Friday Faves

Friday Faves 8/27

It’s Friday so I’m sharing some of my favorite things from this week. I saw a meme on Facebook this week and I shared it. It said: I just turned off the news and put on a serial killer documentary to relax. Yep, that pretty much sums up not only this week but last week. Maybe there’s something in my faves list that you’ll find relaxing.

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My faves for the week include a podcast, an IG account I love, my current read, writing sprints on Clubhouse and my fave workout this week.

Podcast: Plan A Life You Love, the episode Meet My Planner Friend Jen from @jensplannerlife

IG account: Show me the monkey! One of the accounts I’ve been following is @Misstyflower. Seeing/watching photos or videos of those three little monkeys is definitely a joy in the middle of a chaotic day. Love Angelika, Russel and Toby.

Current read: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Brash Blonde by Gemma Halliday and Kelly Rey (Loving!!!)

Writing sprints on clubhouse: I’ve been bouncing around a few of them. If you like sprinting, checkout Clubhouse.

Workout: Get Healthy U TV’s Lengthen and Strengthen 1. I really enjoyed slowing down the movements to work my muscles a little differently.

Do you have a fave this week you’d like to share? Leave a comment below. 🙂

Food Blogger Mysteries, Sunday Snippet

Sunday Snippet

“I figured it was time to cover the one unsolved case closest to me. My mom’s.”

“The Corpse Who Knew Too Much by Debra Sennefelder is another terrific book written by this amazing author . . . My rating for The Corpse Who Knew Too Much by Debra Sennefelder is five stars, and I give it my most outstanding recommendation.”
~Baroness’ Book Trove

THE CORPSE WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

☑️Mystery with recipes
☑️Small, New England town
☑️Twenty year old cold case
☑️Adorable dog

***Blurb***

Food blogger Hope Early takes on a cold case that’s heating up fast . . .

Building on her recipe for success with her food blog, Hope at Home, Hope is teaching her first blogging class at the local library in Jefferson, Connecticut. She’s also learning about podcasts, including a true-crime one called Search for the Missing, hosted by Hope’s childhood friend, Devon Markham. Twenty years ago on Valentine’s Day, right here in Jefferson, Devon’s mom disappeared and was never found. Finally Devon has returned to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother—and she asks Hope to help.

The next day Hope discovers Devon’s apartment has been ransacked. Her laptop with the research on her mother’s cold case is missing, and Devon is nowhere to be found. When her friend’s body is later discovered in a car wreck, Hope is convinced it’s no accident. Clearly, Devon was too close to the truth, and the cold-blooded killer is still at large in Jefferson. Now it’s up to Hope to find the guilty party—before the food blogger herself becomes the next subject of another true-crime podcast . . .

Includes Recipes from Hope’s Kitchen!

Food Blogger Mysteries, Video

The Corpse In The Gazebo Video 1

Food blogger Hope Early has a knack for getting swept up in murder investigations. It seems she’s as skilled in sleuthing as she is in SEO. Which turns out to be a good thing in THE CORPSE IN THE GAZEBO because she needs to find the real killer before her whole life crumbles.

THE CORPSE IN THE GAZEBO, a Food Blogger Mystery, releases on 9/28/21.

Food Blogger Mystery Series, Sunday Snippet

Sunday Snippet

Her headlights shone on the white garage door and her mouth gaped opened at the large block letters scrawled across the door.

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“A suspenseful finale delivers not just tense moments, but a heroine who must deal with the resulting trauma. This realism makes it a standout novel in the abundant cozy mystery genre.”

~KRL News & Reviews

THREE WIDOWS AND A CORPSE

☑️Mystery with recipes

☑️Small, New England town

☑️Three warring widows

☑️Adorable dog

***Blurb***

Food blogger Hope Early finds one item not on her scavenger hunt list—a dead husband . . .
Between developing her food blog, Hope at Home, and choosing low-cal recipes for a feature in Cooking Now! magazine, Hope has a full plate. Still, she’s never too busy to compete in a Jefferson, Connecticut, tradition—the town’s annual scavenger hunt.

But as she races with her team to check off the next item, Hope discovers a grisly surprise—the body of shady real estate developer Lionel Whitcomb, shot in a parking lot. His wife Elaine, who’s also in the hunt, gasps and nearly faints. But two other women on the scene cry out that their husband is dead.

Includes recipes from Hope’s Kitchen.

Friday Reads

Friday Reads

Yep, I’m bringing back Friday Reads. Now, I won’t have a Friday Reads post every week because I don’t read that fast. So, next week I’m planning on reviving my Friday Faves posts. With that little bit of housekeeping out of the way, let’s get going on our post today.

Happy hot, humid Friday! This is supposed to be the last day in our heatwave. We shall see. The only good thing about this weather is that it’s kept me indoors working and reading. I got a lot of work done and I also finished reading A SPIRIT SEEKS ASYLUM by Lena Gregory. I shared this book when it released and I couldn’t wait to dive into it. I’m so glad I did because it was so much fun, as are all the Bay Island Psychic mysteries.

Cass Donovan is confronted by ghoulish crimes both old and new when a defunct asylum is the site of a fresh murder and a long-hidden injustice . . .

The old abandoned buildings of the Twin Forks Lunatic Asylum have always fascinated and frightened clairvoyant Cass Donovan, but she never dreamed her psychic abilities would be put to the test there. Then the new owner of the site tells her he plans to renovate it and turn it into a boarding school, and he’ll pay Cass handsomely to determine whether the place is haunted! Cass accepts his offer, but her search for hints of old ghosts soon has her looking for clues among the living when the man who hired her turns up dead.

Returning to the shuttered asylum looking for evidence of who may have wanted her client out of the way, Cass stumbles upon signs of yet another murder, even as she’s besieged by an onslaught of haunting voices from the past. When it comes to light that rival real estate developers have been hatching plans of their own for the property, Cass sees no shortage of motives for the murders, but she’ll have to find a way to quiet the disturbing voices from long ago and focus on the here and now, because whoever’s behind the killings has targeted Cass as their next victim . . .

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I’m going to have to wait patiently for the next Bay Island Psychic mystery. Patience is a virtue, so I’m going to do my best. While I wait, I have picked my next read and it’s not a cozy.

Inquiring minds want to know : What are you reading?

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