Thursday, September 5, 2024

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--  'BURIED ON A SUNDAE'  --
AUTHOR LENA GREGORY

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Buried on a Sundae (Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries) by Lena Gregory

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About Buried on a Sundae

 

Buried on a Sundae (Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries)  

Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Setting - Long Island, NY 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gemma Halliday Publishing (August 27, 2024)  

Digital : Number of Pages 225 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CW1B4V2Y 

 

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From Author Lena Gregory comes a delicious new mystery...

Things have been looking up for Danika Delany's business—her uncle's old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island. But for her love life? Not so much. After a disastrous date with Detective Jake Barlow, Danika lets her best friends, Gwen and Eli, talk her into a night out at the hottest new nightclub in town. Only, while there, Dani finds her sort-of boyfriend secreted in the shadows on the beach behind the club with crime boss Patrick Johansen’s wife, Angelique! An upset Dani leaves without giving Jake a chance to explain, but when he doesn’t get in touch the next day, she takes a long walk along the beach to reevaluate her love life. That's where she suddenly stumbles across Angelique’s body buried in the dunes near where she last saw her with Jake. Sure that Jake is innocent—of murder at least—Danika and her friends set out to prove Jake had nothing to do with her murder and stop a killer...before they strike again!

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Living in Watchogue
by
Danika Delaney

 

I own the Coffee & Cream Café, which used to be my Uncle Jimmie’s ice cream parlor, in my home town of Watchogue, New York, a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island. Though I grew up in Watchogue, I spent several years—up until last year, anyway—living in New York City. Manhattan to be exact, which technically is still an island but so different from Watchogue it may as well be a million miles away instead of less than a hundred. Anyway, after running to New York to pursue a degree in marketing I’ll probably never use, I agreed to return home and take over Jimmie’s when my family summoned me.

Life in Watchogue moves at a much slower pace, and I can’t say I miss the hustle and bustle of the city. I love being back with my family, even if they do drive me a little crazy, especially Aunt Miriam. I easily picked up my friendship with Gwen, my best friend since childhood. And I’ve become very close with Eli, the barista I hired who also happens to be a cybersecurity expert, which has come in handy a time or two.

Since I live just a few miles down the beach from my shop, I often walk there when I’m stressed. If it’s warm enough, I take my shoes off and walk along the surf. During the summer months, the beaches are crowded, even fairly early in the morning, but in the spring and fall I’m often one of only a few people strolling along the shore. Staring out across the bay waters brings a sense of peace I’ve never managed to find anywhere else. Until, of course, I stumble over a body in the dunes—then, not so much.

Watchogue is small. You can drive across the entire town in a matter of minutes, less if there’s no traffic. Although summer brings flocks of tourists to Long Island, most of them don’t stop in Watchogue. They continue on to Quogue, the Hamptons, and Montauk. At least, they did before Veritas opened. Veritas is a new night club on the bay, and it is the happening place this summer. Or, it was, before I stumbled over said dead body of the owner’s wife on the beach outside its doors.

Now, my small town has become the center of a murder investigation involving a drug cartel from the city, my sort-of-boyfriend, Detective Jake Barlow, (as a suspect not an investigator) and my friends and sister. How I ended up in the middle of this mess is beyond me.

But all in all, I love living in the small Long Island community. I can always stop in the local diner, bakery or deli and get the latest gossip. I have close friends I wouldn’t trade for the world. And I have the cafe I’ve worked so hard for. Now, if bodies would just stop turning up, life would be just about perfect.

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About Lena Gregory

Lena Gregory is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mysteries, which take place on a small island between the north and south forks of Long Island, New York, the All-Day Breakfast Café Mysteries, which are set on the outskirts of Florida’s Ocala National Forest, the Mini-Meadows Mysteries, set in a community of tiny homes in Central Florida, and the Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries, which take place in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, New York.

Lena grew up in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, but she recently traded in cold, damp, gray winters for the warmth and sunshine of central Florida, where she now lives with her husband, three kids, son-in-law, and four dogs. Her hobbies include spending time with family, reading, and walking. Her love for writing developed when her youngest son was born and didn’t sleep through the night. She works full-time as a writer and a freelance editor and is a member of Sisters in Crime.

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Art of Writing 2024 JustRead Takeover Blitz

Welcome to the Takeover Blitz for The Art of Writing 2024, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours


About the Conference:

The Art of Writing conference will be held on November 14 in Chicago at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center, Chicago/Downers Grove. The focused four-session conference will bring together writers, storytellers, and publishing curators for training and connection. Hear from Christian publishers, agents, authors, and thought leaders on the Art of Writing for today’s market.

Session One: The Balance of the Art of Writing and the Business of Publishing

A panel of Christian fiction publishers and agents discuss market changes and current trends and address your most important questions with Tyndale Fiction publisher Karen Watson and agents Danielle Egan-Miller and Cynthia Ruchti.

Session Two: Processing Pain through Writing and Reading Christian Fiction

In a special LIVE Moody Radio conversation, author and host Chris Fabry will lead a discussion of how pain helps writers process their lives and can help readers do the same with therapists turned authors Amanda Cox and Kelly Flanagan 

Session Three: Authors as Marketers: How to Build a Thriving Ecosystem 

Join Andrea Garcia, senior marketing manager at Tyndale House Publishers, as she helps you navigate how to be an author-marketer, explains how your author channels can work together, and assures you that you can have fun spreading the word about your books. 

Session Four: What Is Christian Fiction? Writing for a Broader Audience 

As the retail landscape continues to evolve, has the audience for Christian fiction shrunk or broadened? Does that or should that change the way you write your novels? How much should you write with your audience in mind versus letting your creativity lead and find its own audience? A panelist of authors will cover these questions and more!

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The Christy Award Finalists Reveal

Christian fiction fans are invited to register and watch the free webcast announcement of The Christy Award finalists in nine categories live on September 12 at 11 a.m. CST, featuring Christy Hall of Fame author Chris Fabry and ECPA president Jeff Crosby. Winners will be announced on November 14 during The Christy Award Winners Gala in Chicago at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center, Chicago/Downers Grove.

“With each passing year I am more aware of the power that stories have to communicate goodness, truth, beauty and hope in our world,” states ECPA president Jeff Crosby. “And because of that, I am honored to be associated with the annual Christy Gala which honors excellence in Christian fiction and the Art of Writing conference that nurtures the work of writers of faith and contributes tools as they refine their craft.” The Christy Award® is a program of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) and is the foremost award honoring and promoting excellence in Christian fiction since 1999. For more information about ECPA, visit ECPA.org. For more information about the Christy Awards and Art of Writing conferences, visit ChristyAwards.com or email TheChristyAward@ecpa.org

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(1) winner will receive their choice of The Art of Writing registration OR print copies of The Christy Award finalist titles for one category!

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