Posts Tagged ‘mystery book’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Abuse of Discretion Virtual Book Publicity Tour @authorPSY

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pamela Samuels Young’s ABUSE OF DISCRETION Virtual Book Tour December 4 – February 28! Inside the Book Title: ABUSE OF DISCRETION Author: Pamela Samuels Young Publisher: Goldman House Publishing Pages: 352 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: A Kid’s Curiosity … A Parent’s Nightmare The award-winning author of “Anybody’s Daughter” is back with an addictive courtroom drama that gives readers a shocking look inside the juvenile criminal justice system. Graylin Alexander is a model fourteen-year-old. When his adolescent curiosity gets the best of him, Graylin finds himself embroiled in a sexting scandal that threatens to ruin his life. Jenny Ungerman, the attorney
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First Chapter: San Francisco Nights by Greg Messel & Giveaway!

Title: SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 232 Genre: Mystery / Suspense The wife of a wealthy San Francisco shipping magnate leads a secret life but someone is threatening to expose her.  Private eye Sam Slater and his wife and partner, Amelia, meet a mysterious woman in a large red hat during a train trip. The woman approaches him pleading for help because she‘s receiving anonymous notes quoting Bible verses which are becoming more and more ominous with each passing day. Her secrets have been discovered but by whom? What really happens behind closed doors in Room 505 in a swanky downtown hotel? Sam is
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents San Francisco Nights Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway!

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Greg Messel’s SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS Blog Tour August 1 – September 29! Inside the Book Title: SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 232 Genre: Mystery / Suspense The wife of a wealthy San Francisco shipping magnate leads a secret life but someone is threatening to expose her.  Private eye Sam Slater and his wife and partner, Amelia, meet a mysterious woman in a large red hat during a train trip. The woman approaches him pleading for help because she‘s receiving anonymous notes quoting Bible verses which are becoming more and more ominous with each passing
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Mentor Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s THE MENTOR Blog Tour July 3 – August 31! Inside the Book Title: THE MENTOR Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press Pages: 336 Genre: Thriller / Suspense / Mystery Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house. When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he’s been writing
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Never Go Alone Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Denison Latch’s NEVER GO ALONE Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops to let him know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Never Go Alone Author: Denison Hatch Publisher: Lookout Press Pages: 300 Genre: Thriller/Mystery/Police Procedural A rash of elaborate cat burglaries of luxury buildings in Manhattan has the police and mayor panicked. When a group of social media obsessed millennials—a loosely organized crew that call themselves “urban explorers”—are suspected in the heists, NYPD detective Jake Rivett is assigned the case. Already undercover with one foot on each side of the blue line, Rivett is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Poisonous Journey Book Blast!

