*Official start time is Tuesday, April 1st, at 12:01 AM CST. Official timekeeping begins then.
*Please send your reveal to at least two other players.
*There is a 12 hour turn limit. If we have to wait for you longer than that, you will be bumped to the bottom of the list.



Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max. 5)
Book out of play

Reveals Thread

MOVES:


1. elsi ** (#); **
2. shaunesay ** (#); **
3. spiderchic ** (#); **
4. cheesygiraffe ** (#); **
5. gothamgal ** (#); **
6. luckaye ** (#); **
7. CheriePie ** (#); **
8. FranciJo ** (#); **
9. Shelbycat ** (#); **
10. Amberkatze ** (#); **
11. sejent ** (#); **


ELSI, you're first up. Who do you want to reveal? :flasher:

Ooooh just a few hours till start time!! :bananadance: Guess I better get my reveal ready...

If I remember rightly, Lucie said that April 1 is her anniversary, so I'm going to ask her to please reveal. Even if it isn't her anniversary, I still want to see her reveal.

EEEEE!!!!! I'm #2! That means I'll get lots o action!

Oh but you like the action when I'm around. :rolleyes: :rofl:

Oh boy, I am up to reveal first - brb with it!

Yes it is my wedding anniversary - 8 years, in fact. Lots of people thought we wouldn't last, but here we are :)
It was my birthday yesterday & my hubby's birthday tomorrow so we have a 3 day party! :giggle:

A Murderous Yarn by Monica Ferris

The art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire - who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting. and a hidden talent for unraveling crime.
Heavens to Betsy Devonshire! She never intended to get so caught up in this year's antique car race. But as sponsor of one of the entrants, she can't help but keep a close eye on the outcome - and it's not pretty. One of the drivers never makes it to the finish line. His car is found exploded in flames. Now Betsy and her crafty friends must determine if it was an accident or the work of a jealous competitor. The answer may be in a piece of needlework, but pinning down a suspect won't be easy.

*Official start time is Tuesday, April 1st, at 12:01 AM CST. Official timekeeping begins then.
*Please send your reveal to at least two other players.
*There is a 12 hour turn limit. If we have to wait for you longer than that, you will be bumped to the bottom of the list.



Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max. 5)
Book out of play

Reveals Thread

MOVES:


1. elsi A Murderous Yarn (#); **
2. shaunesay ** (#); **
3. spiderchic ** (#); **
4. cheesygiraffe ** (#); **
5. gothamgal ** (#); **
6. luckaye ** (#); A Murderous Yarn
7. CheriePie ** (#); **
8. FranciJo ** (#); **
9. Shelbycat ** (#); **
10. Amberkatze ** (#); **
11. sejent ** (#); **


shaunesay, you're up. Who do you want to reveal? :flasher:

Oh!!! I am last but one!!! :unsure:

Morning :wave:

Yay I'm 3rd have been near the bottom a lot lately :bananadance:

I will reveal our lovely hostess Cheesy! ;) Off to get ready for work, I have her reveal, so I'll pull it out if she hasn't appeared by the time I'm back :)

Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5503170



Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder.

While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane—the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy's ex-husband, the Jerk. But Sandee is supposed to be dead. Or so everyone believes.

Goldy's suspicions mount when the body of Drew Wellington, a former district attorney, is found in a corner of the library with a map worth thousands of dollars stashed in his clothing. She's convinced that Sandee is involved.

But the holiday madness is only just beginning for Goldy. Soon she's drawn into the dangerous, double-crossing world of high-end map dealing. And like the ghost of Christmas past, Sandee keeps making an appearance. Could she be out to prove that revenge is sweet?

*Official start time is Tuesday, April 1st, at 12:01 AM CST. Official timekeeping begins then.
*Please send your reveal to at least two other players.
*There is a 12 hour turn limit. If we have to wait for you longer than that, you will be bumped to the bottom of the list.



Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max. 5)
Book out of play

Reveals Thread

MOVES:
Elsi asks luckaye to reveal A Murderous Yarn
Shaunie asks Cheesy to reveal Sweet Revenge


1. elsi A Murderous Yarn (#); **
2. shaunesay Sweet Revenge (#); **
3. spiderchic ** (#); **
4. cheesygiraffe ** (#); Sweet Revenge
5. gothamgal ** (#); **
6. luckaye ** (#); A Murderous Yarn
7. CheriePie ** (#); **
8. FranciJo ** (#); **
9. Shelbycat ** (#); **
10. Amberkatze ** (#); **
11. sejent ** (#); **


Spiderchic, your turn to solve the mystery. Do you want a reveal?:flasher: Or you do you want to steal? :pirate:

:pm: to Spiderchic

Checking in...

