Meet New Cozy Author Mimi Granger and Enter Her Giveaway

Welcome, Mimi Granger, to Suspense Sisters. We have the best blog readers in the world. I understand you have a brand new cozy mystery, Death of a Red-Hot Rancher, about to hit the shelves on Sept. 14th. This is first of a new series, Love is Murder, from Berkley Publishing. I'll ask you the number-one question that I get asked as a mystery writer:

Where do you get the idea for your stories?

Readers love books about books and I totally get it. After all, writers start out as readers! I was looking for a new take on the “books in mystery” theme, one that wasn’t a mystery bookstore or a used bookstore or a any of the other ideas that have already been used. That’s when it hit! I started my publishing career writing romance…a romance bookstore was perfect! That’s how Love Under the Covers, the bookstore owned by my heroine, Lizzie Hale, was born. From there, I just let the fun began. A romance bookstore calls for romance tropes and in book #1 of the new Love is Murder series, I’ve pulled out all the stops on the hot rancher in town idea that will be so familiar to readers of romance. Brody Pierce is everyone’s ideal man—sexy, handsome, successful. But that’s where the romance element ends and the mystery takes over, because Brody ends up dead and Lizzie needs to find out who did it before her aunt is implicated in the crime.

That sounds intriguing. Tell us more about the story:

Lizzie Hale may be the lucky owner of a successful romance bookshop, Love Under the Covers, but she’s decidedly unlucky in love. Though she’s read almost every famous romance novels from Jane Austen to Nora Roberts, not one has helped her figure out how to get—and keep—a man. But Lizzie has bigger problems to worry about. Like Murder. When swoon-worthy ranger and resident bachelor Brody Pierce is found stabbed through the chest, hearts are heard breaking all over idyllic Tinker’s Creek. But when Lizzie’s aunt is implicated in the murder, Lizzie is determined to clear her name. She quickly realizes that Brody was a hunk with many hidden secrets, and she’s soon leafing through a stack of suspects longer than Brody’s list of lovers.

Now tell us more about you.

Mimi Granger began her publishing career writing romance. Many years later, there still isn’t anything she likes better than a happy-ever-after—as long as there’s a little murder and mayhem through in. Her Love is Murder series provides the perfect opportunity to salute the two genres she loves the most—romance and mystery—and to play out every reader’s dream of owning a fabulous bookstore. Mimi lives outside of Cleveland with her own persona romance hero and a dog named Eliot Ness.

Readers, post an answer to this question for a chance to win a print copy of Death of a Red-Hot Rancher. You must leave your email address to win. Sorry, U.S. readers only. Drawing in one week.

What’s your favorite romance novel?

Buy Death of a Red-Hot Rancher HERE

 

 

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