Sunday, April 15, 2018

You Bet Your Life

Thanks for inviting me to be on your blog today, Pat. I appreciate this opportunity to introduce, You Bet Your Life, the 1st in my new series, The Willows Bend Cozy Mysteries.

It was inspired by my late Aunt Julia, who was a real character in her time. My mom’s, flaming-red-headed, younger sister was always fun to be around because we never knew what she’d say. She could often be very funny without realizing it. With her unusual belief system, she actually thought she could do just about anything as long as she’d seen it done on television or in a movie, providing there was a chance she could get away with it.

Julia was fond of horse racing and she’d bet large sums of money every week on the horses. She appeared to be lucky at picking the winners, because she always carried a huge wad of bills, wrapped in rubber bands, in her purse along with her derringer for protection. She wasn’t a big fan of banks.  

My mom had always been jealous of her younger sister’s “good fortune” as she referred to it, and went so far as to try to try to switch their birthdays at city hall, because she was convinced Julia was born under a luckier astrological sign. But the folks at city hall wouldn’t fall for it. Aunt Julia was none to happy about it either. There’s so much more I could say about my aunt, and my mom, but I’ll put that information in future books in this series.

It’s been fun appearing on your blog, Pat. And thank you so much for the wonderful review of, You Bet Your Life. Now only 99 reviews to go, LOL!

Just thought I’d mention that You Bet Your Life is on sale today through Tuesday on Amazon, in case anyone else might be interested in reading it: https://www.amazon.com/You-Bet-Your-Life-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B07B5C2PSK/
 


As a marketing executive, Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind.

Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes when her aunt is suspected of murder.

Putting her own problems aside, Heather teams up with a handsome ex-private investigator to clear her aunt’s name. But will Julia’s innocence be questioned when the odds turn against her in a race to catch the killer?

About the author:

Evelyn Cullet has been an author since high school when she wrote short stories. She began her first novel while attending college later in life and while working in the offices of a major soft drink company. Now, with early retirement, she can finally write full- time. As a life-long mystery buff, she was a former member of the Agatha Christie Society, and is a current member of the National Chapter of Sisters In Crime. She writes mysteries with warm romance and a little humor. When she’s not writing mysteries, reading them or reviewing them, she hosts other authors and their work on her writer’s blog. www.evelyncullet.com/blog. She also plays the piano, is an amateur lapidary, and an organic gardener.

To learn more about Evelyn and/or to order her books, visit the following links:

Website and Blog: http://evelyncullet.com/
 


 

Sunday, April 8, 2018

The Bartered Body

"Another great mystery by J.R. Lindermuth."




Why would thieves steal the body of a dead woman?

That’s the most challenging question yet to be faced by Sylvester Tilghman, the third of his family to serve as sheriff of Arahpot, Jordan County, Pennsylvania, in the waning days of the 19th century.

And it’s not just any body but that of Mrs. Arbuckle, Nathan Zimmerman’s late mother-in-law. Zimmerman is burgess of Arahpot and Tilghman’s boss, which puts more than a little pressure on the sheriff to solve the crime in a hurry.

Syl’s investigation is complicated by the arrival in town of a former flame who threatens his relationship with his sweetheart Lydia Longlow; clashes with his old enemy, former burgess McLean Ruppenthal; a string of armed robberies, and a record snowstorm that shuts down train traffic, cuts off telegraph service and freezes cattle in the fields.