Welcome to my 7th Blogoversary Giveaway!
This month I’m celebrating seven years of this wonderful journey. Yesterday was my blogoversary. In celebration of this 7th year, I have a giveaway below that is pretty awesome.
This blog has found numerous hours of happiness for me. I have discovered many authors that I wouldn’t have had a chance to read or find before starting Baroness’ Book Trove. The authors and publishers have been extremely hospitable and generous. Getting book mail is a joy.
I also work with some really first-class book tour companies. They introduce me to some of the greatest books. If you are interested in checking them out, they are on the right sidebar.
I am a reader at heart, and with the help of my mom, I am able to maintain what I hope you agree is a professional and informative book blog. However, I read books that sound good to me and broaden my horizon to speak. I love going to new worlds and places that the authors create.
What kind of books are you planning to read over the summer? I have so many that I am looking forward to. Hopefully, you do too.
I also find that I’m leaning more toward these genres the most: middle grade, romance, mysteries in the cozy genre, and some may have a flair in the paranormal aspect and young adult fantasy. These books speak to me the most, I guess when reading their book blurbs, especially from any of my book tour companies or even as a requested book (which I get so many).
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ~ Annie Dillard
Baroness’ Book Trove’s 7th Blogoversary Cozy Mystery Giveaway
Fatal Family Ties
Series: An Ancestry Detective Mystery #3
Author: SC Perkins
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 336
Release Date: July 20, 2021
Summary:
Lucy is just about to tuck into a plate of tacos at her favorite Austin joint, Big Flaco’s, when she gets an unexpected visit from her former—and least-favorite—co-worker. Camilla Braithwaite hasn’t gotten much friendlier since the last time Lucy saw her, but that doesn’t stop her from asking a favor. In her hand is a newspaper feature on an ancestor, a civil war corporal—and a liar, according to the article. Charles Braithwaite is depicted as a phony and a deserter, and Camilla wants Lucy’s help clearing his name.
Lucy would prefer to spend her free time with her new beau, special agent Ben Turner, but takes the case, making no promises that Camilla will like the outcome of her investigation. Camilla leads Lucy to the Texas History Museum, where their first clue is a triptych painting, passed down in the Braithwaite family for generations, one panel of which has disappeared. But before Lucy can get much further, a member of the Braithwaite family is murdered in his own bed, and another panel of the painting found missing.
There are no shortage of suspects among the Braithwaite clan—including Camilla herself. This case will take Lucy to Houston and back again as she works to find the truth, and catch an elusive killer.
This book will be pre-ordered from Amazon for the winner.
Killing in a Koi Pond
Series: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery #53
Author: Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 288
Release Date: June 8, 2021
Summary:
After traveling to Bethesda for a mystery writers’ conference, Jessica Fletcher decides she’s earned a vacation and takes a train to Columbia, South Carolina, to visit her old college friend Dolores, who has recently married her third husband, Willis Nickens, a wealthy and cutthroat businessman. They’ve moved into an opulent historic home with plenty of space for guests, and Jessica is ready for a week of shopping, gossiping, and relaxing at the grand estate.
But the morning after she arrives, Jessica discovers Willis facedown in the koi pond, and despite what the police think, she’s sure foul play is involved. She hadn’t known Willis long, but it’s clear to her that he didn’t concern himself with making friends. The question isn’t if her friend’s husband was murdered but by whom.
Peaches and Schemes
Series: A Georgia B&B Mystery #3
Author: Anna Gerard
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 229
Release Date: May 11, 2021
Summary:
Nina Fleet might be new to the innkeeping business, but she’s savvy enough to know that Cymbeline’s tourists aren’t enough to keep her fledgling bed and breakfast going. And so, Nina decides to tap into the destination wedding market by taking a booth at the Veils and Vanities Bridal Expo. The twice-yearly event is sponsored by the town’s two wedding pros: Virgie Hamilton, the sixtysomething owner of Virgie’s Formals, and Roxanna Quarry, a Gen X event planner and Nina’s new friend. But everything goes wrong during the expo’s fashion show, when Roxanna comes tumbling out of an oversized prop wedding cake, strangled to death by her own scarf.
