Friday, January 16, 2015

Great Escapes Blog Tour: Kelly's Koffee Shop (A Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery) by Dianne Harman



  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 976 KB
  • Print Length: 153 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00PE26G7U





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Tour Participants

January 15 – Kelly P’s Blog – Guest Post
January 16 – MysteriesEtcReview, Giveaway
January 17 – deal sharing aunt – Interview, Giveaway
January 19 – Booklady’s Booknotes – Guest Post, Giveaway
January 20 – Brooke Blogs – Review, Guest Post, Giveaway
January 21 – A Blue Million Books – Interview, Giveaway
January 22 – Omnimystery News – Interview
January 23 – Community Bookstop – Review, Giveaway
January 24 – 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, & Sissy, Too! – Guest Post, Giveaway
January 25 – off
January 26 – Latte’ Da! – Guest Post
January 27 – Melina’s Book Blog – Review, Guest Post, Giveaway
January 28 – off 
January 29 – Mochas, Mysteries and Meows – Review, Interview, Giveaway
January 30 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – Review, Giveaway







Book Description


Kelly pulled into the harbor parking lot next to the pier and noticed that Amber’s car wasn’t in its usual place and there was no sign of her. She was usually standing at the door of Kelly’s Koffee Shop, waiting for Kelly to open up. Wonder what that’s all about, she thought.

The local residents of Cedar Bay come to Kelly’s Koffee Shop for breakfast, lunch, and lots of gossip. Kelly serves it all up as she works to solve the murder of the high school Homecoming Queen. The townspeople can’t believe what has happened in their sleepy little Oregon seaside town. She identifies five prime suspects, but which one did it?

Follow Kelly, her boxer dog, Rebel, and her boyfriend, Mike, the county sheriff, as they try to determine who the killer is in a murder that’s shocked the town.

Kelly’s Coffee Shop is a mouth-watering cozy mystery with recipes!


About the Author

 Blog: http://dianneharman.com/blog/

I draw my stories and characters from a diverse business and personal background. I owned a national antique and art appraisal business for many years. I left that industry and opened two yoga centers, where I taught yoga and certified yoga instructors. I have traveled extensively throughout the world, and now divide my time between Huntington Beach and Sacramento, California, with my husband, a former Senator.
An avid reader, I bring the richness of my life experiences to my Coyote Series novels, Blue Coyote Motel, a quarter finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest, a Goodreads Psychological Thriller and e-thriller Book of the Month, Coyote in Provence, and Cornered Coyote.  Other awards include being finalists in the prestigious CLUE awards contest.
The series span the globe from the barrios of Santa Ana, California to the Himalayas. They follow Maria, and her husband, Jeffrey, who’s fired from a prestigious scientific laboratory for giving her an anti-aging hormone, as they open the Blue Coyote Motel in a remote Southwest desert area. The books tell the story of his descent into madness, her escape to Provence, and how she falls in love with a handsome Los Angeles Police Department Art Theft Detective. He convinces her to return to the United States where she’s arrested and stands trial. Will she spend the rest of her life in prison? Insanity, aging, substance abuse, courtroom drama, food, art, Mafia, to name a few!
My political novels, Tea Party Teddy and Tea Party Teddy’s Legacy, feature a multicultural romance set in the California political scene. Tea Party Teddy is the story of Nina, whose husband, Teddy, a newly elected California Assemblyman, is elected because of his hateful anti-immigration platform. His world unravels as he succumbs to the power of his office. The ultimate irony occurs when his wife becomes romantically involved with the founder of the Republicans for Latinos and in the process, discovers herself. The story of Bob and Nina continues in Legacy when Bob decides to run for the California Assembly against the Reverend Jim Thurston, a devout Tea Party member. Everyone’s favorite, Slade Kelly, the raunchy private investigator you met in Coyote in Provence, helps to keep the Silva family intact. Once you read it you’ll understand why every television station in California and across the nation featured Bob Silva as their lead story on the evening news.
My love of cooking, food, and mystery led to the soon to be published first book in the Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery series, Kelly’s Koffee Shop, the story of murder in a little coastal town in Oregon, five suspects, a female sleuth, and her dog – with mouth-watering favorite Harman family recipes included!
I am a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post.
My email address is dianne@dianneharman.com and here are some other links you may be interested in:
Amazon: http://ow.ly/s6pN5
Smashwords: http://ow.ly/u4Fb2
Twitter: @DianneDHarman
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110409099727295696245/posts
- See more at: http://dianneharman.com/blog/about-dianne/#sthash.ZReNCgJI.dpuf
 From Dianne's website:

I draw my stories and characters from a diverse business and personal background. I owned a national antique and art appraisal business for many years. I left that industry and opened two yoga centers, where I taught yoga and certified yoga instructors. I have traveled extensively throughout the world, and now divide my time between Huntington Beach and Sacramento, California, with my husband, a former Senator.

An avid reader, I bring the richness of my life experiences to my Coyote Series novels, Blue Coyote Motel, a quarter finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest, a Goodreads Psychological Thriller and e-thriller Book of the Month, Coyote in Provence, and Cornered Coyote.  Other awards include being finalists in the prestigious CLUE awards contest.

