Raspberry Chocolate Murder by Leena Clover – Spotlight and Giveaway

September 5, 2019 By 11 Comments

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Brand new cozy mystery series from the creator of Pelican Cove

**Enraged Baseball Star Murders College Sweetheart**

The past two years have been tough for Anna Butler. Widowed at fifty five and diagnosed with a dreaded illness soon after, she is struggling to keep it all together. Then the license for her dream café is rejected. Anna feels she can’t get a break.

Cassie Butler dropped a glitzy Hollywood life and came home to nurse her mother. Penniless after being duped by her crooked manager, she isn’t striving too hard to rebuild her flagging career. Living with her estranged mother after twenty years is proving to be a challenge.

When a young college girl is found dead in the woods, her boyfriend becomes the top suspect.

Anna agrees to go sleuthing to help her friend’s son, a bright young kid she has watched grow up. As Anna uncovers one clue after another, her faith in the boy begins to waver. Is he really as innocent as he claims to be?

Raspberry Chocolate Murder is the first juicy mystery in a brand new cozy mystery series from international Amazon bestselling author Leena Clover. Set in the small seaside town of Dolphin Bay on the California coast, this is a fast pageturner with plenty of twists and turns and luscious food.

If you love strong heroines, small town life, friendships that endure and yummy food that makes your mouth water, you will love Dolphin Bay.

Grab this beach cozy today and start reading.

Enjoy an Excerpt:

Lara Crawford’s mouth was set in a sneer. Her crooked nose did nothing to soften her appearance. Nor did her power suit or the strand of expensive pearls she wore around her neck.

“Is it my lucky day?” she crooned. “Dolphin Bay’s famous husband killer is here to see me.”

“Stop that nonsense,” Julie snapped. She turned to Anna and tipped her head. “Go on, Anna.”

Anna placed the letter she had received before Lara.

“Why was my application rejected?”

Lara rolled her eyes.

“Vendor licensing is not in my purview.”

“This is your signature, Lara,” Anna pointed out. “Do you deny that?”

“I sign dozens of documents in a day,” Lara drawled. “But I am not always the decision maker.”

“You know what Anna has been through, Lara,” Mary said softly. “Have a heart.”

“You mean how she’s roaming scot free after killing her husband?” Lara asked with relish. “I wouldn’t know.”

“You are crossing the line, Lara,” Julie warned. She took Anna’s hand in hers and gave it a squeeze. “The police could never establish what happened to John.”

“But I know,” Lara pounced, flinging a finger at Anna. “She killed him in cold blood.”

About the Author: Leena Clover is the international bestselling author of the popular Pelican Cove cozy mystery series.

An avid reader herself, Leena grew up reading mystery books. Some of her favorite authors are Agatha Christie and M C Beaton. Now she is trying her hand at writing whodunnits, making them as nail biting as possible while keeping them cozy.

Her love for food is evident in all her books. Readers can find yummy treats in the pages of her books, along with friends that last a lifetime.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Blood on the Chesapeake by Randy Overbeck

August 30, 2019 By Leave a Comment


Thanks for joining us on our 12th anniversary scavenger hunt! There are two ways to enter to win and it’s easy to play– first read the blurb below, then answer the question on the first Rafflecopter. You might win a $100 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC. Follow and visit authors social media pages on the second rafflecopter and you’re entered to win another $100 Amazon/BN GC!

Wilshire, Maryland seems like the perfect shore town on the Chesapeake Bay—quiet, scenic, charming—and promises Darrell Henshaw a new start in life and a second chance at love. That is, until he learns the town hides an ugly secret.

A thirty-year-old murder in the high school. And a frightening ghost stalking his new office. Burned by an earlier encounter with the spirit world—with the OCD scars to prove it—he does NOT want to get involved. But when the desperate ghost hounds him, Darrell concedes. Assisted by his new love, he follows a trail that leads to the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and even the Klu Klux Klan.

Then, when two locals who try to help are murdered, Darrell is forced to decide if he’s willing to risk his life—and the life of the woman he loves—to expose the killers of a young man he never knew.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: An Eye for an Eye by Jocelyn Pedersen

August 29, 2019 By 1 Comment


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Rookie detective Izzy O’Donnell is on the trail of a serial killer who’s murdering victims and leaving behind body parts wrapped in Bible verses. Izzy tracks him down with the help of her two partners—a very enigmatic Moreno and a rather grumpy Cal—her injured dad’s former partner.

