Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

{Mystery} Real Murder Blog Tour Sign Up

Lauren Carr will be returning September 2 – 26 with her mystery, Real Murder! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! 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,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Divine Sanctuary Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl Kay Tardiff’s Divine Sanctuary (Book 3 in the Divine Trilogy) virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Divine Sanctuary Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif Publisher: Imagin Books Pages: 210 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Crime/Thriller/Romance Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON There’s no place like home… In the Divine trilogy finale, the heat is tripled when CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan must rescue Emily, the ghost girl that haunts her dreams; expose her own mother’s killer; and uncover a murderer that preys on the weak at Sanctuary, a controversial cult nestled in the woods near Mission, BC. Something insidious lurks behind the safe haven of Sanctuary’s
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First Chapter: Divine Sanctuary by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Title: Divine Sanctuary Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif Publisher: Imagin Books Pages: 210 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Crime/Thriller/Romance Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Prologue Emily emerged from the shadows of Jasi’s closet. She drifted forward, her feet barely touching the floor. Her head, with its long blonde hair, lolled at an awkward―strangled―angle. In this dream, an adult Jasi gasped in surprise. The pink skipping rope noose was gone. “You’re ready, Jasmine.” “Ready for what?” “To start looking for me.” Jasi stood still, mesmerized by the bruises around the girl’s neck. They were fading before her eyes. “The skipping rope is gone,” she said finally. “And your bruises are disappearing.” “Yours will too,”
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{Mystery} Behind You Blog Tour Sign Up

Carly M. Duncan will be returning September 4 – 29 with her mystery, Behind You! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   When a mysterious attack lands Heather in the hospital on the brink of death, her family rushes to her side. Through an inconvenient maze of shadowed memory and family secrets, Heather can trust only herself to discover if her husband, parents, sister or aunt tried to kill her. During the course of their own narratives, each character confesses to their
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{Paranormal Mystery} Divine Sanctuary Blog Tour Sign Up

Cheryl Kaye Tardif will be touring August 4-29 with her paranormal mystery/crime/thriller/romance, Divine Sanctuary! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! There’s no place like home… In the Divine trilogy finale, the heat is tripled when CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan must rescue Emily, the ghost girl that haunts her dreams; expose her own mother’s killer; and uncover a murderer that preys on the weak at Sanctuary, a controversial cult nestled in the woods near Mission, BC. Something insidious lurks behind the
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First Chapter: The Last Ancient by Eliot Baker

Title: The Last Ancient Author: Eliot Baker Publisher: Burst Books, imprint of Champagne Books Pages: 316 Genre: Supernatural Thriller, Historical Mystery Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Around Nantucket Island, brutal crime scenes are peppered with ancient coins, found by the one man who can unlock their meaning. But what do the coins have to do with the crimes? Or the sudden disease epidemic? Even the creature? And who–or what–left them? The answer leads reporter Simon Stephenson on a journey through ancient mythology, numismatics, and the occult. Not to mention his own past, which turns out to be even darker than he’d realized; his murdered father was a feared arms
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Startup Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Glenn Ogura’s Startup virtual book tour April 7-18! Title: Startup Author: Glenn Ogura Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 486 Genre: Mytery/Thriller Format: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Set in California’s Silicon Valley, STARTUP follows a young idealist/entrepreneur, Zack Penny, as he strives to achieve his dream of creating a new company that will launch an international revolution in technology through the creation of wallpaper-thin displays that will completely surround a viewer. Zack works for a highly successful company called Display Technik, run by CEO Allen Henley, whose vision is based on a success-at-all-costs philosophy.  Zack sees Henley as a mentor, but Zack’s philosophy favors
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Broken Family Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kevin Hopson’s Broken Family virtual book tour April 7-18! Title: Broken Family Author: Kevin Hopson Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing Pages: 37 Genre: Crime/Mystery Format: Kindle Sheriff Joseph Mauro is summoned to a local lake in Stone County, having received a report of a dead woman along the water’s shore. With foul play a possibility, he utilizes the help of his two female deputies in questioning family members and friends. As the three of them search for clues and possible motives, the case takes an unexpected turn, and Sheriff Mauro must rely on his instincts if he is going to weed out
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{Crime/Mystery Novella} Broken Family Blog Tour Sign Up

Kevin Hopson will be touring April 7-18 with his crime/mystery novella, Broken Family. We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Sheriff Joseph Mauro is summoned to a local lake in Stone County, having received a report of a dead woman along the water’s shore. With foul play a possibility, he utilizes the help of his two female deputies in questioning family members and friends. As the three of them search for clues and possible
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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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{Mystery/Thriller} Startup Blog Tour Sign Up

