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Book Details
Birds, Puppies, and Murder (Chocolate Martini Sisters Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Setting – Arizona
Publisher : Independently Published
Publication date : September 23, 2025
Print length : 327 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8294753788
Digital ASIN : B0FK3P31T5
Lost puppies, endangered birds…
The sisters are birddogs on a murder most fowl.
The sisters are thriving like mountain sage in an Arizona autumn. Nicole’s yoga business is gaining a foothold in Wyatt. Emma’s first mystery novel is scheduled for release. But a proposed, expansive building project in the pristine area of the bird sanctuary has the community in an uproar. It’s Environmentalists versus Big Business, and the sisters are caught in the cross-fire.
When one of Nic’s yoga students is found dead near the planned resort, the amateur sleuths are back on the trail of a killer. Who has the most to gain from her death—the morally challenged developer, the money-grubbing boyfriend, her jealous brother, a nasty neighbor, or a co-worker with dark secrets? And where has Skittles, the dog, gone?
While the Chocolate Martini Sisters sort through the litany of villains, they’re leaving no mystery unsolved. The stakes are escalating, throwing the sisters on divergent paths that all come together at a dangerous intersection. As they unsnarl the tangled mysteries, will they expose the murderer before the killer finds a way to silence them?
About the Authors
After hearing countless stories as a mental health professional, Joyce Proell retired to create her own tales. An award-winning author, she writes historical romance and cozy mystery where all endings are guaranteed happy. She shares her home on the prairie with a husband and a little dog with a big personality. When she isn’t reading or writing, she likes to swim and finds baking almost as relaxing as a day at the spa.
Author Links
Website: https://joyceproell.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoyceProellAuthor
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joyce-Proell/author/B009K432O8
Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6545483.Joyce_Proell
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/joyce-proell
Brenda Whiteside is the award-winning author of romantic suspense, cozy mystery, and romance. She’s a born and bred Arizona native who sets fictional stories in imaginary, but recognizable, Arizona locations. She and her husband live in Central Arizona. They share their home with a rescue dog named Amigo. While FDW fishes, Brenda writes.
Author Links
Visit Brenda at https://www.brendawhiteside.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brenda.whiteside.58/ or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571687885846
X: https://x.com/brendawhitesid2
She blogs and has guests: https://brendawhiteside.blogspot.com/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003V15WF8
Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3972045.Brenda_Whiteside
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/brenda-whiteside
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AUTHOR GUEST POST – BRENDA WHITESIDE
I started life as an artist, but after taking some evening classes in creative writing, just for fun, I
discovered I enjoyed filling a blank page with words more than a canvas with paint.
The first few books I published traditionally were romances. I had no idea what a genre was; I
just wanted to write people stories. The relationship between a couple and how they interact with
others, drew me. Of course, that’s romance.
But I soon became bored with the simpler plots and expanded my genre to romantic suspense. I
guess I needed more conflict, more chaos—yes, often murder. And I was perfectly happy writing
suspense stories with more complicated plots as the years flew by…until an idea popped into my
head.
Twice a year, my sister and I celebrate our birthdays with chocolate martini at an historic inn in
Prescott, Arizona. We eventually called ourselves the Chocolate Martini Sisters. That’s when the
idea struck. I wanted to write a cozy mystery series with two sisters who did just what we did but
solved murder mysteries on their martini weekends. The more I thought about it, the more I
wanted a friend in Minnesota to join me in this series. My forte was suspense, and I knew of a
very talented mystery writer, my friend Joyce Proell. She agreed, and, voila, the Chocolate
Martini Sisters Mystery books took flight. I’m so glad Joyce jumped on board, and I’ve never
looked back.
Suspense and mystery, when done right, are two wholly different genres. At times, they are
difficult to totally separate. In my suspense books, there are always elements of mystery. A good
mystery can have tense, suspenseful moments. The big difference between them is in a suspense
story, you know who the villain is, at times from the first page. What he or she intends to do, to
who, and when is what makes it a suspense book. In a mystery, the reader is on the journey with
the protagonist to discover who the villain is and, unless they can outwit the writer, won’t know
until the end when the protagonist finds out. Joyce is our mystery weaver. And it’s great fun
when the two sisters, whose personalities are quite different, solve the murder ahead of Chief
Homicide Detective Guthrie.
I hope you’ll join us in the fun and have as good a time reading the Chocolate Martini Sisters
Mystery books as much as we enjoy writing them. The fourth book in this amateur sleuths cozy
mystery series, Birds, Puppies, and Murder, will have you chuckling and on the edge of your
seat as the sisters solve the murder.
BIRDS PUPPIES AND MURDER TOUR PARTICIPANTS
September 22 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
September 22 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
September 23 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST
September 23 – Salty Inspirations – SPOTLIGHT
September 24 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
September 25 – Sneaky the Library Cat’s Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
September 25 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
September 26 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT
September 27 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
September 27 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
September 28 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
September 29 – Sarandipity’s – AUTHOR GUEST POST
September 29 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
September 30 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – AUTHOR GUEST POST
October 1 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – CHARACTER GUEST POST
October 2 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – CHARACTER GUEST POST
October 3 – Infinite House of Books – SPOTLIGHT
October 4 – StoreyBook Reviews – AUTHOR GUEST POST
October 4 – Bigreadersite – REVIEW
October 5 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – REVIEW
Giveaway
$25 Amazon Gift Card – US & International
