Dae’s Christmas Past
by Joyce and Jim Lavene
One of the best in this series! It’s Christmas time and Mayor Dae is getting ready for the Christmas festivites. A trip back in time, a new friend who can speak to animals and murder make this holiday whodunit a book you will not want to see end. Jim and Joyce are master story-tellers and that have shown that again with this great read!
~Shelley’s Book Case
~Shelley’s Book Case
If you haven’t fallen in love with Dae and Duck already, the upcoming ‘holiday season’ would be the perfect time. And if you’ve been a really good boy or girl this year, maybe Santa will send some of the previous “Missing Pieces Mysteries” in your Christmas stocking this year!
~Back Porchervations
~Back Porchervations
The writing team of Jim and Joyce Lavene never cease to amaze me…The spiritual and enchantment element that Jim and Joyce put in the novel was so believable…
~Melina’s Book Blog
~Melina’s Book Blog
Dae’s Christmas Past
By Joyce and Jim Lavene
By Joyce and Jim Lavene
Cozy Mystery
Synopsis:
Missing Pieces Mysteries #6
When wild horse rescue director Tom Watts is found dead on Duck Road, newly re-elected mayor Dae O’Donnell is determined to find out who killed him. Her friend Jake Burleson is accused of killing Tom even though the two men have been good friends for years.
The problem is the excavation of the horse cult that’s been happening on Jake’s property. Tom and several archaeologists working on the project think that Jake should give up his land to widen the search for artifacts. Jake won’t do that.
It’s not that Jake hasn’t been acting strangely. He shoved one of the ancient stone horses into Dae’s hands when he knew she was afraid to touch it. He’s obsessed with stopping the excavation—maybe to the point of killing Tom.
But Dae thinks there may be more to the story. Jake’s determination has shown her what the horse cult was used for thousands of years ago, the destruction the demon horses brought before they were stopped. She’s afraid something of the past may have already returned to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and there may be more deaths to come.
Featuring Pet Psychic Mary Catherine Roberts!
About These Authors
Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, bestselling mystery fiction as themselves, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. They have written and published more than 70 novels for Harlequin, Berkley, Amazon, and Gallery Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in rural North Carolina with their family.
Interview
Where are you from?
Jim is from Mobile,
Alabama and Joyce is from Portsmouth, Virginia. We both grew up in the Chicago
area. We met in Washington, DC and then moved to Minnesota where we lived off
the land for seven years before moving to North Carolina where we still are
today!
Tell us your latest
news?
Our latest news is
that our first book in the new Retired Witches Mysteries, Spell Booked, will be
out in December.
When and why did you
begin writing?
We began writing
because we both love to read. Writing seems to spring out of that love for many
authors. Joyce started writing when she was about nine years old. Jim was a
late bloomer at about 19. They started writing together many years later.
When did you first
consider yourself a writer?
Joyce: I have always
known that I was a writer. I told my first grade teacher that I was going to be
a writer. She laughed.
Jim: When Joyce told
me I was.
What inspired you to
write your first book?
Joyce: for me it was
a disdain for most classic literature.
Jim: I wanted to do
something with the written word that I loved so much.
Do you have a
specific writing style?
Probably not except
that we always write together now. We enjoy quirky books with odd plots and
twisted ironies.
How did you come up
with the title?
Dae’s Christmas Past
is a take-off from A Christmas Carol. Our psychic mayor protagonist is
experiencing her own ghosts of Christmas past.
Is there a message in
your novel that you want readers to grasp?
That sometimes
teamwork is better than going it alone.
What would you like
my readers to know?
We want all of your
readers to go to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a visit to Duck. Winter
is better except for so many shops being closed. Summer is very crowded but the
beaches are beautiful. You’ll love the pirate lore and the history of the
lighthouses. Plenty of ghosts for everyone!
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Fun interview...looking forward to reading Dae's Christmas Past.
ReplyDeleteThe authors have so many series, I was wondering which ones have been completely ended?
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