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Indie Book Recommendations with guests.
This month my guests seem to mostly have murder on their minds. Well it is spooky season after all. I didn't ask for spooky or murdery books it just kind of went that way.
Cheryl Burman's non murderous choice is Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by Paula Peckham. Well, I'm assuming he can play that guitar.
A conflicted rock star. An aspiring journalist at a crossroads. An unlikely pairing of two wildly different worlds.
Derek Norton spent the past two decades writing songs and performing music with his band, aiming for the number one charts. Now that he has arrived, fame and fortune are less fulfilling than he expected. Surely, he should spend his God-given talents on something more meaningful.
Andi Thompson is rebounding from her ex-husband’s adultery. At the same time, her only child has left for college. The past year has figuratively knocked her to the mat. Soon after she claws her way back to healthy self-esteem, her ex drops a bombshell that takes her breath away.
A chance circumstance delivers a dream assignment. A new avenue opens before her, bringing a chance to reboot her life and prove she has what it takes to stand on her own. And Derek sees his life through new eyes. Can God bring his prodigals back to his plan for their lives?
Cheryl's murder Duo Choice is the Willow Springs Cozy Mystery Series by Jodi Casstevens-Short Murdered by the Books and Murdered by the Blooms and the place sounds so nice!
From Book 1: Welcome to Willow Springs where people are friendly, business is booming, and romance is in the air. But not everything is coming up roses because someone has murder on their mind.
It's a big week for Jillian Edwards as she prepares to open her children’s bookstore, Whimsy & Wonder. On Friday night, the people who helped her dream come to life have gathered to celebrate the grand opening. As the evening winds down and the guests disperse, a scream pierces the crisp autumn air. Jillian’s friend has been hit and killed in the street. The driver speeds away into the night.
Against everyone’s advice and despite ominous visions of danger from her clairvoyant aunt, Jillian jumps in to help solve the case as clues fall into her lap. Her interference annoys the lead detective, who happens to be her best friend’s husband. It also attracts the killer’s attention making her the next target.
Not everything is serious in Willow Springs. Jillian meets Travis, the handsome firefighter who worked the scene of the hit-and-run. From the first time they meet, their physical attraction is undeniable. After a few chance encounters, a heroic life-saving gesture and an intense first date, the pair find themselves with strong feelings for one another.
Will the killer be apprehended before Jillian’s life is threatened again? Can she find love amidst the mayhem and murder?
In Fi Phillip's choice's Footsteps of Heroes: A Coming-of-Age Mystery of Brotherhood, Secrets, and Courage (The Wessex Legacy Book #1) by BR.Dexter someone gets poisoned so that may be sticking to the theme.
In 1947, a school legend walked into his room and vanished without a trace.
Almost fifty years later, he has become a myth.
South Africa, 1994. As the country stands on the brink of its first democratic election, scholarship boy Alexander "Davey" Davidson is learning that at the Prince of Wessex School, earning his place comes with rules.
He knows the rules. He has just never been very good at following them.
But when Davey and the boys of West Dorm stumble upon an honours blazer that shouldn't exist, they realise the fifty-year-old myth hides a darker truth – and nobody at Prince of Wessex wants it found.
Their search leads through hidden tunnels, coded journals, and a history someone has spent decades trying to erase. Who was the boy behind the legend? And why has an entire school spent fifty years pretending he never existed at all?
When a friend is poisoned and a mentor is framed, Davey realises whoever is behind it will do anything to keep the past buried.
To expose the truth, he must risk the school he has come to love... and the brotherhood he cannot bear to lose.
Perfect for readers who love Dead Poets Society, The Secret History, The Power of One, and Stand By Me.
Some heroes are born. Some are made. And some vanish.
Fi's choice of Bella Colby's Milestones, Magic and Murder clearly fits this months vibe.
Losing your home and your husband on your 50th birthday is bad. Gaining a mysterious mansion, magical powers, and a dead body? Now that's murder.
Josie Appleton is reeling from one hex of a midlife crisis. Blindsided and broke, an unexpected inheritance from the grandmother she never met seems a lifeline. Until Josie discovers the sprawling manor comes with latent magical powers, a sassy talking cat, and… oh yeah… the greenhouse is home to a corpse.
Forced to dig deep to clear her name for a murder she didn't commit, Josie must juggle hot flushes, unruly spells, and a detective who's itching to slap on the cuffs. Caught between a village of eccentric locals, a spellbindingly handsome caretaker, and a killer desperate to avoid capture, she's in more trouble than a toad in a witch's potion party.
Can Josie conjure up her newfound magic and amateur sleuthing skills to unearth the truth before she becomes the next victim?
Milestones, Magic, and Murder is the enchanting first book in the Witchy at Fifty midlife paranormal cozy mystery series.
If you love witchy whodunits, small-town secrets, and feline familiars with serious cattitude, Milestones, Magic and Murder is your perfect brew.
Pick up a copy and start unravelling the mystery today.
Joanne Paulson's choices definitely fit the theme. Eileen Curley Hammond's Murder So Sinful : A Merry March Cozy Mystery book 1 of her Merry March Mysteries Series which all have, you guessed it, a murder in them.
A murder at the church rocks the small town of Hopeful and sets tongues wagging.
Single mom and successful insurance agent Merry March steps in to figure out who the killer is.
Merry’s had a tough week. Her daughter went off the rails and her best friend became an annoying matchmaker. Finding solace in food, wine, and two demanding cats, her comfortable life changes when her best friend’s daughter is suspected of murder. As Merry investigates, she begins to open her heart.
Joanne's other choice The Stuff of Murder by Kathleen Marple kind of sums things up title wise at least.
When Hollywood comes to small-town Connecticut, it should be the stuff of dreams—but when a fading movie star ends up dead, a whole different kind of stuff hits the fan.
Unity Historical Society head and antique household items—stuff!—expert Christian Shaw is on set when actor Brett Studebaker falls from the pulpit during a streaming service shoot in an old church. She, the “dads she should have had,” Garrett and Ed, her son Henry, who has a photographic memory and Type-1 Diabetes, and her colorful friends end up helping Assistant State’s Attorney Joe Poli track the killer. Along for the ride: her giant tuxedo cat, Cookie, Ed and Garrett’s big red mutt, Norm, and Joe’s tiny dog, Cannoli. Woodworking, embroidery, old poisons, and vintage weapons all figure in the case, which comes together in a wild scene at the Historical Society on Fourth-Grade Field Trip Day.
So if murder is on your mind too there are some options to choose from or maybe like Paula Peckham you still haven't found what you're looking for.
Happy Reading
Lily x
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