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Kari Lee Townsend | Author-Reader Match: ROAD TRIP TO RUIN and Giveaway!


Road Trip to Ruin
Kari Lee Townsend

AVAILABLE

Kindle

Sunny Meadows Mystery #10

May 2024
On Sale: April 30, 2024
Featuring: Mitch Stone; Kalli; Nik Stevens
215 pages
ISBN:
Kindle: B0CLL1RNL2
e-Book
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Also by Kari Lee Townsend:
Trouble for Your Thoughts, May 2025
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Road Trip to Ruin, May 2024
Mayhem on the Mind, February 2024
Cruising into Danger, October 2023

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Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader

Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to

present Kari Lee Townsend!

 

Writes: Humorous paranormal cozy mysteries! ROAD TRIP TO RUIN is the second crossover book of the Sunny Meadows & Kalli Ballas mystery series. Kalli is from Clearview, CT. She and her boyfriend, Detective Nik Stevens, met Sunny and her husband, Detective Mitch Stone, on a cruise in the first crossover CRUISING INTO DANGER. Murder happens in the Bermuda Triangle and the detectives ban together to solve the mystery while Sunny and Kalli stir up all sorts of trouble as they do a little investigating of their own. This time it’s Kalli’s turn to visit Sunny’s hometown of Divinity, NY where murder happens with Kalli being the prime suspect. Her detective boyfriend shows up to help, but when her big fat Greek family arrives, they stir up trouble bigger than the size of Ma’s beehive hairdo.

 

About:

If you like a little bit of romance, lots of laughs, cute pets, fun small towns, and one or more mysteries with plenty of twists and turns along the way, then I’m the author for you!

 

What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:

  • Is savvy and follows the clues
  • Is invested in figuring out the murder
  • Likes more than one mystery with twists and turns that keep you guessing
  • Likes to laugh
  • Doesn’t mind a little romance
  • Must love animals
  • Enjoys small town living
  • Is happy to leave an honest review

 

What to expect if we’re compatible:

  • Multiple series in multiple genres
  • A new book every 3 months
  • Fun, quirky characters
  • Adorable pets
  • Quaint small towns
  • Thought provoking plots
  • An author who cares about her readers
  • Is accessible and loves to interact with fans

 

Thanks so much for having me. I will give away one signed copy of the paperback to one lucky commenter, so chime in and tell me what you really think. Good luck and happy reading.

ROAD TRIP TO RUIN by Kari Lee Townsend

Sunny Meadows Mystery #10

Road Trip to Ruin

Mind reader Kalli Ballas decides to go for a much-needed girls’ weekend to visit her new fortune teller friend, Sunny Meadows, never imagining she’s headed on a road trip to ruin…

The remodel turning their joined apartments into one big house is done and living with Detective Nik Stevens is cruising along like a Sunday morning drive, until he asks Kalli to marry him. Nik wants children, but Kalli has just come to terms with cohabitation and coparenting multiple fur babies. She stalls, asking for a weekend away to see what married with children looks like, but promises she will have an answer for him when she gets back.

Sunny reads Kalli’s future to help give her the clarity she’s looking for, but the only thing she foretells is danger. Her prediction comes true when an outsider winds up murdered during the Summer Solstice Festival and Kalli is the number one suspect. Detective Mitch Stone feels horrible, but he can’t let her leave town until the investigation is over.

Nik and the entourage of both their Greek families ascend upon the quaint town, turning the streets upside down as they try to clear Kalli’s name. Sunny and Kalli revive the Mystical Mavens as they try to do the same, but will they find the real killer in time, or will their road to redemption end in ruin?

 

Romance | Mystery Amateur Sleuth [Oliver-Heber Books, On Sale: April 30, 2024, e-Book, / ]

Buy ROAD TRIP TO RUINKindle | Amazon CA | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR

About Kari Lee Townsend

Kari Lee Townsend

National Bestselling Author, Agatha, RT Reviewer's Choice & Golden Duck Award Nominee. Kari lives in Central New York with her husband & Samoyeds. She's a lover of wine & travel, obsessed with reality TV, and loves a good book with mystery, romance & humor. Inspired by 80s TV shows, she writes cozy mysteries & upper middle grade as Kari Lee Townsend, as well as suspense, romance, romantic comedy & women's fiction as Kari Lee Harmon. You can find her on her website.

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Comments

9 comments posted.

Re: Kari Lee Townsend | Author-Reader Match: ROAD TRIP TO RUIN and Giveaway!

Sounds like we are definitely compatible :). Thanks for this
chance to win.
(Nancy Reynolds 12:17pm May 3, 2024)

I love reading mysteries with elements of romance, humor and cute pets! Thanks
for sharing!
(Tracy Urschler 7:14pm May 3, 2024)

Thanks for the quirky characters including the psychic, Sunny.
Every time I read Sunny, it reminds me of my childhood
nickname.
(Alyson Widen 11:53pm May 4, 2024)

This sounds like a book I would enjoy reading. Thank you for
the chance to win.
(Anna Speed 11:00am May 6, 2024)

Sounds very interesting. Thanks for the giveaway!
(Bing Yuan 3:20pm May 7, 2024)

I love mystery with romance! And yes I love animals!!
(Sherry Haut 8:19pm May 7, 2024)

Sounds great
(LeAnn Abernathy 8:52pm May 7, 2024)

I love the cover for Road Trip To Ruin. I am originally from
the NE corner of NY. It sounds like you are in the Finger
Lake Region or close by. A good place if one like wine. I
enjoy a good mystery. Add in large personalities and a sense
of humor and it makes for a good book. Add in small town
settings and fur babies and I'm definitely interested.
(Patricia Barraclough 2:52am May 8, 2024)

Sounds like it has all the elements for a good escapist read!
(Linda Gawthrop 6:20am May 8, 2024)

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