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The Bantam Menace by Kirsten Weiss

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Break in wedding shoes ✓
Walk through venue ✓
Solve murder.

It’s been a long road to the altar for reformed control-freak Susan and devil-may-care Arsen. Susan’s put her organizational skills to good use designing the perfect rustic mountain wedding. But when an early arriving guest is found dead, she doesn’t have a contingency plan for murder.

And the killer seems to have Susan in their sights. The murder seems to point to a mystery in Arsen’s past. Susan will have to tread carefully around their quirky relatives and solve this murder faster than a bridesmaid after the bouquet. Because this cunning killer seems determined to stop the wedding.

At any cost.

If you love quirky heroines, twisty mysteries, and small towns with heart, you’ll love The Bantam Menace, book eight in the Wits’ End cozy mystery novels. Buy The Bantam Menace and start this hilarious caper today!

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

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This is the eighth book in the Wits' End series, and I really wanted to get Arsen and Susan to the altar!

Featured Book: Sassy Senior Sleuths Return by P.C. James

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In Sassy Senior Sleuths Return, Pauline and Nona are once again vacationing and solving mysteries wherever they go.
Where they go this time is Vancouver and Sudbury in Canada, Wisconsin, Death Valley, and a cruise in the Caribbean. All wonderfully peaceful spots until our senior sleuths arrive and things start to happen.

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Featured Book: Star Tangled Murder by Nancy J. Cohen

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Hairstylist Marla Vail and her husband get tangled up in murder when their Fourth of July visit to a living history village ends with a bang—and a body.

Salon owner Marla Vail and her detective husband Dalton are having a blast visiting a Florida living history village over Fourth of July weekend. But when a Seminole battle reenactment turns up a real dead body, it sets off fireworks among the villagers. One of the cast members has gone off script to murder the town marshal with a tomahawk in his head.

As Dalton gets involved in the investigation, Marla determines to help him solve the case. Her flare for uncovering secrets reveals that everyone in the village is a suspect. Instead of celebrating the holiday with red, white, and barbecues, she discovers secrets, lies, and false avenues. Did the marshal’s murder have anything to do with a lost Confederate payroll, or did his plans to renovate the park light a fuse that he couldn’t snuff out?

In a place where history comes alive, the dead bodies are piling up. Marla would rather be chilling and grilling, but somebody’s mind is on killing. If she’s not careful, her sleuthing might blow up in her face like a faulty firecracker and she’ll become the next victim. Recipes Included!

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The Broken Bridge: A Succulent Sleuth Cozy Mystery by Iris March

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An abandoned backpack. A damaged walking stick. A broken bridge. What happened on the Buckeye Trail?

Succulent-savvy sleuth, Molly Green spends her day tending her eco-friendly garden center, inherited from her beloved grandparents. She wants nothing more than to nurture her nursery and share her plant passion with the world.
When a hiker goes missing on the Buckeye Trail that runs behind the garden center and a bridge on the trail is damaged, the police suspect foul play. As clues mount up, Molly fears she may know who is to blame, perhaps someone in her own family.
To make matters worse, Molly must navigate the inconvenient appearance of a loquacious colleague, pulling her from her path to uncover the mystery of the broken bridge.
Can she discover what really happened that day on the trail? Or will the spikes and thorns surrounding this mystery take Molly out as well? Find out in the first book of the Succulent Sleuth Cozy Mystery series, The Broken Bridge.

Targeted Age Group:: 18-75

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I love cozy mysteries! I had the idea for the "succulent sleuth" while running on a trail and knew I wanted to include a trail and a garden center in the story.

Featured Book: Bullies, Bovines, and a Bookmobile by MK Scott

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An unexpected illness of the aunt who raised her, draws reference librarian Tenny back into the tangle of small time life complete with unrequited love, and a mean girl with an agenda. Her goal is to nurse her aunt back to health and start a local library in the process. Unfortunately, she stumbles onto a bovine secret and a life-long rivalry. Can she untangle the mystery while creating a rural bookmobile service?