I'm starting script frenzy today, so probably the most reliable way to get ahold of me is via messenger... Or texting me after 5 pm.

:P

heading off to work, I'll check in periodically from there. :)

Looks tasty Cheesy!

I would like Elsi to reveal please! :D

Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio by Carolyn Haines




Splintered Bones -- Mississippi Delta #3

She may be a born-and-bred Mississippi belle, but it’s been a long time since Sarah Booth Delaney was a pampered daddy’s girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has more important things on her mind–like trying to hang on to her family’s plantation...and coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a bossy busybody of a ghost who is set on marrying her off to the first eligible suitor who comes calling.

But when a friend is in trouble, Sarah doesn’t hesitate to get involved. Eulalee McBride has confessed to killing her husband, Kemper, a gambling scalawag with a violent streak a mile wide. She wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on her dead spouse to prove he was a mean old bastard...and that’s why she bludgeoned him to death right before he was trampled by a 1,400-pound horse. But Sarah Booth knows her old friend is lying through her pearly whites–probably to protect her teenage daughter Kip, an angry kid who may have had her own reasons for wanting Kemper dead.

There’s certainly no lack of suspects–or studs–in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a trainer with a nasty secret, who arouses killer lust in the town’s women–all married and all ready to scratch each other’s eyes out for a roll in the hay with the Texas cowboy. Now, with the help of handsome Sheriff Coleman Peters, Sarah begins to put together the splintered pieces of the case. But as the season’s hunt ball draws near, she catches the unmistakable scent of blood...as a cunning killer gets ready to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave.

In Sarah Booth Delaney, CAROLYN HAINES gives us an emancipated daughter of the New South: a steel magnolia with brains, grit, and heart who gives as good as she gets. And in Splintered Bones, she offers plenty of wickedly brilliant humor and good old-fashioned suspense


Hallowed Bones -- Mississippi Delta #5

The southern Delta has never been more exhilarating, evocative, and wickedly funny than in the mysteries of Carolyn Haines. Now she takes readers on another rollicking ride across the Mississippi cotton fields and into the glamour of New Orleans…as P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney follows a winding trail of murder and deception into a world where ghosts make fashion statements—and where one person’s miracle is another person’s mayhem.

The leaves of the calendar may be shedding faster than the sycamores on her family’s decaying Mississippi plantation, but thirty-something southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney isn’t ready to sing the blues. Not when she’s got a thriving detective agency and the outspoken, outrageously attired ghost of her great-great-grandmother’s nanny to keep her on her toes. But the matchmaking phantom may have the last word on motherhood when Sarah Booth takes on the controversial case of an accused baby killer.

Although Doreen Mallory’s been arrested for feeding sleeping pills to her ten-week-old daughter, no one could accuse her of lacking faith. A healer who, tragically, couldn’t save her own baby girl, born with multiple birth defects, Doreen has her own crosses to bear. While the local law seems convinced of Doreen’s guilt, Sarah Booth isn’t so sure. But why is Doreen reluctant to talk about the men in her life? Like the televangelist who stands to lose a lot more than his flock. Or the married politician with family ties to the Mob. Either of them could be little Rebekah’s father; either of them could also be her killer.

With Halloween approaching and her own personal life up for grabs, Sarah Booth could use a little faith healing herself. Torn between a married sheriff and an old flame who’s literally sweeping her off her feet, she’d better be prepared for the fallout of her most
unpopular case yet. Justice may not stand a ghost of a chance as a decades-old secret explodes, unleashing a storm of fury on Sarah Booth and all those she loves.

Witty, suspenseful, and featuring a cast of memorable characters, Hallowed Bones is a riveting tale of faith, murder, and maternal love. It is Carolyn Haines’s most accomplished novel yet.


Bones To Pick -- Mississippi Delta #6

Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life...

Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single-handedly save her family's Mississippi plantation, converse with Dahlia House's ghost, and capture a killer or two. But when a local girl is found dead in a cotton field, it's enough to make a lady toss back a Bloody Mary before noon on Sunday.

Someone held twenty-three-year-old Quentin McGee's face down in the rich Southern soil until she suffocated. The lawmen think Quentin's lover killed her. When the suspect's brother hires Sarah to prove his sibling innocent, Sarah quickly learns that the victim had plenty of wealthy, powerful enemies. Each had a bone to pick with Quentin for writing a scandalous exposé on her hometown. Adding spice to the gumbo is the news that Quentin was due to inherit the family fortune the day after she was killed...and that a second book was in the works. From illicit lovers and outraged families to slandered aristocrats, everyone is a suspect--and no one is safe...

"Carolyn Haines has done for the Delta what Janet Evanovich has done for New Jersey." --The State

*Official start time is Tuesday, April 1st, at 12:01 AM CST. Official timekeeping begins then.
*Please send your reveal to at least two other players.
*There is a 12 hour turn limit. If we have to wait for you longer than that, you will be bumped to the bottom of the list.



Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max. 5)
Book out of play

Reveals Thread

MOVES:
Elsi asks luckaye to reveal A Murderous Yarn
Shaunie asks Cheesy to reveal Sweet Revenge
Spider asks Elsi to reveal Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio

1. elsi A Murderous Yarn (#); Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio
2. shaunesay Sweet Revenge (#); **
3. spiderchic Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio (#); **
4. cheesygiraffe ** (#); Sweet Revenge
5. gothamgal ** (#); **
6. luckaye ** (#); A Murderous Yarn
7. CheriePie ** (#); **
8. FranciJo ** (#); **
9. Shelbycat ** (#); **
10. Amberkatze ** (#); **
11. sejent ** (#); **


Cheesy, your turn to solve the mystery. Do you want a reveal?:flasher: Or you do you want to steal? :pirate:

:pm:
to Cheesy

Sorry Spider but your books look good. :P BRB with the update.

*Official start time is Tuesday, April 1st, at 12:01 AM CST. Official timekeeping begins then.
*Please send your reveal to at least two other players.
*There is a 12 hour turn limit. If we have to wait for you longer than that, you will be bumped to the bottom of the list.



Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max. 5)
Book out of play

Reveals Thread

MOVES:
Elsi asks luckaye to reveal A Murderous Yarn
Shaunie asks Cheesy to reveal Sweet Revenge
Spider asks Elsi to reveal Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio
Cheesy steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Spider

1. elsi A Murderous Yarn (#); Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio
2. shaunesay Sweet Revenge (#); **
3. spiderchic :wacko: (#); **
4. cheesygiraffe Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio (1); Sweet Revenge
5. gothamgal ** (#); **
6. luckaye ** (#); A Murderous Yarn
7. CheriePie ** (#); **
8. FranciJo ** (#); **
9. Shelbycat ** (#); **
10. Amberkatze ** (#); **
11. sejent ** (#); **


Spider, you're no longer in the Mississippi Delta. Do you want a reveal?:flasher: Or you do you want to steal? :pirate:

I knew I wouldn't hold onto them for long!!

I would like Cherie to reveal herself :flasher:

Just checking in. I'll be around all day, but will send my reveal to someone soon!

Cherie's Reveal:
No Nest for the Wicket: A Meg Lanslow Mystery by Donna Andrews



Meg Langslow has found herself in more than one odd situation (more like ten or fifteen): She has learned to take what comes. What has currently come is a peculiar kind of croquet, very different from the polite contest played on a summer lawn. Extreme Croquet requires a terrain of several acres, in this case populated with small animals, poison ivy, and livestock. After managing, with the help of Spike the Dog, to persuade a placid cow off the next wicket, Meg loses her ball in a briar patch, trips and slides down a minor cliff, thereby being the one to discover a dead woman at the bottom. The womans head has been bashed in, possibly illustrating one of the many additional uses for a croquet mallet. But then, maybe not.
And so begins another episode in the kind of delectable madness for which Donna Andrews has won so many honors, not to mention laughs galore. Donna Andrews introduced Meg and Michael in her Malice Domestic Contest-winning first mystery, Murder with Peacocks, and readers are still laughing. This novel swept up the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and a Lefty for funniest mystery. With No Nest for the Wicket, Andrews borrows momentum from her previous books and delivers another riotous and engrossing read.
This is the 8th book in the Meg Langslow Mysteries, and though your enjoyment may be enhanced by reading them in order, it certainly is not required with this series. It is currently TBR but will be read very soon.