Glenn Ogura will be on tour April 7 – 30 with his mystery/thriller, Startup. We are looking for reviews (paperback), interviews, guest posts and book spotlights. Deadline to sign up is March 28. Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Set in California’s Silicon Valley, STARTUP follows a young idealist/entrepreneur, Zack Penny, as he strives to achieve his dream of creating a new company that will launch an international revolution in technology through the creation of wallpaper-thin displays that will completely surround a viewer. Zack works for a highly successful company called Display Technik,
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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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  • January 23, 2014
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Killer Image Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Wendy Tyson’s Killer Image virtual book tour February 3 – 28! ABOUT KILLER IMAGE Title: Killer Image Author: Wendy Tyson Publisher: Henery Press Pages: 324 Language: English Genre: Mystery/Psychological Thriller Format: Paperback ($14.96) & eBook ($2.99) As Philadelphia’s premier image consultant, Allison Campbell helps others reinvent themselves, but her most successful transformation was her own after a scandal nearly ruined her. Now she moves in a world of powerful executives, wealthy, eccentric ex-wives and twisted ethics. When Allison’s latest Main Line client, the fifteen-year-old Goth daughter of a White House hopeful, is accused of the ritualistic murder of a local
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  • January 11, 2014
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Fog City Strangler Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Greg Messel’s Fog City Strangler virtual book tour February 3 – March 28! Title: Fog City Strangler Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 453 Language: English Genre: Mystery/Romance Format: Paperback, Kindle As 1958 nears an end San Francisco is being terrorized by a man who calls himself the “Fog City Strangler,” who preys on pretty young blonde women.  The strangler announces each murder by sending a note and piece of cloth from the victim’s dresses to the local newspapers. Private eye Sam Slater is worried that the Fog City Strangler may be eyeing his beautiful blonde wife, stewardess Amelia
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{Mystery/Southern Noir} Southern Heat by David Burnsworth Blog Tour Sign Up

David Burnsworth will be touring March 3 – April 30 with his mystery/southern noir, Southern Heat. We are looking for reviews (paperback), interviews, guest posts, first chapter reveals and book spotlights. Deadline to sign up is February 25. If you would like to host this tour, please fill out the form below. Thank you! 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
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{Mystery} Killer Image Blog Tour Sign-Up

Wendy Tyson will be touring February 3 – 28 with her mystery, Killer Image. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest posts and book spotlights. Deadline to sign up is January 31. If you would like to host this tour, please fill out the form below. Thank you! THIS TOUR IS FULL.  THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND BLOG HOSTS! Killer Image Description: As Philadelphia’s premier image consultant, Allison Campbell helps others reinvent themselves, but her most successful transformation was her own after a scandal nearly ruined her. Now she moves in a world of powerful executives, wealthy, eccentric ex-wives and twisted ethics. When Allison’s latest Main Line client,
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  • December 2, 2013
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First Chapter: The Black Song Inside by Carlyle Clark

Title: The Black Song Inside Author: Carlyle Clark Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Pages: 435 Language: English Genre: Mystery/Thriller Format: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook Purchase at AMAZON Atticus Wynn and Rosemary Sanchez, newly engaged private investigators, have seen the dark and violent side of life. Nothing, though, has prepared them for an explosive murder investigation that threatens to tear their relationship apart as they struggle to solve a case that could leave them in prison or dead. Atticus’s manipulative ex-girlfriend bursts back into their lives wielding a secret about Rosemary’s family that she exploits to force the couple into investigating the execution-style slaying of her lover. The case thrusts Atticus and
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  • November 9, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Black Song Inside Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Carlyle Clark’s The Black Song Inside virtual book tour December 2 – February 28! Carlyle’s tour is part of a $100 Amazon Gift Card giveaway. See details below on how you can enter to win! ABOUT THE BLACK SONG INSIDE Title: The Black Song Inside Author: Carlyle Clark Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Pages: 435 Language: English Genre: Mystery/Thriller Format: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook Atticus Wynn and Rosemary Sanchez, newly engaged private investigators, have seen the dark and violent side of life. Nothing, though, has prepared them for an explosive murder investigation that threatens to tear their relationship apart as they struggle
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{First Chapter} Moon River by J.R. Rain

