Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: One of Our Darcies is Dead (Hawthorne Cove Mystery, #1) by Grace Caldwell

 

One of Our Darcies is Dead

A Hawthorne Cove Mystery

by

Grace Caldwell

About One of Our Darcies is Dead

 

One of Our Darcies is Dead: A Hawthorne Cove Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting: Hawthorne Cove, a seaside town in New England
Publisher: Paper Lantern Press
Publication date: September 1, 2026
Print length: 193 pages
Paperback
ISBN-13: 979-8951927019 / ASIN: B0HG6CNYH1
Digital
ISBN-13: 979-8951927002 / ASIN: B0HFYYY4F4

The residents of Hawthorne Cove are determined to prove their seaside town deserves a place on every literary lover's travel list. With a brand-new Jane Austen Festival, charming boutiques, and enough Regency flair to satisfy even the most devoted Austen fan, they're ready for their grand debut. But when opening night ends with a dead Mr. Darcy, literature professor Chloe Sinclair, in town to escape a life that hasn't gone to plan, learns that the most captivating stories aren't always the ones written in books.

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About Grace Caldwell

 

Grace Caldwell writes cozy mysteries for people who'd bring a book to a murder. An award-winning screenwriter and a professor of creative writing and literature, she's published across more genres than she can reasonably list at a dinner party, but cozy mysteries are where she feels most at home. She lives in Central Florida with two fluffy feline assistants, Elsa and Anna, who supervise every page and approve of none of her deadlines. 

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September 17 – Christy's Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST

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September 18 – Elizabeth McKenna - Author – SPOTLIGHT

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September 25 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

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September 27 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – SPOTLIGHT

September 28 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

September 29 – Salty Inspirations – CHARACTER GUEST POST

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Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: Death by Mail (Josiah Reynolds Mystery, #23) by Abigail Keam

 

Death By Mail

A Josiah Reynolds Mystery

by

Abigail Keam

About Death By Mail

 

Death By Mail: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery

Cozy Mystery

23rd in Series

Setting - Kentucky

Publisher: Worker Bee Press

Publication date: September 14, 2026

Number of Pages ~200

Digital ASIN: B0FRPPP8S1

Paperback

• ISBN-13: 979-8187030903 / ISBN-10: 9798187030903

Josiah’s phone won’t stop ringing. Both Hunter Wickliffe and Eli Bradley are vying for her attention. At first it was flattering and fun, but now she doesn’t have a moment’s peace. Meanwhile, Josiah and her dog, Baby, take their daily walk to give treats to the horses and llamas before checking the mailbox. Baby is occupied with sniffing out the scents left overnight by the rabbits, foxes and coyotes, as Josiah leafs through the bills and junk mail. A small blue envelope at the bottom of the stack catches her attention. It is just inscribed with JOSIAH above her address in crude block letters. There is no return address. She quickly tears it open, and a single sheet of paper falls on her gravel road to reveal one word - DEATH!

  Tagline – Mystery With A Shot Of Bourbon!

Tagline – There’s justice, and then there is Josiah’s justice!

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CHAPTER 1

Murder is never pleasant, even when it’s warranted.  There are many kinds of murder.  There is murder of the body.  That’s the easiest type of murder to identify.  Then there is murder of the spirit, which is a slow, insidious process often committed by a spouse.  Finally, consider the murder that completely destroys a person’s life, from which they never recover, committed by someone unknown.  Sometimes we call this type of murder—fate.

Let me explain.  I was about to become a victim of fraud, which eventually would end with the murder of an innocent person.  I was dragged into this poisonous affair through no fault of my own.  Rotten business it was, too.  Was it by evil human design or simply fate?  I swear it was not my fault.

I was having a bad day.  My left leg hurt like the dickens, which made me cranky, which caused the animals to sense my foul mood.  The mama llama, who had never liked me in the first place, spat the apple so generously offered into my face.  The sheep ran away, and even my horse, Morning Glory, refused to trot over to the fence, even when I offered a stick of peppermint.  What horse doesn’t like peppermint?

