What do you do when Hollywood takes over your tiny Maine village to make a movie? My latest Maine cozy mystery Mrs. Spinney’s Secret is featured at N. N. Light’s Mystery & Suspense Bookish Event today.
Our hero
eats a bad lobster—was it poison or oversight?
Find it
here: https://www.
Enter to win
a gift card! Here's the rafflecopter link:
https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/92db7750281
A birder finds a corpse and becomes entangled with a secretive former Senate aide, global investors, Chinese operatives, radical environmentalists, all searching for a mysterious briefcase.
Come one
come all down to N. N. Light’s Book Heaven. She’s holding a Mystery and
Suspense Bookish Event featuring my very own new cozy mystery In the Crosshairs: the Body on
Leffis Key! You’ll be introduced to Carson’s culinary skills and Palmer’s
ability to be distracted. And you can enter to win a fabulous gift card to
boot!
Here's the
link:
https://www.
Here's the rafflecopter link: https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/92db7750281
Come on down
to N. N. Light’s fabulous Mystery & Suspense Bookish Event today, where I’m
showcasing Hidden Gem: the Secret of St. Augustine.
In the excerpt we’ll meet the incorrigible, eccentric Barnaby who can eat ice
cream while contemplating murder. While you’re there, enter to win a fabulous prize!
Here's the rafflecopter link: https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/92db7750281
Please welcome Jennifer Ivy Walker and her latest release, steamy historical romantic suspense, The Witch of the Breton Woods.
Blurb
Traumatized by
horrors witnessed during the Nazi invasion of France, a young woman retreats to
the dense Breton woods where she becomes a member of the clandestine French
Resistance. When she finds a critically injured American paratrooper whose
plane was shot down, she shelters the wounded soldier in her secluded cottage,
determined to heal him despite the enormous risk.
Ostracized by
villagers who have labeled her a witch, she is betrayed by an informant who
reports to the Butcher—the monstrous leader of the local paramilitary
organization that collaborates with the Germans. As the enemy closes in, she
must elude the Gestapo while helping the Resistance reunite the American with
his regiment and join the Allied Forces in the Battle of Brittany.
Can true love triumph against all odds under the oppressive Third Reich?
Excerpt: The
Wounded Soldier
Low, agonized moaning
interrupted Yvette’s nightmarish reverie.
That’s a man’s
voice. And it’s coming from over there. She followed the deep groans through a copse of trees to find an
American soldier impossibly tangled in a nylon parachute. Suspended from a high
branch of a massive oak tree, he was dangling upside down, hanging by an
obviously broken leg. A sharp bone protruded from the torn, blood-soaked pants
of his khaki uniform, and dried blood—which must have leaked from under his
helmet—covered half of his contorted face. His pitiful wails pierced her heart.
I can’t lower him
to the ground by myself. He’s twice my weight. And if I cut the ropes, he’ll
plummet headfirst. He already has a head injury, judging from the gore all over
his forehead. Please, God, let him hang on until I get back.
“I’ll go get help. I
promise to come back soon.” She called up to him, hopeful that he could hear
her. And that he understood French.
The Wild Rose Press, July 10, 2024
Romantic Suspense/ Historical Romance
163 pp.
Heat Rating: Steamy
Buy links
About the Author
Jennifer Ivy Walker
has an MA in French literature and is a former high school teacher and
professor of French at a state college in Florida. Her novels encompass a love for French
language, literature, history, and culture, incorporating her lifelong study,
summers abroad, and many trips to France.
Social media contacts
Website: https://jenniferivywalker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferIvyWalker/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/jenniferivywalkerauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bohemienneivy
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/bohemienneivy/the-witch-of-the-breton-woods/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209456185-the-witch-of-the-breton-woods
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-witch-of-the-breton-woods-by-jennifer-ivy-walker
Someone is killing people with a crossbow, but what connects the murders is a mystery, and only a birder and the aide to a dead Senator can find the answers.
Longboat Key, on
the Gulf Coast of Florida is one of the barrier islands that protects Sarasota
from the bad moods of the Gulf of Mexico. This is what it’s like to live on the Gulf Coast of Florida:
by day the sky is the deep blue of Paul Newman’s eyes; at close of day it’s
flooded with a full palette of reds, oranges, pinks and purples. Put it this
way: I have a lot of pictures of my children—I have even more pictures of
sunsets in Sarasota!
In the Crosshairs: the Body on Leffis Key, takes place on a small key
adjacent to Longboat. A strip of low dune and mangrove swamp, it’s home to the
Marine Rescue Facility and a nature walk. Our heroine Palmer is on that walk
looking for birds when she finds something a lot less desirable—which, to her
surprise, eventually leads to something a lot more desirable.
End of boardwalk where Palmer finds corpse
Blurb
Palmer Lind, recovering from the sudden death of her
husband, embarks on a bird-watching trek to the Gulf Coast of Florida. One hot
day on Leffis Key she comes upon—not the life bird she was hoping for—but a
floating corpse. The handsome beach bum who appears on the scene at the same
time seems to have even more secrets than the dead man.
His story begins to unravel as the pair search for answers
to a growing pile of dead bodies. Spies, radical environmentalists, and wealthy
businessmen circle around each other in a complex dance. Which one is lying?
What do a seemingly random group of individuals have in common, other than
being targeted by a crossbow?
Buy Links:
