ARC Review: PRIDE AND PREMEDITATION (Jane Austen Murder Mystery #1) by Tirzah Price

PRIDE AND PREMEDITATION (Jane Austen Murder Mystery #1)

by Tirzah Price

Release Date: April 6, 2021; Harper Teen

From Goodreads:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman who desires a law career must be in want of a case. So when seventeen-year-old Lizzie Bennet hears about a scandalous society murder, she sees an opportunity to prove herself as a solicitor by solving the case and ensuring justice is served.

Except the man accused of the crime already has a lawyer on his side: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the stern young heir to the prestigious Pemberley Associates law firm. Lizzie is determined to solve the murder before Darcy can so that she can show the world that a woman can be just as good as a man. (The fact that Darcy is an infuriating snob doesn’t help.) But there’s still a killer on the loose, and as the case gets more complicated, Lizzie and Darcy may have to start working together to avoid becoming the next victims themselves.

Blog Tour & ARC Review: THE INHERITANCE GAMES (The Inheritance Games #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

THE INHERITANCE GAMES (The Inheritance Games #1) 
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Release Date: September 29, 2020; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

From Goodreads:

A Cinderella story with deadly stakes and thrilling twists, perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out.

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. 

SPECTACLE by Jodie Lynn Zdrok #Excerpt #Giveaway #BlogTour

SPECTACLE 
by Jodie Lynn Zdrok
Date Published: February 12, 2019; Tor Teen

About the book:

A YA murder mystery in which a young reporter must use her supernatural visions to help track down a killer targeting the young women of Paris. 

Paris, 1887. 

Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day's new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered--from the perspective of the murderer himself. 

When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer's identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.

Underrated Books I Love So Much #TTT

Hi and welcome to Top Ten Tuesday- a weekly event hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Follow this link for more info =)

This week's theme is Books I LOVED with Fewer than 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads aka Books I'd Relentlessly Persuade Everyone to Read. If I could just convince one of you to read any of the books featured, I'd die happy. Lol

Seriously though, please check these books out if you haven't already. I tried to include a diverse list of books so I really think there's one for everyone. Happy reading! =)

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1. The Ryogan Chronicles by Erica Cameron

I first saw Island of Exiles up for request on Netgalley. I love the cover and I was super intrigued with the short description. So I thought why not?

I had no idea what I was in for. I had no idea this would turn out to be one of my most loved trilogies. Anyone looking for a diverse, unique and exciting read, this book is definitely for you! Trust me, you wouldn't want to miss this!

Release Blitz & Giveaway: DEATH OPENS A WINDOW by Mikel J. Wilson

DEATH OPENS A WINDOW (Mourning Dove Mysteries #2)

by Mikel J. Wilson

Date Published: 10.19.18

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

Mystery

About the book:

Emory Rome is back in DEATH OPENS A WINDOW, Book 2 of the Mourning Dove Mysteries and the follow-up to the national bestseller MURDER ON THE LAKE OF FIRE.

As he struggles with the consequences of his last case, Emory must unravel the inexplicable death of a federal employee in a Knoxville high-rise. But while the reticent investigator is mired in a deep pool of suspects - from an old mountain witch to the powerful Tennessee Valley Authority - he misses a greater danger creeping from the shadows. 

The man in the ski mask returns to reveal himself, and the shocking crime of someone close is unearthed.

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AT THIRTY-TWO STORIES, the Godfrey Tower jutted from the Knoxville skyline like a shark fin in the Tennessee River. Unseen through the frameless exterior walls of silvery, reflective glass, a young woman on the twenty-ninth floor sat with a phone held to her ear, pretending to be on a business call as she stared out the floor-to-ceiling window behind her desk. While her colleagues busied themselves on phones or computers at the dozens of cubicles throughout the large, open office space, Angie was not contributing to the organization’s productivity.

If she had looked down and across the street, the attractive brunette would’ve seen the unremarkable roof of the area’s next-tallest building fourteen floors below her. Instead she focused on the unobstructed view of downtown and the hazy, snow-peaked mountains beyond. She imagined herself hiking below the snowline with her new lumbersexual boyfriend and lying with him on a blanket before a tantric campfire. Angie could almost hear the crackling wood, until she realized the sound was coming from behind her.

She turned her chair around to see her boss tapping her desk with his pen. The hoary goat of a man stared her down, his pinched eyes straining to scold her through spotted glasses. “You’re having a rather one-sided conversation.”

Angie held up a silencing finger to her boss and made up something to say to her imaginary caller. “Thank you so much for your feedback, Mr. Watkins. We always appreciate hearing about good customer service, and I’ll be sure to pass along your kudos. Okay. Take care now.” She hung up the phone and greeted her boss with a smile. “I’m sorry, but I didn’t hear what you said.” She mimed a talking mouth with her hand. “He was talking my ear off.”

Mr. Ramsey, however, did not return her smile. In fact, a look of horror sprinted across his face as something behind her snatched his attention. Before Angie could turn around to see what it was, she heard a great shattering, followed by the pelting of glass on her back and right cheek.

A dark-haired man in a brown suit flew through the window headfirst and thudded face-up onto the floor beside her. The impact against the man’s back shoved the air from his lungs. He gurgled as he struggled to regain his breath – although no one could hear it over the screams of Angie and several of her co-workers. Shards of glass protruded from his head and neck, one at the base of an erratic fountain of blood that sprang from his carotid artery.

Angie, now shocked into silence, tore her eyes from the dying man and toward the broken window through which she had daydreamed just a moment earlier. Oblivious to the blood trickling from the small cuts on her own face, she took a step toward the large hole the man’s body had punched into the glass wall. She poked her head outside and looked all around.