“Traitors, all of you!” I yelled, feeling more out-of-sorts because of the animals’ rejection.  “To think of all the money I’ve spent on vet bills, not to mention your feed.  Ungrateful lot!”

Even Baby, my faithful two-hundred pound English Mastiff, was careful not to bump into or accidentally hit my aching leg with his massive wagging tail.  Instead, he comforted by leaning into my bad leg, which was normal mastiff behavior when protecting.  Yes, mastiffs like to lean into a person when they are not sleeping or eating or lying asleep in the doorway.

“Get away!” I snapped, pushing Baby off.  When I saw the dog’s confused expression, I relented.  “Oh, I’m so sorry.  You were just trying to help.”  I sank down in the golf cart, feeling despondent.

Baby jumped into the cart, heavily panting.

I gathered a towel and wiped the strands of drool hanging from his mouth.  “Don’t pay any attention to me, Baby.  I’m having a bad day.”  I scratched behind his ears and gave him a doggy biscuit.  To show no hard feelings, he licked my hand before inhaling his treat.

Seeing Baby had forgiven me, I suggested, “Let’s see if we got mail.”

I wasn’t expecting any actual letters, as all I’ve gotten for the past two years were bills and advertisements.  Still, I was ever hopeful for real mail—a social invitation, a letter from an out-of-touch friend, or a funny card from a neighbor.  A pen pal would be nice.

We rode down the gravel driveway, passed through the electronic gate, and pulled up to my bee-shaped mailbox.  Not being able to reach it, I carefully got out of the golf cart, nursing my bad leg, and pulled out the mail.  Leaning against the cart, I sorted through the post.

“Bills, bills, advertisement from a mortuary company.” I turned to Baby.  “They’ve got my number,” I mumbled, referring to the funeral home.  “Bills and more bills.  Jeez.” 

Unexpectedly, I came across a blue envelope with my first name written in neat print tucked between two catalogs.  Hoping it might be an invitation from one of my neighbors, I tore it open.  In my haste, a single piece of paper escaped and drifted onto the ground, landing upright.  It had one word written in bold ink—DEATH!

About Abigail Keam

 

Abigail Keam is an award-winning and Amazon best-selling author who writes the Josiah Reynolds Mystery series about a Southern female beekeeper turned amateur sleuth living in the glamorous world of oak-cured bourbon, antebellum mansions, and Thoroughbred farms. 

Besides loving history, Kentucky bourbon and chocolate, Abigail loves honeybees and for many years made her living by selling honey at a farmers’ market like her protagonist, Josiah Reynolds. She is an award-winning beekeeper who has won many honey awards at the Kentucky State Fair including the Barbara Horn Award, which is given to beekeepers who rate a perfect 100 in a honey competition. 

Miss Abigail has taken her knowledge of beekeeping to create a fictional beekeeping protagonist, Josiah Reynolds, who solves murder mysteries in the Bluegrass State. While Miss Abigail’s novels are for enjoyment, she discusses the importance of a local sustainable food economy and land management for honeybees and other creatures. She currently lives on the Kentucky River in a metal house with her husband and various critters. She still has honeybees.

 

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Book Review: Can't Run With the Big Dogs (Veronica Kildare K-9 Mystery, #4) by Tracy Carter

Can't Run with the Big Dogs by Tracy Carter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Excitement, suspense, and the heroine's special relationships with working dogs make this tale of mystery and hidden menace a must-read!

Can't Run With the Big Dogs is the fourth book in Tracy Carter's dog-loving Veronica Kildare K-9 Mystery series, featuring the savvy dog trainer and her amazing dog, Leda, and their wonderful circle of family and friends, each with their own working dogs and passion for helping others. In this latest adventure, Veronica and Leda are called upon to trail the paths of several missing, lost, and abducted people, and readers get a front-row seat as a couple of service-dogs-in-training learn their new craft.

