Another Quilt Mystery from Mary Marks! + Giveaway

Last week Kensington Publishing Corp. released the second in Mary Mark's Quilting Mystery series, Knot in My Backyard.

Yet another great story with amateur detective Martha Rose. Martha and her quilting cohorts solve another mystery!

From the back cover:
"Baseball may be America's official favorite pastime, but for Martha Rose and her friends, quilting is far more fun...and a lot less dangerous.

A diamond brocade pattern is more quilter Martha Rose's style than a baseball diamond -- especially when it comes to the new eyesore of a stadium ruining her lovely San Fernando Valley neighborhood. Martha doesn't know a bunt from a bundt cake, but when she stumbles upon the battered body of baseball coach Dax Martin, she doesn't need a scorecard to know it's foul play. LAPD homicide detective Arlo Beavers is convinced one of her neighbors is responsible. But Martha and her fellow quilters Lucy and Birdie soon discover a whole field of suspects who might have wanted to take the coach out of the game permanently..."

The next in the series, Gone But Knot Forgotten, is due to come out in September, 2015. It's going to be very difficult to wait that long! But, we're lucky because Kensington has asked Mary to keep writing even more for the series.

More about Knot in My Backyard on Mary's site.

Here are more blogs with reviews and some with giveaways.

For a chance to win a copy of Knot in My Backyard,  just leave a comment at the end of this post by midnight EST Sunday, November 16. (That's midnight between the 16th and 17th.) Please be sure I have a way to contact you. Either by having your email address in your blogger profile or by leaving your email address in the comment.

If you don't want to wait, you can order Knot in My Backyard from Amazon, in paperback or Kindle.

Good luck!

 

Debbie

Quilt Mystery Book Review and Giveaway

January 7, 2014 is the big day for new quilting mystery writer Mary Marks. That's the day her first mystery, Forget Me Knot, is due to come out.

Forget Me Knot is the first of a new series. It was a finalist in a national writing competition in 2011.

FORGET ME KNOT is the adventure of Martha Rose, a sassy, sarcastic woman of a certain age and her two quilting friends Lucy and Birdie. The trio discovers the corpse of another quilter and days later the victim’s prize winning quilt is stolen. Martha is enlisted to draw on her knowledge of quilting to decode the secret messages the victim left behind. But the deeper she digs, the closer the killer gets to stopping Martha permanently.

“Mary Marks had me on pins and needles and wanting to wrap myself up in a warm quilt while reading her cozy debut!”

—Lee Hollis, author of Death of a Chocoholic

“Mary Marks has stitched together a very clever plot with a cast of engaging characters in this funny, fast-paced debut mystery. I loved Martha Rose and her posse of crime-solving quilters and can’t wait to read what they’re up to next!”

—Laura Levine, author of Killing Cupid

Mary Marks became an award-winning quilter after an early retirement from her job in administration on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles. After twelve years of sewing twenty four/seven, she came up for a breath and started writing about some of the nearly one hundred quilts she’d created.      Read more about Mary here.

I do a lot of my reading while walking on a treadmill. How much time I spend on the treadmill is often related to how good my reading material is. I got a lot of steps in while reading the advance copy of Forget Me Knot! It was a difficult book to put down!

So, the title of this post says Giveaway, right? Kensington Publishing Corp. has generously offered to send a copy of Mary Mark's Forget Me Knot to one lucky winner. Just leave a comment at the end of this post by midnight EST Sunday, January 12. (That's midnight between the 12th and 13th.) Please be sure I have a way to contact you. Either by having your email address in your blogger profile or by leaving your email address in the comment.

If you write about this giveaway on your blog, and leave a second comment with a link to your blog post, you can receive a second entry into the contest.

If you don't want to wait, you can order Forget Me Knot now from Amazon.

Leave a note of congratulations on Mary's Facebook page!

Good luck!

Debbie