Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir - A Guest Post, Review, & Giveaway

I'm pleased to welcome Jade Hicks to Cozy Up With Kathy today. You can find Jade on the pages of the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery series by Heather Weidner. TWINKLE TWINKLE AU REVOIR is the second book in the series and was released January 16, 2024.

Hi, y’all. I’m Jade Hicks, and I own ‘Tis the Season, a Christmas store in the beach town of Mermaid Bay, Virginia.  My grandmother opened the store about thirty years ago in a converted beach cottage. Each themed room has decorations, and at last count, there are over 300 trees in the store. My spunky French bulldog Chloe comes to work with me every day. She thinks she’s head of security, but Neville the Devil Cat, the store’s chief mouser, has other ideas.

Life is great. My business is booming, and I now have a permanent Plus 1, Sheriff Nick Driscoll. We’ve been friends since middle school, but we lost touch during the college years. I’m glad we both found our way back to Mermaid Bay and to each other.

And if that’s not enough going on, guess what happened to our quiet little beach! Love is in the air when Hollywood arrives in Mermaid Bay, and the town may never be the same. Fans will do almost anything to get a glimpse of the actors or a chance to be an extra in the Love Channel’s “My Coastal Valentine.” Crowds flock to our cozy beach town from all over and business is booming. All is going well until the body of a testy reporter is found in one of the actor’s rooms. And if murder isn’t bad enough, someone tries to kill the show’s star, hunky Raphael Allard.

Mermaid Bay feels cursed, as the Love Channel threatens to pull out of the project. Along with my team, Lorelei, Peppermint Patti, Bernie, Chloe, and Neville the Devil Cat, I have to solve the crimes before it ruins the town’s reputation and breaks the hearts of fans across the country.

Neville

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Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir is the second book in the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries cozy series. Jade and the gang will also appear in A Tisket A Tasket, Not Another Casket (2025). And I’m so excited to announce that my awesome publisher, Level Best Books, has extended the series for three more mysteries.

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Review

TWINKLE TWINKLE AU REVOIR by Heather Weidner

The Second Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery

Love is in the air. The Love Channel has arrived in Mermaid Bay to film their latest romance. However, there's more drama than hearts and flowers. The lead actors are sniping at each other, the production team is demanding, and they all are driving Ruby batty at her inn. Jade Hicks has a front row seat at her 'Tis the Season Christmas Shoppe, especially as the crew has set up shop in her lot next door. Things go from bad to worse when a reporter is murdered, someone is poisoned, and someone else disappears. Between filling orders from her shop and calming Ruby, Jade tries to figure out just what is going on with My Coastal Valentine. 

 

The Love Channel isn't so loving and being a movie star isn't all it's cracked up to be, as Jade soon discovers in the second Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery. It may be hearts and flowers on the outside, but the inside is demanding, demoralizing, and vindictive! I found the mystery intriguing as the various crimes were so different. They had be be connected, but how? And why?

 

While I found some of the characters grating, Ruby was particularly annoying constantly calling Jade, I  like the relationship between Jade and Nick. Despite his foibles I really liked leading man Raphael Allard and found the hair and makeup people fun. Of course, when it comes to the townies, Amy remains my favorite along with Todd whose new marketing vehicle still makes me smile.

 

TWINKLE TWINKLE AU REVOIR is a lighthearted breezy mystery that combines Christmas decor and Valentine's Day dreams showing that there's no business quite like show business. 

 

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 Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir: A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery by Heather Weidner

About Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir

Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir: A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery
Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series
Setting - Virginia
Level Best Books (January 16, 2024)
Paperback: ‎ 252 pages

Love is in the air when Hollywood arrives in Mermaid Bay, and the town may never be the same. Fans will do almost anything to get a glimpse of the actors or a chance to be an extra in the Love Channel’s “My Coastal Valentine.” Crowds flock to the cozy beach town from all over and business is booming for Christmas shop owner, Jade Hicks until the body of a testy reporter is found in one of the actors rooms. And if murder isn’t bad enough, someone tries to kill the show’s star, hunky Raphael Allard. The cozy little beach town feels cursed, as the Love Channel threatens to pull out of the project. Jade and the gang, Lorelei, Peppermint Patti, Bernie, Chloe, and Neville the Devil Cat, have to solve the crimes before it ruins the town’s reputation and breaks the hearts of fans across the country.

About Heather Weidner

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.

Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime (Central Virginia, Chessie, Grand Canyon Writers, and Guppies), International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.

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