Book Tour ~ The Maddie Swallows Mysteries by Kat Bellemore ~ Guest Post | Giveaway
Morning all!
A warm and mysterious welcome to the Blog Tour for the first three books in The Maddie Swallow Mysteries! So excited to be part and look forward to a Blog Tour for Book #4 coming later this month. I am very happy to be part of these tours! The books sound fab, cozy mysteries and New Mexico!
For today’s post I got a guest post, a giveaway, and book/author information!
Ready? Let’s get started!
Dead Before Dinner
A Maddie Swallows Mystery Book 1
by Kat Bellemore
Genre: Cozy MysteryGreen chile has never been more dangerous.
Psychologist Maddie Swallows’ decision to return to New Mexico seemed like a good idea at the time, considering the divorce and her two teenagers she’d dragged along for the ride.
But that was before the New Year’s Eve party she was guilt-tripped into attending. Before a member of the town council wound up dead and everyone at the party became a suspect. And before she was forced to unravel the secrets of her former hometown in order to clear her name.
Of course, with the help of two precocious teenagers and one meddling mother, the real murderer doesn’t stand a chance.
Dead before Dinner is the first book of the Maddie Swallows series. If you love small towns, quirky characters, and an intriguing whodunit, you’ll love this cozy mystery.
Pick up Dead before Dinner and get swept away in this New Mexican mystery series today!
Buy this book here: Amazon
Dead Upon Arrival
A Maddie Swallows Mystery Book 2Flying high in the New Mexican sky has never been more lethal.
The biggest hot air balloon festival would have been a vacation if Maddie didn’t have to balance her apathetic teenagers, a meddling mother, and act as therapist for a desperate patient. Let alone solve a murder case!
When Maddie witnesses someone fall from a hot air balloon, it seems like a tragic accident. But as facts come to light, the police are convinced it’s foul play. And Maddie’s friend is to blame.
With the remainder of the festival canceled and all attendees required to stay for questioning, Maddie has two days to discover the truth behind the murder and free her friend from suspicion.
Dead Upon Arrival is the second book in the Maddie Swallows mystery series. If you like humor, intrigue, and, of course, hot air balloons, you’ll love this cozy mystery.
Grab Dead Upon Arrival and test your whodunit skills today!
Buy this book here: Amazon
Dead Before I Do
A Maddie Swallows Mystery Book 3‘Till Death Do You Part’ wasn’t supposed to be taken so literally…
When Maddie Swallows attends an out-of-town wedding with her best friend, Benji, she expects free food, dancing, and some awkward moments as she tries to figure out her feelings for her long-time friend.
What she finds instead is a dead groom and an entire wedding guest list who had reason to kill the guy.
It doesn’t help that Maddie was the last person to see the groom alive and is placed in the local police’s crosshairs as they work to solve the murder.
It will take some unexpected sleuthing, and a few therapy sessions, for this psychiatrist to prove her innocence, and bring justice to the real killer.
Dead Before I Do is the third book of the Maddie Swallows mystery series. If you love quirky characters, romance, and plenty of intrigue, you’ll love this cozy mystery.
Pick up Dead Before I Do and travel to White Sands National Park for Maddie’s latest mystery today!
Buy this book here: Amazon
About the author:
Kat Bellemore is a small-town romance and cozy mystery author. Deciding to have New Mexico as the setting for two of her series was an easy choice, considering its amazing sunsets, blue skies and tasty green chile. That, and she currently lives there with her husband and two cute kids. They hope to one day add a dog to the family, but for now, the native animals of the desert will have to do. Though, Kat wouldn’t mind ridding the world of scorpions and centipedes. They’re just mean.
Guest Post
My beginnings
My journey as an author isn’t a linear one, but I suppose that most aren’t. I began as a small-town romance author with a series called Borrowing Amor. It takes place in New Mexico, because I had recently moved here and fallen in love with the landscape, food, and the unique traditions we have. After finishing that and one other series, I realized that my heart really belonged to mystery. My husband wasn’t at all surprised, considering I’d watched every episode of Psych, Monk, Murder She Wrote, etc. My current favorite mystery author is Richard Osman. I really can’t get enough of it. I’m not sure why it took me so long to figure out that writing mystery novels was my calling.
But I didn’t want to give up completely on my romances, because they are still a part of me. So, I decided to set my mystery series in the same small town of Amor that my romance series took place. The main characters of the romances have become side characters to my sleuth, Maddie Swallows, and it’s been a ton of fun. I’ve added a lot of different dimensions that you don’t get from the romances, as well as a lot of humor. The romances also add to the mysteries, because you get more background story on these side characters you met while solving the mystery. My slogan is, Romance and Mystery: Two sides of the same town.
You can read the first book of each series for FREE to get a taste of my writing style, and I hope you enjoy! Read Borrowing Amor HERE, and Dead Before Dinner HERE.
One thought on “Book Tour ~ The Maddie Swallows Mysteries by Kat Bellemore ~ Guest Post | Giveaway”
Sounds like a good mystery series. Love the covers.