LETHAL IN OLD LACE: A Consignment Shop Mystery by Duffy Brown is on virtual book tour. The cozy mystery stops at Readeropolis today with a character guest post.
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It all started when I was cutting through a back alley to get to Walker Boone’s house. We just got engaged so I was taking a shortcut to get to his place fast. I would like to say I was in a hurry because I missed him and I did miss him but the fact is I had questions. I needed to know where were we going to live once we got married and who would do the cooking and what kind of toothpaste were we going to use? But that’s another issue and right now there’s a missing body.
When I was cutting thought the alley there was a white Caddy with a body in the back. At first I thought the person in the back was maybe a tired old soul needing a place to take a nap but no one sleeps with eyes open, right?
I would have stuck around to take a better look but a big rat and bigger roach ganged up on me and I ran for it. When I bought Boone back to the car it was gone.
Okay, this is all pretty bad but what makes the situation worse is that I know who owns the Caddy. It belongs to the Abbott sisters who live next door to me. They are adorable retired school teachers who supplement their income by being Savannah’s fave professional mourners. No one can get a funeral weeping like the sisters.
So what should I do? Call the cops? What if the sisters are responsible for that body? Then they’d be arrested and I can’t have my neighbors in jail now can I? Not neighborly at all. Should I just forget the whole thing like Boone suggests? He says I’m on dead-body overload from tripping across them all the time.
Got any suggestions? What would you do if you found a body and then it went missing? Here’s a recipe for one of Auntie KiKi’s martinis to help you find an answer.
Lethal In Old Lace
Reagan Summerside returns in national bestselling author Duffy Brown’s fifth Consignment Shop mystery, now for the first time in hardcover.
There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz and Elsie Abbot, step up their business as professional mourners. They are so successful that the Sleepy Pines Retirement Center has hired them as a part of their retirement package. But the celebration over good business is cut short when the residents at Pines suddenly begin dying at an alarming rate. And the sisters are the first suspects.
Reagan has her doubts, however, and begins to look into the strange phenomenon. But then something even stranger happens: a body winds up in the sisters’ pink Caddy. The evidence begins to pile up and the suspicious case of Willie Fishbine, who swindled the sisters out of a fortune and coincidentally died prior to the Pines case, is reopened.
Not wanting Willie to be buried until they can find the killer responsible for the murders, Reagan must catch the culprit in time to walk down the aisle.
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Be sure to enter for a chance to win the Duffy Brown tote bag giveaway and follow the Great Escapes book tour (for other dates see the bottom of the post).
Character Guest Post
Reagan Summerside here and I think I’m losing my mind...bodies are going missing! How can this happen? I misplace stuff all the time like my keys and where the heck is my purse, I always misplace my purse but a body takes misplacing stuff to a whole new level.It all started when I was cutting through a back alley to get to Walker Boone’s house. We just got engaged so I was taking a shortcut to get to his place fast. I would like to say I was in a hurry because I missed him and I did miss him but the fact is I had questions. I needed to know where were we going to live once we got married and who would do the cooking and what kind of toothpaste were we going to use? But that’s another issue and right now there’s a missing body.
When I was cutting thought the alley there was a white Caddy with a body in the back. At first I thought the person in the back was maybe a tired old soul needing a place to take a nap but no one sleeps with eyes open, right?
I would have stuck around to take a better look but a big rat and bigger roach ganged up on me and I ran for it. When I bought Boone back to the car it was gone.
Okay, this is all pretty bad but what makes the situation worse is that I know who owns the Caddy. It belongs to the Abbott sisters who live next door to me. They are adorable retired school teachers who supplement their income by being Savannah’s fave professional mourners. No one can get a funeral weeping like the sisters.
So what should I do? Call the cops? What if the sisters are responsible for that body? Then they’d be arrested and I can’t have my neighbors in jail now can I? Not neighborly at all. Should I just forget the whole thing like Boone suggests? He says I’m on dead-body overload from tripping across them all the time.
Got any suggestions? What would you do if you found a body and then it went missing? Here’s a recipe for one of Auntie KiKi’s martinis to help you find an answer.
Lethal In Old Lace
Consignment Shop Mysteries
Duffy Brown.
Auntie KiKi’s Both Worlds Martini
Chocolate martini for when you need both chocolate and a martini
1 1/2 ounces chocolate liqueur
1 1/2 ounces Creme de Cacao
1/2 ounce vanilla vodka
2 1/2 ounces half-and-half
chocolate syrup, for rim
Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake.
Pour into a chilled cocktail glass rimmed with chocolate syrup. Add cherry skewered on toothpick. Does that sound delicious or what!
About the Book
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
1st with this publisher
Crooked Lane Books (March 13, 2018)
Hardcover: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1683315353
Digital ASIN: B074MB9R6J
Reagan Summerside returns in national bestselling author Duffy Brown’s fifth Consignment Shop mystery, now for the first time in hardcover.
There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz and Elsie Abbot, step up their business as professional mourners. They are so successful that the Sleepy Pines Retirement Center has hired them as a part of their retirement package. But the celebration over good business is cut short when the residents at Pines suddenly begin dying at an alarming rate. And the sisters are the first suspects.
Reagan has her doubts, however, and begins to look into the strange phenomenon. But then something even stranger happens: a body winds up in the sisters’ pink Caddy. The evidence begins to pile up and the suspicious case of Willie Fishbine, who swindled the sisters out of a fortune and coincidentally died prior to the Pines case, is reopened.
Not wanting Willie to be buried until they can find the killer responsible for the murders, Reagan must catch the culprit in time to walk down the aisle.
About the Author
While others girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt, Duffy Brown longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom. Today she conjures up who-done-it stories for Berkley Prime Crime and has two series, the national bestselling Consignment Shop Mysteries
set in Savannah and the Cycle Path Mysteries
on Mackinac Island.
set in Savannah and the Cycle Path Mysteries on Mackinac Island.Author Links:
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March 10 – Mysteries with Character – SPOTLIGHT
March 11 – The Power of Words - REVIEW, GIVEAWAY
March 11 – Sapphyria's Book Reviews - REVIEW
March 12 – Melina's Book Blog – REVIEW
March 12 – StoreyBook Reviews – GUEST POST
March 13 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
March 14 – Back Porchervations – REVIEW
March 15 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
March 16 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY
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March 17 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews - SPOTLIGHT
March 18 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY
March 18 – Readeropolis – GUEST POST, GIVEAWAY
March 19 – T's Stuff – SPOTLIGHT
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March 21 – La libreria di Beppe – SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY
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Thank you for the information on "LETHAL IN OLD LACE" by Duffy Brown and being part of the book tour. I'd love the opportunity to read this book!
ReplyDeleteI'd hate to find a body period. No idea how I would handle it much less if the body went missing.
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Best of luck with the book and book tour! I included the tour in the Monday, Mar. 19, 2018 edition of the The Cozy Mystery Weekly Reader: https://paper.li/Readeropolis/1518120147#/
ReplyDeleteI've included the tour in the Monday, Mar. 26, 2018 edition of The Mystery and Thriller Fiction Weekly Reader: https://paper.li/Readeropolis/1518127446#/
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