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So excited to reveal the cover of my upcoming mystery in this book trailer my 17-year-old niece created for me. She did an amazing job! It took us 2 hours to edit together the videos, photos, music, and text to create 43-second trailer. Click the link below.

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If you enjoyed the previous Rae Riley mysteries, you’ll love A Storm of Doubts as Rae and Mal’s relationship encounters its first, real test, a shady relative returns home, and a family friend deals with the drama surrounding his ex-wife.

Here’s the back cover blurb:

Her dad said nothing could changer their relationship. But what if he wasn’t her dad?

Summer gets off to a rocky start for twenty-year-old Rae Riley when the ex-wife of family friend Jason Carlisle claims their youngest child isn’t his and Rae’s con man uncle Troy returns to Marlin County, Ohio. Rae is already at odds with her father, Sheriff Walter “Mal” Malinowski, over her desire to help people in trouble. When she extends that help to Uncle Troy and Jason’s ex-wife, she and Mal clash even more.

Then the ex-wife disappears, and Jason and his brother Rick are two of the main suspects. As Rae and her Aunt Carrie, a private investigator hired to protect Jason’s kids, work to discover what really happened, Rae wrestles with Troy’s insinuations that she may be calling the wrong Malinowski “Dad.”

Just in time for the holidays, here’s a book release and book deal! I have a new short story releasing in a new anthology! Ohio Trail Mix is an anthology of five short stories, all inspired by literary sites found in Ohio.

Ohio is full of literary connections. Libraries, museums, homes of authors, historical sites.

Did you know Superman was born in Ohio?

Did you know Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in the Cincinnati area?

Check out the Ohio Literary Trail, compiled by Ohioana, for more interesting facts.

But before that, we invite you to enjoy some stories inspired by visits to a handful of Ohio Literary Trail sites in the last year. Your imagination might be sparked. Or at the very least, your curiosity!

“Mazza Mystery” by Bettie Boswell: Just who was the woman pretending to be a known artist? Why?

“Bovine” by JPC Allen: An elitist author comes to a backwater Ohio county, thinking he’s found the perfect setting for the perfect crime.

“Between Semicolons and Plot Twisters” by Rebecca Waters: An author finds more in common with Harriet Beecher Stowe than she ever would have guessed, when modern-day slavery comes close to home.

“The Mask” by Betty Kulich: A gift of true love is passed through the ages.

“Books: Caged and Free” by Michelle L. Levigne: On a moonlit night, old books come to life to share their stories.

My mystery was a lot of fun to write. It takes place in my fictional county of Marlin County, Ohio, but my teen detective is a minor character. It’s an inverted mystery, which is a mystery in which readers follow a criminal as he commits his crime. So has is that mysterious? Instead of being a whodunit, it’s a how’s-he-gonna-get-caught. One of my favorite TV shows is Columbo, and every episode of that show is an inverted mystery. It almost always starts with an arrogant, wealthy murderer thinking he has committed the perfect crime. Then rumpled Lt. Columbo shows up, and I relish watching this unassuming cop pick apart the supposedly fool-proof scheme.

But wait! There’s more ….

If you have audiobooks lovers on your Christmas list, here’s a deal for you! Click here and browse Mt. Zion Ridge’s collection of audiobooks. If you like mysteries, check out the audiobook of my novel, A Shadow on the Snow. Narrator Shellie Arnold brings my teen detective to life in a wonderful way that I never could have anticipated. I couldn’t have picked a better reader1

Happy New Year! The first day of 2022 is the last day of the blog tour and giveaway with Celebrate Lit for A Shadow on the Snow. There’s still time to enter. Check out the last stops below.

December 30: A Modern Day Fairy Tale

December 30: Blogging With Carol

December 31: Musings of a Sassy Bookish Mama

A lot of people I know pick a word for the year. Are you doing that for 2022?

Follow my blog tour to its latest dates on Celebrate Lit and enter the giveaway for a signed copy of my YA Christian mystery, A Shadow on the Snow, a signed copy of the anthology, Christmas fiction off the beaten path, which contains the prequel short story, “A Rose from the Ashes”, a bookmark based on the artwork of Ohio artist Charley Harper, and a $50 Amazon gift card.

December 23: Ashley’s Clean Book Reviews and Bigreadersite

December 24: Gina Holder, Author and Blogger (Author Interview)

December 25: Vicarious Living

December 26: For Him and My Family

If you’d like to meet some new book reviewers, follow me to more blog stops and giveaway listed below. Thanks to all the reviewers positive reviews for A Shadow on the Snow! Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a copy of Shadow, the anthology with the prequel short story, a bookmark, and a $50 Amazon card.

Dec. 20: Texas Book-aholic

Dec. 21: Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations

Dec. 22: Inklings and Notions