Okay, hopefully I did that right. My computer added some weird stuff to Cherie's email and the post wouldn't recognize it. EEEk! But it looked like HTML, so I think I deciphered it correctly.

Anyway, I'd like to ask for Franci's reveal...

Mum's The Word by Kate Collins (first in series)



http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5363006

The Barnes & Noble Review
Law school dropout Abby Knight is not your typical small-business owner. Still, she's enjoying the first bloom of success as an entrepreneur and trying not to worry too much about the thorny problem of what Bloomers (her little flower shop in New Chapel, Indiana) should do about the new local business that's undercutting her prices.

When a big black SUV crunches her beloved Corvette, parked right outside her shop early one morning, cop's daughter Abby is determined to make sure that the hit-and-run driver sees the error of his ways. But soon she has to wonder if her quarry's motives for avoiding her and the police go deeper than the desire to protect his insurance rates. Could the elusive miscreant be the killer who fled a nearby crime scene only moments before her classy car met its doom? Abby's soon on the scent, gathering leads and evidence to arrange into an elaborate bouquet of wrongdoing that she plans to present to the proper authorities. Meanwhile, the villain that Abby and her allies are pursuing lays some deadly groundwork to transform her intricate arrangement into an inquisitive florist's funeral wreath.

Mum's the Word is a delightful debut for Kate Collins's Flower Shop mystery series.

some great looking books ya'll!

*Official start time is Tuesday, April 1st, at 12:01 AM CST. Official timekeeping begins then.
*Please send your reveal to at least two other players.
*There is a 12 hour turn limit. If we have to wait for you longer than that, you will be bumped to the bottom of the list.



Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max. 5)
Book out of play

Reveals Thread

MOVES:
Elsi asks luckaye to reveal A Murderous Yarn
Shaunie asks Cheesy to reveal Sweet Revenge
Spider asks Elsi to reveal Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio
Cheesy steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Spider
Spider asks Cherie to reveal No Nest for the Wicket
Gothamgal asks Franci to reveal Mum's The Word

1. elsi A Murderous Yarn (#); Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio
2. shaunesay Sweet Revenge (#); **
3. spiderchic No Nest for the Wicket (#); **
4. cheesygiraffe Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio (1); Sweet Revenge
5. gothamgal Mum's The Word (#); **
6. luckaye ** (#); A Murderous Yarn
7. CheriePie ** (#); No Nest for the Wicket
8. FranciJo ** (#); Mum's The Word
9. Shelbycat ** (#); **
10. Amberkatze ** (#); **
11. sejent ** (#); **


Luckaye, your turn is here already. Do you want a reveal?:flasher: Or you do you want to steal? :pirate:

Franci and elsi I need the BCID #s for your reveals. Thanks. :)

Err I meant a link to your book reveal from Bookcrossing. :blush:

Is this what you need Ms. Cheese?


Mum's the Word by Kate Collins

Okay, they are great....

Just don't get any ideas, there...
:nono:

That book your holding looks good. :whistle:

You'll get it when I get back home. I'm in NY State right now & the books are in Texas. I had hubby put them in a safe place, but they didn't have BCIDs in them, and I don't think I want to try & teach him how to register them.

:shrug: No, I don't think ANYONE wants the book I have.

I'll just sacrifice and keep it... You know, for the good of the board...
:whistle:

Okay thanks elsi.

No now you shouldn't suffer with it. :wink: :rofl:

Checking in and not even looking at what has been revealed already because I will only be upset when it finally gets to my turn and the ones I want are gone ;)

I hope my reveal is ok....

Well, if you are offering a Chick Lit or Erotic novel instead of a Cozy mystery, there might be problems ...
:rofl:

How often has anyone seen me with an erotic novel :whistle: and chick-lit....maybe on holidays :giggle:

I just hope my reveal is 'Cozy' because I haven't played in this one before...so you can all :whip: me if I did bad!

And with that I am off to bed....12 hour work day today and a 13 hour work day yesterday has made me very tired! And I have to be up at 5am...gah!!! So I will check back in from work at about 6.30am