It’s almost time for spring, right? Well, don’t put up those sweaters and galoshes anytime
soon, and keep those shorts stored for now. I think that groundhog fooled us all last month.
Instead, embrace the cold, or snow, or the rain and dig into a good mystery this month. I’ve
got a few I didn’t feature last month you don’t want to miss, and some great mysteries
releasing in March that will take up those last few (hopefully) chilly days Mother Nature has
decided we can’t do without. After all, Mother does know best. Father Time is just making the
season seem dramatically long ;)
A Lola Cruz Mystery
Meet Lola Cruz. After paying her dues as an intern, she’s now a full-fledged detective at
Camacho and Associates. Her boss is Manny Camacho, a muy caliente former cop with a
mysterious ex-wife, a Lara Croft look-alike girlfriend, and a sudden personal interest in Lola.
Her first big case? A missing mother who may not want to be found. And to make her already
busy life even more complicated, Lola’s helping her cousin plan her quinceañera and battling
her family and their old-fashioned views on women and careers. She’s also reunited with the
gorgeous Jack Callaghan, her high school crush whom she shamelessly tailed years ago and
photographed doing the horizontal salsa with some other lucky girl.
Lola takes it all in stride, but when the subject of her search ends up dead, she realizes she
has a lot more to worry about. Soon she finds herself wrapped up in the possibly shady
practices of a tattoo parlor, local politics, and someone with serious—maybe deadly—road
rage. To top it all off, her treasured post-coital pictures of Jack are missing!
Still, Lola is well-equipped to handle these challenges. She’s a black-belt in kung fu, and her
body isn’t her only weapon. She’s got smarts, sass, and more tenacity than her Mexican
mafioso-wannabe grandfather. A few of her famous margaritas don’t hurt, either.
Mystery | Mystery Amateur
Sleuth [Henry Press, LLC, On Sale: January 24, 2019,
Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781635114430 / ]
A Creature Comforts Mystery Book 1
Army vet Persephone “Perri” Morgan has big plans, as her custom leather leashes, saddles,
and other pet accessories are the rage of dog and horse enthusiasts everywhere. But when
murder prances into the ring at a Massachusetts dog show, Perri must confront a cunning
killer who’s a breed apart.
Accompanied by her bestie Babette and four oversize canines, Perri motors down to the Big E
Dog Show in high style. Perri hopes to combine business with pleasure by also spending time
with sexy DC journalist Wing Pruett. Until a storm traps everyone at the exposition hall . . . and
a man’s body is found in a snow-covered field, a pair of pink poodle grooming shears plunged
through his heart.
Turns out the deceased was a double-dealing huckster who had plenty of enemies chomping
at the bit. But as breeders and their prize pets preen and strut, the murderer strikes again.
Aided by her trusty canine companions, Keats and Poe, Perri must collar a killer before she’s
the next “Dead in Show” winner.
Mystery | Mystery Cozy
[Lyrical Underground, On Sale: March 5, 2019, Paperback / e-
Book, ISBN: 9781516109333 / ]
Sarah Grayson and her feline ally, Elvis, get a chance to see if their sleuthing skills are up
to scratch in the sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling Second Chance
Cat Mysteries.It's fall in North Harbor, Maine, where Sarah owns a charming secondhand shop and sells
lovingly refurbished items of all kinds. The shop is always bustling--and not just because a
quirky team of senior-citizen detectives works out of it and manages to get in even more
trouble than Sarah's rough-and-tumble rescue cat, Elvis.
A cold case heats up when young Mallory Pearson appears at the shop. Mallory's father is in
prison for negligence after her stepmother's mysterious death, but Mallory believes he is
innocent and asks the in-house detectives to take on the case. With Sarah and Elvis lending a
paw, the detectives decide to try to give Mallory's father a second chance of his own.
Mystery
Cozy [Berkley Prime Crime, On Sale: January 29, 2019,
Mass Market Paperback, ISBN: 9781101991244 / ]
Tea Shop Mystery #20
Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition
and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author
Laura Childs.It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air
balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other
colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange
object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons,
checking them out.
As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the drone, hovering like some angry, mechanized insect,
deliberately crashes into the balloon next to them. An enormous, fiery explosion erupts, and
everyone watches in horror as the balloon plummets to the earth, killing all three of its
passengers.
Sirens scream, first responders arrive, and Theodosia is interviewed by the police. During the
interview she learns that one of the downed occupants was Don Kingsley, the CEO of a local
software company, SyncSoft. Not only do the police suspect Kingsley as the primary target,
they learn that he possessed a rare Revolutionary War Union Jack flag that several people
were rabidly bidding on.
Intrigued, Theodosia begins her own investigation. Was it the CEO's soon-to-be ex-wife, who
is restoring an enormous mansion at no expense? The CEO's personal assistant, who also
functioned as curator of his prized collection of Americana? Two rival antiques' dealers known
for dirty dealing? Or was the killer the fiancée of one of Theodosia's dear friends, who turns
out to be an employee—and whistle-blower—at SyncSoft?
INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS!
Mystery
Cozy [Berkley Prime Crime, On Sale: March 5, 2019,
Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9780451489630 / eISBN: 9780451489654]
A Tea Shop
Mystery to die for!
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Until next time, get cozy and read on!
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Passion. Mystery. Suspense. Catch the Wave! Because a little PMS can
change your world!
Kym Roberts is a retired detective sergeant who looks for passion, mystery and suspense in
every book she reads and writes. She can be found on the web at kymroberts.com, on
Facebook @KymRobertsAuthor911 and on Twitter @kymroberts911. You can also listen to her
new podcast Romance Book Chat with Kym and Misty on iTunes & Stitcher. Kym’s Book
Barn Mystery #5, Killer Classics is available now!
KYM'S LATEST BOOK:
Book Barn #5
Small-town life in Hazel Rock becomes a Texas-size crime scene when murder takes a
page from Charli Rae Warren’s book club’s latest mystery . . .Charli takes great pride in running one of the few independent, family-owned bookstores in
small-town Texas. She vets everything carefully, with an eye to the eclectic tastes of the
locals. That includes the Book Barn’s weekly book club selection. This time out it’s a mystery
whose characters bear a striking resemblance to local citizens, including Charli’s friend Sugar
. . . who’s the prime suspect when her real-life nemesis is found dead in a hotel’s water tank.
With help from her pet armadillo Princess, Charli campaigns to clear Sugar’s sweet name—
literally—when the up-for-election mayor becomes a killer’s next target. Murder and politics
make scandalous bedfellows as Charli discovers that fiction may be fatal, but reality could be
just as deadly . . .
Mystery
Cozy [Lyrical Press Underground, On Sale: December 4,
2018, e-Book, ISBN: 9781516106592 / eISBN: 9781516106592]
The best
installment yet in the series!
Murder and
mayhem in small-town Texas
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