Veronica, a lifelong dog lover, has built a new life as the owner of her own dog training facility and the human half of the area's premier search-and-rescue team, alongside her Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Leda. But before settling in Boulder, she had been the victim of an horrific ambush when her district attorney boss and sheriff's deputy fiancé had been gunned down by a violent criminal who then eluded capture. While the gunman's burned-out vehicle with an unidentified body inside had eventually been discovered, there had been no positive proof that his reign of terror and threats to Veronica were over. Throughout the series, the lingering threat that Tommy Arnett was still out there, watching and waiting, has really enhanced the foreboding and suspense of the stories, and this book provides the same brooding background menace. Still, a note of hope lingers as everyone waits for the results of new DNA testing.

Veronica's relationship with her delightful professional baseball player beau, Ricardo, has helped heal her emotional wounds from the past, and their time together is warm and comfortable. Veronica is supported by her loving and talented father, Bob, who tests and rights reviews for outdoor outdoors equipment and has a clear genius for manipulating and processing out information via the Internet, besides being a dab hand in the kitchen, and by Michael, the young product of the state foster system, now living on site while attending college and learning to become a K-9 handler and dog trainer himself. Veronica's best friend Sylvia, her husband, Boulder PD Sergeant Tim Donovan, and their brood of two sets of twin teenage daughters round out her close-knit circle of friends. As a group, they focus on service and making a positive impact on their environment and community. While facing some difficult situations, they always strive for excellence and maintain a positive attitude, which becomes very important when partnered with a working dog on assignment.

Yet, the highlights of the book are those featuring Veronica's work with the dogs. Beyond Leda and her exciting rescue operations in the surrounding Colorado wilderness areas, this book also features her adventures with two fledgling service dogs. Sky, an 18-month-old Australian cattle dog mix and shelter rescue, is undergoing training to sniff out and alert nursing home staff to the presence of C. diff, an insidious bacteria that can be deadly to the elderly. Decla, a two-year-old Irish Red and White Setter who lost her human family in a car accident, is finding a new home and purpose as a drug-detection dog at the local horse-racing track. Decla's storyline intersects with the main plot of strange goings-on at the track, where already two grooms with important information have gone missing.

Finally, the author chooses an exceptionally versatile setting by placing the action in the Boulder/Denver, Colorado, area. The descriptions of the locations are vivid and so critical to the action that readers can almost feel the bitter cold and damp, smell the crisp, fir-scented air, and feel the loose, rocky trails beneath their feet as Veronica and Leda trail the scent of someone who is having the worst day of their life.

With its engaging cast of characters, vibrant settings, and compelling plot, I recommend CAN'T RUN WITH THE BIG DOGS to readers of mysteries, thrillers, and suspense.

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Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: The Filbert Steps (Telegraph Hill Mystery, #1) by Lila Blake

 

The Filbert Steps

The Telegraph Hill Mysteries

by

Lila Blake

About The Filbert Steps

 

The Filbert Steps (The Telegraph Hill Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting - California
Publisher: Sutro House Press
Publication date: August 31, 2026
Print length: 301 pages
Digital ISBN-13: 979-8951746016 / ASIN: B0H52YDTRG

A body on the steps. A neighborhood that saw nothing.

Vivian Salvatore came back to Telegraph Hill with a cat, a divorce settlement, and a book she cannot seem to write.

At fifty-two, newly single and trying to rebuild her life, she has settled into the rhythms of San Francisco’s most beautiful staircase: coffee at the corner café, morning walks on the Filbert Steps, old neighbors on three corners, and the comforting illusion that everyone knows everyone.

Then, on a bright October morning, Vivian finds one of the city’s most ambitious developers dead on the third landing.

The police are ready to call it a fall. But Vivian spent twenty-seven years reading teenagers’ faces for a living, and she knows when a story does not fit. A coat buttoned wrong. A cigarette ground out where it should not be. Storefronts quietly sold to a post-office box in Delaware. And a neighborhood full of people who had reason to want one man gone.

As Vivian begins asking questions, she discovers that Telegraph Hill has been keeping secrets for years — about money, loyalty, grief, and who really gets to call a place home.

The Filbert Steps introduces Vivian Salvatore, a sharp-eyed, warm-hearted sleuth who notices everything and forgives almost as much.

