Too busy to get away this summer? Does your traveling companion have a broken leg and everything has been cancelled? You can still get away from the comfort of home.
My new release, The Diva Hosts a Murderer takes you to Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, located just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. It’s a delightful town with Federal style buildings that date back to the days of George Washington. Robert E. Lee and Gerald Ford lived there. So does Sophie Winston, whose entire family came to visit for the Fourth of July. You may be glad you’re not leaving home when you read about her family crowding her house. Sadly, someone is murdered. But when the police come for her dad, everyone is horrified. Unfortunately, the dead man’s DNA has turned up on Dad’s sweater!
If you would rather get away to an island, there are plenty of places to go. Molly MacRae’s All Shell Breaks Loose takes you to Ocracoke Island in North Carolina, known for pirates! And someone has been boasting about getting his hands on a haunted sword. But when it turns up coated with blood, the ghost of a Welsh Pirate gets involved!
Or dip your toes in the waters of Key West in Lucy Burdette’s A Delicious Deception. Even though Hayley Snow is very pregnant, she agrees to tag along when a mother picks up her young daughter. But things don’t go as planned. The mother disappears and the father bolts, leaving Hayley with a frightened child. When a body turns up, Hayley has to trust her instincts to protect the little girl!
Or head across the Atlantic and land in Paris in The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Paris by Mark Pryor. Hugo Marston is retiring from his job as the head of security at the US Embassy and plans to open the bookstore of his dreams. But when a blackmailer threatens to reveal “the darkest secret” of a chocolate emporium if they don’t anti up half a million euros, Hugo is called upon to investigate.
Neeti Shah, The Masala Chai Mystery Club
Neeti Shah is a retired librarian in Coastal New England in The Masala Chai Mystery Club. When she finds a much-despised neighbor’s body killed in the manner of the latest book her book club read, Neeti is determined to find his killer.
Sam Lumley, Coastal Views to Die For
Not done with seashores yet? Check out Sam Lumley’s Coastal Views to Die For where Ricky Warner, a gay, autistic travel writer finds a dead man in a hot tub! Ricky needs to wade through a quagmire of family secrets, greed, and old grudges to uncover the murderer.
Water not your style? How about a glamping trip on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula? In Darci Hannah’s Murder at the Campfire Cookout, not only are the ladies staying in chic vintage campers, but they’re having a campfire cookout contest that produces pizza and berry cobbler! An accidental death is upsetting but when it becomes obvious that it wasn’t so accidental after all, the glampsite becomes a crime scene!
Wherever you go, have a grand time traveling by book this summer!
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