EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY: The Murders at Astaire Castle by Lauren Carr

Welcome to my stop on Lauren Carr's THE MURDERS AT ASTAIRE CASTLE Book Blitz tour!

Living the Life of Gnarly: (Story of a K-9 Sidekick), A Guest Post by Lauren Carr

Welcome to my stop on the Twelve to Murder blog tour. I first heard of Ms. Carr at the Serendipity blog. I was intrigued and borrowed the first book, "It's Murder, My Son." Today I have a guest post from the author as she tours to celebrate the release of her newest book, "Twelve to Murder".


Lauren Carr is the best-selling author of the Mac Faraday Mysteries, which takes place in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. Twelve to Murder is the seventh installment in the Mac Faraday Mystery series.

In addition to her series set on Deep Creek Lake, Lauren Carr has also written the Lovers in Crime Mysteries, which features prosecutor Joshua Thornton with homicide detective Cameron Gates, who were introduced in Shades of Murder, the third book in the Mac Faraday Mysteries. They also make an appearance in The Lady Who Cried Murder. Dead on Ice (A Lovers in Crime Mystery) was released September 2012. The second installment, Real Murder will be out in 2014.

Bea Reviews It's Murder, My Son by Lauren Carr

Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Series: Mac Faraday #1
Format Read: Kindle book
Source: Amazon Lending Library
Release Date: June 23, 2010
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Blurb from goodreads:

What started out as the worst day of Mac Faraday’s life would end up being a new beginning.

After a messy divorce hearing, the last person that Mac wanted to see was another lawyer. Yet, this lawyer wore the expression of a child bursting to tell his secret. This covert would reveal Mac as heir to undreamed of fortunes, and lead him to the birthplace of America’s Queen of Mystery and an investigation that will unfold like one of her famous mystery novels.

Soon after she moves to her new lakefront home in Spencer, Maryland, multi-millionaire Katrina Singleton learns that life in an exclusive community is not all good. For some unknown reason, a strange man calling himself “Pay Back” begins stalking her.

When Katrina is found strangled all evidence points to her terrorist, who is nowhere to be found. Three months later the file on her murder is still open with only vague speculations from the local police department when Mac Faraday, sole heir to his unknown birth mother’s home and fortune, moves into the estate next door. Little does he know as he drives up to Spencer Manor that he is driving into a closed gate community that is hiding more suspicious deaths than his DC workload as a homicide detective. With the help of his late mother’s journal, this retired cop puts all his detective skills to work to pick up where the local investigators have left off to follow the clues to Katrina’s killer.