Review - Tomb with a View by Casey Daniels - Starred Read

Tomb with a View
A Pepper Martin Mystery, Book #6
Casey Daniels
Berkley Prime Crime - Penguin Group USA
ISBN:# 9780425235515
Release Date: July 6, 2010

About the Book:
Cemeteries come alive for amateur sleuth/reluctant medium Pepper Martin.

Cleveland’s Garden View Cemetery is hosting a James A. Garfield commemoration. For tour guide and reluctant medium Pepper Martin this means that she’ll surely be hearing from the dead president himself. And when she’s assigned to help plan the event with know-it-all volunteer and Garfield fanatic Marjorie Klinker, she’ll wish Marjorie were dead...too bad someone beats Pepper to it.

My Thoughts:
Tomb with a View is the sixth release in the Pepper Martin Mysteries series, and quickly immerses readers into Pepper's latest adventure with one of Garden View Cemetery's permanent residents. Ms. Daniels has a smooth writing style that she skillfully uses to keep fans guessing throughout her stories. Tomb with a View is a mystery that involves the dead just as strongly as the living, and it's one of many intriguing elements that make reading the Pepper Martin Mysteries so wonderfully addictive. With twists, turns, and surprising revelations from history, this mystery is sure to keep readers fully engaged until the very end. I'd happily recommend any book from this series, and am eagerly awaiting Pepper's next ghostly adventure.

Kimberly Swan, Darque Reviews

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Tomb with a View
A Pepper Martin Mystery, Book #6
Casey Daniels
Berkley Prime Crime - Penguin Group USA
ISBN:# 9780425235515
Release Date: July 6, 2010

About the Book:
Cemeteries come alive for amateur sleuth/reluctant medium Pepper Martin.

Cleveland’s Garden View Cemetery is hosting a James A. Garfield commemoration. For tour guide and reluctant medium Pepper Martin this means that she’ll surely be hearing from the dead president himself. And when she’s assigned to help plan the event with know-it-all volunteer and Garfield fanatic Marjorie Klinker, she’ll wish Marjorie were dead...too bad someone beats Pepper to it.

About the Author:
I learned to love mysteries early thanks to my dad, a Cleveland Police detective who enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes stories and spent his days off searching for stolen cars. Often on those trips, I was in the back seat and to this day, I have Dad to thank for my knowledge of some less-than-savory parts of the city. Later, I read my way through every mystery story I could get my hands on. Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle are still among my favorites.

I have a degree in English, experience as a journalist and writing teacher, and lots of ideas for more Pepper Martin mysteries. When I'm not writing, I'm usually with my family and our two dogs, Ernie, an adorable Airedale pup, and Oscar, a rescued Jack Russell who spends far too much time watching TV. I enjoy knitting, gardening and of course, stomping through cemeteries in search of history, stories and inspiration.

Kimberly Swan, Darque Reviews

Promo - Berkley Prime Crime - 08-04-09 Releases

Inked Up
A Stamping Sister Mystery, Book 2
Terri Thayer
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22912-5

Book Blurb:
Halloween is scarier than ever in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, when professional rubber stamper April Buchert discovers a dead body in a "haunted" corn maze. The police suspect the victim's husband murdered her, but April knew the couple, and she and the Stamping Sisters are determined to find the real killer before he catches another in his murderous motif.

http://www.territhayer.com/

Larceny and Lace
A Vintage Magic Mystery, Book 2
Annette Blair
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22911-8

Book Blurb:
Maddie Cutler has it all in the bag: fashion, magic—and murder!
If that dress could talk...

With all the stress of opening her new vintage clothing store (in a renovated old morgue) Madeira Cutler feels like a bag of bones—until she discovers the real deal, unearthed by an intruder, in an old body drawer. And the bones are as vintage as Maddie's stock, or so says Maddie's resident ghostly hunk, Dante Underhill.

Could the break-in have something to do with the local playhouse and its curator going down in flames? Somehow Maddie will have to juggle dressing the store, party planning, and crime solving. Add to the brew the local witch's costume ball, being held at her store, and Madeira is wishing she knew how to ride a broom right out of there...

http://www.annetteblair.com/

You can read an excerpt of Larceny and Lace: HERE

Sew Deadly
Southern Sewing Circle, Book 1
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22910-1

Book Blurb:
The rules of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle are hard and fast, and the new Yankee librarian, Tori Sinclair, will need to catch up. She'll also need a Northern-to-Southern dictionary—and a way to clear her name of murder...

Ever since she moved to Sweet Briar, South Carolina, Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair has been the talk of the tiny town. But she's been so busy at work, winning over the sewing circle, and trying to forget her cheating ex that she hasn't even had time to baste together a pillow, let alone mind local gossip. Then she finds the hometown sweetheart dead at her back door...

