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Spotlight and #Giveaway: Ninja Librarian Rebecca Douglass, Death by Trombone

>>>Enter to win a signed paper copy of Death by Trombone<<< JJ MacGregor's very bad day has just gotten a lot worse. JJ thought starting the day without coffee was a disaster, but now there's a dead musician behind the Pismawallops High School gym. His trombone is missing, and something about the scene is off …

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Interview: Vamps, Villains and Vaudeville, a Jazz Age Mystery by Ellen Mansoor Collier

In 1920s Galveston, society reporter Jazz Cross is in for a surprise when she attends a traveling vaudeville show with her beau, Prohibition Agent James Burton, and discovers that an old flame acts in the production. That night, they find a stabbing victim behind the Oasis — her half-brother Sammy’s speakeasy — who’s identified as …

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Spotlight: Plateful of Murder: A Terrified Detective Mystery by Carole Fowkes

Eating at Cannolis is murder on Claire's figure...but chasing a singing killer could be deadly.   >>>Enter to win all three Terrified Detective books<<< Private Detective Claire DeNardo is afraid of everything. Simple things like balloons, roller coasters, and hairpieces make her knees knock loud enough to be a band’s rhythm section. Unfortunately, the only …

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Interview: Loretta Ross, author of Death & The Brewmaster’s Widow

They call it “the Brewmaster’s Widow”; the abandoned brewery where Death Bogart’s brother died in an arson fire. With his girlfriend, Wren Morgan, Death goes home to St. Louis to take on a deeply personal mystery. When Randy Bogart went into the Einstadt Brewery, he left his broken badge behind at the firehouse. So why …

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Can an author of police procedurals write cozies? COFFEE IS MURDER by Carolyn Arnold

Of course she can. FOR SARA, COFFEE WAS ONE of life’s greatest—and simplest—pleasures. Every time she took a draw of freshly brewed java, her eyelids automatically lowered in appreciation of the robust flavor. Somehow, when drinking it, life seemed less complicated, or maybe it was just how it coated the palate and calmed her nerves …

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