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Saturday, June 06, 2026

Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: The Diva Hosts a Murder (Domestic Diva Mystery, #19) by Krista Davis

 

The Diva Hosts a Murderer
A Domestic Diva Mystery
by
Krista Davis


About The Diva Hosts a Murderer

 

The Diva Hosts a Murderer (A Domestic Diva Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
19th in Series
Setting - Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
Publication date: May 26, 2026
Print length: 336 pages
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1496743482 / ISBN-13: 978-1496743480
Digital
ISBN-13: 978-1496743503 / ASIN: B0FP7LXJ8C
Audiobook
ASIN: B0FVW9XKRW

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Old Town Virginia’s entertaining guru and occasional sleuth Sophie Winston – a young Martha Stewart in the making – juggles Fourth of July fireworks, a houseful of guests, and homicide in the latest Domestic Diva culinary mystery from New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis.

With a big crowd descending on her Northern Virginia home, it’s a good thing event planner Sophie Winston is an expert at entertaining. Whipping up patriotic pastries is as easy as pie for her, though meeting the man her widowed Aunt Melly just impulsively married in Las Vegas is a little more awkward. Especially when Melly’s longtime, now-heartbroken secret admirer is there too, which could lead to some fireworks.

But the house party really gets explosive when Sophie’s favorite tour guide falls victim to a killer—and evidence points to Sophie’s own father. Will DNA really incriminate her dad? And what’s the real story with her new uncle-by-marriage and the mysterious pal he’s brought along with him? Some of the secrets Sophie’s discovering are raising flags—and while the police department casts suspicion on her father, she has to declare her independence as a detective to find the real culprit, and serve justice along with her red, white, and blue cupcakes . . .

Includes delicious recipes, fabulous decorating tips, and easy entertaining hacks!

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About Krista Davis

New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva Mystery series. Krista lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with two cats and a brood of dogs. Her friends and family complain about being guinea pigs for her recipes, but she notices they keep coming back.




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May 25 – Christy's Cozy Corners – CHARACTER GUEST POST
May 26 – Jody's Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
May 27 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
May 28 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
May 29 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea - SPOTLIGHT
May 29 – FUONLYKNEW - RECIPE
May 29 – Reading Is My SuperPower – RECIPE
May 31 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
June 1 – @bibliophile_foodie - REVIEW
June 2 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST
June 3 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – REVIEW
June 4 – @review_thick_and_thin – REVIEW
June 5 – Sarandipity's – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
June 5 – Sapphyria's Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
June 6 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read - SPOTLIGHT
June 7 – Melina's Book Blog – REVIEW

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: Murder Plays Second Fiddle (Pearly Girls Mystery, #2) by Heather Weidner

 

Murder Plays Second Fiddle
The Pearly Girls Mysteries, Book Two
by
Heather Weidner

About Murder Plays Second Fiddle

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Murder Plays Second Fiddle (The Pearly Girls Mysteries)

Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting - Ivy Springs, Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Publisher: Keylight Books
Publication date: January 13, 2026
Print length: 256 pages
Hardcover ISBN-13: 979-8887981161
Paperback ISBN-13: 979-8887981154
Digital ISBN-13: 979-8887981178
ASIN: B0D8SG9JFZ

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The Pearly Girls return to solve a high school reunion murder in this sequel to Murder Strikes a Chord.

Event planner Cassidy Jamison and her not-so-helpful sexagenarian staff of Roxie, Kate, Aileen, and Ruthanne are up to their elbows with a high school reunion committee’s constantly changing requirements for an event that must be the most elaborate and memorable at all costs.

When well-known reporter, Darcy Branch, and former cheerleader, Brittany Mahoney, are found dead on her property, Cassidy and the gang have to find the killer before the party’s over. And the more Cassidy and her Chihuahua mix, Elvis, dig for clues, the more deadly secrets they uncover—including one that changes everything she knows about her family’s history.

The Pearly Girls need to solve the case before the Class of 2009 goes down in Ivy Springs history as the deadliest reunion.

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About Heather Weidner

Heather Weidner

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.

Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, Murder by the Glass, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder, and Crime in the Old Dominion, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a crazy Mini Aussie Shepherd named Cooper.


Tour Participants


March 2 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
March 3 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
March 4 – Jody's Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
March 4 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
March 5 – Christy's Cozy Corners – REVIEW
March 5 – Sapphyria's Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
March 6 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST
March 7 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT
March 7 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT
March 8 – Boys' Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT
March 9 – Maureen's Musings – SPOTLIGHT
March 10 – Sneaky the Library Cat's Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
March 10 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – SPOTLIGHT
March 11 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
March 11 – Sarandipity's – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
March 12 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
March 13 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR GUEST POST
March 14 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
March 15 – StoreyBook Reviews – AUTHOR GUEST POST


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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Book Review: Blame In on the Moon (Blame It on the Moon, #1) by Lou Pugliese

Blame it on the Moon: A Haunted House Mystery (Blame it on the Moon Series)Blame it on the Moon: A Haunted House Mystery by Lou Pugliese
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Some of the most fun I’ve ever had while being completely freaked out!

