered. Can Grace slay her demons and find the killer before she ends up dead?
New York City, 1920. Grace Michelle has everything she wants: a home, a family, and a future career as a costume designer for famed showman Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.’s Ziegfeld Follies. Pretty good for a girl who once lived on the streets of New York City. But when her sister, Sophia, the star of the show, is murdered, Grace’s safe and protected life is shattered.

Battle-scarred by the war and emotionally scarred by his past, Chet Riker has made it a practice to keep his distance from others; love, after all, leads only to pain. But Chet has a problem—a big one: he’s become indebted to mob-boss Joe Marciano in an attempt to save his estranged mother’s life, and Marciano wants him to pay up or else. Desperate to get the money, he contacts former client Florenz Ziegfeld for work.

Soon, Chet finds himself playing bodyguard for introverted Grace, who has reluctantly agreed to be Ziegfeld’s new leading lady—on the condition that Ziegfeld promises to find Sophia’s killer. Upon meeting Grace, Chet quickly finds his hardened theory that love equals pain tested. Grace, meanwhile, is swept up in a life she never wanted as the Follies’ star, and as the pawn in a series of publicity stunts during a transcontinental train trip to California that puts her life at risk. Who would want her and Sophia dead? Together, she and Chet must confront publicity-hungry Florenz Ziegfeld, power-driven Joe Marciano, and their own pasts to find Sophia’s killer—and let themselves love once again.

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Meet the Author:

When she’s not on a horse, or walking along the beautiful cottonwood-laden acequias of Corrales, New Mexico; or basking on white sand beaches under the Big Island Hawaiian sun, Kari Bovee is escaping into the past—scheming murder and mayhem for her characters both real and imagined, and helping them to find order in the chaos of her action-packed novels.

An award-winning author, Bovée was honored with the 2019 NM/AZ Book Awards Hillerman Award for Southwestern Fiction for her novel Girl with a Gun. The novel also received First Place in the 2019 NM/AZ Book Awards in the Mystery/Crime category, and won First in Category in the International Chanticleer Murder & Mayhem Awards. It was also a finalist in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Awards. Her novel Grace in the Wings won First in Category for the 2019 International Chanticleer Chatelaine Awards. Peccadillo at the Palace won Grand Prize in the 2019 Goethe Awards, and was a finalist in the 2019 Best Book Awards Historical Fiction category.

Bovée has worked as a technical writer for a Fortune 500 Company, has written non-fiction for magazines and newsletters, and has worked in the education field as a teacher and educational consultant.

Connect with the author:  Website ~ Goodreads ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Instagram ~ Pinterest


Tour Schedule:

June 22 – Working Mommy Journal – book review / giveaway
June 22 – Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
June 23 – Books Lattes & Tiaras – book review
June 24 – JB’s Bookworms with Brandy Mulder – book spotlight / giveaway
June 25 – Rockin’ Book Reviews – book review / giveaway
June 28 – Rajiv’s Reviews – book review
June 29 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – book spotlight / giveaway
June 30 – Lisa Everyday Reads – book spotlight / author interview
June 30 – Olio by Marilyn – book review of GRACE IN THE WINGS / giveaway
July 1 – Sadie’s Spotlight – book spotlight / author interview
July 2 – She Just Loves Books – book review
July 2 – PuzzlePaws Blog – book review of GRACE IN THE WINGS / giveaway
July 6 – @twilight_reader – book review
July 7 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
July 7 – I Read What You Write – book review / author interview / giveaway
July 8 – Splashes of Joy – book review / author interview / giveaway
July 9 –Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
July 9 – Olio by Marilyn – book review / giveaway
July 12 –Bigreadersite – book review / giveaway
July 12 – PuzzlePaws Blog – book review / giveaway
July 13 – Wickedly Romance – book review / author interview / giveaway
July 14 – Celticlady’s Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
July 15 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
July 16 – Mystery Suspense Reviews – book review / author interview / giveaway
July 16 – JBronder Book Reviews – book review / giveaway
July 19 – Books for Books – book review
July 19 – Adventurous Jessy – book review / giveaway

Enter the Giveaway:

GRACE IN HOLLYWOOD (Grace Michelle Mystery) Book Tour Giveaway

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