Meanwhile, her wacky sidekick, Apple MacIntosh, totes a pet rabbit around in a baby sling, insisting he’s telepathic and can smell death on Izzy’s clothes. Unnerved by unexplained dreams, Izzy forges forth to solve the case. A homeless man, a philandering televangelist, and a mentally challenged gardener are among the suspects who distract Izzy from seeing the killer, who has been getting to know her all along.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Necessary Detour by Kim Hornsby

August 29, 2019 By 2 Comments


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After an attempt on her life, rock star, Goldy, leaves show business and hides at a secluded lake house from a deranged stalker, but something strange is happening at the house across the bay and Goldy can’t look away to save her own life.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Peaches-N-Creamed by Karen C. Whalen

August 29, 2019 By 2 Comments


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Catching a murderer wasn’t part of her wedding plans…

Jane Marsh and her fiancé visit the wine country on the western slope of Colorado during the Peach Festival to check out a location for their wedding. The dinner club comes along to make a weekend out of it, and they play a murder mystery game as part of the B&B’s getaway package. Unbeknown to the participants, one of them will not live to see the next day.

Jane is horrified when she discovers a body and realizes it’s for real…not just part of the game. The B&B quickly begins to lose business, so the owner begs Jane to solve the crime fast.

Another person is murdered and one of the dinner club members confesses. Jane is in disbelief…and even more desperate to solve the murder before someone she cares about goes down for a crime they didn’t commit and the killer strikes again.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Deception Island by Judith A. Boss

August 29, 2019 By 4 Comments


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Deception Island is a 90,000-word suspense novel set in Antarctica.

While working at an archaeological site in Afghanistan, Rachel St. Claire, who was adopted under mysterious circumstances at the age of three, receives an urgent call from her colleague Dr. Grace McAllister. Dr. McAllister insists that Rachel come with her and her nephew Trevor, a handsome polar geophysicist, to Antarctica to examine an unusual body that was found in an ice cave.

Little does Rachel know that bioterrorists, who are engaged in secret genetic experiments under the ice sheet of the Antarctica Peninsula, are also after the body–and her.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: An Old Remedy by Jo A. Hiestand

August 28, 2019 By 4 Comments


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Year after year, the villagers near Stanton Moor celebrate May Day with bonfires and the laying of rowan branches to seek protection for home and cattle. But the men who gathered this May evening hadn’t come for blessings. They had come for murder.
The dead body is discovered on a lonely moor, decapitated in the fashion of a sacrificial killing of sheep or chickens.
The members of the Derbyshire Constabulary’s Murder Team are called in to investigate, and soon a series of decapitated animals appears on the moor.
As fear over a second murder grips the villagers, the Team discovers this dead man may have had connections with an organization that smuggles illegal products into Britain. That’s bad enough, but the smuggling turns from a mere criminal case to something that hits closer to home for Brenna.
In the midst of the tangle of smugglers, murder, and village secrets, Brenna struggles to keep focused on the case and nab the one person who may be responsible for the trail of villainy that threatens to engulf everyone⎯cop and villager alike⎯connected with the moorland murders.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Empty Handed by Jo A Hiestand

August 27, 2019 By 1 Comment


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One dark night, fine artist Craig Saxton goes missing from his village. His body is found thirty-two hours later in the river, floating like a bobber on a fishing line. Rumors swell like tidal waves: who killed this likeable young man?

Now, two years later, his fiancée hires ex-police detective Michael McLaren to find out.

The peaceful village holds this, as well as other, secrets: who’s poaching fish from the river, and why is the local ghost suddenly reappearing after decades of sleep?

What appears to be a straight-forward investigation quickly becomes as tangled as fishing lines. Are the strange events, as well a personal assault on McLaren, simply to muddy the investigative waters, or are they connected to Craig’s death?

McLaren has his hands full. They become even fuller when a nemesis from his past appears one night, bent on revenge. And the ensuing struggle opens a new future for one man…and leaves the other empty handed.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: The Necessary Deaths by David C Dawson

August 27, 2019 By 2 Comments


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Sexy student Simon Gregory is in a coma after what looks like a suicide attempt. But was it attempted murder? Photographs appear to link him with a gay sex party at the Prime Minister’s country residence. Is Simon being blackmailed, or is he the blackmailer?

Reluctant sleuth Dominic Delingpole and his boyfriend Jonathan drawn into a tale of corruption, political intrigue and murder that infiltrates the genteel heart of middle England.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Secret Betrayal by C.B. Clark

August 26, 2019 By 11 Comments


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Head college librarian, Marissa Reynolds has spent years distancing herself from her crime king pin uncle and his criminal empire. When she awakens in an unfamiliar hotel room with blood on her hands and no memory of how she got there, the past returns with a vengeance, and her life spirals into a nightmare.

Straight-laced, Assistant district Attorney, Scott Bannister has spent a lifetime seeking justice for the senseless gangland shooting deaths of his parents. When he realizes Marissa is the niece of his prime suspect, he crosses a line guaranteed to put in jeopardy both his life and his beloved career.

He’s made it clear he’ll do anything to destroy her uncle. She fears he’s using her to achieve his goal. As the body count mounts, and their lives are threatened, they must put aside their distrust and work together to find the devious killer. Will they be able to forgive and find true love?

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