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Monday, May 22, 2017

Virtual Tour & #Giveaway for Dumpster Dying & Grilled, Chilled and Killed by Lesley Diehl

Welcome to my stop on the Virtual Tour, presented by Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours, for Dumpster Dying & Grilled, Chilled and Killed by Lesley Diehl.  Please leave a comment or question for Lesley to let her know you stopped by.  You may enter her tour wide giveaway by filling out the Rafflecopter form below.  My review of Dumpster Dying will post separately later today and my review for Grilled, Chilled and Killed will post later this week.  Please be sure to check back for them.  You may follow all of the stops on the tour by clicking on the banner above.  Good Luck!

Dumpster Dying:
By Lesley Diehl
Big Lake Murder Mysteries, Book 1

Publisher: Creekside Publishing
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Length: 248 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-0997234923
ASIN: B01MRWGBC8

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About the book:


Emily Rhodes came to rural Florida for the cowboys, the cattle, and to do a little country two-step, not to fall head first onto a dead body in a dumpster. Ah, the golden years of retirement in the sunshine state. They’re more like pot metal to Emily, who discovers the body of the county’s wealthiest rancher in the Big Lake Country Club dumpster. With her close friend accused of the murder, Emily sets aside her grief at her life partner’s death to find the real killer. She underestimates the obstacles rural Florida can set up for a winter visitor and runs afoul of a local judge with his own version of justice, hires a lawyer who works out of a retirement home, and flees wild fires hand-in-hand with the man she believes to be the killer.


Grilled, Chilled and Killed
By Lesley Diehl
Big Lake Murder Mysteries, Book 2



Publisher: Creekside Publishing
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Length: 224 Pages

ISBN-13:  978-0997234930
ASIN:  B01N9GUUKU

Buy Link:  Kindle   Amazon Print



About the book:


It seems as if Emily is destined to discover dead bodies. This time she finds one of the contestants at the local barbecue cook-off dead and covered in barbecue sauce in a beer cooler. She should be used to stumbling onto corpses by now and the question of who killed the guy should pique her curiosity, but Emily decides to let Detective Lewis handle this one, at least until she figures his theory of who did the deed is wrong, wrong, wrong. Lewis’ denigration of Emily’s speculations is condescending enough to stimulate her dormant snooping skills. As the two of them go on their separate paths to find the killer, Lewis’ old partner, Toby the dirty, tobacco-spitting cop interferes in the investigation leaving Lewis with the wrong man in jail. Killers, bootleggers, barbecue and feral pigs—it’s a lethal game of hide and seek in the Florida swamp.



About The Author

Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in Upstate New York. In the winter she migrates to old Florida—cowboys, scrub palmetto and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post office, and gators make golf a contact sport. Back north, the shy ghost inhabiting the cottage serves as her literary muse.  When not writing, she gardens, cooks, frequents yard sales and renovates the 1874 cottage with the help of her husband, two cats and, of course, Fred the ghost, who gives artistic direction to their work.

She is the author of a number of mystery series and mysteries as well as short stories. The third book in the Eve Appel murders (from Camel Press) A Sporting Murder was awarded a Readers’ Favorite Five Star Award and her short story Gator Aid a Sleuthfest (2009) short story first place. She has fired the alligator that served as her literary muse when she is in Florida and is interviewing applicants for the position.

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3 comments:

  1. I have not read this series but have added to my to be read list!!!!
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  2. New author and series to me. Books look like fun reads. Adding

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  3. Dumpster Dying & Grilled, Chilled and Killed sound like such fun reads. Loved hearing about both the books and the author. Hoping to be the very fortunate one selected for this great giveaway. I'd love to see "Kay" in the next book. :)

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