Perfect for readers who love older women sleuths, atmospheric San Francisco mysteries, neighborhood secrets, found community, and fair-play cozy mysteries with literary depth.

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About Lila Blake

Lila Blake writes San Francisco neighborhood mysteries about foggy stairways, old houses, found family, and the secrets people keep when a place begins to change. Her Telegraph Hill Mysteries begin with The Filbert Steps, a literary cozy mystery featuring Vivian Salvatore, a fifty-two-year-old former teacher rebuilding her life after divorce. Lila is published by Sutro House Press, an independent fiction imprint based in San Francisco.

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Book Review: Sinister Remnants (Tori Winters Mystery, #4) by Anita Dickason

Sinister Remnants by Anita Dickason
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Will a legal challenge to Tori’s ownership of the Leichter inheritance ruin all her dreams?

Sinister Remnants is the fourth book in author Anita Dickason’s charming, yet suspenseful Tori Winters Mystery series set in Granbury, Texas. In the final run up to the grand opening of the Red Door Inn, rumors questioning the validity of Tori’s ownership of the former Leichter mansion and property begin to circulate and when a Houston attorney approaches David Tucker with cryptic promises that an anonymous client has proof of the claim, Tori begins to wonder if her dream of turning her grandmother’s home into an elegant B&B will ever become a reality.

The plot kicks off at a brisk pace with the stunning accusation occurring in the very first chapter, and the tension builds steadily as each new legal maneuver hits and long-held secrets come to light, bringing with them a new danger. In between, readers learn a little more about the family and the past as the complex case unfolds.

Tori and her friends have been through so much renovating the house and getting the historic old home ready to serve as a weekend B&B and weekday meeting center and café, so the rumor that it all may have been for naught hits pretty hard. These are good, kind people with a lot of energy and enthusiasm for Tori’s dream, and you can’t help but want for them to succeed. Conversely, the author has created some new characters who, after only a brief introduction, you know are trouble. For example, attorney Mark Houghton and Metro News reporter Charlotte Polaski are the very pictures of smarm.

Tori, David, and the rest of the Red Door Inn characters have become a family, and having read the previous books, I almost feel as though they were part of mine, so it was no surprise how quickly and completely I was invested in the outcome of the story. However, while this is the fourth Tori Winters book, the author subtly provides enough highlights from the past that readers new to the series can easily read and enjoy this one as a standalone novel. But the earlier books are great fun and really are must-reads in and of themselves.

I recommend SINISTER REMNANTS to cozy mystery readers, especially those who enjoy Texas-set stories.

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advance Review Copy from the author through Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours.

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Book Review: Murder on the Steel Pier (Tess Mancini Time Travel Mystery, #1) by Rosie Genova

Murder on the Steel Pier by Rosie Genova
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A fun and fascinating debut for this Imaginative and unique new mystery series!

Murder on the Steel Pier is the debut novel in author Rose Genova's imaginative, fantastically unique, and definitely nostalgic new Tess Mancini Time Travel Mystery series. After a night out on the town of Atlantic City celebrating her 35th birthday, a female reporter awakes the next morning in someone else's bed with no memory of how she got there. But this formula for a cliched Walk of Shame takes an immediate left turn: the bed is in her Great-Great-Aunt Netta's boardinghouse, everyone there thinks she's her long-deceased Great Aunt Theresa, and it's 1955 instead of 2025!

Teresa "Tess" Mancini has lived in Atlantic City her whole life, surrounded by family. Still, nothing prepares her for what she goes through with her distant relations and the hidden family secrets she uncovers. Life for the 30-year-old Theresa Mancini, a reporter like Tess, is much more restricted and sedate than what Tess is accustomed to in the present. However, Theresa is one smart cookie (don't let Zia Netta hear you say that) as she helps her great-niece navigate 1950s standards of decorum. I really liked that Theresa's thoughts would occasionally slip into Tess's mind while Tess unconsciously retained much of Theresa's knowledge of the times when she took her place in their shared body. Like Theresa, though, there are no flies on Tess either, and she's able to fake her way through her new life, look into the murder of one of the boarding house guests, and help Theresa's brother Val (the man who would be Tess's grandfather) from taking the rap. Val had publicly threatened the man the day before he was shot and left to die at The Steel Pier on the famous Atlantic City Boardwalk.

