Tuesday, September 30, 2014

LET'S GET COZY! GOSSAMER GHOST: A PREVIEW AND GIVEAWAY

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GOSSAMER GHOST
A Scrapbooking Mystery
BY LAURA CHILDS

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Carmela Bertrand knows that Halloween in New Orleans means a week of rabble-rousing, costumed craziness—and she can’t wait to get the party started. But when a local antiques dealer turns up dead, Carmela suddenly finds herself in a real-life danse macabre…

An evening’s work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities, the neighboring antiques shop, Carmela’s night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet—and into her arms.

While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a penchant for eclectic merchandise, Carmela never thought he was the kind of man who could inspire the passion required to kill. But when Marcus’s assistant—and fiancĂ©e—Mavis reveals that a priceless death mask was also stolen, it becomes clear that murder wasn’t the culprit’s sole intention.
Carmela can’t resist the urge to investigate the growing mystery, but as the list of suspects increases, she realizes it’ll take every trick in the book to unmask the killer thief before there’s another night of murderous mischief…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Laura Childs is a pseudonym for Gerry Schmitt, former owner/CEO/Creative Director of a marketing/advertising firm in Minneapolis. Laura Childs is the bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mystery series, the Scrapbook Mystery series and the Cackleberry Club Mystery series. 

 
She is a consummate tea drinker, scrapbooker, and dog lover, and travels frequently to China and Japan with Dr. Bob, her professor husband.

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  1. I am a big fan of Carmela and everyone she encounters in New Orleans! Thanks!
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  9. Carmela is a great character. Laura Childs knows how to conjure up New Orleans through words!

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  11. On Laura Child's website, I looked at the rest of the books in this series. So far, I have read two of them. She is so prolific!

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  86. I'd hate to be looking at something in an antiques shop and have a body fall out. I'd like to find out the story behind it.

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