Kate is giving away a copy of PERIL IN PAPERBACK: A Bibliophile Mystery!

PERIL IN PAPERBACK
Coming August 7, 2012

Rare books expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the birthday party of her neighbor Suzie’s aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life character who’s turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house, full of everything from pinball machines to secret passageways and trap doors. Brooklyn is most excited to catalog Grace’s extensive collection of rare paperback pulp fiction. Part of the fun involves a séance, but after the lights flicker, one guest is dead, poisoned by a cocktail intended for Grace. Someone is determined to turn Grace’s playful estate into a house of horrors. Brooklyn suspects the killer’s identity may lie in the roman á clef Grace has written about her life. With Grace in peril, “must-read” takes on a whole new meaning, as Brooklyn tries to stop a murderer who’s through playing around.

For more contests, excerpts and more, visit Kate Carlisle at http://berkleysignetmysteries.com/author374

Sheila is giving away a signed copy of SOUR APPLES!

SOUR APPLES
Coming August 7, 2012

Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn’t have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Lauren’s campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell, is found dead from an apparent kick to the head from one of her cows. When an autopsy shows that the fatal blow actually came from a weapon, Meg is even more troubled. Popular opinion points to Joyce’s husband as the culprit, but Meg can’t help wondering if someone wanted the outspoken dairy farmer out of the way—but why? She’ll have to find out who had a beef with the victim, before she’s the next one to get creamed...

For more contests, excerpts and more, visit Sheila Connolly at http://berkleysignetmysteries.com/author364

Krista is giving away 1 signed copy of THE DIVA DIGS UP THE DIRT, 2 DIVA DIGS UP THE DIRT T-shirts, and 2 Domestic Diva Mystery tote bags!

Determined not to be a garden-variety diva, Sophie Winston’s neighbor Natasha cultivates a plan to shine on television — using Sophie’s backyard. As the cast and crew of the make-over show Tear it Up with Troy bulldoze through her backyard — and vacation — Sophie retreats to her perennial boyfriend Wolf’s to replace a dead rosebush. But her tender deed goes awry when she digs up a purse belonging to Wolf’s missing wife. As speculations sprout, Wolf bolts, and then a body crops up in a garden. Is Wolf’s thorny past raising an ugly head? This is one case the domestic diva can’t let wilt on the vine.

For more contests, excerpts and more, visit Krista Davis at http://berkleysignetmysteries.com/author369

Carolyn is giving away a copy of DEATH COMES SILENTLY!

WHAT THE CAT SAW
Coming October 7, 2012

Nela Farley, fleeing heartbreak, walks into a stranger’s apartment. She looks into the eyes of a cat and learns more than is safe to know.

In DEATH COMES SILENTLY, 22nd in the Death On Demand series, Annie Darling trades places with another charity volunteer who doesn’t live to tell the tale.

For more contests, excerpts and more, visit Carolyn Hart at http://berkleysignetmysteries.com/author221

Sofie is giving away two copies of COPYCAT KILLING!

Everyone thinks their cats are special—but Owen and Hercules have powers that go far beyond an adorable look or an irresistible purr. Along with their owner, librarian Kathleen Paulson, they have an uncanny instinct for solving crimes... It’s been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town’s been deluged, and now the local artists’ co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been up all night helping her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio. The artwork survives, but when controversial mask maker Jaeger Merrill is found drowned in the co-op basement, Kathleen questions whether the death was accidental. After she discovers the artist was using an assumed name, she realizes she can’t actually assume anything about him. With the help of handsome detective Marcus Gordon—and her cats’ extraordinary powers of detection—it’s up to Kathleen to unmask a killer.

For more contests, excerpts and more, visit Sofie Kelly at http://berkleysignetmysteries.com/author422

Toni is giving away an Advanced Reading Copy of AN APPLE FOR THE CREATURE!

AN APPLE FOR THE CREATURE
Coming September 7, 2012

What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, editors of Home Improvement: Undead Edition. Your worst school nightmares—that math test you didn’t study for, finding yourself naked at school, getting caught by the class bully—will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms. Contains stories by Ilona Andrews, Amber Benson, Rhys Bowen, Mike Carey, Donald Harstad, Steve Hockensmith, Nancy Holder, Faith Hunter, Marjorie M. Liu, Jonathan Maberry,Thomas E. Sniegoski, and the editors—including a brand-new Sookie Stackhouse story.

For more contests, excerpts and more, visit Toni L.P. Kelner at http://berkleysignetmysteries.com/author377

Kate is giving away six signed books to three winners!

THE CLUE IS IN THE PUDDING
Coming November 6, 2012

When a Pennyfoot Hotel guest dies, apparently poisoned by a slice of Christmas pudding, suspicion falls on the bad-tempered temporary housekeeper. The downstairs staff are in a panic, while upstairs, Cecily Baxter has to solve the crime before the rest of her guests find out there’s a killer in their midst.

For more contests, excerpts and more, visit Kate Kingsbury at http://berkleysignetmysteries.com/author188