Have You Seen Him

Have You Seen Him

This week we ponder on the idea that maybe a person's backstory could be all wrong. Maybe a rescue was really a crime? Who knows? But lets find out in Have You Seen Him by Kimberly Lee.   Synopsis What if everything you believed about yourself was totally wrong? For David Byrdsong, life is a series of daily obligations. An attorney, he lacks both ambition and the ability to commit to a long-term relationship with his girlfriend, Gayle. Abandoned by his family at an airport when he was eleven, he learned to blunt his feelings, despite his subsequent adoption by a loving couple. Until one day, when David discovers his own face in a missing child ad. Suddenly driven to uncover the truth about his past, he is forced to tap into his inner strength as he encounters corporate conspiracies, murdered bystanders, and distressing suspicions about the only family he’s ever really trusted. David enlists Gayle’s help—and the help of an unlikely stranger with secrets of his own—as he attempts to find his true family, whoever they are. Have You Seen Him is a story of lost identity, dangerous secrets, and a deeply personal pursuit of the truth.   Book Links: Amazon [https://pictbooks.tours/3dunusBO] | Kindle [https://pictbooks.tours/VcUSZ5Z7] | Barnes & Noble [https://pictbooks.tours/YPpPRMrm] | BookShop.org [https://pictbooks.tours/ZjlY2J4U] | Goodreads [https://pictbooks.tours/Hnx2NWBv] | BookBub [https://pictbooks.tours/4o1BfvHV] | Powells [https://pictbooks.tours/kTdLoJS5]

The Last Fatal Hour

This week we are traveling back in time to the 1880's to Brooklyn Heights. Leona and her husband Gil are trying to create income after being stolen from, but what adventures await on their journey. Find out in The Last Fatal Hour. Synopsis: For Leona Gladney, former woman soldier of the Union Army, life goes on despite the echoes of the battlefield in her heart. Now a suffragist and budding socialite in Brooklyn Heights, she yearns for a literary life and family. But her husband’s business partner embezzles their money and disappears.    The society matrons of Brooklyn Heights turn a gimlet eye on Leona after the suspicious death of a wealthy friend. Leona will do anything to find justice for her friend and clear her own name, but she finds only secrets, seances and murder.   Book Links: Amazon [https://pictbooks.tours/54WPvubH] | Barnes & Noble [https://pictbooks.tours/3AOgpGPn] | BookShop.org [https://pictbooks.tours/34sUBx6S] | Goodreads [https://pictbooks.tours/pFVXjbRQ] Music Credits: Libertas https://upbeat.io/t/christopher-galavan/libertas [https://upbeat.io/t/christopher-galavan/libertas] License Code: 50GSWJFLN6XKTX5H Point Blank https://upbeat.io/t/arend/point-blank [https://upbeat.io/t/arend/point-blank] License Code: IXCYTMWFBPKBSYT2 Hindsight https://upbeat.io/t/christopher-galavan/hindsight [https://upbeat.io/t/christopher-galavan/libertas] License Code: YQPNJACTYOIYSV8G   Visit Teresa's blog at https://teresatrent.blog [https://teresatrent.blog]

Round Up the Unusual Suspects

A Babs Norman Hollywood Mystery   Against the backdrop of WWII, no one expected to find a murdered stagehand on a Warner Brothers sound stage. With so much at stake, Jack L. Warner hires Babs Norman and Guy Brandt, the two young private eyes who recently resolved his high-profile Maltese Falcon/Blackbird Killer Case. Social justice crusader Leon Lewis suspects local Nazi sympathizers are responsible. Lewis assigns a German stuntman, a veteran of the decadent subculture of Weimar Berlin nightlife and one of his newest operatives, to join forces with the private detectives. According to Warner, the show must go on, but everything from bomb scares to the Japanese internment, to unruly parrots, forbidden love, and family crises conspires against solving the crime. “As Time Goes By,” actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and the rest of the Casablanca ensemble join the professional private eyes to round up the unusual suspects and capture the killer. Love 1940s classic movies? Treat yourself to the award-winning Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles (Book 1) and Bye, Bye Blackbird (Book 2) of Elizabeth Crowens’ Babs Norman’s Golden Age of Hollywood mystery series by Level Best Books. Book Links: Amazon [https://pictbooks.tours/GGYaOx4O] | Kindle [https://pictbooks.tours/T1oTv9im] | Barnes & Noble [https://pictbooks.tours/KWObu69q] | BookShop.org [https://pictbooks.tours/pEYajlNi] | Goodreads [https://pictbooks.tours/JPcRW5V3] | BookBub [https://pictbooks.tours/gylj4oPi] Music Credits Happy Swingy Chef https://uppbeat.io/t/giulio-fazio/happy-swingy-chef License code: 0GXPZEL35M7PEV3L The Usual Suspects https://uppbeat.io/t/theo-gerard/the-usual-suspects [https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrack.pstmrk.it%2F3s%2Fuppbeat.io%252Ft%252Ftheo-gerard%252Fthe-usual-suspects%2FvZub%2FU4HFAQ%2FAQ%2F0ea9e053-9c1c-4289-9558-d18a34dbfab8%2F4%2FsBpW9ezDlP&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cedecd54944d345043e6808deb7355d4d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639149636976574019%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rCO9jmozID630PGsR6oU%2FlnIKTlGnCTpubHiybs3rx0%3D&reserved=0] License code: JCGDDNZJ1LK1BCFZ Anxiety https://uppbeat.io/t/dada/anxiety [https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrack.pstmrk.it%2F3s%2Fuppbeat.io%252Ft%252Fdada%252Fanxiety%2FvZub%2FQoHFAQ%2FAQ%2F6c2d5cf2-e224-4032-93c7-edb86588f2c0%2F4%2F5IHJ5xrAzi&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cfcf69d147d254443a18008deb732dd6c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639149626250124026%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a6bUOztk2p0%2B1B%2BumgPHE3d%2BFcgOmRofddaLMvkk48o%3D&reserved=0] License code: QMYKEEZCD1EGSIYM   Books to the Ceiling is a part of Teresa Trent's Author Blog at https://teresatrent.blog [https://teresatrent.blog]

