A Tisket A Tasket Not Another Casket: A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery by Heather Weidner
About A Tisket A Tasket Not Another Casket
A Tisket ATasket Not Another Casket: A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery
Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series
Setting - Virginia
Publisher : Level Best Books
(January 14, 2025)
Print length : 277 pages
ASIN : B0DRZ7N3XW
Excitement is in the air as everyone in Mermaid Bay is preparing for the Christmas season. This year promises to be more dazzling than ever when the business council sponsors a competition for the town’s lucrative summer fireworks contract. The quaint little beach town is ready to be wowed with choreographed shows and drone action that light up the night sky.
Instead of goodwill and sparkles, two of the teams take the competition to new lows with corporate espionage, feuds, and sabotage, and Jade and her team at ‘Tis the Season are ground zero for all the explosive action. When one of the competitors turns up murdered near Jade’s shop, she has to solve the mystery before the holidays are ruined.
About Heather Weidner
Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, and the Pearly Girls Mysteries.
Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.
Interview
Where are you from? I’m originally from Virginia Beach, but we live in Central Virginia outside of Richmond.
Tell us your latest news?A Tisket A Tasket, Not Another Casket, the third in the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries just came out. In March, the first in my new Pearly Girls Mystery series launches. It’s called Murder Strikes a Chord. And the fifth book in the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs, launches in October.
When and why did you begin writing? I have always loved reading and writing. I didn’t start professionally until my first mystery story was published in 2013 in Virginia is for Mysteries.
When did you first consider yourself a writer? In my day gig, I was a technical writer for years, so I did a lot of business writing. I really felt like an author when my first story was published, and I saw my name on the cover.
What inspired you to write your first book?I have loved mysteries since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew, and I always wanted to write a mystery.
Do you have a specific writing style? I like cozy mysteries. They are often humorous and light and written in the British tradition where there’s not graphic language, sex, or violence. There is a crime, and in the end, justice is always served.
How did you come up with the title? My Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries all have some sort of nursery rhyme (gone bad) in them. The books are Sticks and Stones and a Bag of Bones, Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir, and A Tisket a Tasket Not Another Casket. Life is But a Scream comes out in 2026.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp? I write crime fiction, but in the end of each novel justice is served. The amateur sleuth helps the police solve the crime.
What would you like my readers to know? Check out all my series: The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries, the Pearly Girls Mysteries and the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries.
Thanks for letting me stop by the blog and talk about cozy mysteries!
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