A LABOR DAY TREAT

Happy Labor Day! We hope everyone enjoys the last holiday weekend of the summer. Anastasia and the gang are taking a long weekend, but for those of you who have stopped by, here are some fun facts about Labor Day and keep reading for a Labor Day treat:

·      New York City was the setting for the first Labor Day which occurred on Tuesday Sept. 5, 1882 and was organized by the Central Labor Union.

·      More than 10,000 workers protesting 16 hour workdays marched in the first Labor Day parade.

·      Two years later, in 1884 the observance of Labor Day moved to the first Monday in September as other labor groups were encouraged to take part.

·      June 1894, Congress voted to make Labor Day a national federal holiday.

·      The photo above is of a Labor Day workers' pledge during WWII. Note the misspelling of "Material." Were were the editors?

For stopping by today, we're giving away a promo code for a free download of the audiobook version of Scrapbook of Murder, the sixth book in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series. To enter, post a comment about your Labor Day plans.

Scrapbook of Murder

An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 6

 

Crafts and murder don’t normally go hand-in-hand, but “normal” deserted crafts editor Anastasia Pollack’s world nearly a year ago. Now, tripping over dead bodies seems to be the “new normal” for this reluctant amateur sleuth.

 

When the daughter of a murdered neighbor asks Anastasia to create a family scrapbook from old photographs and memorabilia discovered in a battered suitcase, she agrees—not only out of friendship but also from a sense of guilt over the older woman’s death. However, as Anastasia begins sorting through the contents of the suitcase, she discovers a letter revealing a fifty-year-old secret, one that unearths a long-buried scandal and unleashes a killer. Suddenly Anastasia is back in sleuthing mode as she races to prevent a suitcase full of trouble from leading to more deaths.