Jenn McKinlay

Apr 2017 8

Caramel Crush By Jenn McKinlay: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2017 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow

The path towards love often is a rocky one, and as evidence one needs only to look within the doors of Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Melanie Cooper’s best friend and business partner Tate Harper is finally marrying Angie DeLaura, but her uncharacteristic transformation into a bridezilla has everyone ducking for cover. Even more unsettling is the demand by Mel’s former UCLA roommate, Diane Earnest, to create and deliver engagement breakup cupcakes to her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend.

Mar 2017 25

Coming Attractions: No April Fools Jokes in These Titles!

2017 Articles, Coming Attractions!, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sunny Frazier

by Sunny Frazier

Kathi Daley has started a new series! Appropriately named First Case, it’s the first case in the Writers Retreat Series. Jillian Hanford’s journalism career is pretty much defunct when she gets a call from a former editor.

Dec 2016 31

Coming Attractions: After the Holidays Edition

2016 Articles, Coming Attractions!, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sunny Frazier

by Sunny Frazier

What better time to start a new series than the beginning of a new year? Here’s two that might interest you and plenty of old favorites.
First up is Color Me Dead by Teresa Trent, the first in the Henry Park mysteries.

Nov 2016 12

Better Late Than Never By Jenn McKinlay: Review/Giveaway

2016 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow

For Briar Creek Public Library’s first annual “fine amnesty” day, library director Lindsey Norris expected a day of hectic but worthwhile chaos. Allowing tardy miscreants to get off scot-free went against all of stodgy traditional librarian Mrs. Cole’s ethics, but Lindsey believed that the loss of fines would be worth regaining patrons who would feel free to return to the library.

Apr 2016 9

April Food Mysteries from Penguin For Your Spring Reading

2016 Articles, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Sandra Murphy

Check out some more fun food mysteries from Penguin authors for your spring reading-Vanilla Beaned: A Cupcake Bakery Mystery by Jenn McKinlay, Rest in Peach: A Georgia Peach Mystery by Susan Furlong, and A Clue in the Stew: A Soup Lover’s Mystery by Connie Archer. Details at the end of this post on how to win a copy of all 3, and a link to purchase them.

Mar 2016 26

April Coming Attractions: Spring Forward Edition

2016 Articles, Coming Attractions!, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sunny Frazier

by Sunny Frazier

There’s flowers in bloom, magic in the air, Georgia on our minds, and these terrific books to read!
After a successful party at Bodie Island’s Lighthouse Library in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, librarian Lucy Richardson is ready to curl up with Charles the cat and a good book.

Jan 2016 16

Copy Cap Murder By Jenn McKinlay: Review/Guest Post/Giveaway

2016 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow

It’s November in Notting Hill, and native Floridian Scarlett Parker is feeling homesick. Thanksgiving is not exactly a popular holiday in Great Britain, but her friends and cousin Vivian Tremont attempt to fill the void with the much more English Guy Fawkes night. Invited by Harrison Wentworth to attend his employer’s ostentatious party, Scarlett is impressed by a scene that seems ripped right out of Downton Abbey.

Dec 2015 26

Coming Attractions: Welcome 2016 Edition

2015 Articles, Coming Attractions!, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sunny Frazier

by Sunny Frazier

Start the New Year off with some mouth-watering mysteries, a few ghosts, and a curse or two!
It's the early 1900s and twenty-four-year-old heiress Charlotte Demerayes lives in the Fanaman mansion with a few ghosts and the mother from hell.

Nov 2015 28

Coming Attractions: Holiday Shopping Edition

2015 Articles, Coming Attractions!, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sunny Frazier

by Sunny Frazier

Holiday shopping starts early with these mystery titles for your favorite bibliophiles:
What's better than Christmas all year around? Vicki Delany has a new series with that theme. As the owner of Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, Merry Wilkinson knows how to decorate in Rudolph, NY.