Last Sunday Kensington Publishing and the
Fountain Bookstore hosted a cozy conference in Richmond, Virginia. The
impressive line-up of authors included Sherry Harris, Maya Corrigan, A. L.
Herbert, Ellery Adams, Alex Erickson, Amy Lillard, Bethany Blake, Carlene
O’Connor, J.D. Griffo, J.R. Ripley, Lane Stone, Libby Klein, Lyn Cahoon, Misty
Simon, and Mollie Cox Bryan. Both LynDee Walker and Rosemary Stevens supported
their fellow authors from the audience.
They fed us a substantial brunch and we ate
while the authors visited each table to describe their books in a timed
rotation. This author round robin is a standing event at the larger conferences
and is the source of much hilarity for the attendees, if not the authors, who
have to be exhausted by the time it is over. I collected a goodly quantity of
bookmarks which I added to the swag bag of more bookmarks and other book promo
materials. The bookmarks will find their way to a local library to distribute
to its readers.
Kensington generously gave away a number of
books, including a large basket full.
I was fortunate enough to win an ARC of J.D. Griffo’s debut cozy Murder
on Memory Lake, to be released on 31 July. The second in his Ferrara
Family series Murder in Tranquility Park is due out in March 2019.
Alberta Ferrara Scaglione inherits
her family’s vacation home on peaceful Memory Lake, radically different from
noisy Hoboken, New Jersey, and settles in to live there full-time. She is
elated to learn her granddaughter, a budding investigative journalist, has
found work nearby. What doesn’t make her happy is the discovery of a body
floating in the lake. Even more distressing is recognizing the victim as a
childhood acquaintance that she never particularly liked. While the local
police chief, another childhood friend, tells her to stay out of it, Alberta
and her granddaughter are determined to identify the person who damaged the
serenity of Alberta’s new home. They team up with Alberta’s sister Helen and
their sister-in-law Joyce to form an intrepid crime-solving team.
Full of Italian maxims and cooking with an emphasis
on family and friendship, this book is a lively read and a welcome addition to
the cozy genre.
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Mass
Market Paperback: 304 pages
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Publisher: Kensington (July 31, 2018)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 149671394X
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ISBN-13: 978-1496713940
Aubrey Hamilton © 2018
Aubrey Hamilton is a former
librarian who works on Federal IT projects by day and reads mysteries at night.
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