Title: Moon River Genre: Contemporary Fantasy/Mystery Author: J.R. Rain Publisher: Lulu Pages: 216 Language: English ISBN-10: 1304328198 ISBN-13: 978-1304328199 Purchase at AMAZON Seven years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire. Now in MOON RIVER, private investigator, Samantha Moon, is asked to look into a string of bizarre murders, murders that are looking more and more like the handiwork of a bloodthirsty vampire. But when her sister, Mary Lou, goes missing, Samantha, Allison and
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  • October 8, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Moon River Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing J.R. Rain, author of the contemporary fantasy/mystery, Moon River, as he tours the blogosphere November 4 – 29! ABOUT MOON RIVER   Title: Moon River Genre: Contemporary Fantasy/Mystery Author: J.R. Rain Publisher: Lulu Pages: 216 Language: English ISBN-10: 1304328198 ISBN-13: 978-1304328199 Purchase at AMAZON At a tavern one Friday night, astrophysicist Gabriel Diaz meets a mysterious young woman. Captivated by her beauty as well as her views on good and evil, he spends the next several days with her. After a while, however, he begins to notice a strangeness in her…especially the way she seems to take pleasure in toying
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  • August 26, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Leaving Annalise Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing Pamela Fagan Hutchins, author of the mystery romantic thriller, Leaving Annalise, as she tours the blogosphere September 2 – 27! ABOUT LEAVING ANNALISE Volume 2 in the Katie & Annalise Series: One unexpected and hotly fought-over little boy, two dead bodies, and a series of home vandalisms throw Texas attorney turned island chanteuse Katie Connell into a tizzy. Juggling all of this, Bloody Mary cravings, baggage, and the bad guys too, she waffles between the jumbie house that brought her back from the brink and the man she believes is the love of her life.   ABOUT PAMELA FAGAN HUTCHINS
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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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  • June 27, 2013
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{Book Blast} Pump Up Your Book Presents Be Careful What You Wish For Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash

Join R.K. Avery, author of the mystery/thriller, Be Careful What You Wish For, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! R.K. will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash and a signed paperback copy of her book to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below and good luck! ABOUT BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Bunting Valley, North Dakota—a scenic and picturesque town where nothing dreadful ever happens—is a place where people feel safe leaving their front doors unlocked and their cars running in the driveways. So when
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Michael Bigham, Author of ‘Harkness’

Raised in the mill town of Prineville in Central Oregon beneath blue skies and rimrocks, Michael Bigham attended the University of Oregon and during his collegiate summers, fought range fires on the Oregon high desert for the Bureau of Land Management. He worked as a police officer with the Port of Portland and after leaving police work, obtained an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College. Michael lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter. Harkness is his first novel. Visit Michael at http://michaelbigham.com/  —————– Thank you for this interview, Michael! Can you tell us why you wrote Harkness: A High Desert Mystery? As with most authors,
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Aberration Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lisa Regan, author of the crime thriller, Aberration, as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ABERRATION FBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country. The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene. The case chills Kassidy, bringing back memories of her own encounter with a violent criminal five years earlier. Kassidy’s mentor, legendary agent
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First Chapters: San Francisco Secrets by Greg Messel

Title: San Francisco Secrets Author: Greg Messel Format: Paperback, ebook Length: 405 pages Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Noted novelist and newspaper editor Edgar Watson Howe once said. “A man who can keep a secret may be wise but he is not half as wise as a man with no secrets to keep” As the spring of 1958 arrives in San Francisco, it seems that baseball player turned private eye, Sam Slater and his fiancée, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan, are surrounded by people who have secrets. A prominent doctor, John O’Dell is being blackmailed by someone who has discovered a dark secret from his past. When the private investigator trying to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents San Francisco Secrets Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Greg Messel, author of the mystery/historical romance, San Francisco Secrets, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – July 26 2013 on his fifth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO SECRETS Noted novelist and newspaper editor Edgar Watson Howe once said. “A man who can keep a secret may be wise but he is not half as wise as a man with no secrets to keep” As the spring of 1958 arrives in San Francisco, it seems that baseball player turned private eye, Sam Slater and his fiancée, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan, are surrounded by people who have secrets. A prominent doctor, John
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  • April 9, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Heart Stone Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Sherry Kyle, author of the Christian fiction, The Heart Stone, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE HEART STONE When the biological father of Jessica MacAllister’s son decides to break their custody agreement, Jessica and her son visit her Uncle George for advice and refuge… Following a year of grief, Evelyn Sweeney is finally ready to move on. Pondering her new path in life, her mind drifts to her first love, George MacAllister… When the lives of these two women cross, they discover that one heart-shaped ring binds their stories together. But
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  • March 14, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Harkness Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Michael Bigham, author of the mystery novel, Harkness, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – June 28, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT HARKNESS Harkness isn’t your typical Western sheriff. Cowboy boots make his arches ache, he’s phobic of horses, but he does have a horse of sorts – a `39 Chevy pickup he calls Hoopie, and a sidekick – a neurotic wiener dog named Addison. Harkness is a man of his times, shaped for both good and bad by his experiences in WWII. He deals with issues like bigotry and sexual suppression in a believable manner. We come to
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Calling All Bloggers to Participate in Athol Dickson’s January Justice Book Blast!

Hi everyone! We are recruiting bloggers to participate in Athol Dickson’s January Justice Book Blast! This event will take place March 18 – 22, 2013 . Athol will be giving away a $25 Amazon gift card. All bloggers who sign up are eligible to win! There will be no interviews, guest posts or reviews with this Book Blast. Just book spotlights in which we will send everything to you ahead of time for you to copy and paste into your blog on the selected day. When requesting a spot on his tour, please let us know which date would work for you. Thank you! ——————————— About January Justice: Reeling from his wife’s
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