Murder She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial

This week we are joining Jessica Fletcher out in Hollywood to compete in a game show and she brings along the town doctor, the sheriff and his wife. This is a fun one, and a Murder She Wrote you won't want to miss! The newest delightful entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series, featuring mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher. Jessica Fletcher and friends Seth Hazlitt and Maureen and Mort Metzger team up for pub trivia and crush the competition, then are stunned to learn that the prize is a chance to appear in a five-day trivia tournament filming in LA. No one expects life-or-death stakes! But on day one of the tournament, a crew member is murdered. Who would benefit from derailing the show? Jessica has to come up with the ultimate answer. In a metafictional twist, the investigation takes Jessica and the gang to the filming locations of their favorite mystery shows, where they discuss how Columbo, Monk, or Jim Rockford might go about solving the case. Purchase Links Amazon [https://amzn.to/4t7YPja] - B&N [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-she-wrote-jessica-fletcher/1148039684?ean=9780593952900] - Kobo [https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-she-wrote-murder-most-trivial?sId=831c36e8-bc9d-4908-a44e-c8661a51a334&ssId=Dt0Ls5eezYc8I7zFTEa0w&cPos=6] - Bookshop.org [https://bookshop.org/a/91071/9780593952900] - Penguin Random House [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776349/murder-she-wrote-murder-most-trivial-by-jessica-fletcher-and-barbara-early/]   Music Credits Spring March https://uppbeat.io/t/jacob-taylor-armerding/spring-march License code: EPMPNFNTOW0LRFDV Achaidh-Cheide https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/achaidh-cheide License code: KO3SCYXQTBENIAWN   Visit Teresa's blog: Books to the Ceiling to find an archive of all the podcasts and to check out the giveaway page for your chance at ebooks and gift cards. [https://teresatrent.blog]

The Ghost and the Key

In the rush to subscribe to true-crime podcasts these days, we think it's something new, but what if I told you about The Old Cranberry Ladies Garden Club who has been digging around in old cases for over two hundred years? Today we are looking at this group of nosy, yet terribly smart, old ladies and three mysteries they solve. Our excerpt will be from the first book in the series, The Ghost and the Key, where they go after a murderer from 192 years ago. THE GHOST AND THE KEY With a pitchfork through the man's groin and another through his chest, it is clear that someone had murdered Chester H. Cranberry. It's not something that could have happened accidentally. But that was 192 years ago. As Mildred Cranberry, the current family matriarch, puts it, "We have two women, two keys, two pitchforks, and one dead two-timing man." Who in their right mind would want to dig up that cold case and try to solve it? It's not like the murderer could be prosecuted in 2024, right? But what if a key piece of evidence can be dug up (literally)? And what if a descendant of Chester's illegitimate child can get her hands on it? Mildred will need more than the Old Cranberry Ladies Garden Club members to solve this bizarre case. The spiritual support she needs may not be what she expects when the ghost of Elcira Cranberry, the widow murderess herself, arrives to do what? Tell the truth or protect her reputation? The Ladies Garden Club of Old Cranberry, Connecticut, has a 200-year history that has remained shrouded in secrecy for so long, it has been lost to history, until now. Elcira Cranberry and freedwoman Deborah Townsend knew the men of the town would have no interest in a garden club, so it was the perfect cover for their secret organization. Now, nearly two centuries later, the current members have no idea what those ladies were up to in the early 1800s, right here in Connecticut. But the secret will soon be out. Links: Amazon [https://pictbooks.tours/644cs5Tz] | Kindle [https://pictbooks.tours/mxVInns6] | Barnes & Noble [https://pictbooks.tours/9eL7p6gA] | BookShop.org [https://pictbooks.tours/AXj2u4zy] | Goodreads [https://pictbooks.tours/tjKkj2VZ] | BookBub [https://pictbooks.tours/fOLRsvm9]   Music Credits: Life https://uppbeat.io/t/christopher-galovan/life License code: 7HRZUO7SKSKFG1JX Quiet Versus Silence https://uppbeat.io/t/daniel-diaz/quiet-versus-silent License code: 1XXZQET8VSWB0BOP   Books to the Ceiling is a part of Teresa Trent's Blog. [https://teresatrent.blog]