VOTE FOR ANASTASIA!

I'll admit, there are some perks to being a reluctant amateur sleuth. Today I'm thrilled to announce that Stitch, Bake, Die!, the 10th Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, has been nominated for a Silver Falchion Award for Best Cozy Mystery of 2022 and also for a Readers Choice Award. The Readers Choice Award is open to voting by the public. Click here for the ballot. You'll need to scroll all the way down the list to the second from the bottom title because the list is alphabetical by author last name. Winners will be announced on August 20^th at the Killer Nashville Conference. Lois and I would really appreciate your vote.

Guilty as Framed, the next Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, will be released four weeks from tomorrow. It’s currently available for pre-order. Meanwhile, Lois Winston, the author who has turned my life upside-down since she first began writing about me, is mulling over ideas for how she’s going to drop another dead body or two or three into my life in the next book. 

Yes, there will be a next book. Lois assures me there will always be a next book as long as readers continue to want to read about me and the adventures she creates for me. I suppose I should feel honored, but honestly, life as an amateur sleuth is exhausting!

 

Take this latest book, for example. You wouldn’t believe what happens to me! Of course, everything turns out okay in the end because in cozy mysteries the sleuth always prevails. However, getting from crime to solution involves quite a few twists and turns, especially in this latest book. No spoilers here, though. You’ll just have to read Guilty as Framed for yourself to discover what happens.

I will say, though, that there are some interesting red herrings in this book. I’d like to think I’m experienced enough at this point, given all the dead bodies Lois has dropped into my life, that I’d figure out whodunnit easily enough, but this one had me guessing for the longest time. And believe me when I say that something very exciting happens at the end of this book!

Guilty as Framed

An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 11

 

When an elderly man shows up at the home of reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack, she’s drawn into the unsolved mystery of the greatest art heist in history. 

 

Boston mob boss Cormac Murphy has recently been released from prison. He doesn’t believe Anastasia’s assertion that the man he’s looking for doesn’t live at her address and attempts to muscle his way into her home. His efforts are thwarted by Anastasia’s fiancé Zack Barnes. 

 

A week later, a stolen SUV containing a dead body appears in Anastasia’s driveway. Anastasia believes Murphy is sending her a message. It’s only the first in a series of alarming incidents, including a mugging, a break-in, another murder, and the discovery of a cache of jewelry and an etching from the largest museum burglary in history.

 

But will Anastasia solve the mystery behind these shocking events before she falls victim to a couple of desperate thugs who will stop at nothing to get what they want?

 

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