We invite you to Malia Zaidi’s A POISONOUS JOURNEY Book Blast November 1-30! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: A Poisonous Journey Author: Malia Zaidi Publisher: Bookbaby Pages: 385 The year is 1925, a time that hovers between two catastrophic wars, a time of jazz and sparkle, and a time of peace and reflection. For Lady Evelyn, struggling to outrun the ghosts of her tragic past, it is a time of transformation. Left orphaned after a fire when she was only four, Lady Evelyn Carlisle was raised in London by her stern aunt and uncle.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Touching Death Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Becky Johnson’s TOUCHING DEATH virtual book tour September 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: Touching Death Author: Becky Johnson Publisher: Independent Pages: 209 Genre: Mystery/Suspense Rachel Angeletti knows things. She always has. With one touch she sees secrets, emotions, lies. Her gift helps her to be the best museum curator in Chicago. It also makes her personal relationships difficult. Her life is complicated enough when a run in with her ex and an unanticipated vision sends her reeling. One touch and she sees death. One touch and she is thrown into the midst of killer’s dark fantasy. Now Rachel
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Three Days to Forever Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Carr’s THREE DAYS TO FOREVER virtual book tour March 2-27! Title: Three Days to Forever Author: Lauren Carr Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 466 Genre: Mystery Format: Paperback/Kindle In this latest Mac Faraday Mystery from best-selling mystery author Lauren Carr, readers will embark on a rollercoaster adventure with old friends (including the Lovers in Crime team of Prosecutor Joshua Thornton and Homicide Detective Cameron Gates), but also meet new ones as Mac Faraday’s daughter Jessica Faraday and Joshua Thornton’s son Murphy Thornton join the team in the race to get the love birds to the altar! With three days
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Charlotte Marshall Mysteries Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Becky Johnson’s CHARLOTTE MARSHALL MYSTERIES virtual book tour January 5 – 30! Title: Run Author: Becky Johnson Publisher: Becky Johnson Pages: 160 Genre: Mystery Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle A decades old mystery and a deadly game of cat and mouse will change Charlotte Marshall forever. Charlotte has a good life: friends, family, a successful career. Her perfect life is destroyed when research for a book and a connection from her past plunges her into the middle of her worst nightmare. On the run, with no one to trust, Charlotte begins to unravel the work of a sadistic murderer. Afraid and alone,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Shadows in the Fog Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Greg Messel’s SHADOWS IN THE FOG virtual book tour December 1 – February 13! Title: Shadows in the Fog Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 353 Genre: Mystery Thriller Format: Paperback/Kindle The story begins on a stormy morning in February of 1959. The front page of the morning paper is dominated by news of the plane crash which killed rock ’n roll stars Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens. Private Eye Sam Slater is hired to perform what he thinks is a routine two-day job as a favor for a friend. However, it all goes terribly wrong
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Too Late to Run Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Perich’s TOO LATE TO RUN virtual book tour December 1 – 16! Title: Too Late to Run Author: John Perich Publisher: John Perich Pages: 402 Genre: Mystery/Thriller Format: Kindle Too Late to Run is the third book in a series of gritty mystery novels starring Boston photojournalist Mara Cunningham. This time, Mara reluctantly aids a crooked real estate developer from her past who’s been detained on trumped-up charges. But each clue she uncovers turns up more enemies – backwoods militias, corrupt bankers, and a mysterious pyromaniac – and raises doubts as to her friend’s innocence. For More Information Too
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Wedding and a Killing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Carr’s A WEDDING AND A KILLING virtual book tour October 6-31!   Title: A Wedding and a Killing Author: Lauren Carr Publisher: Acorn Book Services Genre: Mystery Format: Kindle When Mac Faraday decides to do something, there’s no stopping him … even murder! Not wanting to wait until their big day to start their life of wedded bliss, Mac Faraday and his lady love, Archie Monday, decide to elope to the little church where his ancestors had all married—along the tranquil shore of Deep Creek Lake. However, before they can say, “I do,” the sanctuary erupts into chaos when
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  • August 9, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Real Murder Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Carr’s REAL MURDER virtual book tour September 2 – 26! Title: Real Murder Author: Lauren Carr Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 302 Genre: Mystery Format: Paperback/Kindle When Homicide Detective Cameron Gates befriends Dolly, the little old lady who lives across the street, she is warned not to get lured into helping the elderly woman by investigating the unsolved murder of one of her girls. “She’s senile,” Cameron is warned. “It’s not a real murder.” Such is not the case. After Dolly is brutally murdered, Cameron discovers that the sweet blue-haired lady’s “girl” was a call girl, who had been
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  • February 18, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Southern Heat Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Burnsworth’s Southern Heat virtual book tour March 3 – April 30! ABOUT SOUTHERN HEAT   Title: Southern Heat Author: David Burnsworth Publisher: Five Star/Gale Pages: 304 Language: English Genre: Southern Noir/Mystery Format: Paperback & eBook Gunshots echo down an antebellum Charleston alley. Brack Pelton, an ex-racecar driver and Afghanistan War veteran, witnesses the murder of his uncle, Reggie Sails. Darcy Wells, the pretty Palmetto Pulse reporter, investigates Reggie’s murder and targets Brack. The sole heir of his uncle’s estate, Brack receives a rundown bar called the Pirate’s Cove, a rotting beach house, and one hundred acres of preserved and
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  • February 12, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Twelve to Murder Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Carr’s Twelve to Murder virtual book tour March 3 – 28! ABOUT TWELVE TO MURDER Title: Twelve to Murder Author: Lauren Carr Publisher: Acorn Book Services Genre: Mystery Format: eBook Two people are brutally murdered in their summer place on Deep Creek Lake. Suspected of the murders, former child star and one-time teenybopper idol Lenny Frost takes innocent bystanders hostage in a local pub and demands that Mac Faraday find the killer. Can Mac save the hostages and himself from the wrath of the enraged has-been by piecing together the clues in less than twelve hours, or will it
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Angel Killer Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join PJ Nunn, author of the mystery novel, Angel Killer, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ANGEL KILLER The death of a child is every mother’s nightmare.  But what if the child has no mother?  What if their little bodies are discarded like garbage and no one even seems to care that they’re gone? Shari Markham, psychologist for the Dallas Police Department, knows what it feels like to be unclaimed and unwanted. She can’t turn away, even if it means demons dancing in her dreams at night.  But when her relentless pursuit of information
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dead on Ice Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lauren Carr, author of the mystery, Dead on Ice, as she tours the blogosphere November 19 – December 14 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT LAUREN CARR Lauren Carr fell in love with mysteries when her mother read Perry Mason to her at bedtime. Lauren is also the author of the Mac Faraday Mysteries, which takes place in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. The first two books in her series, It’s Murder, My Son and Old Loves Die Hard have been getting rave reviews from readers and reviewers. Lauren’s fifth mystery, Shades of Murder has been receiving rave reviews since its release.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Heroes & Lovers Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Wayne Zurl, author of the police mystery, Heroes & Lovers, as he tours the blogosphere November 5 – 30 2012 on his third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT WAYNE ZURL Wayne Zurl grew up on Long Island and retired after twenty years with the Suffolk County Police Department, one of the largest municipal law enforcement agencies in New York and the nation. For thirteen of those years he served as a section commander supervising investigators. He is a graduate of SUNY, Empire State College and served on active duty in the US Army during the Vietnam War and later in the reserves. Zurl left
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Artists and Thieves Virtual Book Publicity Tour II