Blame It On The Moon by Lou Pugliese is an entertaining contemporary ghost story, modern-day mystery, and cold-case murder investigation, combined with a delightful romance, puns, witty banter, and dad jokes. With a great cast of characters trying to reveal the secrets of an old, haunted house, I was completely absorbed by the story and entertained from start to finish.

The main character is Richard Eugene Craft. In his 60s and the last of the Craft family line, he owns the family home, a pre-Civil War farmhouse in Arlington, Virginia, with a reputation for strange goings on. Since the death of this wife and only child, Richard has struggled to begin writing a planned novel and dealing with the odd occurrences of possibly paranormal phenomena at the house. He meets Audrey when he signs up for her paranormal research class at the local community college. I loved Richard’s awkward charm and quick wit, complete with puns and dad jokes at the ready. Audrey, though, is a kindred spirit, and their banter is lively and clever. The author’s ability to insert pop cultural references into their quips at just the right time had me laughing out loud. The dialogue sparkled.

The plot follows Richard’s and Audrey’s efforts to discover what is causing the weird happenings in the house: lights turning on and off, the sound of a basketball pinging off the rim or backboard of a hoop, disappearing food, and the apparition of Tom, a former freed slave who lived at the house at the time of the Civil War. However, while they successfully reach ‘the other side,’ they uncover more mysteries than answers. The history of the house and the original builder of the home, Dr. Richard Eugene Craft, is mesmerizing, and the experts the current Richard consults are interesting and well-developed secondary characters that really complement the cold case and historical investigatory aspects of the story. I was completely freaked out by Audrey’s late-night encounter on her first night in the house, and it still gives me the willies when I remember that part of the story. Who exactly was the visitor? However, I was well satisfied with the findings and resolution of the rest of the book’s mysteries.

I recommend BLAME IT ON THE MOON to mystery and thriller readers, especially those who enjoy paranormal themes and ghost stories.

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advanced Review Copy from Reedsy Discovery.



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Monday, December 02, 2024

NBTM Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: For You I'd Break (Peace Falls, #1) by Hannah Jordan


FOR YOU I'D BREAK
Peace Falls, Book One
by 
Hannah Jordan


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Contemporary Romance
Publication Date: July 17, 2024
Page count: 339 pages


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SYNOPSIS:

When Rowan’s two-year marriage ends with a crash, she returns home to Peace Falls, VA, riding shotgun in her sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse. Everything about her is damaged: her heart, her pride, her bank account, and her spine—thanks to a tourist, a Segway, and finding her husband getting busy with her boss. But Rowan is determined to reclaim her career and city life as soon as she recuperates and lands a new job. 

Caleb “Cal” Cardoso didn’t notice wallflower Rowan in high school, but the former football star, and Peace Falls’s newest physical therapist, can’t take his eyes off the stunning redhead now. Too bad he’s sworn off relationships. After his last hookup purposely tanked his online reputation, Cal stands to lose his job if a single patient leaves his care. Which is why he can’t let Rowan switch to another practitioner, despite the friction between them, and why he definitely can’t act on his growing attraction. 

Rowan agrees to remain Cal’s patient if he helps her younger brother train for football tryouts. Though Cal hasn’t touched a football since the accident that killed his best friend, he agrees, and as Cal helps heal Rowan’s body, she begins to heal his heart. 

For You I’d Break is a small town romance with a hefty dash of spice, a HEA ending, and a cast of memorable characters, including a goth sculptor who secretly loves to decorate cakes, a fearsome-looking felon with a heart of gold, a hothead with a sweet side, a karma-devoted barista who collects damaged pets and first dates, and a lovable dog with more emotional sense than everyone put together.

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Being a wallflower makes you thirsty, so parched for attention your heart feels brittle. Then after years—or in my case a lifetime—someone finally sees you. The exquisite feeling seeps deep, the attention saturating your life. So, you jump, headfirst. The red flags go unnoticed. Declarations of love tossed as lightly as petals. Maybe you marry him, like I did. Maybe you bloom in domestic bliss with a house in the suburbs and two adorable kids. Maybe a dog. Bare minimum a pet turtle.
 
I wasn’t so lucky.
 
After two years of marriage, instead of house hunting in the outskirts of DC, I was riding shotgun in my sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse, headed back to Peace Falls, VA, with everything I owned stuffed where a coffin ought to be.
 
I’d cried so much in the past three hours, I could barely make out the foothills rising in the distance. My throat was raw. Crumpled tissues littered the floorboard, and lint covered my leggings.
 
