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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | April 10, 2025 · 12:15 pm

The Victorian Locket Virtual Book Tour

A Galveston Historical Mystery

Cozy Mystery

Sarah Anne Law, affectionately known to family and friends as Sam, was
playing the stalking game with her cat when she inadvertently discovered a
secret compartment in her haunted Victorian home. Not only did Sam find a
hidden treasure, but she also realized that their playful game aroused a
long-dormant spirit. Perhaps the newly awakened spirit and one of the more
disturbing hauntings in her beautiful home were connected. Did a murder
occur? As Sam followed clues to unravel the 125-year-old mysteries, she
unveiled the true horrors of Galveston’s deadly and gruesome
past.

EXCERPT

“… Galveston has had more deaths…under violent circumstances than most American towns put together…no wonder there are so many ghosts hanging around.”

About the Author

Elefair King, a native Texan, grew up in Houston. Retired, she now lives in
The Woodlands, Texas. Married for 40 years, she has one son who lives
nearby. Driven by her compassion to serve others, she founded several
non-profit organizations as well as served on committees and boards of many
local and regional charities. Elefair loves history, especially about her
beloved Texas. She frequently stops along its country roads to read
historical markers when seeking new adventures.

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The Music Box Mystery Blitz

(The Cook and Inspector Mysteries Book 8)

Cozy Mystery

Date Published: April 8, 2025

A music box, a murder, and a message from the grave…

When would-be gourmet cook Angie Amalfi takes a seemingly ordinary music
box to be repaired, a series of grisly murders begins, each one inching
closer to her and her fiancé, San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo
Smith. As she and Paavo race to uncover the truth, they discover the music
box isn’t just a relic—it’s a key to unraveling secrets
that someone is willing to kill to protect. The discovery leads to dark,
emotional chapters from the past—chapters that everyone believed would
be buried forever.

For readers of the Inspector Rebecca Mayfield mystery series, this story
takes place soon after Rebecca and Angie’s cousin Richie meet (in the
novella, The Thirteenth Santa). Richie has a minor role in this story.

NOTE: The main characters in this story appear in an early mystery series
by the author which is being completely reimagined and updated.

The Cook and Inspector Mysteries

Death on a Silver Platter, Book 1

A Quiche Before Dying, Book 2

The Marinara Murders, Book 3

Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind, Book 4

Death by Devil’s Food, Book 5

Blind Date’s Bitter End, Book 6

The Taverna Affair, Book 7

The Music Box Mystery, Book 8

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About the Author

Joanne Pence is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling author of the
Inspector Rebecca Mayfield mysteries, The Cook and the Inspector mysteries,
the Donnelly Cabin Inn series, and the Ancient Secrets supernatural suspense
novels (writing as J.M. Pence), as well as contemporary romance, historical
fiction, romantic suspense, and a fantasy. Her novels present a variety of
times, places, and reading experiences from mysterious to thrilling,
emotional to lightly humorous, as well as powerful tales of times long past.
Her books have won or been nominated for a number of high honors, including
the Willa Cather Literary Award for Historical Fiction; North American Book
Award for Mystery; Idaho Top Fiction Award; The Golden Quill, RWA’s Rita and
Golden Heart Awards, Daphne du Maurier Award, Independent Bookseller’s
Golden Scroll, and Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and Best Amateur
Sleuth Award.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | March 31, 2025 · 6:09 pm

The Victorian Locket Blitz

A Galveston Historical Mystery

Cozy Mystery

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Vengeful CONspiracies Blitz

The Sadie Sabatini Mystery Series

Cozy Mystery

Date Published: March 25, 2025

Publisher: Harbor Lane Books, LLC.

Sadie Sabatini is settling into her new life in Wilson, Texas. She’s making
friends and her business, Tesoro, is starting to thrive. But the past is
never far behind. When two of her former team members come for a visit, they
bring trouble in the form of a mutual enemy set on revenge threatening to
disrupt Sadie’s fresh start.

She can’t turn her back on her team, though. They’ve been through too much
together. The more Sadie tries to help, the more she suspects she might be
the target of the con this time. With forces conspiring against her, the
outcome of her decisions, both past and present, weigh heavily and make her
question the choices she made leading to this point.

When their mutual enemy is found dead, alliances are tested, and wits are
matched as the race to the truth reveals who can be trusted and who is
running their final con.

VENGEFUL CONSPIRACIES is book 2 in the Sadie Sabatini Mystery series by USA
Today Bestselling author, Nicole Leiren!

About the Author

Described by those who know her best as perky, quirky and effervescent, USA
Today Best-Selling author Nicole Leiren likes to have fun — in life, with
her characters and, of course, her readers. She admits to being sassy (just
ask her mother!) and inspiration for her characters are drawn from the
real-world heroes and heroines she meets while traversing the country.

Nicole enjoys sharing the love, laughter, mystery, and occasionally a touch
of the mayhem she forces her characters to endure—all for the
reader’s pleasure! Her real-world heroes and heroines will keep you
turning the pages until you reach the whodunit or happily ever after
(usually both!)

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | March 7, 2025 · 5:00 am

French Cruises Can Kill You Blitz

The Hassle High Mystery Series, Book 3

Cozy Mystery

Date Published: 11-14-2020

Cozy Mystery with Death Romance and twists on a French Cruise with the
Hassle High group. Complete with occult, kidnapping and French
Recipes.

About the Author

Constance Meccarello-Gerson was born in Poughkeepsie N.Y. She is a
graduate of Florida Southern College with a BA in Acting. She also attended
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. HB Studio, Actors Studio, in
NYC. She is a member of SAG, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Si Omega. Her
MFA in Acting is from Brooklyn College. She has appeared on TV, film,
and on stage in NYC. For 20 years she taught as a mentor and teacher of
English and Theatre arts for the New York City Department of Education and
for the University at Santa Cruz. She also taught for ten years as a Speech
Coordinator at Touro College. She was an executive at Bloomingdales. Her
writing as appeared in Musings, also in the Best American Poets
series. Murder at Hassle High is her first cozy mystery.
Summertime Murder at Hassle High is her second and French Cruises Can
Kill You is the third. She wrote Armera a sci fi mystery and her
Snowball the Sherlock Rabbit series, a group of children books.
Currently she lives in NYC with her husband Alain, a parrot named Benji, and
lots of fish. She is currently writing Death In a Dorm, another cozy in the
Hassle High series.