Linda Schroeder, author of the mystery novel, Artists and Thieves, will be touring the blogosphere November 5 – 30 2012 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book. This will be an all guest post blog tour.  If interested in hosting her, contact Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com.  Deadline to query is October 25 or until the tour is full. ABOUT LINDA SCHROEDER Linda Schroeder divides her time between the bright sun of California and the high mountains of Colorado. She has a Master’s degree in English and one in Communicative Disorders/Audiology. In addition to her novel, Artists & Thieves, she has published a college text.
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with ‘Artists and Thieves’ Linda Schroeder + Win Kindle Fire!

I’m honored to have Linda Schroeder here with us today, the last day of her 2 month virtual book tour!  Time is running out to win the Kindle Fire she’s giving away so if you haven’t entered yet, click here and do so fast! ABOUT LINDA SCHROEDER Linda Schroeder divides her time between the bright sun of California and the high mountains of Colorado. She has a Master’s degree in English and one in Communicative Disorders/Audiology. In addition to her novel, Artists & Thieves, she has published a college text. Her early interest in English expanded to include language disorders and she began a second career as an audiologist
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Artists and Thieves Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012 + KINDLE FIRE GIVEAWAY

Linda Schroeder, author of the mystery novel, Artists and Thieves, will be touring the blogosphere June 4 – July 27 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book.  Linda will also be giving away a Kindle Fire during her  tour.  Find out how you can win a Kindle Fire below! ABOUT LINDA SCHROEDER Linda Schroeder divides her time between the bright sun of California and the high mountains of Colorado. She has a Master’s degree in English and one in Communicative Disorders/Audiology. In addition to her novel, Artists & Thieves, she has published a college text. Her early interest in English expanded to include language disorders
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PUMP UP YOUR BOOK PRESENTS A DARKLY HIDDEN TRUTH VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR 2012

Join Donna Fletcher Crow, author of the clerical mystery, A Darkly Hidden Truth (Monarch Books/ Kregel), as she virtually tours the blogosphere May 1 – 25 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT DONNA FLETCHER CROW Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of 38 books, mostly novels dealing with British history.  The award-winning Glastonbury, an Arthurian grail search epic covering 15 centuries of English history, is her best-known work. Donna and her husband live in Boise, Idaho.  They have 4 adult children and 11 grandchildren. She is an enthusiastic gardener. Her newest release is A Darkly Hidden Truth, book 2 in her clerical
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Julius Katz and Archie Virtual Book Tour June 2011

Join Dave Zeltserman, author of the thriller novel, Julius Katz and Archie (Top Suspense), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June 2011 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Dave Zeltserman Dave Zeltserman won the 2010 Shamus Award for Julius Katz, Ellery Queen’s Readers Choice Award for Archie’s Been Framed, and is the acclaimed author of the ‘man out of prison’ crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer, where Small Crimes was named by NPR as one of the five best crime and mystery novels of 2008, and Small Crimes and Pariah (2009) were picked by the Washington Post as best books of
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Schooled in Lies Virtual Book Tour February 2010

Join Angela Henry, author of the mystery novel, Schooled in Lies (Boulevard Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in February on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! About Angela Henry Angela Henry was once told that her past life careers included spy, researcher, and investigator. She stuck with what she knew because today she’s a mystery writing library reference specialist, who loves to people watch and eavesdrop on conversations. She’s the author of four mysteries featuring equally nosy amateur sleuth Kendra Clayton, and is also the founder of the award-winning MystNoir website, which promotes African-American mystery writers, and was named a “Hot Site”
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