Let Loose by Rae Davies ( A Dusty Deals Mystery ) Review & Book Giveaway

Let Loose

by Rae Davies

Let Loose:
Dusty Deals Mystery Series: Book 4
Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Lead Dog Books (March 3, 2014)
File Size: 826 KB
Print Length: 215 pages
ASIN: B00IROM6BC
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Synopsis

No good deed goes unpunished. The rule has kept Lucy Mathews out of trouble for most of her 29 years. That is until her part-time partner decides Lucy’s image needs a little polishing and shoves her in front of every do-good bandwagon she can find.

Luckily for Lucy, her dream charity runs right up to her doorstep in the form of a sexy Canadian musher who’s in town to help organize the local sled dog race.

Not so luckily for Lucy, sexy Canadians and detective boyfriends do not a happy mixture make.

One dead race organizer, a group of rambunctious octogenarians, and a team of sled dogs in need of a home later and Lucy is confident this punishment is more than anyone, much less one lone antique store owner, can handle.

Other books in the Dusty Deals Mystery Series…

Loose Screw
Cut Loose
Loosey Goosey
Loose & Lethal: Dusty Deals Mystery Series Box Set: Books 1 -3


Coming Soon….

Love on the Loose (A Dusty Deals Mystery Series novella)

About This Author

Rae Davies is the pen name of author Lori Devoti.

Lori Devoti worked for three different newspapers in two different states before deciding to stay home with her children and begin writing fiction. Lori has been a finalist for many awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award and is a member of Novelists Inc., a prestigious group for professional writers. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and children as well as two dogs.

Like Lucy, Rae/Lori loves antiques, Montana and malamutes.

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My Review: Let Loose by Rae Davies

4 STARS

I enjoyed reading Let Loose my first book in the Dusty Deals Mystery Series, but not the last. It is a cozy mystery with lots of crazy characters that make you laugh. It also makes you glad that you don't have 8 big dogs in your house.

Lucy Mathews is the main character. She is single with a cop boyfriend. She owns her own Antique store. Her partner and employee keep getting her involved in community service. She is curious and wants to solve the mystery. Kiska is her Alaskan malamute.

Detective Peter Blake is Lucy's boyfriend but he has been too busy lately with work to see her. He is a good cop who actually does not let police information out like most cop characters.

Lucy finds a bunch of loose sled dogs out front running loose. She had met a man just recently that was staying up at a camp ground with his dogs. So Lucy went there to see if they were his dogs. She found a dead body their. Lucy can't help trying to find out more about the murder. She has also been chosen to keep the dogs as they were part of the crime and she had big yard that was fenced.

There are a lot of characters that have history together. I feel I missed out on little things but nothing that will stop anyone from enjoying this book, If your like me and this is your first Dusty Deals Mystery.

Some of the humor comes from all the senior citizens and the trouble they find. Also from all the dogs running around and getting into things.

The setting is small town in Montana. Where they are setting up a race with sled dogs that will run right in front of Lucy's house in the country.

The pacing of the story is good. It keeps your attention in it.

The romance of the book is slow. Mystery of who the murder is good and keeps you guessing.

I was given this ebook to read and in return agreed to give honest review of it.

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The Heir of the Castle by Scarlet Wilson

Description

The surprise inheritance: a castle!

When the closest person tycoon Callan McGregor has to a father dies, it's down to him to organize the inheritance of Annick Castle. And the most suitable candidate seems to be stunning lawyer Laurie Jenkins.

Even though she makes the usually brooding Callan's pulse race, this is business—he cannot afford a distraction. But she's a bubbly breath of fresh air who shakes the castle and Callan to its foundations. This time, he's not going to walk away—from either his home or from Laurie….

Product Details

Series: Harlequin Romance (Book 4425)

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Harlequin (May 6, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373742908

My Review:The Heir of the Castle by Scarlet Wilson

4 STARS

How much fun Laurie Jenkins enjoying being at Annick Castle. She loved the big staircases and gazebo. Just enjoyed staying in the castle and meeting some relatives. She also is very attracted to Callan McGregor.

Callan is surprised to find out that the man who was closer to him than anyone had six children he never heard of. Now that he died he is leaving the Castle to one of his heirs. The one who solves a murder mystery game that takes place at the castle. He resents that one of the twelve people will own his home for most of his life.

This story is romantic, charming, fun and mysterious. I smiled a lot reading this and dreaming of the history of the place.

The setting is Scotland in a historic castle. It has a pond, maze, gazebo like from the sound of Music. It is a Mystery Murder weekend with the winner who solves the mystery will be the new heir of the castle.

Laurie wants to meet her family that she has no idea of. She is disappointed in a bunch of them. She wants to know the history of the place and what her grandfather was like.

I would read more books from Scarlet based on this story alone.

I was given this ebook for purpose of reviewing it and giving my own honest opinion about it.