The series span the globe from the barrios of Santa Ana, California to the Himalayas. They follow Maria, and her husband, Jeffrey, who’s fired from a prestigious scientific laboratory for giving her an anti-aging hormone, as they open the Blue Coyote Motel in a remote Southwest desert area. The books tell the story of his descent into madness, her escape to Provence, and how she falls in love with a handsome Los Angeles Police Department Art Theft Detective. He convinces her to return to the United States where she’s arrested and stands trial. Will she spend the rest of her life in prison? Insanity, aging, substance abuse, courtroom drama, food, art, Mafia, to name a few!

My political novels, Tea Party Teddy and Tea Party Teddy’s Legacy, feature a multicultural romance set in the California political scene. Tea Party Teddy is the story of Nina, whose husband, Teddy, a newly elected California Assemblyman, is elected because of his hateful anti-immigration platform. His world unravels as he succumbs to the power of his office. The ultimate irony occurs when his wife becomes romantically involved with the founder of the Republicans for Latinos and in the process, discovers herself. The story of Bob and Nina continues in Legacy when Bob decides to run for the California Assembly against the Reverend Jim Thurston, a devout Tea Party member. Everyone’s favorite, Slade Kelly, the raunchy private investigator you met in Coyote in Provence, helps to keep the Silva family intact. Once you read it you’ll understand why every television station in California and across the nation featured Bob Silva as their lead story on the evening news.

My love of cooking, food, and mystery led to the soon to be published first book in the Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery series, Kelly’s Koffee Shop, the story of murder in a little coastal town in Oregon, five suspects, a female sleuth, and her dog – with mouth-watering favorite Harman family recipes included!
I am a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post.

My email address is dianne@dianneharman.com and here are some other links you may be interested in:

Smashwords: http://ow.ly/u4Fb2

Twitter: @DianneDHarman


I draw my stories and characters from a diverse business and personal background. I owned a national antique and art appraisal business for many years. I left that industry and opened two yoga centers, where I taught yoga and certified yoga instructors. I have traveled extensively throughout the world, and now divide my time between Huntington Beach and Sacramento, California, with my husband, a former Senator.
An avid reader, I bring the richness of my life experiences to my Coyote Series novels, Blue Coyote Motel, a quarter finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest, a Goodreads Psychological Thriller and e-thriller Book of the Month, Coyote in Provence, and Cornered Coyote.  Other awards include being finalists in the prestigious CLUE awards contest.
The series span the globe from the barrios of Santa Ana, California to the Himalayas. They follow Maria, and her husband, Jeffrey, who’s fired from a prestigious scientific laboratory for giving her an anti-aging hormone, as they open the Blue Coyote Motel in a remote Southwest desert area. The books tell the story of his descent into madness, her escape to Provence, and how she falls in love with a handsome Los Angeles Police Department Art Theft Detective. He convinces her to return to the United States where she’s arrested and stands trial. Will she spend the rest of her life in prison? Insanity, aging, substance abuse, courtroom drama, food, art, Mafia, to name a few!
My political novels, Tea Party Teddy and Tea Party Teddy’s Legacy, feature a multicultural romance set in the California political scene. Tea Party Teddy is the story of Nina, whose husband, Teddy, a newly elected California Assemblyman, is elected because of his hateful anti-immigration platform. His world unravels as he succumbs to the power of his office. The ultimate irony occurs when his wife becomes romantically involved with the founder of the Republicans for Latinos and in the process, discovers herself. The story of Bob and Nina continues in Legacy when Bob decides to run for the California Assembly against the Reverend Jim Thurston, a devout Tea Party member. Everyone’s favorite, Slade Kelly, the raunchy private investigator you met in Coyote in Provence, helps to keep the Silva family intact. Once you read it you’ll understand why every television station in California and across the nation featured Bob Silva as their lead story on the evening news.
My love of cooking, food, and mystery led to the soon to be published first book in the Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery series, Kelly’s Koffee Shop, the story of murder in a little coastal town in Oregon, five suspects, a female sleuth, and her dog – with mouth-watering favorite Harman family recipes included!
I am a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post.
My email address is dianne@dianneharman.com and here are some other links you may be interested in:
Amazon: http://ow.ly/s6pN5
Smashwords: http://ow.ly/u4Fb2
Twitter: @DianneDHarman
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110409099727295696245/posts
- See more at: http://dianneharman.com/blog/about-dianne/#sthash.ZReNCgJI.dpuf

My Review

Dianne Harman's Kelly's Koffee Shop is a cozy mystery set in a small town on the coast of Oregon.

The author was very good at describing the food in the and the recipes at the back were very interesting. I wish the dialogue in the book was better written. There were also quite a few suspects in the book and I was disappointed with the way the crime was solved in the end.

Kelly's Koffee Shop is 99 cents on Amazon.  This would be a good beach read.



3 comments:

  1. I love your cozy mysteries. mjhopper@cox.net

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  2. thank you for the giveaway!!
    would love to read this!!!

    cyn209 at juno dot com

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  3. The winner is mjhopper
    Congratulations!
    I am forwarding your email to the tour organizer.

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