Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles - In Full Swing for 2024

New year, new mysteries to solve in our favorite small town in the Texas Hill Country. Author CW Hawes just published the first Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles mystery for 2024. Who Mourns Elektra? book 21 in the MBCC series released in February and is available in ebook and paperback. And if you have a Kindle Unlimited account, you can download and read it for FREE.

This is the third novel Hawes has written for the (currently) 21 book series and it's wonderful. If you've been reading along, you are aware that Harry Thurgood, the owner of the Really Good Wood-Fired Coffee Shop has been smitten with the Reverand Ember Cole since the first book, Death Wears a Crimson Hat. Now, twenty-one books later, they are planning their wedding. But as tends to happen in small town Magnolia Bluff, murder and mayhem are trying to get in the way of their happiness. The police detective wants to hang the murders on the couple and arch nemesis, Mary Lou Fight is doing everything in her power to dig up anything she can find to steal their joy and destroy their lives.

The police arrest Harry and Ember for murder, and after they're able to post bail, they begin the quest for proving their innocence. But will they be able to find the real killer and at the same time stop Mary Lou's assault on their good names, or will the couple fall victim to circumstances beyond their control and end up on trial for Murder One?

You can find out for yourself by clicking the link here and grabbing a copy of the newest Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles mystery: Who Mourns Elektra? 

CW Hawes is one of my favorite writers. He has written somewhere in the neighborhood of forty-five to fifty books covering several different genres. He is also an award-winning poet. You can learn more about CW and his work by clicking the link here: CW Hawes

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The Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles is a unique multi-author crime fiction series that began is 2022. The nine books released during the first year were so well received that the authors decided to continue the series the next year. Now, in 2024, we begin year three with another round of fun and interesting mysteries to keep you reading late into the night. 

The Underground Authors started as a small group of mostly Texas based writers who banded together to encourage each other and help cross market their individual work. After the group published a book of short stories, each written by one of the authors, with every story being tied to one thread - the boat on the book cover - CW Hawes tossed out the idea of producing a mystery series where the common thread would be a small town in the Texas Hill Country that would be written as a collaborative, yet each book penned by a different member of the Underground Authors. A unique idea in the mystery genre.

Since that time, we've grown from that small group of Texas based authors to a larger group and are spread out from as far north as Canada, all the way across the United States, and even (sometimes) down into Mexico. What we all still have in common, however, is the passion to continue writing stories about all the shenanigans that take place in a small little Texas town called Magnolia Bluff.

You can find the entire series by clicking the link here: MBCC Series

You can find the short story compilation here: Beyond the Sea

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As always, I appreciate you taking the time to read my blog. And of course, your thoughts and comments are always welcome. 😊

You can find my books here: The Razzman Mystery Crime Files

Until next time...😎

Rough start to the year, but finally... I can get back to writing!

I ended 2023 the same way I started 2024 -- sick! I came down with what I thought was a severe cold over the Christmas holiday weekend. By December 26th, I was feeling bad enough that I went to see my doctor. They tested me for Covid and the flu. I didn't have Covid, but I was diagnosed with the B strain of the flu. I picked up my Tamiflu prescription and went home where I preceded to have the worst ending to an old year and an even worse start to a new year that I can ever remember. 

Let's just say January was pretty much a blur. I spent the last week of December and most of the first week of the first month of the year in bed. Then, when I thought I was finally on the other side, the wonderful aftereffects of the flu kicked in for the next three weeks culminating in an extremely lo-o-o-ong night in the emergency room due to an elevated heart rate and some other issues. They ran a battery of tests, and thankfully, everything turned out okay in the end. But let's just say I did not get much writing accomplished during the first month of the year.

Although 2024 began with a whimper rather than a bang for me, I choose to believe that it can only get better as the months roll along. The good news is that I am back at my desk and diving into the two projects I've committed to writing this year. First up is my second book in the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles series. It will be the twenty-sixth book in that series and will be released in July. I'm also working on the fifth book in my Razzman Mystery Crime Files series, which will be out towards the latter part of the year.

For anyone who has read Second Chances, which is book seventeen, but my first novel in the Magnolia Bluff series, I think you'll be pleased with my follow up coming in July. The action in the new book starts off quick and intensifies as the story moves along. So, if you haven't had the opportunity to read Second Chances yet, you have until July to get caught up on how my protagonist, retired NYPD narcotics officer Brandon Turner assimilates himself along with his two-year-old Labrador Retriever, into the crazy, crime filled, murderous world of that small-town nestled in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.

You can certainly read Second Chances without having read any of the other books in the series, but in my opinion, you're missing out on some mighty fine storytelling if you don't devour all the books in this wonderful series. And the best part about it is that you can read them in any order you'd like as they are all standalone novels set in the same town. The authors even share characters that interact with their own to keep a continuity in the stories across the series. You can find all the books in the MBCC series by clicking here: MagnoliaBluffCrimeChronicles

For those of you who have read any of my Razzman PI mysteries, I hope you'll be interested and maybe even looking forward to knowing that Tony Razzolito, his partner Scott McHenry, and of course, the inimitable, pizza loving, Brooklynite, Vinny Gabrianno, along with the rest of the cast of characters that are a part of the series will be making a return before the end of 2024. I've got a cool mystery cooked up for the next full length/fifth installment and I can't wait to share it.

More about my new Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles book and the new Razzman Mystery Crime Files book as we get closer to the release dates.

Meanwhile, you can find all the Razzman mystery books by clicking the link below the line🠟

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As always, I appreciate you taking the time to read my blog. And of course, your thoughts and comments are always welcome. 😊

You can find my books here: The Razzman Mystery Crime Files

Until next time...😎