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Featured Book: Death By A HoneyBee: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery by Abigail Keam

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READERS’ FAVORITE – “GOLD MEDAL WINNER Death By A HoneyBee is an enjoyable read which will capture the interest of most die-hard mystery fans!”

“Abigail Keam writes with vision and understanding. Keam leaves the reader yearning for more.” -Midwest Book Review

Josiah Reynolds is a beekeeper trying to stay financially afloat by selling honey at the Farmers’ Market. She finds her world turned upside down when a man is found dead in her beeyard, only to discover the victim is her nemesis. The police are calling the brutal death murder and Josiah is the number one suspect! Fighting an unknown enemy in the glamorous world of Thoroughbreds, oak-cured bourbon, and antebellum mansions, Josiah struggles to uncover the truth in a land that keeps its secrets well.

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Featured Book: Murder Under A Blue Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Mystery by Abigail Keam

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Top 10 mystery reads by Kings River Life Magazine!

Mona Moon is not your typical young lady. She is a cartographer by trade, explorer by nature, and adventurer by heart. But there’s a problem. Miss Mona is broke. It’s during the Depression, and National Geographic has just turned down her application to join an expedition to the Amazon. What’s she to do? Perhaps get a job as a department store salesgirl. Anything to tide her over until a next assignment.

There’s a knock on the door. Who could this be in the middle of the night? Holding a revolver, Mona reluctantly opens her door to a man wearing a Homburg hat and holding a briefcase. “I bring glad tidings. Your Uncle Manfred Moon has died and left you as his heir to the Moon fortune. You are now one of the richest women in the country!” he says. Mona’s response is to point her revolver in his face. If the stranger is telling the truth, she will apologize. If he is a fraud, she will shoot him. That’s how Mona does things in 1933.

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Featured Book: Shifting and Shenanigans: Magical Mystery Book Club Book 1 by Elizabeth Pantley

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Paige and her adventurous Aunt Glo inherit a country inn from eccentric GeeGee. They pack up and hit the road, arriving at the charming place they both loved since childhood. Finally! They can get into the secret room in the basement that GeeGee kept locked! They discover it’s a wonderful library filled to the brim with mystery books. But more than the room was a secret – it’s a magical place that houses enchanted books. Paige and Glo find themselves smack-dab in the middle of a murder mystery, along with a motley group of book club friends. The club will need to work together to solve the case in order to get out of the book and back to their home.

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Featured Book: The Carnation Murder (Adele Gossling Mysteries: Book 1) by Tam May

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*Can a forward-thinking woman help the police solve a murder in a backward-thinking town?*

“Great new series, the time period details are interesting and the mystery intriguing.”

California, 1903: Smart, inquisitive, and a firm believer in the new progressive reforms, Adele Gossling seeks a new life after the devastating death of her father. She flees San Francisco for the small town of Arrojo, planning a life of peace and small pleasures with nothing more exciting than selling fountain pens to the locals in her stationery shop and partaking in the town’s favorite pastime: gossip.

Peace is exactly what she doesn’t get when she discovers her neighbor’s dead body in her gazebo. The police think they have a firm suspect: the young man who was secretly engaged to the victim. But Adele and her clairvoyant new friend Nin Branch are sure he’s innocent. In spite of the raised eyebrows from Arrojo’s Victorian-minded citizens, they set out to prove the young man didn’t do it. But if he didn’t, who did?

Can Adele and Nin solve this puzzling case involving a striped carnation, a diamond ring, a note, a muddy pair of boots, and a broken promise?

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Featured Book: Death By Chance: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery by Abigail Keam

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Halloween is right around the corner when Lady Elsmere throws an elaborate Civil War costume ball. Wearing a nineteenth-century ball gown, Josiah ventures into the party’s corn maze to find her dog, Baby, and take him home, only to find Baby standing over a fallen scarecrow. But is it really a scarecrow? Josiah doesn’t have time to find out because someone dressed as the Grim Reaper bolts out of the shadows, swinging a scythe and heading straight for her. Our heroine picks up her skirts and flees, yelling, “Death! Death in the corn maze!”

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