Maya Corrigan's Crypt Suzette Blog Tour with a Spotlight, Excerpt and Giveaway

 

I am so excited to have Maya Corrigan here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews with a Spotlight, Excerpt and Giveaway.

Thanks Maya and Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours for allowing me to join your Crypt Suzette Blog Tour!

Please take it away, Maya!

CRYPT SUZETTE by Maya Corrigan

EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 1

“You’ll supervise the children, Val?”

“No. I’m judging the pumpkin bake-off at the Spooktacular that afternoon. I can’t cater until the evening.” Val noticed Dorothy’s face fall. “But a friend, Bethany O’Shay, might do it. She’s a first grade teacher and a certified food handler. She helps me with catering when I need an extra hand.”

Dorothy’s smile returned. “Wonderful. Please ask her if she’ll come in the afternoon. What kind of treats do you suggest for the grown-ups?”

Val had been wracking her brain to come up with Halloween names for the desserts on her catering menu. “Mummy’s apple pie, small rectangular hand pies with pastry strips on top. They’ll look like wrapped mummies. Their raisin eyes will peek out from their wrappings.” As Dorothy nodded her approval, Val thought of another treat she could give a spooky name, a favorite of Granddad’s temporary boarder — Suzette Cripps. Val thought of her as cryptic Suzette because of her secretive ways.

“Crypt Suzette is another option. If I serve a crêpe in an elongated paper container, it’ll resemble a shrouded corpse in a crypt.”

“Crêpes would be a hit, something the patrons would remember.” Despite the positive words, Dorothy’s face showed she had doubts. “Don’t you have to ignite the liqueur when you make crêpes Suzette?”

“You can have the flavor without the flame. I’ll make the crêpes and the orange sauce ahead of time so I can just heat and serve them here. What time will the party start?”

“Six. You can take a break around seven when we hold the costume contest on the sales floor. The contestants will dress up as characters from books and talk about who they are.”

“What fun!” Val hoped she’d get to watch the contest.

The cat jumped from the sill, went over to the door in the corner, and meowed. Dorothy opened the door. Isis stood on the threshold and then ambled toward the cemetery.

Fifteen minutes later, Val left by the shop’s front door, glad to have worked out the details of catering before Bram returned to raise objections. She glanced up and down Main Street. The historic district was decked out in Halloween colors, pumpkins and chrysanthemums at shop entrances, autumn leaves clinging to the trees. Skeleton scarecrows mounted on the lampposts would greet visitors to the Spooktacular. If the usual autumn weather prevailed — sunny days and clear, crisp nights — the festival would attract visitors from Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, as well as locals from the Eastern Shore.

Val drove to the supermarket in the mall between Bayport and the larger town of Treadwell and did her grocery shopping for the week. It was past seven and dark by the time she got back to Bayport. When she turned onto the street where she lived with her grandfather, she saw a crowd gathered in front of his house.

Her heart leaped into her throat. Had something happened to Granddad?
 

Crypt Suzette (A Five-Ingredient Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
6th in Series
Kensington (August 27, 2019)
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1496722426
ISBN-13: 978-1496722423
Digital ASIN: B07L2GDD8H




Val Deniston is catering the debut of Bayport’s newest bookstore — but the death of a customer is about to draw her into a real-life murder mystery.

Suzette Cripps has been occupying a spare bedroom at Val’s granddad’s house while she takes classes in this Maryland Eastern Shore town — but she’s always seemed a little secretive and fearful, and any talk about her past is a closed book.

After winning the costume contest at the Halloween-themed bookstore party, Suzette is mowed down by a hit-and-run driver — and Val and her grandfather start to wonder whether it was really an accident or if someone was after Suzette. Granddad is a little distracted by his new enterprise as a ghost-buster, but as Val talks to Suzette’s coworkers and fellow creative writing students, she grows more convinced that the dead woman’s demons weren’t imaginary — and that she needs to rip the mask off a killer.

Includes delicious five-ingredient recipes! 

About Maya Corrigan

Maya Corrigan blends her love of food and detective stories in her Five-Ingredient Mystery series set in a fictional historic town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The first book in the series, By Cook or by Crook, was published in 2014.

Before taking up a life of crime (on the page), she taught university courses in writing, detective fiction, American literature, and drama. She won the 2013 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Unpublished Mainstream Mystery / Suspense. Her short stories, written under the name of Mary Ann Corrigan, have been published in anthologies.

When not reading and writing, she enjoys theater, tennis, trivia, cooking, and crosswords. Her website features trivia about food and mysteries.

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