Guests at this special online Valentine’s Day Party will include: Shelly Arkon, author of
Secondhand Shoes; Mollie Cox Bryan, author of Scrapped; Nancy J. Cohen, author of Permed to Death; Chrystle Fiedler, author of Scent to Kill—and me! Joanna Campbell Slan, author of the Kiki Lowenstein Anthology, Volume 1, as well as Wave Good-Bye (written under the pen name “Lila Dare”).
Secondhand
Shoes—by Shelly Arkon—The
shoes didn’t fit. It was an omen. Eighteen year old psychic-medium-germ-a-phobe
Lila should have listened to her ghostly Gram’s advice the morning of her
wedding, “Take off that dress and those shoes. And run.” En route to the
honeymoon, she decides to listen after too many disagreements with her groom.
It doesn’t pay to go along to make everyone happy. Still in her wedding dress
and shoes, she escapes out a diner’s bathroom window into the Florida woods
despite her fear of snakes and germs with her dead Gram’s direction. So she
begins a journey of finding her inner strength, putting her on a deadly run from
her psychotic groom and his deranged friends. Will she ever get past her fear
of germs and snakes? Will she survive her honeymoon?
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Scrapped—by Mollie Cox Bryan—The ladies of the
Cumberland Scrapbook Crop are welcoming an eccentric newbie into their fold. A
self-proclaimed witch, Cookie Crandall can whip up a sumptuous vegan meal and
rhapsodize about runes and moon phases with equal aplomb. She becomes fast
friends with her fellow scrapbookers, including freelance reporter Annie, with
whom she shares shallow roots in a community of established family trees. So
when Cookie becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, the
croppers get scrappy and set out to clear her name. Annie starts digging and
discovers that the victims each had strange runic patterns carved on their
bodies--a piece of evidence that points the police in Cookie's direction. Even
her friends begin to doubt her innocence when they find an ornate, spiritual
scrapbook that an alleged beginner like Cookie could never have crafted. As
Annie and the croppers search for answers, they'll uncover a shockingly wicked
side of their once quiet town—and a killer on the prowl for another victim.
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Permed to Death—by Nancy J. Cohen-- Hairstylist Marla Shore is
giving grumpy Mrs. Kravitz a perm when her client croaks in the shampoo chair.
If that isn’t enough to give her a bad hair day, handsome Detective Vail
suspects Marla of poisoning the woman’s coffee creamer.
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Scent to Kill—by Chrystle
Fiedler—
When naturopathic doctor and shop owner Willow
McQuade’s ex-boyfriend Simon Lewis invites her to a party for the cast and crew
of a new television show at Long Island’s scenic Bixby Estate, she’s most
excited to visit the property’s exclusive lavender farm. But a whole field of
her favorite stress-reducing herb can’t provide enough soothing support to calm
the effects of a murder!
Even the show’s psychic star didn’t predict the
demise of Roger Bixby, the estate’s owner and estranged husband of Simon’s new
girlfriend. Now Simon, who’s been collared by police, needs Willow’s help to
remedy the situation. As Willow snoops about the mansion, offering natural
cures to ease the mounting tension, a strange energy—and the discovery of an
eerily similar unsolved murder decades earlier—makes her wonder whether the
alternative source of the crime might actually be . . . supernatural. Can she
find harmony between mind, body, and possibly even spirits before somebody else
goes up in smoke?
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Wave
Good-Bye—by Joanna Campbell Slan writing as “Lila Dare”— St. Elizabeth, Georgia, offers charm,
Southern hospitality—and the occasional murder. This time, when a new hair
salon tries to steal business, it’s someone’s life that gets cut short…
Violetta’s salon is up in arms. Business is dead. Snippets, a big box haircutting chain, has opened in St. Elizabeth, undercutting prices and luring away loyal customers. Violetta’s daughter, hairdresser Grace Terhune, is shocked to discover that it’s her old high school rival Lisa Butterworth who’s behind the big sweep—and Grace isn’t going to take this sitting down. Snippets’ cold-blooded prized employee is doing wonders with Violetta’s client list. According to Lisa, it’s just business—until a bitter confrontation leaves Grace more than frustrated, and Lisa less than alive. Now Grace is the prime suspect in her rival’s murder. And only her friends at Violetta’s can save her—before the charge proves permanent.
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