Virgie is arrested for the crime, thanks to Nina’s statement to the police about having overheard the woman accusing her partner of embezzlement. Meanwhile, the situation grows tense with her sometimes nemesis and current tenant, the dashing out-of-work actor Harry Westcott. Harry is concentrating on plugging his most recent side hustle …but he’s not too busy to break the news to Nina that her ex-husband is engaged to be married again.
Certain that Virgie’s only offense is a bad temper, Nina decides to do her own investigating. First, however, she and Harry retrieve Roxanna’s now ownerless dog, planning to foster him until a new home can be found. But local gossip soon convinces Nina that others beside Virgie might have had reason to murder Roxanna. As Nina gets close to the truth, she’s putting her own life at danger. And when Virgie vanishes after being bailed out of jail by an unknown benefactor, Nina fears that if she can’t find the dress shop owner in time, tying the knot will take on a whole new meaning for them both.
Southern Sass and a Battered Bride
Series: A Marygene Brown Mystery #3
Author: Kate Young
Genre: Paranormal Cozy Culinary Mystery
Pages: 275
Release Date: April 27, 2021
Summary:
At a murder mystery–themed wedding reception on Georgia’s picturesque Peach Cove Island, the bride is doing an awfully good job playing dead . . .
Marygene Brown always figured she’d marry her childhood sweetheart, Alex Myers, not cater his wedding. But the Peach Diner could use the exposure. Most of the island is showing up—although more for the role-playing murder game at the reception than for the widely loathed bridezilla, Lucy Carmichael. Marygene may have to smile through the festivities, but Mama doesn’t have to hold her peace—especially since only Marygene can hear her mother’s ghost. Mama says she sees an aura of darkness around the wedding.
So when Marygene finds Lucy lying beside the wedding cake, buried in batter, with no pulse, it looks like Mama called it. This is no game. And when the bride’s body simply vanishes, it’s up to Marygene and her best friend Betsy (cousin to the groom and no fan of the bride) to solve a real-life mystery—with a little help from Mama’s sassy spirit . . .
Includes Seven Recipes from Marygene’s Kitchen!
Two Wicked Desserts
Series: A Kitchen Witch Mystery #2
Author: Lynn Cahoon
Genre: Paranormal Cozy Culinary Mystery
Pages: 208
Release Date: July 27, 2021
Summary:
Magic Springs, Idaho, may be a small town, but Mia Malone is living an enchanted life running her own catering business and cooking school. And while she’s teaching the locals culinary craft, her grandmother is teaching her witchcraft for the day she inherits the family magical spells that have been passed down for generations. Unfortunately, all that knowledge is not helping Mia or her grandmother in removing the spirit of warlock Dorian Alexander from Mia’s cat Mr. Darcy.
But even though Dorian hasn’t yet left this earthly plane, his spells have already been transferred to his daughter Cindy’s grimoire. An actress looking for her big Hollywood break, Cindy is hoping there’s something in her father’s bag of tricks to make her a star. But playing with magic has only resulted in a trip to Idaho where Cindy finds herself the number one suspect in the murder of a hitman whose body was found in the garden of Mia’s Morsels. Now it’s up to Mia to conjure up a killer before everything she’s worked so hard for vanishes with a poof!
Includes Recipes!
This book will be pre-ordered from Amazon for the winner.
Giveaway
Prize: Cozy Mystery Giveaway. One (1) winner will receive one (1) paperback copy of each of the following books: Fatal Family Ties, Peaches and Schemes, Two Wicked Desserts, Southern Sass, and a Battered Bride, and Killing in the Koi Pond. (Open for the US only)
Ends: June 26th
Thank you for following the Baroness’ Book Trove. I truly appreciate all of you. Have a wonderful day!
A book is a gift you can open again and again. ~ Garrison Keillor
Happy Reading!
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