This blog post originally ran in 2020. Prices have changed, check before you buy!
At this time of year, I always run a birthdays promo. In the next few days, it is my birthday, Canada’s birthday, Independence Day, and this year, one more. July 4 is also the first birthday of this little fur face!
In honor of Q-Tip, I decided to offer What the Cat Knew, the first book in the Reg Rawlins Psychic Investigator series for $0.99
Check out the other specially-priced books I’ve gathered together as well. Add a few books to your birthday pile!
What the Cat Knew
Reg Rawlins, professional con, has really gotten herself into a bind this time.
The fortune teller gig started as a scam, but she suddenly finds herself tangled up in the case of Warren Blake, a man who she thought was dead. It turns out he may still be alive, but in mortal peril.
Reg has always taken the quick exit, the easy way out, but running out on this racket might mean someone else’s death.
Staying in it might mean hers.
Available in multiple stores
She Wore Mourning
A dead child.
A mother deep in mourning.
Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.
Declan’s death has been ruled an accident, but his grandmother thinks there is more to it. She fears Declan’s mother will not be able to find peace until Zachary can give them an answer once and for all. But as Zachary digs into the circumstances surrounding Declan’s death, he finds that all is not as it seems, and somebody doesn’t want him to find the truth.
Available in multiple stores
Tattooed Teardrops
Winner of Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016.
I don’t plan on getting in any trouble.
Tamara had thought that when she got out of juvie, things would be easier. But before long, it seems like her life is spiraling into chaos.
If she can’t prove to her probation officer that she is innocent of the allegations against her, she’s going back to prison, and Tamara just can’t let that happen.
Available in multiple stores
Spilling the Spice
When shady entrepreneurs slink into Spicetown to splurge on the 4th of July holiday, their enemies are bound to follow.
Mayor Cora Mae Bingham wants her statue dedication to take center stage at the celebration, but a murder in Spicetown steals the front page news.
Can she help the Police Chief Conrad Harris solve the crime and still be Grand Marshall of the parade?
Birthday Cake and Bodies
When Julia gathered Barker’s family at Peridale Manor for his surprise birthday party, she did not expect it to result in murder!
Minutes before the celebration is scheduled to begin, Barker’s nephew, Luke, is found strangled in his bed, putting an end to Julia’s dream of a quiet family get together. Only one of Barker’s family could have murdered the young man, but which one?
Thanks to a botched burglary in the village, the police station is clogged up, forcing Barker to go rogue with Julia. He shuts down the manor, vowing to solve the murder before sunrise.
Mira’s Cozy Birthday
This is a cozy mystery book about Annie Miller, senior citizen, who dabbles in solving mysteries. She, along with her best friend, Mira live outside a small Texas town. Annie tells stories about the escapades she and Mira get mixed up in — involuntarily, of course. “Mira’s Cozy Birthday” is the first book about one of their escapades.
Coffee, Fireworks and Murder
It appears Roger may have a secret love interest. Both Aggie and Betty are curious to learn more about this mysterious person named Pat that has Roger doing things out of his comfort zone; like going to a park to see the fireworks, and making dinner reservations for an expensive restaurant.
Being that Roger is a notorious cheapskate, and a bit of a snob, Aggie and Betty are dying to get a look at the person responsible for his transformation. As Aggie and Betty indulge in some snooping, they accidentally stumble over a dead body that helps to solve a mystery.
Unfortunately, it’s not the mystery they’d set out to solve.
Death Under the Fireworks
Nora Newberry could use a weekend getaway. She feels trapped & alone in her small town of Milburn, Wyoming and she just wants a break for a little while. So when she receives an invitation to visit an old friend for the 4th of July weekend, she jumps at the opportunity!
Nora met Katya when she worked as a chef in New York City. It’s been years since they’ve seen each other and it would be wonderful to catch up. And to do so on a private island in Portland, Oregon (who knew they had private islands in Portland, Oregon?!) seems like a dream come true! Especially considering that Katya’s in-laws-to-be, the owners of the island estate, have offered to pay Nora to cook a few meals while she’s there!
It can’t get better than a paid vacation with an old friend! So, without much need for consideration, Nora packs her things and heads off for a weekend in paradise!
Unfortunately, her dream weekend turns into a nightmare when her host dies at the dinner table. And, as if that’s not bad enough, it appears as if it was something in a dish Nora prepared that did him in…
Maple Syrup Murder
Welcome to Cider Island – a town where anyone who’s anyone knows something about someone. It’s just that kind of place. And things get a whole lot stickier for the residents when a businessman visiting the island ends up smothered at the local sugar bush.
With maple syrup season in full swing, Ida Noe’s fudge shop is busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest – especially when she’s invited to showcase her world famous Maple Bacon Fudge at Sweeney’s Sugar Bush. All is sweet until some poor sap kicks the bucket in the sugarhouse and all fingers point to Ida’s best friend Maura Sweeney.
With the help of her lumpy black Lab and origami loving friend, Ida is determined to “tap” the real killer and prove that maple can indeed be murder.
