Spotlight/Book Giveaway/Interview: The Valentine Mystery by Kathi Daley

About the Book

Genre: Cozy Mystery, #2 in A Tess and Tilly Cozy Mystery Series
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Release Date: February 12, 2018

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Review/Giveaway: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

About the Book

Genre:  Suspense, Thriller
Format:  E-ARC
Publisher:  St. Martin's Press
Release Date:  January 9, 2018

Spotlight/Book Giveaway: Egg Drop Dead by Laura Childs

About the Book

Genre: Cozy Mystery, #7 in A Cackleberry Club Mystery Series
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: Paperback reissue: December 5, 2017

Spotlight: A Tangled Web by Mike Martin (Giveaway)

A Tangled Web
by Mike Martin

A Tangled Web
Cozy Mystery
6th in Series
Booklocker.com, Inc. (October 1, 2017)
Paperback: 338 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1634926508
E-Book ASIN: B0768R7VTR

Life is good for Sgt. Wind¬flower in Grand Bank, Newfoundland. But something’s missing from the Mountie’s life. Actually, a lot of things go missing, including a little girl and supplies from the new factory. It’s Windflower’s job to unravel the tangled web of murder, deceit and an accidental kidnapping that threatens to engulf this sleepy little town and destroy those closest to him. But there’s always good food, good friends and the love of a great woman to make everything better in the end.

About the Author

Mike Martin was born in Newfoundland on the East Coast of Canada and now lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a longtime freelance writer and his articles and essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and online across Canada as well as in the United States and New Zealand. He is the author of Change the Things You Can: Dealing with Difficult People and has written a number of short stories that have published in various publications including Canadian Stories and Downhome magazine.

The Walker on the Cape was his first full fiction book and the premiere of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series. Other books in the series include The Body on the T, Beneath the Surface, A Twist of Fortune and A Long Ways from Home.

A Long Ways from Home was shortlisted for the 2017 Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award as the best light mystery of the year. A Tangled Web is the newest book in the series.

Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheWalkerOnTheCapeReviewsAndMore/

Twitter @mike54martin

Website www.sgtwindflowermysteries.com

Purchase Link - Amazon

BOOK GIVEAWAY!!!!

Thanks to author, I can giveaway one Kindle ebook of A Tangled Web by Mike Martin to one lucky winner.

Just a few simple rules...

1) You must fill out the rafflecopter form below.

2) Contest is open to anyone over 18 years old

3)  Anyone can enter!

4) For one extra entry: Tweet about this giveaway.

5) For one extra entry: Leave a comment for the author.

6) For one extra entry:  Follow this blog...old followers, too!  Just let us know how you follow and under what name.

7) For one extra entry: Follow me on Twitter.

8) For one extra entry: Follow or friend me on Goodreads

No purchase necessary.  Void where prohibited.

The giveaway begins on December 2nd (midnight est) and ends on December 9th (midnight est).

The winner will be chosen randomly by Rafflecopter. The winner will be notified by email and has 48 hours to respond, otherwise a new winner will be chosen. I will announce the winner here on my blog.

Good luck!

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November 24 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

November 25 – The Power of Words - REVIEW, GIVEAWAY

November 26 – Books,Dreams,Life - INTERVIEW, GIVEAWAY

November 27 – 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, & Sissy, Too! - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

November 28 – Brooke Blogs - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

November 29 – Queen of All She Reads - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

November 30 – Cozy Up With Kathy – INTERVIEW

November 30 – Readsalot - SPOTLIGHT

December 1 – A Blue Million Books – GUEST POST

December 2 – Socrates' Book Reviews - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

December 3 – Readeropolis - INTERVIEW

December 4 – Celticlady's Reviews - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

December 5 – Teresa Trent Author Blog - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

December 6 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews- REVIEW, GUEST POST, GIVEAWAY

December 6 – Babs Book Bistro - SPOTLIGHT, GIVEAWAY

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Review: City of Lies by Victoria Thompson (Giveaway)

Genre:
Mystery, Historical Fiction

Format:
E-ARC

Publisher:
Berkley

Release Date:
November 17, 2017

Blog Tour: Fatal Fortune by Victoria Laurie (Spotlight/Book Giveaway)

About the Book

Genre: Cozy Mystery, #12 in Psychic Eye Mystery Series
Publisher: NAL
Release Date: July 2014

Blog Tour: Bloom and Doom by Beverly Allen (Review/Guest Post/Giveaway)

About the Book

Spotlight/Book Giveaway/Guest Post: Inherit the Word by Daryl Wood Gerber

About the Book

Genre: Cozy Mystery, #2 in A Cookbook Nook Mystery Series
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Mystery
Release Date: March 2014

Blog Tour: Sleight of Paw by Patricia Fry (Guest Post and Giveaway!)

Please join me in welcoming author Patricia Fry to Socrates' Book Review Blog and Socrates' Cozy Cafe.  She writes a charming cat mystery series, "A Klepto Cat Mystery".  Her newest is book and the third of the series is Sleight of Paw.  Isn't that a great cover?  Check out Patricia's guest post and then enter for a chance to win a Kindle copy of her new book.

Spotlight/Book Giveaway: Letting Go by Maya Banks

About the Book

Book Giveaway/Spotlight: Eggs in a Casket by Laura Childs

About the Book

Blog Tour: Indefensible by Pamela Callow-Review and Book Giveaway!

Genre: Suspense, Thriller
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Mira
Release Date: December 28, 2010


Attorney Kate Lange is still recovering from the horrific experience she went through a few months before. She still has nightmares, but her life takes another stressful turn when she’s given the biggest case of her life. It’s her job to defend her high profile boss, Randall Barrett who is charged with murdering his wife. To add to her troubles, she’s never handled a criminal case before and this one appears to be particularly difficult since they do have an eyewitness - Barrett’s own son! Kate is feeling anything but confident.

Kate fights her inner demons as she tries to defend her client against a community ready to crucify him and his two teenaged children who believe their father murdered their mother. As Kate begins to put the puzzle together, she realizes that the children could be in danger themselves. She races against the clock to prove her case before anything else dire happens to this sad family.

This is the second book in Pamela Callow’s new Kate Lange series. I didn’t read the first book (although I do have it in my TBR) and, while this story stands alone, I think it would have been better had I read the first book before this one. There are several references to the first book that I would have appreciated more had I read the first one, but that’s my own fault. I’m usually very fussy about reading series in order and this time I didn’t.

However, the story was fast-paced, exciting and had reader’s at the edge of their seat wondering how Kate was going to get the Barrett family out of this mess. There is also a dash of romance thrown into the story which runs the gamut of emotions – fear, betrayal, depression, despair and even a little love. This is definitely a series I will continue reading and I intend to go back and read the first book, Damaged. I do love my suspense genre and this is a great entry into the genre.

I'm giving this 5 kitties even though I didn't read the first book and didn't have all the details - the story was that good that it overcame that for me. It was a fast read, too, and I'm generally a slow reader.




For reading challenge:

ARC Reading Challenge


AND NOW A BOOK GIVEAWAY!!!!

Thanks to Anna at Planned TV Arts-Ruder Finn, I am able to giveaway a copy of this great book. If you would like to enter, here's the deal...

1) Comment here that you want to be entered.

2) Leave a valid email address in your comment (I need a way to contact you! No email address, no entry!)

3) For an extra entry, follow my blog. If you already follow my blog, just mention that in your comment.

4) US and Canada residents only, no P.O. boxes.

5) For an additional entry: If you follow me on twitter, you'll get an extra entry. Just mention it in your comment!

6) Subscribe to my blog and mention that in the comments, too, for another entry! If you already subscribe, mention that in the comments!

7) If you blog about the giveaway on your blog, you get 2 extra entries!

All entries must be submitted by March 19th, midnight est. I will contact the winners by email. If I don't get a response within 3 days, another winner will be chosen.

All winners are picked by Random List.org. I will announce the winners on the 4th during the blog tour!

Good luck everyone!

Book Giveaway: Simon's Cat by Simon Tofield

In honor of Book Blogger Appreciation Week and thanks to the generosity of Hatchette Books, I can giveaway 5 copies of Simon's Cat by Simon Tofield. Being the cat lover I am, I couldn't resist this one.

Simon Tofield's animations have taken YouTube by storm. Now, the feline Internet phenomenon makes his way onto the page in this first-ever book based on the popular animated series. SIMON'S CAT depicts and exaggerates the hilarious relationship between a man and his cat. The daily escapades of this adorable pet, which always involve demanding more food, and his exasperated but doting owner come to life through Tofield's charming and hilarious illustrations.



If you'd like to win a copy for your own, here are the few simple rules:

1) Comment here that you want to be entered.

2) Leave a valid email address in your comment (I need a way to contact you! No email address, no entry!)

3) For an extra entry, follow my blog. If you already follow my blog, just mention that in your comment.

4) US and Canada residents only, no P.O. boxes.

5) For an additional entry: If you follow me on twitter, you'll get an extra entry. Just mention it in your comment!

6) Subscribe to my blog and mention that in the comments, too, for another entry! If you already subscribe, mention that in the comments!

7) If you blog about the giveaway on your blog, you get 5 extra entries!

All entries must be submitted by September 25th, midnight est. I will contact the winners by email. If I don't get a response within 3 days, another winner will be chosen.

All winners are picked by Random List.org.

Hatchette Book Group Giveaway - The Night Gardener By George Pelecanos

The great people at Hatchette Books are sponsoring another book giveaway just in time for some beach reading! I'm able to give away 5 copies of The Night Gardener By George Pelecanos. This looks like a fabulous read!

About the book...

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Pelecanos (Drama City) delivers a dignified, character-driven epic that succeeds as both literary novel and page-turner. In 1985, the body of a 14-year-old girl turns up in a Washington, D.C., park, the latest in a series of murders by a killer the media dub "The Night Gardener." T.C. Cook, the aging detective on the case, works with a quiet, almost monomaniacal, focus. Also involved are two young uniformed cops, Gus Ramone, who's diligent, conscientious and unimpressed by heroics, and Dan "Doc" Holiday, an adrenaline junkie who's decidedly less straight.

Fast forward 20 years. Detective Ramone, now married with kids of his own, investigates the murder of one of his teenage son's friends. The homicide closely resembles the earlier unsolved Night Gardener murders. Holiday, now an alcoholic chauffeur and bodyguard, follows the case on his own and tracks down Cook, long retired but still obsessed with the original murders. While the three work together toward a suspenseful ending, Pelecanos emphasizes the fallacy of "solving" a murder and explores the ripple effects of violent crime on society.

If you'd like to enter the contest, here are the rules...

1) Comment here that you want to be entered.

2) Leave a valid email address in your comment (I need a way to contact you! No email address, no entry!)

3) For an extra entry, follow my blog. If you already follow my blog, just mention that in your comment.

4) US and Canada residents only, no P.O. boxes.

5) For an additional entry: If you follow me on twitter, you'll get an extra entry. Just mention it in your comment!

*Added: Subscribe to my blog and mention that in the comments, too, for another entry!

All entries must be submitted by June 19th, midnight est. I will contact the winners by email. If I don't get a response within 3 days, another winner will be chosen.

All winners are picked by Random List.org.

Hatchette Book Group Giveaway - Made in the U.S.A.

CONTEST CLOSED - WINNERS ANNOUNCED SOON!


Thanks to the wonderful people at Hatchette Books, I'm once again able to hold a book giveaway. This one is for Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts. I have 5 copies to giveaway!



BOOK INFORMATION:


The bestselling author of WHERE THE HEART IS returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home.

Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father.

While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.

MADE IN THE U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.

* Includes a Reading Group Guide


If you'd like to win your own copy of this wonderful book, here are the rules...

1) Comment here that you want to be entered.

2) Leave a valid email address in your comment (I need a way to contact you! No email address, no entry!)

3) For an extra entry, follow my blog. If you already follow my blog, just mention that in your comment.

4) US and Canada residents only, no P.O. boxes.

*Additional entry: If you follow me on twitter, you'll get an extra entry. Just mention it in your comment!

All entries must be submitted by May 22nd, midnight est. I will contact the winners by email. If I don't get a response within 3 days, another winner will be chosen.

All winners are picked by Random List.org.

Hatchette Book Group Giveaway - The Italian Lover

Thanks to our wonderful friends at Hatchette Books, I have 5 copies of The Italian Lover by Robert Hellenga to giveaway.

The rules are simple...

1) Comment here that you'd like to be entered in the contest. You MUST include a valid email address so that you can be contacted in the event that you are a winner!

2) This contest is only open to residents of the US and Canada. No PO Boxes allowed.

3) The contest ends Friday, February 20th, midnight eastern standard time.

Good luck to all!

Hatchette Book Group Giveaway - CONTEST CLOSED

WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!!!!!




Hatchette Books is generously sponsoring another book giveaway. This one is for a copy of THE AMERICAN JOURNEY OF BARACK OBAMA by The Editors of LIFE Magazine.

The American Journey of Barack Obama covers the candidate from his childhood and adolescence to his time as editor of The Harvard Law Review and his Chicago activist years, culminating with the excitement and fervor of the historic 2008 Democratic National Convention. The unfolding drama of Obama's life and political career is cinematic in scope, and never has it been presented so compellingly.

In addition to a powerful array of photographs that were taken by many of the country's greatest photographers (and some that were snapped, in the quiet moments, by Obama family members themselves), this book also includes a Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, an incisive narrative biography and original essays by some of our finest writers, including Gay Talese, Charles Johnson, Melissa Fay Greene, Andrei Codrescu, Fay Weldon, Richard Norton Smith, Bob Greene and several others. Many readers will find a new understanding of Obama. All readers will feel that they are bearing witness to a singular, undeniably American story.

If you want to win a copy of this book for yourself, here's what you have to do....

1) Comment here that you want to be entered.

2) Leave your email address in your comment (I need a way to contact you!)

3) US and Canada residents only, no P.O. boxes.

The contest will end on November 13th. The book will be mailed out by Hatchette Books directly to the winner! Good Luck!

Redlady's Reading Room Giveaway

Redlady's Reading Room is having a book giveaway. Here's the info...

FIRST GIVEAWAY: PROFESSORS' WIVES' CLUB !!!!!!
REDLADY'S READING ROOM FIRST GIVEAWAY:

A BRAND NEW,
AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF
THE PROFESSORS' WIVES' CLUB BY JOANNE RENDELL!

Joanne Rendell was kind enough to send me an autographed copy of her wonderful debut novel to giveaway here to one of you for my first blog giveaway!! I am SO excited about this and hope that you are as well! Please check out my review below or click on here. You can also check out Joanne Rendell's website here.

Here are the rules:

Comment on this post for one entry.

Spread the word and blog about this giveaway and post a link back here for two more entries.

Just for the fun of it, share an example of something that you have stood up for with a group of female friends and what you learned from the experience, this will add another two entries.


Please make sure to leave an email or webpage when you enter so that I can contact you. U.S. and Canada only please, due to shipping costs. Please enter by Sunday, September 21st. Good luck!

Check it out at http://redladysreadingroom-redlady.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-giveaway-professors-wives-club.html