Saturday's Blurbs featuring Books by M S Spencer #MFRWAuthor #Suspense #Cozy mysteries

Day 2

Send 3 blurbs of three of your books.

The Pit and the Passion: Murder at the Ghost Hotel

The Wild Rose Press, January 22, 2018

Contemporary Romantic Suspense/Cozy Mystery

Rated PG-13

Print & ebook, 413 p.

At midnight, in the darkness of a deserted hotel, comes a scream and a splash. Eighty-five years later, workmen uncover a skeleton in an old elevator shaft. Who is it, and how did it get there? To find out, Charity Snow, ace reporter for the Longboat Key Planet, teams up with Rancor Bass, best-selling author. A college ring they find at the dig site may prove to be their best clue.

Although his arrogance nearly exceeds his talent, Charity soon discovers a warm heart beating under Rancor’s handsome exterior. While dealing with a drop-dead gorgeous editor who may or may not be a villain, a publisher with a dark secret, and an irascible forensic specialist, Charity and Rancor unearth an unexpected link to the most famous circus family in the world.

Flotsam and Jetsam: the Amelia Island Affair

The Wild Rose Press, December 17, 2018

Contemporary Romantic Suspense/Cozy mystery

Rated PG-13

Print & ebook, 430 p.

Who's littering the park with corpses?

State Park Rangers Simon Ribault and Ellie Ironstone are used to dealing with messy campers and ravaging raccoons, but when three bodies wash up on the beach, they mobilize all their powers of deduction. Who are they and how did they get to the shore of Amelia Island? Are they connected to the secretive League of the Green Cross? Or linked to a mysterious Jamaican drug ring?

Ellie, new to Amelia Island, must penetrate a close-knit community if she wants to find answers to the mystery, all while deciding between two rivals for her affection: Thad, the handsome local idol, and Simon, the clever, quirky bookworm.

Simon, for his part, will have to call on both his well-honed research skills to solve the case and his not-so well-honed skills as a Don Juan to lure Ellie away from Thad.

My upcoming release, Mrs. Spinney’s Secret, is set in the same town as the Penhallow Train Incident.

The Penhallow Train Incident

The Wild Rose Press, March 30, 2016, Crimson Rose Line

Contemporary romantic suspense/Cozy Mystery

Rated PG-PG13

Print & ebook, 334 p.

In the sleepy coastal Maine town of Penhallow, a stranger dies on a train, drawing Historical Society Director, Rachel Tinker, and curmudgeonly retired professor, Griffin Tate, into a spider’s web of archaeological obsession and greed. With the help of the victim’s rival, they set out to locate the Queen of Sheba’s tomb. Their plans are stymied when a war erupts between the sheriff and a state police detective who want to arrest the same man for different crimes. It’s up to Rachel to solve a mystery that includes two more murders, if she wants to unlock the soft heart that beats under Griffin’s hard crust.