Cooking to Death: Stirring the Pot (The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series)
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Michigan
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently Published (June 14, 2024)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 302 pages

Synopsis

A Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series:

Twenty-four-year old Vivien Belcher–Ms. B, for obvious reasons–teaches a full class of kindergarten students in Southwest Michigan in a Lake Michigan beach town. Trying to maintain control of her overly enthusiastic students while managing life as a fully-fledged adult, Vivien’s life is balancing as perfectly as a gymnast sticking her landing until the scale tips when she receives an unlikely and unwelcome text message from her ex-boyfriend…her dead ex-boyfriend.

Trapped in the Transitional World and having to atone for his many sins in life, Kasper must “make good” by helping to solve the murder of his beloved high school lunch lady. The problem? It’s hard to solve a murder as a ghost. But Kasper doesn’t count on Vivien’s reluctance to help him, not to mention her doubt. And he really doesn’t count on his reaction to Vivien moving on with relationships in her life that don’t include him.

What ensues is hilarity and frustration as Kasper’s time is running out to convince Vivien to help him. Being a ghost is hard. But so is being a new teacher.

Marcy Blesy is the author of The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series which has sold thousands of books in the hilarious whodunit series.

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Hello! My name is Marcy Blesy, and I am the author of the Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series.  Books 1-6 are out now with Book 7 coming by the end of October.  In my newest cozy mystery venture, I’ve written the first two books in The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series. Book 1 is called Cooking to Death (Stirring the Pot) and is out now. Book 2 comes out on August 1^st: Dribbling to Death (Taking His Shot).

The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series was inspired by a TikTok video I watched earlier this year. The creator was talking about receiving a text message from his dad, but his dad had died three years prior. He went on to explain that, unbeknownst to him, his mom had kept his dad’s cellphone and used that phone to call her son that day. It really shook him, and he wished it could be real. While my story has the main character receiving a text message from her jerk of an ex-boyfriend and not someone she still cared for, the fact that he was dead and should not be able to text her is where this idea came from for The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series. The ghost of the ex-boyfriend made some poor choices while alive and must atone for some of his sins from beyond by “making good” before he can pass out of Transitional World. He needs help, though, which leads him to contact his ex-girlfriend, current and frazzled kindergarten teacher, Vivien, for help. She is shocked…and less than thrilled.

Here’s the full blurb:

Kindergarten teacher Vivien Belcher—Ms. B, for obvious reasons—teaches a full class of kindergarten students in Southwest Michigan in a Lake Michigan beach town. Trying to maintain control of her overly enthusiastic students while managing life as a fully-fledged adult, Vivien’s life is balancing as perfectly as a gymnast sticking her landing until the scale tips when she receives an unlikely and unwelcome text message from her ex-boyfriend…her dead ex-boyfriend.

Trapped in the Transitional World and having to atone for his many sins in life, Kasper must “make good” from beyond. The problem? It’s hard to solve problems as a ghost by himself. But Kasper doesn’t count on Vivien’s reluctance to help him, not to mention her doubt. And he really doesn’t count on his reaction to Vivien moving on with relationships in her life that don’t include him.

After solving murder number one, Vivien was positive that Kasper would be released to life beyond and leave her to live her life without the interference of her ex-boyfriend. But she was wrong. His shenanigans continue from beyond as he elicits her help—one more time—to solve the murder of a local college basketball player. Things aren’t as they seem, though, and Vivien finds herself in predicament after predicament. But she’s willing to put up with the challenges of being a kindergarten teacher sleuth if helping Kasper move on gets him out of her life for good.

As a fan of Murder, She Wrote and cozy mysteries, I began writing my own cozies last year and have fallen in love with the genre and the readers who love it, too. Cozy mystery readers are the kindest, most supportive readers! The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series features a 39-year-old woman who flees the problems in her life by running off to visit her parents in their snowbird retirement community in Arizona. Little did she know she’d find even more drama when she discovers a dead body, adopts a puppy, and learns to date again after twenty years!

I love writing cozy mysteries. I love starting with an idea, deciding how I want the story to end, and jotting down lots and lots and lots of notes along the way. My favorite is creating a visual whodunit organizer where I put the victim’s name in a circle with lines drawn out representing each of the suspects. I then add motives for each of them to keep the reader guessing. Sometimes, I even change the murderer along the way! What power I wield in my fingertips. LOL

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk about my writing and my cozy mystery series!

About the Author

Marcy Blesy is the author of over thirty books, including the popular cozy mystery series: The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series. Her adult romance mystery series includes The Secret of Blue Lake and The Secret of Silver Beach, set in Michigan. Her children’s books include the best selling Be the Vet series along with the following early chapter book series: Evie and the Volunteers, Niles and Bradford, Third Grade Outsider, and Hazel, the Clinic Cat.

Marcy enjoys searching for treasures along the shores of Lake Michigan. She’s still waiting for the day when she finds a piece of red beach glass. By day, she teaches creative writing virtually to amazing students around the world.

Marcy is a believer in love and enjoys nothing more than making her readers feel a book more than simply reading it.

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