Brooke Blogs

Nov 13 2018

Super Stocking Stuffer Giveaway Hop – Ends 11/27/2018

Welcome to my stop in the Super Stocking Stuffer Giveaway Hop! I’m so excited to take part in this fun event. I absolutely love Christmas. This year will be especially fun since we just had our third daughter in August. It’s always fun to have a baby at Christmas. I love seeing our girls on Christmas morning. What is your favorite part of Christmas?

For my giveaway prize, I am giving away some wonderful Christmas eBooks. These will be gifted from Amazon – so as long as you can receive eBooks from Amazon, you are able to enter. One winner will be gifted all of the eBooks. If the winner is in the US, I’ll also be sending along a …

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Nov 13 2018

Killed on Blueberry Hill by Sharon Farrow – Review

Killed on Blueberry Hill by Sharon Farrow
A Berry Basket Mystery #3
Kensington • October 30, 2018

It’s peak tourist season in Oriole Point, Michigan—the blueberry buckle of the fruit belt. Nothing draws the crowds quite like their annual carnival. And nothing turns it sour faster than murder…

The Blueberry Blow Out festival has begun and it’s time for Marlee Jacob, owner of The Berry Basket, to shine. Unfortunately, it’s also bringing out the worst in her fiancé Ryan Zeller. Ryan’s rivalry with Porter Gale, owner of Blueberry Hill Farm, spills over into a very public and very ugly fight. And after they compete in the pie-eating contest and a raucous tug of war, their orchard blood feud takes a deadly turn…

The death …

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Nov 12 2018

Purls and Poison by Anne Canadeo

Purls and Poison by Anne Canadeo
A Black Sheep & Co. Mystery #2
Kensington • October 30, 2018

When a fellow Black Sheep Knitter is suspected of poisoning her coworker, the group puts down their needles and takes up their friend’s defense . . .

Suzanne Cavanaugh has just about had it with her office rival at Prestige Properties. It’s bad enough that Liza Devereaux is constantly needling her at work, but when she shows up at one of Suzanne’s open houses to poach potential buyers, it’s the last straw. No one in the office fails to hear the two snarling at each other.

When Liza is later found dead in her office cubicle—poisoned by a diet shake—Suzanne becomes the prime suspect. It’s soon …

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Nov 11 2018

Reason to Doubt by Nancy Cole Silverman

Reason to Doubt by Nancy Cole Silverman
A Carol Childs Mystery #5
Henery Press • November 6, 2018

Carol Childs is in the middle of one of the biggest stories of her life. Her daughter Cate has returned from college with a boyfriend in tow. A photographer who police suspect to be The Model Slayer, responsible for the murder of three young women.

Not since the Hillside Strangler has Los Angeles been so on edge.

And when the police arrest Cate’s boyfriend, Carol’s personal life and professional worlds collide. A tattooed cocktail waitress calls the radio station and asks to speak with Carol off the record. She knows the true identity of the real Model Slayer because she says she killed him.

Tensions mount as …

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Nov 10 2018

The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren

The Vampire Knitting Club
by Nancy Warren
on Tour October 15 – November 16, 2018

Synopsis:

At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she’s not exactly homeless, but it’s close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran’s undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey’s, Gran’s knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she’s going to do.

Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. Or at least, the undead. But there’s a death certificate. And a will, leaving the knitting shop to Lucy. And a lot of people going in and out who never use the door—including Gran, who is just as loving as …

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Nov 09 2018

Thread Herrings by Lea Wait – Excerpt and Giveaway

Thread Herrings by Lea Wait
A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery #7
Kensington • October 30, 2018

Angie’s first auction may turn out to be her last—when she bids on a coat of arms that someone would literally kill to possess…

Tagging along to an estate sale with her fellow Needlepointer, antiques shop owner Sarah Byrne, Angie Curtis impulsively bids on a tattered embroidery of a coat of arms. When she gets her prize back home to Haven Harbor, she discovers a document from 1757 behind the framed needlework—a claim for a child from a foundling hospital. Intrigued, Angie is determined to find the common thread between the child and the coat of arms.

Accepting her reporter friend Clem Walker’s invitation to talk about her find …

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Nov 08 2018

Murder in Her Stocking by G.A. McKevett – Bein’ a Grandma Ain’t Bad Atall – Review and Giveaway

Murder in Her Stocking by G.A. McKevett
A Granny Reid Mystery #1
Kensington • October 30, 2018

As the Moonlight Magnolia Agency revisits old memories on Christmas Eve, Granny Reid takes the reins back thirty years to the 1980s—back when she went by Stella, everyone’s hair was bigger, and sweaters were colorful disasters. But murder never went out of style…

Christmas has arrived in sleepy McGill, Georgia, but holiday cheer can’t keep temperamental Stella Reid from swinging a rolling pin at anyone who crosses her bad side—and this season, there are plenty. First an anonymous grinch vandalizes a celebrated nativity display. Far worse, the scandalous Prissy Carr is found dead in an alley behind a tavern. With police puzzled over the murder, Stella …

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Nov 08 2018

House of Ashes by Loretta Marion – Excerpt and Giveaway

House of Ashes by Loretta Marion
A Haunted Bluffs Mystery #1
Crooked Lane Books • November 13, 2018

A family patriarch’s dying proclamation, an enigmatic disappearance, and a century-old curse converge in the shadows of a majestic home on Cape Cod’s craggy coast.

Thirty-seven-year-old painter Cassandra Mitchell is fourth-generation to live in the majestic Battersea Bluffs, a brooding Queen Anne home originally built by her great-grandparents, Percy and Celeste Mitchell, and still standing despite tragedies that have swept the generations. Local lore has it that there was a curse placed on the family and the house is haunted, though opinions are divided on whether it’s by malicious or benevolent spirits. Cassie believes the latter―but now she stands to lose her beloved home to …

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Nov 07 2018

Dark Legacy & Dark Nightmares: Dark Falls Series Blitz

Dark Legacy Trish McCallan (Dark Falls)Publication date: November 6th 2018Genres: Adult, Romance, Thriller

Rhys Evans
Sixteen years…
For sixteen years he’d lived with the certainty that they’d caught the right guy…convicted the right guy…punished the right guy. While life behind bars didn’t make up for what the bastard had done, the families he’d destroyed, or the lives he’d stolen, the fact he’d died a broken, lonely man locked in a cell had been a small comfort. But now Ariel Hamilton was back—the onetime love of his life and the daughter of Dark Fall’s infamous serial killer. She rolled into town with her icy smile, furious eyes and baseless accusations of police corruption. Damn it to hell, Hamilton had been the X-factor …

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Nov 07 2018

Uncle and Ants by Marc Jedel – Spotlight and Giveaway

Uncle and Ants by Marc Jedel
A Silicon Valley Mystery #1
BGM Press • October 11, 2018

Mysterious attacks. Mischievous nieces. Can a clueless uncle catch a tech-savvy killer … and be home before bedtime?

When a freak accident hospitalizes Marty Golden’s sister and condemns him to babysitter duty, he thinks it’s just another case of hardwired bad luck in Silicon Valley. Until a suspicious murder suggests the mishap was no mere coincidence. Something must be done.

Too bad this quirky, fashion-backward uncle isn’t exactly hero material.

Convinced his sister is in mortal danger, this amateur sleuth follows clues to an oddball array of suspects. Armed with nothing but an eye for detail and powers of self-delusion, Marty tangles with gangsters, a cantankerous school secretary, …

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