Category: excerpt

Excerpt – Death by Jelly Beans by Susie Black

  Synopsis  “Brings a whole new meaning to the rabbit died.” Mermaid Swimwear President Holly Schlivnik discovers the Bainbridge Department Store Easter Bunny slumped over dead and obnoxious swimwear buyer Sue Ellen Magee is arrested for the crime. Despite her differences with the nasty buyer, Holly is convinced the Queen of Mean didn’t do it. […]

Guest Review & Giveaway – What They Said About Luisa by Erika Rummel

    Synopsis An enchanting telling of the complex and fascinating life of real-life Luisa Abrego of Seville, who forges a new life after freedom from slavery in colonial Mexico and gets caught in the far-reaching Spanish Inquisition. Luisa Abrego, a slave in Seville, is set free upon her master’s death and marries a white […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Ashes on the Wind by Brandy Purdy

    Ashes on the Wind: The Love Story Behind The Crime of the Century Genre: Historical Fiction, True-Crime Inspired Setting – Chicago, Illinois 1920 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 15, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 573 pages Synopsis Nathan “Babe” Leopold was a socially awkward genius who used arrogance as a shield. […]

New Release & Excerpt – Negative Girl by Libby Cudmore

  Synopsis For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America’s forgotten spaces. Martin Wade lived hard in his youth, but unlike many of his former bandmates and roadie friends, he didn’t die young. Instead, he hit the recovery path, […]

Excerpt – No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepherd

  Synopsis College sweethearts reunite to restore more than just an old inn in this new romance by Katie Shepard, author of Sweeten the Deal. When’s the best time to tell your ex that you want them back? Probably not in the middle of a Category 3 hurricane. But when Broadway actor Tom Wilczewski is […]

Excerpt & New Release – Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton

  Synopsis Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing. When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine’s Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met […]

Excerpt – Head Fake by Scott Gordon

    Synopsis Mikey makes everything a joke, even the clinical depression he’s struggled with for years. After a run of failed jobs, he becomes the unlikely basketball coach at a high school for high-risk offenders who are experiencing mental illness. The position becomes suddenly available after the team tried to strangle their last coach. […]

Excerpt – Rise and Divine by Lana Harper

  Synopsis To save both her town and the woman who loves her against all odds, a witch haunted by loss must reckon with her turbulent past, in the next magical romance in the Witches of Thistle Grove series by New York Times bestselling author Lana Harper. Even in a family of chaotic necromancers, Daria […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – Peach Tea Smash by Laura Childs

    Peach Tea Smash (A Tea Shop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 28th in Series Setting – South Carolina Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (August 6, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages Murder at an Alice in Wonderland–themed event threatens to send Theodosia Browning through the looking glass in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling […]

Excerpt – Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage

  Synopsis Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up. Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen […]