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Summer Snoops and Cozy Crimes
12 Mysteries for the Dog Days of Summer
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Have a howlingly good read during the dog days of summer with a dozen cozy mysteries from Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon best-selling authors. Murder lurks in every corner during the dog days of summer. Solve the mystery as our snoops leash the criminals – at the beach, at the farm, on the mountain – everywhere! All profits from this pack go to support NO KILL animal charities! Fetch it now! And help us help pets!
'Summer Snoops and Cozy Crimes’ includes never before published books from:
** WSJ Bestselling Author Judith Lucci - Gawd Almighty & the Corn
** WSJ Bestselling Author Cindy Bell - Murder at Pawprint Creek
** WSJ Bestselling Author Colleen Mooney - Dog Gone and Dead
** USA Today and WSJ Bestselling Author Amy Vansant - Summer Teeth
** WSJ Bestselling Author Colleen Helme - A Midsummer Night's Murder
** WSJ Bestselling Author Kim Hunt Harris - The Murder of Bandera Bandito
** USA Today Bestselling Author Anna Celeste Burke - A Body on Fitzgerald's Bluff
** Ava Mallory - A Dream Stray-Cation
** Sandi Scott - Croquembouche Murder
** Susan Boles - Death on the Beach
** USA Today Bestselling Author Sam Cheever - Toxic Tech
** Anne R. Tan - Just Lost and Found
Bonus recipes from the authors are included!
Gawd Almighty & the Corn
Author: Judith Lucci
It was hot. The Dog Days of Summer always are. The Artzy Chicks have been painting, teaching classes, making jewelry and blending the Art Gallery’s famous Wine Slushees. Things go well until Lily notices that Gawd Almighty, the Gallery’s pet possum has disappeared. A short time later, Dr. Kenzie Zimbro, the area medical examiner stops by the Gallery and tells the Chicks about the strange murder on the tip top of the Mountain. A Virginia Tech Biology Professor has been murdered and his dead body is surrounded by kernals of corn. Lily and LauraLea put on their detective caps to search for Gawd Almighty and find themselves in a life-threatening position.
Author: Judith Lucci
Author Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Website: Judith Lucci
Author's Blog: Judith Lucci
Twitter: @JudithLucci
E-Mail: JudithLucciWrites@gmail.com
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Judith Lucci is a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Best Selling author who writes what she knows.... Hospitals, Medicine, Crime and Art. She adds suspense along with well-constructed plots, vivid descriptions and memorable characters. Very few readers can put down her medical and crime thriller novels once they start reading them.
Ms.Lucci is a Gold Medal Winner for Best Sleuth 2017 for Dr. Dude, the first book in the Michaela McPherson Series and Best Political Thriller 2017 for Viral, the third book in the Alexandra Destephano Novels. She has contributed to five anthologies which are currently available on Amazon. She has recently claimed the prestigious status of a Wall Street Journal Best Selling author. Her Cozy Mystery series, Artzy Chicks, debuts this summer and takes place at Massanutten Resort where she and five ditzy authors solve mysteries that occur at the resort.
Dr. Lucci is the author of the Alexandra Destephano Series, true-to-life medical thrillers set in New Orleans and the Michaela McPherson crime series set in Richmond, Virginia. Lucci's thrillers are a fast-paced, riveting reads that offer readers believable drama, memorable characters and true suspense.
Judith was born and educated in Virginia where she holds graduate and doctoral degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia. She is also the author of numerous academic and health-related articles and documents.
Murder at Pawprint Creek
Author: Cindy Bell
When Nikki is asked to dog sit a pair of adorable pugs in a quaint farm town, she thinks she’s found her perfect vacation. But the grass isn’t greener in Pawprint Creek—the crops are as dead as the greedy man who stole away the town’s largest water source and paid with his life. Along with her new canine companions, Sunny and Stormy, Nikki digs for clues. She better find the killer fast before she becomes the next victim
Author: Cindy Bell
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Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Cindy Bell, has always loved reading, but it is only recently that she has discovered her passion for writing romantic cozy mysteries. When she is not reading or writing she loves baking (and eating) sweet treats, or walking along the beach with her energetic cocker spaniel, thinking of the next adventure her characters can embark on.
Cindy is the author of the Chocolate Centered, Donut Truck, Dune House, Sage Gardens, Nuts about Nuts, Bekki the Beautician, Wendy the Wedding Planner, Heavenly Highland Inn and the Macaron Patisserie Cozy Mystery Series.
Dog Gone and Dead
Author: Colleen Mooney
A weekend getaway at the beach is just what they needed until Brandy discovers a dead body under a pier with a leash wrapped around the dead woman’s wrist and no dog. When Brandy finds the missing dog, she finds something sewn in the collar. Will Brandy’s determination to find the truth make her the next target in a world with hit men, payoffs and murder?
Author: Colleen Mooney
Author Genre: Crime, Mystery, Humor and Comedy
Website: Colleen Mooney
Author's Blog: Colleen Mooney
Twitter: @mooney_colleen
E-Mail: colleen@colleenmooney.com
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I am born and raised in New Orleans. I started going to parades and watched them from sitting on my Dad's shoulders before I could walk. I've been in Girl Scout parades, high school parades, St. Patrick's parades, Mardi Gras parades, on dance teams in parades and just about any loosely organized group who deemed it necessary to parade. I just can't help myself. I love parades.
I attended Loyola of the South here in New Orleans so I wouldn't be far from a parade.
I spent 20+ years working for and retired from AT&T. I have worked and lived in New York City, Madison, New Jersey, Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama returning home for the big parade every year--Mardi Gras.
Before Katrina, I moved away and back three times, four if you count rebuilding the same house at the same address after Katrina flooded my home. I did miss a couple of parades that year.
I'm an avid sailor and Scuba diver for many years, and made lasting friendships from sailing and dive trips. I love travel and if the opportunity presents itself, I'm there. Except for a brief stint where I had to own and learn how to ride a motorcycle, I've been a water baby. When I am not enjoying fun with friends in all New Orleans has to offer- sailing and racing with friends on Lake Pontchartrain, Mardi Gras, parties and festivals- I head to Florida.
I am an ardent animal lover and direct volunteer breed rescue work as Schnauzer Rescue of Louisiana. I love to write and I write about what I know and love! You can take the girl out of New Orleans, but you can't take the New Orleans out of the girl!
Dead & Breakfast, the second book in my series THE NEW ORLEANS GO CUP CHRONICLES placed in two categories in the 2014 SOLA Chapter of RWA's Dixie Kane contest for Short/Long Series for Contemporary fiction and for Single Title Contemporary fiction. My first book is RESCUED BY A KISS.
Summer Teeth
Author: Amy Vansant
When new private investigator Charlotte Morgan finds human teeth scattered at the park - some'r here and some'r there - it isn't long until she finds a body and a mystery. Who's hiding murder victims beneath the park's memorial monuments?
Author: Amy Vansant
Author Genre: Humor and Comedy, Fantasy, Chick Lit
Website: Amy Vansant
Twitter: @AmyVansant
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Amy specializes in fun, comedic reads about accident prone, easily distracted women with questionable taste in men. So, autobiographies, mostly.
Amy is the former East Coast Editor of SURFER Magazine but the urge to drive up and down the coast interviewing surfers has long since left her. Currently, she is a nerd and Labradoodle mommy who works at home with her goofy husband.
She loves interacting with fans when the dog isn't laying on top of her, so stop by her blog or Twitter and say hi!
A Midsummer Night's Murder
Author: Colleen Helme
For a mind-reader like Shelby Nichols, finding a murderer should be a piece of cake. But add an overzealous prosecuting attorney with a grudge against her, and the wrong person could end up in jail. Can Shelby find the real killer before he strikes again?
Author: Colleen Helme
Author Genre: Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense
Website: Colleen Helme
Twitter: @ColleenHelme
E-Mail: colleen@colleenhelme.com
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Colleen Helme is the author of the bestselling Shelby Nichols Adventure Series, a wildly entertaining and highly humorous series about Shelby Nichols, a woman with the ability to read minds. When asked if reading minds is something Colleen wishes she could do she says, "No way! It gets Shelby into so much trouble that I would never want that ability." Known for her laugh since she was a kid, Colleen has always tried to find the humor in every situation and continues to enjoy writing about Shelby's adventures. Besides writing, she loves reading, biking, hiking, and playing board and card games with family and friends. She loves to connect with readers and admits that fans of the series keep her writing.
The Murder of Bandera Bandito
Author: Kim Hunt Harris
Murder of the Bandera Bandito is a prequel novella to a new cozy mystery series called The Inn-Sitters Cozy Mysteries.
The Hacienda Justicia is owned by a brother and sister team who are descendants of the legendary Bandera Bandito. (Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of this legendary figure—I made him up for this story) and there are tales of an enormous gold treasure that the Bandito hid away somewhere in the hills and small caves on the property. The owners have kept the hacienda alive by taking treasure-seeking tourists on hunts to find the gold the Bandito stole from a rich greedy railroad magnate over a hundred years before. Now they’re old and tired, ready to sell the inn and retire. They are right on the cusp of this new phase of their lives when, unfortunately, Mariachi Mike, who leads the treasure hunts, is found face down with a knife in his back.
Author: Kim Hunt Harris
Author Genre: Mystery
Website: The Trailer Park Princess
Twitter: @kimhuntharris
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Kim Hunt Harris is Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Trailer Park Princess cozy mystery comedy series.
Kim knew she wanted to be a writer before she even knew how to write. When her parents read bedtime stories to her, she knew she wanted to be a part of the story world. She started out writing children’s stories, and her stories grew as she did. She discovered a gift for humor and a love for making people laugh with her tales, and the Trailer Park Princess series was born.
Kim loves to not only make her readers laugh and entertain them with a good mystery, but also to examine the issues the everyday people face…well, every day. Issues like faith and forgiveness, perseverance and tolerance. Set in Lubbock, Texas, the fun books feature a cast of quirky characters, outrageous situations, a drama queen of a dog, and from time to time, a tear or two.
Kim lives with her husband of more than thirty years and two teenage kids in Texas.
A Body on Fitzgerald's Bluff
Author: Anna Celeste Burke
When Miriam Webster moves into the Hemingway Cottage in the Seaview Cottages active adult community, she brings a few secrets with her.
Can she keep them after she and her spirited Dalmatian, Domino, discover the body of a beautiful young woman on Fitzgerald’s Bluff?
The mystery takes a quick detour when Miriam and her friends return to Fitzgerald’s Bluff with Deputy Sheriff Darnell Devers in tow. The dead woman’s gone, but not for long. Where the body turns up is only one of the surprising twists the mystery takes for Miriam and her new friends.
Convinced that the local Deputy Sheriff isn’t up to the task of finding a killer on the loose, Miriam and her gang of Grand Old Lady Detectives [G.O.L.D.] set out to discover the truth about A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff. Can they solve the case without becoming the killer’s next victim?
Author: Anna Celeste Burke
Author Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Humor And Comedy
Website: Desert Cities Mystery
Author's Blog: Desert Cities Mystery
Twitter: @aburke59
E-Mail: aburkesocal@gmail.com
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Anna Celeste Burke is an award-winning, USA Today Bestselling Author!
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Life is an extravaganza! figuring out how to hang tough and make the most of the wild ride is the challenge.
On my way to Oahu to join the rock musician and high school drop-out I had met in San Diego and married in Tijuana, I was nabbed by the police as a runaway. When the police let me go and the rock band broke up, my husband and I had to find another way to survive. Our next stop: Disney World where we trained to be chefs, courtesy of the Walt Disney World University. A GED for my husband and many more years of education landed us in academia at The Ohio State University. Retired now from my role as a professor in social work and behavioral science, I have picked up a long-time interest in writing fiction. I'm still married to the same sweet guy and live with him in the Palm Springs area. In addition to reading and writing fiction, I enjoy painting, hiking, hanging out with my handsome husband and tending to my Siamese kitties.
An award-winning and bestselling author I enjoy snooping into life's mysteries with fun, fiction, & food—California style! My books include the Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery series set in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, the Corsario Cove Cozy Mystery series set on California’s Central Coast, and The Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery series set in Orange County, California--the OC. Coming soon: The Misadventures of Betsy Stark also set here in the Coachella Valley.
A Dream Stray-Cation
Author: Ava Mallory
Michelle Ainsley needs to get away. When she's gifted with a vacation getaway to an island resort, she's thrilled at the prospect of white sandy beaches and mimosas, but shortly after her arrival, she finds herself steps away from a dead body and the new temporary guardian of one precocious rescue dog with a knack for finding trouble
Author: Ava Mallory
Author Genre: Suspense
Website: Ava Mallory
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AVA MALLORY has been a grade school teacher, a psychiatric technician, a dementia unit nurse manager, and a hospice nurse. She has embarrassed herself in front of handsome celebrities, won vocal contests much to the chagrin of her children, survived a major earthquake, and nearly drowned when she mistakenly thought a YMCA lifeguard asked her to dive into the deep end on her first day of swim lessons. She and her eternally annoyed children share their home with a massive collection of books and a never-ending supply of new book ideas.
