Festive Mayhem Book Blast & Giveaway! {Ends 11/6/20}

              If you’re looking for a good mystery with a little holiday twist, look no further!
      Today I’m participating in the FESTIVE MAYHEM Book Blast featuring 10 talented authors with stories of mystery, crime, and suspense with a holiday flair.       
         ◊ Genre: Mystery Anthologies ◊ Publisher: Marla Bradeen (October 26,2020)
           Print Length: 159 Pages ◊ ASIN: BO8F3HLH67
       Ten crime writers of color have teamed up to offer you the gift of escape this holiday season. From Christmas crime capers to Thanksgiving thrillers, historical hard-boiled to contemporary cozies, mystery fans of all genres will find something to love in this limited-time collection of exclusive, never-before-published seasonal short stories.
        What you’ll find inside:
           • “The New Year’s Hex” by Carolyn Marie Wilkins.
         Carrie McFarland finds her New Year’s plans derailed when a psychic vision pulls the 1920s African American amateur sleuth into someone’s evil scheme.
          • “Pipe Dreams” by S.G. Wong.
        In this hard-boiled Crescent City short story, infatuation and passion drive Minnie Chen straight into danger as she tries to best the City’s most glamorous private detective in a re-imagined 1930s-era Chinese Los Angeles.
          • “A Christmas Tip” by Elizabeth Wilkerson.
       A surprise Christmas bonus becomes too tempting for Philadelphia nursing assistant Brianna Byers to resist—even if accepting requires some skillful skirting of the law.
          • “The Stranger in the House” by Stella Oni.
         This London House Mystery prequel stars Elizabeth Ojo, a Nigerian housekeeper at a posh guest house, who finds her Christmas intersecting with that of a mysterious resident in trouble.
         • “What Lies Inside” by Kia Dennis.
        A tormented university professor falls deeper and deeper into a destructive obsession in this harrowing tale of love and longing.
         • “A Pub, Bed & Breakfast & A Dead Body” by Forest Issac Jones.
       A dark past becomes the deadly present when North Carolina police detective Ike Coates and his intrepid young partner are tasked with determining the cause of a suspicious death.
          • “A Deadly First” by Delia C. Pitts.
         Thanksgiving takes a fatal turn when New York private eye SJ Rook finds himself thrust into his first murder case in this darkly atmospheric tale of noir.
         • “The Holiday Murder Mélange” by Myra Jolivet.
         This Sarah Doucette Jean-Louis short story follows the Creole P.I. around the San Francisco Bay Area on her quest to figure out who killed a man outside of her office.
          • “Those Holiday Blues” by Jennifer J. Chow.
        Jasmine, aka “Jazz,” can’t escape the tragic past when an old boyfriend asks to meet on the anniversary of his mother’s death.
        • “Holiday Holdup” by Paige Sleuth.
        In this Cozy Cat Caper Mystery Short, Imogene Little gets tangled up in a Christmas Eve bank robbery orchestrated by none other than Santa Claus himself.

About the Authors

          FESTIVE MAYHEM features a collection of never-before-published short stories authored by 10 mystery, crime, and suspense writers of color. To learn more about the author, click on the name and it will bring up the website:
             Carolyn Marie Wilkins ~ S.G. Wong ~ Elizabeth Wilkerson ~ Stella Oni ~ Kia Dennis ~
             Forest Issac Jones ~ Delia C. Pitts ~ Myra Jolivet ~ Jennifer J. Chow ~ Paige Sleuth

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