The plot is one big twist, with Tess trying to avert disaster for herself and her family in the future by changing something in the past. (She's seen the movies, too!) Suspicious boarders, shady characters, and secrets abound and steadily build the suspense in the past as Tess reaches out to one of the greatest minds of the 20th century to help her return to her rightful place in time. Wrap all this up with Val's looming death sentence, and the story kept me on the edge of my seat until the very final resolution.

With its great plot, surprising twists and turns, and engaging characters, I recommend MURDER ON THE STEEL PIER to historical cozy mystery readers, especially those who enjoy a time-travel element in their stories.

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Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: The Mysterious Case of the Missing House (The Redemption Detective Agency, #4) by Michele Pariza Wacek

 

The Mysterious Case of the Missing House

The Redemption Detective Agency

by

Michele Pariza Wacek

About The Mysterious Case of the Missing House

 

The Mysterious Case of the Missing House (The Redemption Detective Agency)
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Setting - Redemption, Wisconsin, in the 1990s
Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Publication date: July 15, 2026
Number of Pages: 177
ASIN: B0FMT7ST5F

Emily has a big decision in front of her. But before she can make it, Amelia Clark, one of Aunt Tilde's friends call The Redemption Detective Agency with an emergency. Apparently, Amelia can't get a hold of her niece, who's been house sitting, and she's worried that her niece forgot to water her rose bushes. Should be fairly straight forward, right? Drive to the house, see if the niece is there, and make sure the roses aren't dead as well. Except...the house is no longer there. It's now a fancy health club. Nor is the niece. Needless to say, Emily has no choice but to figure out what happened to Amelia's house and her niece before she makes any decisions about her career. Or her love life. A spin-off from the Charlie Kingsley Mystery series! The Redemption Detective Agency is a funny, twisty, romcom cozy mystery series set in the 1990s featuring silver sleuths solving cold cases, cats, dogs and an opposites attract love triangle. Great for fans of the Thursday Murder Club.

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About Michele Pariza Wacek

 

A USA Today Bestselling, award-winning author, Michele taught herself to read at 3 years old because she wanted to write stories so badly. It took some time (and some detours) but she does spend much of her time writing stories now. Mystery stories, to be exact. They’re clean and twisty, and range from psychological thrillers to cozies, with a dash of romance and supernatural thrown into the mix. If that wasn’t enough, she posts lots of fun things on her blog, including short stories, puzzles, recipes, and more, at MPWNovels.com. Michele grew up in Wisconsin (hence why all her books take place there), and still visits regularly, but she herself escaped the cold and now lives in the mountains of Prescott, Arizona, with her husband and southern squirrel hunter Cassie. When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading, hanging out with her dog, or watching the Food Network and imagining she’s an awesome cook. (Spoiler alert, she’s not. Luckily for the whole family, Mr. PW is in charge of the cooking.)

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Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: The Case of the Bullfighting Builder (Buttercup Bend Mysteries, #6) by Debbie De Louise

 

The Case of the Bullfighting Builder

A Buttercup Bend Mystery

by

Debbie De Louise

About The Case of the Bullfighting Builder

 

The Case of the Bullfighting Builder (Buttercup Bend Mysteries)

Cozy Mystery
6th in Series
Setting - Buttercup Bend, New York (fictional town in the Catskills)
Publisher: Independently published
Publication date: May 14, 2026
Print length: 268 pages
Paperback
ISBN-13: 979-8196898846 / ASIN: B0H1V1TW5M
Digital ASIN: B0H1QYNW2G

When Cathy Jefferson’s builder is found dead at the construction site of her new home, she’s pulled into a murder investigation that will test her detective skills like never before.

While sorting through her grandmother’s attic, Cathy uncovers a secret about her parents, who died in a car crash years earlier. Now juggling two cases and determined to learn the truth about her parents’ death and catch her builder’s killer, Cathy teams up with her fellow detectives Nancy and Howard.