Everyone believes the police investigator, who's just fixin' to link Tori to the murder in a love triangle gone bad. To clear her name, Tori will have to rely on her new sewing sisters and stitch together the truth—or be darned.

http://elizabethlynncasey.com/

Spackled and Spooked
A Do-It-Yourself Mystery, Book 2
Jennie Bentley
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22913-2

Book Blurb:
A mystery surfaces behind the walls in the new Do-It-Yourself series.

Home renovation is never easy, especially when the home's inhabitants are dead. Avery's hunky boyfriend and business partner, Derek Ellis, wants to flip a seriously stigmatized ranch house where murder occurred two decades ago. It's a good thing Avery has more faith in her boyfriend than in ghosts.

Their renovations are quickly interrupted when a presence is felt—and it's not happy with the new alterations. Could it really be that the property is possessed? If they're going to flip this house, all the outdated fixtures—including the supernatural squatters—must be disposed of, or else this project will haunt them forever...

http://www.jenniebentley.com/

Bundle of Trouble
A Maternal Instincts Mystery, Book 1
Diana Orgain
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22924-8

Book Blurb:
First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby—and bringing down a killer.

Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you're going to be up all night anyway, you might as well solve some crimes. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must crack the case faster than you can say "diaper rash" in order to keep her family together.

http://dianaorgain.com/

You can read an excerpt from Bundle of Trouble: HERE

Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Promo - Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries - July 7, 2009 Releases

Desolate Angel
Dead Detective Mystery, Book 1
Chaz McGee
Berkley Prime Crime
July 7, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22873-9

Book Blurb:
First in a series that takes readers into a new dimension in detective stories.

He was once a second-rate cop, a mediocre husband, and an absent father. But ever since he was killed in a drug bust gone bad, Kevin Fahey's been a lost soul in limbo. Until he encounters a dead victim whose murder he thought he solved, a girl who points him to a fresh body. And Fahey realizes he imprisoned the wrong man—and the true killer is still on the loose.


To learn more about Desolate Angel, please visit the author’s website: HERE



Where There’s a Witch
Bewitching Mysteries, Book 5
Madelyn Alt
Berkley Prime Crime
July 7, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22871-5

Book Blurb:
Taking a break from her job at Enchantments, Stony Mill's finest mystical antique shop, Maggie O'Neill visits a carnival where she senses some bad spirits. And when a construction worker is suspected of killing a young woman, it's up to Maggie and the N.I.G.H.T.S. ghosthunting team to uncover the dark spiritual energy leaking into their town before it spoils everyone's fun.


To learn more about Where There’s a Witch, please visit the author’s website: HERE



Murder Under a Mystic Moon
A Chintz’n China Mystery, Book 3
Yasmine Galenorn
Berkley Prime Crime
July 7, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-20002-5

Book Blurb:
After medium Emerald O'Brien literally stumbles across the body of her friend's best buddy, the police blame the death on a cougar attack. But Emerald senses something else wandering the forest—a killer of a more human kind.


To learn more about Murder Under a Mystic Moon, please visit the author’s website: HERE



Poppy Done to Death
Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 8
Charlaine Harris
Berkley Prime Crime
July 7, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22807-4

Book Blurb:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Last Scene Alive and the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Not just any woman in Lawrenceton, Georgia, gets to be a member of the Uppity Women Book Club. But Roe's stepsister-in-law Poppy has climbed her way up the waiting list of the group—only to die on the day she's supposed to be inducted.

Sordid stories of infidelity in Poppy's marriage lead to a rash of suspects, and Roe begins to question her own heart. But her passion for the truth will drive her on—into the path of the cold-blooded killer.


To learn more about Poppy Done to Death, please visit the author’s website: HERE

Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

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Dead Men Don’t Crochet
A Crochet Mystery, Book #2
Betty Hechtman
Berkley Prime Crime
December 2, 2008
ISBN# 978-0-425-22500-4

Book Blurb:
When a member of Molly Pink's crochet group is suspected of murder, it's up to Molly and her pals to pick up the dropped stitches and catch a killer.



Ding Dong Dead
A Dolls to Die For Mystery, Book # 4
Deb Baker
Berkley Prime Crime
December 2, 2008
ISBN# 978-0-425-22502-8

Book Blurb:
Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollers's dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare.



Eggs in Purgatory
A Cackleberry Club Mystery, Book #1
Laura Childs
Berkley Prime Crime
December 2, 2008
ISBN# 978-0-425-22495-3

Book Blurb:
Now Laura Childs is cracking a whole new case of murder in a brand new series-RECIPES INCLUDED.Introducing the Cackleberry Club Mysteries...Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lose their husbands but find independence when they open the Cackleberry Club. Then their cozy cafe becomes the scene of a crime when a lawyer dies with a secret on his lips and egg on his face. What this all has to do with a religious cult and Suzanne's past could put her own life on the line.


Kimberly Swan, Darque Reviews