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Murder in the Jazz Age with Lee Strauss

06/29/2020 By Alexandra Amor Leave a Comment

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Take a transatlantic voyage with Jazz Age sleuth Ginger Gold and enter to win a copy of the Murder on the SS Rosa audiobook.

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Lee is generously offering It’s a Mystery podcast listeners a chance to win one of 10 copies of the audiobook for Murder on the SS Rosa. Go to this page to submit your entry. Giveaway ends on July 4, 2020.

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Lee Strauss is a USA TODAY bestselling author of The Ginger Gold Mystery series and The Rosa Reed Mystery series, as well as some young adult and sweet romance. She loves to drink caffè lattes and red wines in exotic places, and eat dark chocolate anywhere.

To learn more about Lee and all her books visit LeeStraussBooks.com

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Ian Fleming and a Locked Room Mystery with Cathy Ace

06/22/2020 By Alexandra Amor 4 Comments

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Meet globetrotting psychologist and sleuth Cait Morgan.

Ian Fleming and a Locked Room Mystery with Cathy Ace

Cathy Ace had the great good fortune to travel the world during her corporate career. Which is lucky for us because her Cait Morgan mysteries are each set in a different location that Cathy has lived in or spent time in.

The Corpse with the Crystal Skull is set in Jamaica and as we’re all mostly confined to barracks these days, it’s great to hear about sunny places far away, and vacationing with friends.

In my interview with Cathy she mentions two mystery sites that she blogs for. 7CriminalMinds.blogspot.com features authors, including Cathy and two previous It’s a Mystery podcast guests (Frank Zafiro and Terry Shames), answering questions about crime fiction, writing, publishing, and life. And KillerCharacters.com has a focus on cozy mysteries with a different author writing a post each day. Cathy posts on the 22nd of each month.

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Cathy Ace’s Welsh-Canadian criminal psychologist sleuth Cait Morgan has encountered traditional, closed-circle puzzle plot whodunits in eight books, with a ninth being published in June 2020. This series of books has now been optioned for television by Free@Last TV, a UK production company. The plan is to present each book as a 90 minute made-for-TV movie, the same format used for the international hit ACORN series featuring MC Beaton’s Agatha Raisin, which is made my Free@Last TV.

Cathy’s other series of books – The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries – feature a quartet of softly-boiled female PIs who solve quintessentially British cases from their stately home-based office in rural Wales. Her standalone novel of psychological suspense, The Wrong Boy, is set in Wales, and became a #1 amazon bestseller. Shortlisted for the Bony Blithe Award three times in four years, winning in 2015, she’s also been shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story.

Cathy was born and raised in Wales, though she now lives in Canada.

To learn more about Cathy and all her books visit CathyAce.com

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Talking to Animals and Solving Crime with Kathy Manos Penn

06/15/2020 By Alexandra Amor Leave a Comment

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A dog, a cat and an anglophile walk into an English pub…

Talking to Animals and Solving Crime with Kathy Manos Penn

In her amateur sleuth, Leta Parker, Kathy Manos Penn has created a character that many of us will envy. Leta not only talks to her miniature Great Pyrenees and her cat…they talk back. But why stop there? Add Leta’s friend Wendy and her mum into the mix and you’ve got a recipe for delightful cozy mysteries set in the Cotswolds.

Like her heroine, Kathy is an Anglophile and in our interview we discuss her trips to England and how her stay in the Cotswolds inspired the Dickens & Christie mysteries.

In the introduction I mention my love for books that feature animals and how much one of the creative events in The 101 Dalmatians still affects me to this day.

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As a child, Kathy Manos Penn was a shy, introverted bookworm. She shed the shy, introverted traits but is a bookworm to this day, one who especially enjoys British mysteries.

Fast forward through a corporate career and a side job as a newspaper columnist, and today you’ll find her happily retired and writing cozy animal mysteries set in—where else—England.

To learn more about Kathy and all her books visit KathyManosPenn.com

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Muffins and Murder with PD Workman

06/08/2020 By Alexandra Amor 1 Comment

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Meet Erin Price, baker, former foster child, and amateur sleuth.

PD Workman writes in several genres, including YA, but mysteries are her focus. Today she reads to us from her cozy mystery series featuring Erin Price who has inherited her Aunt’s bakery and is starting a new life in a small town.

In the intro I mention that Pam has a BookBub deal today for the first three books in this series. The books are bundled together for just $0.99. If you’re not a BookBub subscriber, head over to their website to learn more.

This week’s mystery author

Award-winning and USA Today bestselling author P.D. Workman writes riveting mystery/suspense and young adult books dealing with mental illness, addiction, abuse, and other real-life issues.

Workman started publishing in 2013. She has won several literary awards from Library Services for Youth in Custody for her young adult fiction. She currently has over 50 published titles.

To learn more about Pam and all her books visit PDWorkman.com

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Obituary Writer as Amateur Sleuth with Clare Chase

04/27/2020 By Alexandra Amor Leave a Comment

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Who better to be investigating death in a small village than the woman who writes the obituaries?

Clare Chase has written two cozy mystery series, as well as several other books. Today we’re talking about her Eve Mallow series featuring the transplanted American writer. Clare and I discuss the inspiration for this unique character and why we think mystery novels appeal to readers.

In the introduction, I mention that It’s a Mystery podcast was named one of the Top 10 Crime Fiction podcasts to follow in 2020. Very exciting!

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Clare Chase writes traditional mysteries; her aim is to take readers away from it all via some armchair sleuthing in atmospheric locations. Her debut novel made the shortlist for Novelicious’s Undiscovered Award, and Murder on the Marshes (the first in her Tara Thorpe series) was shortlisted for an International Thriller Writers award.

Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in settings as diverse as a local Prison and the University of Cambridge, in her home city. As well as writing, Clare loves family time, art and architecture, cooking, and of course, reading other people’s books!

To learn more about Clare Chase and her books visit ClareChase.com

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An Unconventional Pair of Sleuths with Emily Organ

04/13/2020 By Alexandra Amor Leave a Comment

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Two delightful ladies in 1930s England solve crimes in a way Miss Marple would be proud of.

Churchill and Pemberley are a perfect pair; one stout, one thin, one widowed, one single, both willing to get stuck in and look for answers when mysteries appear.

I’m sure you’ll love the banter between these two delightful characters that Emily Organ has created. They are an equal match for one another and also for the other characters in their south England village. The way that Emily writes the Churchill and Pemberley relationship has me chortling regularly and I’m sure you will too as she reads from Puzzle in Poppleford Wood.

This week’s mystery author

Emily Organ has been writing historical mysteries for four years, her current series include the Churchill and Pemberley cozy mystery series, which is set in a 1930s English village, and the Penny Green Victorian mystery series which is set in 19th century London.

The first book in Emily’s Churchill and Pemberley series was shortlisted for Amazon UK’s Kindle Storyteller Award in 2019.

Emily lives in the south of England with her family.

Learn more about Emily and her books at EmilyOrgan.co.uk.

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