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Cozy Mystery Author Interview: Bogged Down

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Bogged Down: A Vashon Island Mystery by Charlotte Stuart Bogged Down: A Vashon Island Mystery   Cozy Mystery 1st in Series   Publisher: Taylor and Seale Publishing (August 5, 2020)   Paperback: 244 pages   ISBN-10: 1950613445   ISBN-13: 978-1950613441   Digital ASIN : B08FBZMRYL     Publisher's Blurb: An ancient bog hidden away in a forest is the perfect backdrop for murder… BOGGED DOWN is a mystery set on Vashon Island, a place that has been described as Mayberry-meets-Burning Man. Its motto: Keep Vashon Weird. Lavender (Lew) Lewis moved there because it is only a twenty-minute ferry ride from Seattle, yet light years away in tempo and character. She grew up on a commune in Alaska, joined the army at 17, does woods parkour for exercise and HR investigations to earn a living. Life in her waterfront cabin with her two food-obsessed cats is predictable and relatively stress free. Until she leads a tour group into an ancient bog on the island and discovers a body.   This is where I

Cozy Mystery Review & Author Interview: Dead Week

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Dead Week (A Cassandra Sato Mystery) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Nebraska Publisher: Emerald Prairie Press (December 7, 2019) Paperback: 322 pages ISBN-10: 1733742425 ISBN-13: 978-1733742429 Digital ASIN: B07ZHN2SMS Publisher's Blurb: Will Dead Week kill Cassandra’s career? VP of Student Affairs Cassandra Sato has a desk full of problems and it’s not even Thanksgiving break. A student’s injury and a deaf advocacy project brings national media attention to underfunded Morton College. Cassandra’s new boss talks to her dead husband. Cassandra’s mentor thinks he’s a superhero in a senior citizen’s body. And Cassandra, recently moved from Hawai’i, can’t crack the code of what to wear during November in Nebraska. Is there more to the Vietnam-era story of a student’s death? Cassandra’s search for the long-buried truth stirs up the wrath of those who want to keep the past forgotten. My Review: Cassandra Sato is back, and so is chaos and disruption at little Morton Colleg

Spotlight: Once, by Ronel Janse van Vuuren

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Damsels in distress, curses, echoes of faery tales and tragic love affairs swirl together in sixteen stories found in a dragon’s lair by a curious half-fae. Unexpected changes to reality causes more than one damsel to turn into a strong, independent woman who takes charge of her own life. A collection of short stories about Faerie and the fae that live in the human realm. A few of the stories had won competitions and all of them had enchanted readers. Learn their secrets and enter the realm of the fae… Title: Once... Tales, Myths and Legends of Faerie Author: Ronel Janse van Vuuren ISBN EPUB: 978-0-6399476-2-4 ISBN Paperback: 978-0-6399476-3-1 Out today! Available on most online retailers. Also available in Afrikaans as “Eens…”. Excerpt: Mortals cannot perceive the veil unless they are invited to – or extremely gifted. For centuries, Man and Fae have been kept apart, for nothing good ever comes from them mixing. The collection of The Adventures of Saphira the Faery Dog is proof of this