AVA is best known for what she calls her Mysteries with Heart. She loves a great madcap adventure with lovable, yet ornery and sometimes precocious characters, who play hard, laugh often, never mind their own business, bicker, squabble, and tease relentlessly, but never forget that deep down they fiercely love each other, even if they can't bring themselves to admit it.
Croquembouche Murder
Author: Sandi Scott
An invitation for Ashley and Patty to cater a wedding on a billionaire's exclusive animal rescue ranch out west seems too good to be true. Then there's a murder during the wedding and Ashley, Patty, and a barn full of animals have to find the murderer so they can get back home.
Author: Sandi Scott
Author Genre: Mystery
Website: Sandi Scott Cozy Mysteries
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I am a cozy mystery reader and writer who is finally living my dream of being able to write what I love. I fell in love with mystery books when I first started reading Agatha Christie eons ago.
Death on the Beach
Author: Susan Boles
Destin, daiquiris and a dead body….It’s all sun and sand till a body buried on the beach turns a girls weekend into a homicide investigation after Lily Gayle is arrested and questioned in the murder.
Author: Susan Boles
Author Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Website: Susan Boles
Twitter: @SusanBAuthor
E-Mail: susan at susanbolesauthor.com
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Susan is the award-winning author of the Lily Gayle Lambert Mystery Series and a contributing author to the Brotherhood Protectors Kindleworld.
A lifelong long love of all things mysterious led Susan to write cozy mysteries. Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden were the first to show her that girls can be crime solvers. Agatha Christie showed her that even small towns have big secrets. And Phryne Fisher showed her lady detectives can be outrageously individual. She lives in Mississippi with her rescue mini dachshund, Lucy, and her rescue cat of no particular breed, Zimba. She currently writes the Lily Gayle Lambert mystery series set in the fictional town of Mercy, Mississippi featuring a multi-generational cast of female sleuths and romantic suspense in the Brotherhood Protectors Kindle World.
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Susan writes mysteries and set in the big city of Memphis, TN and the fictional small town of Mercy, Mississippi.
Toxic Tech
Author: Sam Cheever
For Blaise Runa, a job working the front desk at the local veterinary clinic is a fun but temporary diversion…a chance to spend every day with Miss Ivy, her adorable fur baby, while she continues to search for a career. Unfortunately, the fun is soon sucked right out of the job when Blaise discovers one of the veterinary technicians dead, stuffed into a kennel.
Author: Sam Cheever
Author Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Mystery & Thrillers
Website: Sam Cheever
Author's Blog: Sam Cheever
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Twitter: @samcheever
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Nobody really cares that Sam Cheever is a USA Today Bestselling Author. Nobody cares that she’s written a whole ton of fun and snappy books. Let’s face it, the most interesting thing about Sam is the fact that she’s a dogaholic. Yeah, there’s no Dogaholic’s Anonymous chapter that can help her. Believe me, she’s looked. So Sam deals with her problem the best way she knows how. She digs into the mountains of personal experiences (mostly involving dog poo) to write GREAT dog characters.
Oh, and there are some people in her books too. She’s also pretty good at those.
Want to ask Sam about her dogs…erm…books? You can connect with her at one of the following places. Just don’t ask her why she has 16 dogs. Nobody in the whole wide world can answer that.
Just Lost and Found
Author: Anne R. Tan
Meet Raspberry. He is one fierce kitty. And Lucy Fong gets to pet sit him for a weekend. Will she win him over or forever be known as a feline fatale?
Author: Anne R. Tan
Author Genre: Mystery, Ebooks, Humor and Comedy
Website: Anne R. Tan
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Twitter: @annertan
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Anne R. Tan is the author of the Raina Sun Mystery series and the Lucy Fong Amateur PI Mystery series. Her humorous cozy mysteries feature Chinese-American amateur sleuths dealing with love, family, and life while solving murders.
A note from Anne:
My books are my legacy to my children. Unfortunately, they won't grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area as I did. Without a cultural hub to keep the language and philosophies alive, our family will lose this part of our heritage in one generation. My children will be visitors to this rich culture just like my readers. I hope you'll enjoy your time with Raina Sun and her large dynamic family.
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This is an awesome collection. Thank you for highlighting all of the authors in a single space where us readers can get to know them
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, James for putting our new release in the spotlight. We hope to raise a bunch of money to help no-kill shelters find forever homes for abandoned pets. xx
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