The tears surprised me. Apart from a couple of late-night phone calls to my mother after I left the hospital, I’d held it together pretty well. I was too busy tying up the loose ends of my life in DC to feel anything but stressed. The moment Poppy arrived to drive me home, the tears started and built with every box, bag, and lamp we slid into the hearse.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hannah Jordan grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but wound up in South Jersey after falling in love with her complete opposite. She's got all the degrees of a "serious" fiction writer but only smiles when she's writing romance.
 
She lives with her husband and two daughters in a picturesque town outside of Philadelphia where she enjoys reading in all genres, especially the spicy ones, and confusing people with her half-Southern, half-Northern accent.
 
The first book in her Peace Falls Small Town Romance Series, For You I’d Break, launched July 17, 2024.


REVIEW:

5 stars!

This exceptional second-chance romance kicks off a new series! 

For You I’d Break is the exceptional first novel in author Hannah Jordan’s wonderful new Peace Falls romance series, and I’ve never encountered a better treatment of the second-chance romance plot. Great characters, a charming small-town setting, and complex, realistic emotions and problems all combine for a fantastic series debut.
 
The female main character, Rowan Stevens Norris, has returned home after discovering her husband cheating and to recover from injuries sustained during a freak accident with a person riding a Segway. Cal Cordoba is the leading man whose past has caused him to reject emotional commitment in relationships. He’s returned to his hometown of Peace Falls to join an established medical practice as a physical therapist. Both Rowan and Cal are surrounded by good friends or family, most of whom also have their own emotional burdens. Cal and his friends, Adrian and Theo, share a past tragedy that they are all still paying for physically and emotionally, and their daily struggles are realistic. Lauren, Cammie, and even Avery have their own heartbreaks to overcome.
 
There is conflict between Rowan and Cal from the start but there is a ton of chemistry as well. While I enjoyed the push-pull of their relationship, I couldn’t put the book down until I got to the HEA. The dialogue throughout the story absolutely sparkles and is a major highlight of the book. I laughed out loud quite a few times because the banter was so witty. The author does a wonderful job creating the town of Peace Falls and populating it with memorable people without killing the plot with details and exposition. I am already looking forward to catching up with these characters as the series continues.
 
I recommend FOR YOU I’D BREAK to romance readers, especially those with an affinity for tales of second-chance romance.


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October 28: Read Your Writes Book Reviews
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: Christmas Lights and Cat Fights (Jules Keene Glamping Mystery, #3) by Heather Weidner

 

Christmas Lights and Cat Fights
A Jules Keene Glamping Mystery
by
Heather Weidner

Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting - Virginia
Publisher: Level Best Books
Publication Date: October 17, 2023
Print length: 285 pages
Digital ASIN: B0CJQKWK3F


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SYNOPSIS:

Christmas has come to Fern Valley, and the town’s decked out with enough glitter and sparkle for a month’s worth of celebrations, each more over-the-top than the previous one. The idyllic setting, filled with laughter, carols, and sweet treats, is shattered, along with some of the decorations, when the current wife and the ex-wife of a big-cat showman have a knock-down, drag-out fight in the center of town. Jules Keene, owner of the Fern Valley Glamping Resort, tries to keep peace among her guests and with the town council, but it turns into a catastrophe when Tabbi Morris, winds up dead in one of her ex-husband’s tiger cages.

And if the murder wasn’t enough, Jules discovers that some of the big cats are missing, but the owner and his family insists that nothing is wrong.

Curiosity gets the best of her, and she has to solve the murder and figure out if the owner of Cal’s Cats is pussy-footing around or whether it’s something more sinister before it ruins the holiday season and her business.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. Christmas Lights and Cat Fights is the third in her cozy mystery series, the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries. She also writes the Delanie Fitzgerald mystery series and the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries (2023).

Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and her novellas appear in The Mutt Mysteries series.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime and active in the Central Virginia, Chessie, Grand Canyon Writers, and Guppies Chapters, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.



TOUR PARTICIPANTS:

November 14 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
November 14 – My Reading Journeys – CHARACTER GUEST POST
November 15 – Lady Hawkeye – RECIPE
November 16 – Christy's Cozy Corners – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST
November 16 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
November 17 – Mystery, Thrillers, and Suspense – SPOTLIGHT
November 17 – Sapphyria's Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
November 18 – Reading Is My SuperPower – AUTHOR GUEST POST
November 19 – Maureen's Musings – SPOTLIGHT
November 20 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT
November 21 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
November 22 – #BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee – SPOTLIGHT
November 23 – THANKSGIVING U.S.
November 24 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT
November 24 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
November 25 – Celticlady's Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
November 25 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT
November 26 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – SPOTLIGHT
November 26 – The Mystery Section – SPOTLIGHT
November 27 – My Journey Back - SPOTLIGHT
November 28 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT
November 29 – Rebecca M. Douglass, Author – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST
November 29 – Hearts & Scribbles – SPOTLIGHT

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