ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Peggy Darty is the award-winning author of twenty-seven books, including two other cozy mysteries set in Summer Breeze, Florida: When the Sandpiper Calls and When Bobbie Sang the Blues. She has worked in film, researched for CBS, and led writing workshops around the country. Darty and her husband call Alabama home but spend a great deal of time in Colorado, Montana, and on Florida’s Emerald Coast.ABOUT THE BOOK:
It’s an ordinary afternoon in Summer Breeze, Florida, when a young, wide-eyed girl steps into I Saw It First, the trash-to-treasure shop Christy Castleman and her Aunt Bobbie have opened. Clutching a jewelry box, Zeffie Adams tells Christy she needs money to pay her grandmother’s medical bills, prompting Christy to offer this curious visitor more than the jewelry box is worth–or so she thinks.But complicated questions form when Christy rips out the box’s lining and uncovers a clue to a cold case murder mystery from eight years ago. Despite warnings from her family and handsome boyfriend Dan Brockman, Christy decides to do a little detective work of her own. After all, the infamous murder happened close to her grandmother’s farm. How risky could it be to take the jewelry box back to the Strickland plantation and ask around about it?
Soon Christy finds there is more to the small box than someone wants her to know. A jewelry theft. A mansion murder. Dangerous family secrets buried in history. Can Christy convince others to let go of the past before it’s too late?
I have an extra copy of this book to giveaway! If you would like to win just leave me a comment with a way to get in touch with you and the answer to this question:
What is something funny that has happened to you lately?
Comments without the answer to that question and a valid way to reach the commenter will be disqualified. This giveaway is open to anyone anywhere.
I'll get my kids to help me pick a winner on Saturday, April 5.
Congratulations to Amanda of Mandigirl Muses for winning Zeffie!
15 comments:
What is something funny that has happened to you lately?
I have a brace on my arm from being awesome and slipping on stairs and just recently the velcro got stuck to my baby's (dirty) diaper and poop pretty much got on every thing. It was so not funny then, but now it makes me laugh.
jill dot perryman at gmail dot com
My kids talking about their privates nearly the WHOLE time my folks were here is funny in hindsight.
I just cleaned my filthy floors from all the paw prints from my cats everywhere. Literally 20 minutes later my husband lets the cat in from the beautiful spring day and there are paw prints everywhere again!! Ugh!
Yesterday was April Fools Day...We were on our way home from Target...I ask my husband if he had gotten the water bottles that were on the bottom of the shopping cart. He looked at me so serious and said, "no I thought you got it", I said "are you serious?, I was buckling in Kelsie." He turned on the the turn signal at the light (pretending he was going to go back) I said "You really forgot it?" He then said "April Fools" The kids thought it was hilarous. I have giggled about it ever since.
It's no secret that I like to read. I live in a very spread out rural county and we have a bookmobile that comes out twice a month. The librarian who drives it out just loves me because I almost always make a lot of special requests and check out the full limit allowed (20 books at a time). Apparently it does something positive for their budget allocation when they have a lot of heavy users; shows they need more money for books or something. Anyways, I went to the bookmobile at a different location last week, and there were two librarians running it that day that I had never met before. I asked about a special request, and they asked my name. I barely got out my first syllable and they both exclaimed "OH! So YOU'RE Jennie!" I know the library system loves enthusiastic readers, but I didn't realize I was infamous!
jenniferrrobin at embarqmail dot com
I can't think of ONE funny thing that's happened to me lately. I laugh a lot anyway. Not sure why...
Thank you so much for coming by my blog today, and for leaving such a sweet comment. I appreciate your understanding, and am encouraged by your story of loss and life.
As for your giveaway, absolutely nothing funny has happened to me lately, but I'd love to be included.
Now, I hope you don't mind if I poke around here a bit... :)
Hey! I'd love to receive that book! I have the most amazingly huge appetite for books so I'm always on the prowl!
The funny thing that happened to me? That would have to be that post I wrote about leaving my car running in the driveway while I moved onto bigger and better things...only to have DH inquire as to why I was such an airhead.
On Easter Sunday, as I posted, one of our dinner guests had put a potato casserole in the fridge at church to cook over there after everyone went home. Our wonderful church ladies put it out for the Easter brunch - uncooked! Still makes me laugh almost two weeks later.:)
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Last night my DH took me on a date, a real date, to a resturant with a beautiful garden, real napkins and table cloths, etc. well, it was a great atmosphere until a bird pooped into my drink! yuck, but i got a new drink and all was better. it was pretty funny! guess it could have been worse if he would have pooped on the table cloth or in the food. might have caused more drama to clean up! :-)
Please enter me. You should be able to email me via my blog profile.
Natalie
Something funny? Hmmmm. I've been thrown up on umpteen times in the last week and a half. Does that count? Or there's the haunted piano story that turned out to be my cell phone. That one IS funny.
You know how to get ahold of me :).
My husband and I searched the floors of TJMaxx for 40 minutes last Friday night when our daughter dropped her new hat somewhere in the store! We got some strange looks!
I'd love to win!
amelhu@hotmail.com
http://heavenlyhold.com
I've really wanted to comment, and have read all your posts and watched videos-- but I have been so danged grumpy! So, here. I am entering. And, you reALLY SHOULDN'T CHALLENGE me like that, so I tagged you ;-) You want me to tell you where to contact me? Follow your snow storm, it will be here tomorrow. Cheers!
I'm supposed to be funny?! The only thing I can think of... Just before this year-long Spring Break broke out, I was waiting at the bus stop with the four kids. J2 got out, got cold, got back in while the other two boys got out to wait for the bus. While J2 wiggled and acted silly for Miss Ky, the bus pulled up. As I got everyone on, I chatted with the bus leader and driver. We laugh a lot at that stop. Well, as the bus pulled out, I did my usual and threw a kiss to one child, waved and kissed for child two and as the bus kept pulling out, I prepared for kiss three... but wait. Where's J2? About that time the car door opens up and he meanders out, still making faces for Ky. You know you have too many kids when you forget to put one on the bus!
I'm sure something funny's happened to me lately but I can't think of it right now. Would love to read this book though! Please enter me. Thanks!
Ginnie
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