Here it is at long last! The cover for the final installment in my Lindsey & Ike Romantic Mystery Novella series, a traditional cozy mystery. Ta da!
This book is on pre-order right now and will release Thursday, November 2, 2017. You can pre-order your Kindle copy right now! Buy Now.
Dead Men Tell No Tales debuted last year in the Happy Homicide Anthology series, as did the first two novellas in this series. Dead Men is the last novella in the series.
Here's the blurb:
In this third and final installment of the Lindsey & Ike
Romantic Mystery Novella Series, things don’t add up after a suspicious hunting
accident. The more Sheriff Ike Harper and newspaper editor Lindsey McKay dig,
the more questions they find about the suspects and the victim. Will a dead man
tell no tales?
I'm happy to participate in the E-reader bash. 23 authors are giving away 27 romantic ebooks. That's a whole lotta love!
To enter, all you have to do is answer a question here at Mudpies in a comment between now and Dec. 29. There will be a grand prize and a second place prize, with each winner taking home more than a dozen ebooks! Winners will be posted late on Sunday, Dec. 30.
My book that's up for grabs is Murder in the Buff, a romantic mystery. In the story, reporter Molly Darter's job is on the line, and her marriage has gone south. When she gets the worst assignment of her life, she can't turn it down. The job? Getting an obituary from the nudist colony.
My question for the giveaway is: what hair style does the woman behind the fence sport?
Here's a short excerpt where you can look for the answer:
We’d also heard the naturalists were retired call girls. No telling what went on
back in these dark woods. Orgies. Wild rituals. Substance abuse. Anything was
possible in such a remote location.
I checked the time again and sighed.
If I left right now, my mother would never know I’d been here. However,
Ted would fire me if I returned without this family-placed obituary. Jobs were
scarce in our county of ten thousand people, and with my changed personal
circumstances, I couldn’t afford to lose this one. Air huffed out of my lungs,
up my warm face, giving flight to the wispy bangs on my forehead.
I dried
my sweaty palms on my jeans and ramped up the air conditioning another notch.
What was taking so long? I rubbed the back of my neck to ease the
stiffness.
Behind the stockade fence, briars and weeds flourished.
Spanish moss and ropy vines choked the tops of the oaks, pines, and cedars,
adding to the sense that anything could and would happen deep in that jungle of
green.
Jungle love gone wild.
I grimaced at that carnal image. My
gaze fell to the thick ground cover outside my door. I couldn’t see the sandy
soil at all. I gulped. There were probably rattlesnakes galore out here.
Cottonmouths and copperheads, too.
And ticks.
I bet every
tick known to mankind lurked within the dark green foliage, waiting for me to
step out of my vehicle. I’d have to be diligent as I checked every inch of skin
tonight for ticks.
Without warning, a narrow-faced woman with gray
braided hair peered over the top of the fence and waved her bare arms. My heart
sunk as her lips moved. Dang, she was talking to me. With my windows up, I
couldn’t hear a word she said.
Please, dear God, let her have clothes on
behind that fence.
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Plus four anthologies, courtesy of Krista Ames.
BELIEVE CHRISTMAS ~ BE MINE, VALENTINE ~ ALL BETS ARE ON ~ SUMMER SHORTS
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Thanks to Mackenzie Crown for putting this together. Besides commenting here, a comment at the other sites may increase your chances of winning. Best of luck to you all!
Don't forget to leave a comment with your answer to my hairstyle question! I'd love to put a copy of Murder in the Buff in your hands, and on your e-reader. MITB is available in all digital formats.
Last week I posted a five star review for my new digital mystery release, Murder in the Buff. Since then, I've been fortunate to receive two more wonderful reviews for this ecclectic mystery.
Amazon reviewer Mona Risk of Florida had this to say: "... Thanks to the incredible talent of
Maggie Toussaint and her amazing writing style, we share the stress faced by
Molly, fall in love with the characters: the sexy and so attractive husband
Hadley, the capricious and insecure sister, the down-to-earth and lovable Dad,
and let's not forget the incredible nudist Mama Leon who is a man. Add to that
delicious dialogues full of innuendoes, and steamy love scenes. M. Toussaint
kept me reading, laughing, and biting my nails until I finished MURDER IN THE
BUFF. I highly recommend it."
Here's a snip of what Sharon Hopkins of Missouri said in her Amazon review: "...
MURDER IN THE BUFF is one laugh-out-loud, terrific read."
If you agree with the reviews, be sure to like and tag the book while you're there!
And while I'm on the subject of promotion, I'm guesting over at Lindsay's Romantics today, dishing about romantic mysteries. Come on over and share a cup of tea. Here's the permalink:
