Books & Tales

Jun 2024 22

The Honeymoon Homicides By Jeannette de Beauvoir: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2024 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sarah Erwin

by Sarah Erwin
& Jeannette de Beauvoir


The Honeymoon Homicides by Jeannette de Beauvoir is the 10th book in the Provincetown mystery series featuring Sydney Riley, part owner of a Provincetown hotel. The book jumps right into the mystery when a dead body drops from the upper floor of the hotel right into the middle of Sydney’s wedding reception to her new husband Ali. Many guests run screaming from the scene, but not Sydney, who is also known as Provincetown’s own Miss Marple.

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Jun 2024 19

Eye on the Ball: A Few Words with Judy Penz Sheluk

2024 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Charlie Kondek


Judy Penz Sheluk doesn’t just write crime novels and stories, she publishes them. After her own ups and downs with publishers, she launched Superior Shores Press, which has just released its fourth anthology, Larceny & Last Chances. Like its predecessors, the tome collects 22 stories by some of the genre’s most engaging writers––and me, some old ad guy from Detroit nobody’s ever heard of! I had a chance to catch up with Judy between her finalizing and promoting Larceny & Last Chances, and here’s what she had to say.

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Jun 2024 15

Clean Kill by Anne Laughlin: Review/Giveaway/Interview

2024 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sarah Erwin

by Sarah Erwin


Nicky Sullivan is the resident manager of a sober living home in Chicago. Previously, she served as homicide detective until alcohol took over her life, and she quit her job after a fatal shooting that also injured a young girl. Nicky works hard to stay sober, take care of her residents, point them in the right direction, and deal with her absolutely awful boss.

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Jun 2024 15

Torn Asunder By Barbara Ross: Review/Giveaway/Father’s Day Recipe

2024 Articles, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Sandra Murphy
& Barbara Ross


Julia Snowden runs the Snowden Family Clambake during the summer and works with her best friend and business partner, Zoey, during the off season. Zoey’s dream has always been of a traditional wedding—white dress, huge cake, thrown bouquet, first dance, everything except being walked down the aisle since she doesn’t know who her father is. Now her dream is about to come true.

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Jun 2024 15

Close to Death By Anthony Horowitz: Review/Giveaway

2024 Articles, Lorie Lewis Ham, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Lorie Lewis Ham


Over the last several years I have become a big fan of the work of Anthony Horowitz, both in books and on screen. But I think my favorite thing of his is the Hawthorne and Horowitz mystery series, in which Anthony acts as the Watson to Hawthorne’s Holmes. The fifth book in that series, Close to Death, came out in April and I couldn’t wait to read it!

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Jun 2024 8

Local Book Events With Lorie Lewis Ham & Jennifer J. Chow & Book Release

2024 Articles, Lorie Lewis Ham, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Lorie Lewis Ham



For our local readers, I am so excited to share that I will be doing two book events with fellow mystery author Jennifer J. Chow this month! Jennifer has a wonderful new series set in the area and I have my Tower District Mystery series. We will be talking about both, interviewing each other (which sounded fun), opening up for questions from the audience, and possibly reading a little from our books.

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Jun 2024 8

Pretty as Poison: The Life, Crimes & Accomplices of California’s First Black Widow Part 2

2024 Articles, Hometown History, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sarah Peterson-Camacho

by Sarah Peterson-Camacho
Albert N. McVicar was most definitely dead.
With his 6’4”, 185-lb. frame doubled up like a pretzel inside the four-foot Saratoga steamer trunk, his “corpse was found curled up with wounds on his head,” writes true crime author J’aime Rubio. “His nose had been completely fractured…Blood that poured from his head and nose settled at the bottom corner of the trunk…”

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