Their investigation leads them to a ranch where a prize bull is kept, and to Cathy’s estranged uncle and her college roommate. As secrets unravel and danger closes in from every direction, Cathy discovers that the biggest surprise of all may still be waiting for her.

Will Cathy catch her builder’s killer so that her new home can be finished, and will she receive closure about the death of her parents? Find out in THE CASE OF THE BULLFIGHTING BUILDER, the sixth book in the Buttercup Bend Mysteries series by Debbie De Louise.

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About Debbie De Louise

Debbie De Louise is an award-winning author and a retired reference librarian. She is a member of Sisters-in-Crime, International Thriller Writers, the Cat Writers’ Association, and the South Carolina Writers Association. She’s written over twenty books including three cozy mystery series: the Cobble Cove Mysteries, Buttercup Bend Mysteries, and her new series, Soup the Supernatural Kitten Mysteries. She’s also written a paranormal romance, standalone mysteries, a time-travel novel, and a collection of cat poems. Her stories and poetry appear in more than a dozen anthologies. Originally from Long Island, she moved to South Carolina where she now lives with her husband, daughter, and three cats. Learn more about Debbie and her books by visiting her website at https://debbiedelouise.com.

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Book Review: The Corpse by the Creek (Succulent Sleuth Cozy Mystery, #3) by Iris March

The Corpse by the Creek by Iris March
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Volunteers on a stream monitoring outing find a dead body.

The Corpse by the Creek is the third book in author Iris March's fun and comfortable Succulent Sleuth Cozy Mystery series, featuring two twin sisters and their cousin who own and operate a small-town plant nursery they inherited jointly from their grandmother, who started the business. With the nursery's parking lot adjoining that for a trailhead of the Buckeye Trail, the women are often the first to know if there's trouble on the trail, even more so when one of them discovers the body of a murder victim while out learning to monitor the local waterways.

When Molly and her husband, Scott, are walking the route on part of the Buckeye Trail to their next stream monitoring site with their trainer, Heath Reed, they come across the body of a man in a suit lying face down and deceased. Soon, the victim is identified as a much-disliked property developer who has been riding roughshod over tenants' feelings in the commercial buildings he has been acquiring in the area, including those next door to Patty's Plant Place. Feeling somewhat invested in what happened to the man, Molly, May, and the rest of the gang at the nursery begin snooping around. But things become critical when they discover that cousin Shannon was the man's real estate agent for many of his recent acquisitions, and the police detective on the case is looking hard in her direction.

Molly is an interesting and earnest young woman, and though she runs her own business, she still finds the time and dedication to participate in worthwhile, altruistic endeavors, such as volunteering for water monitoring with Scott. They are both inspired and renewed by spending time in the great outdoors and want to make a difference. Her twin sister, May, is the busy mother of two school-age children and manages the administrative side of their business, as well as the deep dives into internet research they need to solve this crime. Although close to her sister, as one imagines, May tended to be critical of Molly's every move in this story, while Molly and Shannon, who is normally the sisters' joint antagonist, finally had a genuine moment to air their thoughts and feelings. Hopefully, this is a turning point in the cousins' relationships, and May is not stepping in as a replacement source of tension.

The story moves along at a brisk pace, with the murder victim's discovery occurring early on and the sisters deciding right away to investigate. Since May's husband, Detective Joe Sato, is not assigned to the case, they have lost their special connection to what is officially happening. They are warned off, but did a pretty good job of lifting information and clues from legitimately available sources and targeted chats with people they know who had deals with the dead man. They also were pretty good about taking another person with them whenever they went off on one of their investigatory fishing expeditions. With the victim's terrible reputation, there was no shortage of suspects to rule out, and the big reveal, while in a public place, was still a doozy.

Although this is the third book, it works well as a standalone, so readers new to the series can read and enjoy it on its own. I recommend THE CORPSE BY THE CREEK to cozy mystery fans, especially those who enjoy gardening, plants, or advocating for water quality.

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advance Review Copy from the author through Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours.

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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

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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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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