Posts by LesleyADiehl
The Book Launch and Another Contest
My book launch for Dead in the Water was a lot of fun. The weather couldn’t have been better, nor could the location. We all enjoyed a band playing in the plaza next to the restaurant, drank some wine and ate tasty appetizers. The Red Caboose Restaturant was a great location for the launch. I wanted…
Read MoreFeaturing Deperate Deeds by Patricia Gligor
I’m pleased to feature Patricia Gligor’s newest book Desperate Deeds today on my blog. This book is the third in her series about the Kern family. Here’s what she says about the book: As Ann Kern starts her new business as an interior decorator, the temperatures have risen, tulips and daffodils are in bloom and there’s a…
Read MoreOfficial Resease Day!
And here it is. Camel Press has officially released the second book in my Eve Appel mystery series Dead in the Water Sabal Bay consignment shop owner Eve Appel is fit to be tied—family tied. Just as she is basking in the warmth of a renewed relationship with her long-lost Uncle Winston, disaster strikes. He…
Read MoreThe Winner Is!
As many of you know, I love yard sales, consignment shops, anything that is used and secondhand, and so does my protagonist Eve Appel. She runs a high end consignment shop in rural Florida with her best friend Madeleine Boudreau. Eve was named after my paternal grandmother at whose side I learned to love bargains,…
Read MoreWin a copy of my book
Eve Appel, sassy gal sleuth from A Secondhand Murder will be making a second appearance soon in Dead in the Water, to be released by Camel Press in July. To celebrate her newest adventures in the swamps of Florida, I designed a contest for my readers and for those who might like to become a reader. Many…
Read MoreA Career in Writing After Retirement
It’s nice to curl up with a book especially if it’s one my mom wrote. I was punishing my body at the local health club, huffing and puffing my way on the stepper, hating myself for the cheese cake and the brownie I devoured at the party and vowing to do better this week, when…
Read MoreLois Winston crafts a mystery miniseries
Today Lois Winston is visiting. She asked me if she really ought to be here since this is the home of sassy country gals and, as Lois points out, Anastasia Pollack is no country girl. But, of course she belongs here. This is the place where all amateur sleuths with ‘tude are welcome. And Anastasia…
Read MoreEnd of Blog Tour for Murder is Academic
The blog tour for Murder is Academic ended this past weekend. I’d like to share with you some of the comments made about the book. I was so pleased that most of the reviewers liked the book and understood my protagonist, Laura Murphy, and my sense of humor. Thanks to Lori at Great Escapes Book…
Read MoreMurder Is Academic – Join Me on Book Blog Tour
Laura Murphy, the protagonist of Murder Is Academic lives on this beautiful lake in upstate New York. She teaches psychology at a local college and looks forward to afternoons relaxing with friends on her dock overlooking the lake, and especially now that she’s fallen hard for a guy who teaches biology and rides a big,…
Read MoreComing Soon! Murder is Academic
Short synopsis: Laura Murphy, psychology professor, thinks there’s nothing she likes better than coffee and donuts on a summer morning until she says yes to dinner with a Canadian biker and finds herself and her date suspects in the murder of her college’s president. Laura’s friend, the detective assigned the case, asks her to help…
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