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  • This book is for Florence Nightingale Shore and all war nurses, then and now, around the world. Book 1 in the Mitford Murders Series. Inspired by the real, unsolved murder of war nurse Florence Nightingale Shore and the real Mitford family, The Mitford Murders is a fictional historical mystery featuring the fictional character of Louisa…

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  • It was a crazy idea, lacking all business sense and even common sense for that matter. I’d never driven a boat, never been to the swamp or laid eyes on a bayou. But I was ready for a change. Book 1 in the The Lettering Detective Series. When Mila Breaux’s rent check bounces and she…

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  • Book 1 in The Elizabeth of England Chronicles series. The position of a queen is more dangerous than that of a common man. For there is farther to fall, and there are more people who would wish your destruction than any commoner could imagine. The Bastard Princess is a first person memoir detailing the life…

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  • Ad/PR. Many thanks to Natalie Summers for this ARC. Book 1 in the Spelltide Bay Magic Mysteries series, publication day: July 15, 2026. I’m Sara Rivers, recently unemployed secretary, crochet enthusiast and apparently half-undine who didn’t know magic existed until this week. If you saw the cover for this one and thought it looked super…

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  • I didn’t typically force my way through locked doors, and certainly not those belonging to clients. Today, however, was an exception. Book 1 in the Hadley Home Design Cozy Mysteries series. Darlington Hills, Virginia, is interior designer Hadley Sutton’s idea of paradise on earth. Eager to escape New Orleans and her ex-boyfriend, Hadley is in…

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  • Many thanks to Natalie Summers for this ARC, it sounds so fun and I’m looking forward to reading this soon! From Goodreads: A magical island. A mysterious relative. A family she didn’t know existed. Inheriting a house from a dead great-aunt she’s never met should’ve been Sara Rivers’ first clue that things were about to…

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  • A story of beautiful genius, a family’s love, a remarkable woman, and your father’s amazing journey. A story of the darkness cast upon them and the theft of all they hold dear. A story of deceit and murder. Ad/PR. Many thanks to Booksta Influencers for this ebook. Have you ever wondered what paintings would say…

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  • Being raised by the dead was, in Mal’s own words, a living nightmare. Ad/PR. Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for this ARC. A funny, wacky, paranormal mystery with a unique approach to magic. Malowin, Mal, Gladstone is a reluctant necromancer. He’s forced to deal with his undead and very ungrateful parents and…

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  • June Reading Recap

    Ad/PR. In June I read cozy mysteries, thrillers, horror, fantasy, historical mysteries and romance. I read about magical worlds, the collapse of society, ghosts and curses, reluctant necromancy, gnomes and pixies, deadly reunions, forbidden loves, and amateur sleuths at work and on holidays. And I added an emoji guide to my reads this time to…

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  • Each one of you has something to hide. Come now, am I right? If you know Hercule Poirot, you know that he is right indeed. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, you’ll find a group of suspects who all have something to hide, who all have a motive for murder, and who all had the…

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