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New #YA Release: The Cats of Cullaby Creek by @kimkasch

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Please welcome Kimbra Kasch, who is here to share her new release: The Cats of Cullaby Creek, a young adult romantic mystery. (I couldn’t resist posting the animated version of the cover. Love watching the fog swirl in.)

Cullaby Cats animationThe Cats of Cullaby Creek
by Kimbra Kasch
RELEASE DATE: January 21, 2016
PUBLISHER: http://cleanreads.com/
ISBN: 978-1-62135-483-3

Think “The Animorphs” Grown Up

Blurb:

When Savannah meets Kyle, its love at first sight. And why wouldn’t it be? He’s perfect, as far as she can tell. But Kyle appears whenever things go wrong. Maybe he isn’t everything she thought he was. It’s a complete mystery until she discovers the water in Cullaby Creek is being bottled and sold as vitamin “infused” water. Mistic Water promises the impossible. And then, like a magical elixir, it delivers. People who drink it feel younger, smarter, faster…healthier. But it doesn’t take long before side effects hit. Literally. The secret has to be in the water…or is it something more?

YOU CAN BUY KIM’S BOOKS HERE: AMAZON, NOOK, iBook, and KOBO

Kim KaschAuthor Bio:

I’m a writer who grew up in a family with 9 kids and only 1 TV so I spent my days reading and, later, writing. I love books… maybe because I never got to pick TV shows we watched. But I’d run home after school to catch the last fifteen minutes of Dark Shadows…

I still love to run…and read. My favorite romance novels are The Hunger Games…okay, I know, it’s a survival book but it’s really all about romance. Then there were the series: Twilight, Fifty Shades, and more but I also love paranormal, horror and even light books like Dewey the Small Town Library Cat… Mainly, I just love to read… and write.

Find Kim online at:

Amazon Author Page, Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Pinterest and Twitter: @kimkasch.

The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen #review

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12 Clues coverThe Twelve Clues of Christmas: A Royal Spyness Mystery
(The Royal Spyness Series Book 6)
by Rhys Bowen

I’ve reviewed books in this series before. In this outing, Lady Georgianna takes a position as a party planner at an English house party to escape spending Christmas with her sister-in-law’s dreary family. Little does she expect to land right in the middle of a killing spree and a search for three convicts who escaped from Dartmoor Prison. The fun of a traditional English Christmas is spoiled by the fact that people in the quaint village of Tiddleton-Under-Lovey are dying by the day, starting with a man named Freddie Partridge, who seems to have committed suicide with his own gun… in a pear tree!

Thanks to the title, it’s obvious to the reader long before it dawns on Georgie (and Darcy who is conveniently related to the hostess of the house party) that a clever serial killer is at work.

White swans mating.

Swans a-swimming…

Familiar characters turn up, of course: Georgie’s self-centered mother, her lovable grandfather, and her clueless maid Queenie.

This series is marvelous and I’ve enjoyed each one of the mysteries. This is my new favorite though. Most of the books are notable for the humor and the quirky characters. But the plot of this mystery is particularly clever and intricate, and Bowen kept me guessing until the end. Great fun reading for the holidays, despite the high body count. But then there are twelve days of Christmas, right?

What are you reading over the holidays?

Linda

PS: Dear FCC, I bought a copy of the book for my Kindle.