Her boss grabbed her and pulled her away from the precarious opening. “Angie, what are you doing? It’s not safe!”

The young woman turned a confused face to him. “Where did he come from?”

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Bestselling mystery and science fiction author Mikel J. Wilson draws on his Southern roots for the Mourning Dove Mysteries, a series of novels featuring bizarre murders in the Smoky Mountains region of Tennessee. 

Building on the success of the first book in the series, Wilson continues his “no guns or knives” philosophy for murder as he delves deeper into the lives of the characters and their evolving dynamics.

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New Release & Giveaway: LIVE ON TV 3 by Bill Evans

LIVE ON TV 3

Publisher: Koehler Books

Date of Publication: October 10, 2018
Mystery, Thriller

About the book:

Twenty years before Murder at Broadcast Park, Stewart Simon own the ABC TV station in Palm Springs. His future general manager, Lisa, was just starting her broadcast career at the ABC affiliate. There was no better place to be in local television in the 80s and early 90s then Palm Springs, California. Home of Bob Hope, President Gerald Ford, and yes, Sonny Bono, just when he began thinking about politics. The TV station in this small resort town and golf capital of the world was at the center of it all.

Read about Lisa’s rise up through the newsroom to sales and eventually how she ended up marrying the second best love of her life….instead of the man that owned her heart. And during all of this Sonny Bono runs for Mayor of Palm Springs (and then cancels Spring Break!).

Enjoy this entertaining read and once again peek behind the curtain of a local TV station through the creative, witty, writing of Bill Evans, a former TV General Manager himself.

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MURDER AT BROADCAST PARK

Publisher: Koehler Books

Date Published: October 15, 2017

Before this current age of broadcasting acquisitions and mergers, local TV stations were owned by the broadcasters, not investment firms. They lived to tell the stories of their communities. In Murder at Broadcast Park, the CBS station located in the rich resort town of Santa Barbara becomes it’s own story. “We never want to be our own news,” was the mandate from Barry Burke, the station’s news director. Except in this case, people are dying. 

With three murders, more affairs, but no suspects, investigators peer behind the scenes of the local news. Pull the veil off to find twists, turns, and secrets behind the scenes of this resort TV station and its cast of TV professionals. Nothing is off limits.

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Bill Evans is a 45 year broadcast veteran turned author. His first novel, Murder at Broadcast Park, released October, 2017. With his experience and insight into what goes on behind the scenes in the broadcast world, Bill’s novels paint a vivid picture of what really happens when the cameras are off.

Bill resides on California’s beautiful Central Coast. He continues to have a passion in the broadcast world and working in local media.

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Promo Blitz & Giveaway: BBQ, BIKERS AND MURDER (A Hawg Heaven Cozy Culinary Mystery #1) by Summer Prescott

BBQ, BIKERS AND MURDER
(A Hawg Heaven Cozy Culinary Mystery, Book 1)

Publisher: Summer Prescott Books

About the book:

A small Midwestern town.

The best BBQ in the state.

A single mom, determined to do what it takes.

A murder that rocks her world.

Rossalyn Channing is tough, but the odds are stacked against her. Faced with the reality of starting a new life with her teenage son, after her heroic husband is killed in the line of duty, she knows that she has to do whatever it takes to survive.

Irresistibly drawn to a mysterious little building in a small town, the determined single mom uses every dime she's got to buy it, with plans to turn it into a diner that her late husband would have loved. When Rossalyn finds herself caught up in the middle of a murder investigation, however, she begins to wonder if the challenges she faces will defeat her.

A body is found on her property, the sheriff in town suspects Rossie of the murder, and it looks like her world is falling apart. It's up to this determined mom to prove her innocence and save her small family. Can she do it?

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The Hawg Heaven Cozy Culinary Mysteries series

BBQ, Bikers, and Murder (#1)
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Baby Back Murder (#2)
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Nacho Usual Murder (#3)
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Hawgs, Dogs, and Murder (#4)
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Killer Barbeque (#5)
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Home Grown Murder (#6)
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Bittersweet Murder (#7)
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Summer Prescott is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author, who has penned nearly one hundred Cozy Mysteries, and a successful Thriller, The Quiet Type. 
She makes her home in the Midwest with her Standard Poodle, Elvis, at her side.

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Grab now on KU: FINDING FELICITY (Gold Coast Retrievers #5) by P. Creeden

FINDING FELICITY (Gold Coast Retrievers #5)

by P. Creeden
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About the book:

Can the sweetness of rekindled love temper the bitter tang of murder?

Despite a difficult childhood, Felicity Stilton never gave up on her dreams. Now, as an adult, she and her Golden Retriever, JJ, help special needs children pave the way for their own futures. Everything is perfect, until she gets the one call she never expected to receive.

Officer Darren Willis hates that it falls to him to tell the beautiful and inspiring Felicity her birth mother has taken her own life. Although the case appears to be open-and-shut, the grieving daughter insists something foul is afoot. Will he be brave enough to follow dark clues into the past alongside the one woman with whom he just might want to make a future? Only Darren believes Felicity’s suspicions and is willing to help investigate what really happened to her long-lost mother.

When the signs begin to point to murder, Darren worries Felicity might be next… But should he abandon the case to protect her even if it means losing the woman he loves forever? Find out if JJ will be able to keep his humans safe as they race to find a mysterious killer and clear her mother’s name.

This sweet tale of suspense, intrigue, and surprises is one you won’t want to miss...

Order your copy and start reading today! Finding Felicity is book five in the Gold Coast Retrievers series. Each book stands completely on its own, but you'll have more fun if you read them all together!

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