Bodyguard Reunion by Margaret Daley

Description

REUNIONS CAN BE DEADLY

Teaming up with an old flame is not what bodyguard Chloe Howard would call a smart move. Nine years ago Chloe and T. J. Davenport worked on a case together, fell in love, then went their separate ways. Now she's reunited with the fearless bodyguard to protect a controversial couple on a book tour through Texas. And the reunion reminds Chloe of dreams best forgotten. She knows she has to keep her emotions in check so their clients' protection remains their top priority. Protection that is the only thing keeping them from falling prey to a stalker's deadly schemes.
Series: Love Inspired Suspense\Guardians, Inc.

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Love Inspired (May 6, 2014)

ISBN-10: 0373445954

My Review:Bodyguard Reunion by Margaret Daley

4 STARS

I have enjoyed this series about female bodyguards. Someday I would love to read the ones I have missed. This looks to be the last of this series. It was good. Full of action, drama, faith and clean romance too.

The plot when Chloe went to meet the woman she is to guard she gets a surprise. The male bodyguard that she is to work with is an old boyfriend of 9 years ago. He went to be a bodyguard for Vice President. Now he has left the Secret Service and is back in Texas.
They are going to be bodyguards to a couple on a book tour. Someone has sent threats, and smoke bombs.

Chloe Howard used to be a detective now she works for Guardians, Inc. A female bodyguards. She has a strong faith. She is wanting something more now.

T.J. Davenport worked for the Secret Service when he worked with Chloe before. They dated and were getting serious when he got a chance to transfer to Washington D.C. and be guarding the Vice President. Now he has a hard time trusting and has left. He wants more too now than the job.

It was a enjoyable book with some nice twists I was not expecting. Some I did guess but not all of them. A lot about faith and prayer. Some good humor too.

The setting is Texas modern times. The pace was good, every time it looked to calm down something else would happen.
It is a quick read.

I was given this ebook to read for purpose of giving an honest review by Netgalley & Harlequin.

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Scents and Senses: Supernatural Friends. What the fairy tales didn’t tell you




Playing the role of a knight in shining armor is more complicated than it seems in the storybooks, as sixteen-year-old Joy discovers when she repeatedly comes to the rescue of a fifteen-year-old human. But when she meddles in the girl’s social life, Starra sends her packing.




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Joy




Ever since I’ve been old enough to kick off on a condor with my own two chicken feet, I’ve been drilled to mind my own business.




Mind your own business, the first of the American Ten Commandments.




It’s not one I subscribe to, even though in our community, not minding my own business means more than social suicide; it’s a crime when we ascend above ground.




For thousands of years we deeems have kept away from the creatures running over our heads with their five-toed feet. So if anyone in my community gets wind of the risky job I’m on these days, I’m practically a goner. But that doesn’t stop me from shadowing a certain teenage fivetoe.




There’s also a totally different occupational hazard involved in this position I’ve created for myself, one I’m suffering from right now: this job occasionally makes school seem relatively stimulating. Yawn. I’ve played too many Angry Condor games to count since Starra got involved in some fantasy book a couple of hours ago and lost contact with the real world. Even if I knew how to become visible to the fivetoe eye and suddenly revealed myself, I bet she wouldn’t notice me, the cute teen perched on her windowsill.




Time simply refuses to advance, and I have to resort to counting the spider eggs cocooned in their nest on a nearby tree branch. A sudden sigh interrupts my lame occupation. There’s a starry look in the big eyes, and I notice the novel is slipping out of Starra’s dreamy grip. This is my window of opportunity! I finger the starchy edge of the book jacket and coax the book forward.




Thud. The book falls to the floor, and the movement seems to bring Starra back to her senses. At last she grabs a hoodie and sets out, probably for one of her night excursions on the Vista Del Mar Path. Are we running or biking tonight?




Running it is. I jog behind her, finding the excursion by the shoreline an improvement to watching her read. At least we are moving.




She runs for half an hour, at a speed faster than the sea turtle pace usual for fivetoes. Then she slows to a stop at a jagged rock, half-submerged in the ocean. I groan quietly and contemplate leaving. From experience, I know she’ll climb to the top of her rock and dream away. I start backing off, but when I’m some fifty feet away, I look back. Starra makes a pretty picture there, her silhouette perched high on the rock. Her long legs are tucked under her, and her head hangs back as she keeps her gaze on the stars above. If only she would let loose the heavy dark mane of hair she always twists up at the back of her neck, she would truly look like a mermaid risen from the sea.




Something pulls me back to her. I can’t explain it, but I have a feeling trouble is lurking nearby, waiting to snatch her in its net.




My chicken feet make an about face and follow Starra home as she takes the shorter route through town.

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Loren Secretts was raised in a book-filled home, in a sleepy east coast suburb of the US. These factors are undoubtedly responsible for her early design of a number of exciting imaginary worlds that she could escape to from time to time during her childhood.

In her teen years, between schoolwork and lending an ear to her friends, Loren had less opportunity to go AWOL. Instead, her experience as a confidant to others inspired her to major in psychology in college and earn her M.A. in the field on the west coast.

As an adult, Loren has found fulfillment in her work with children and families for more than a decade. Her passion for writing was revived when she discovered that she enjoyed delving into the human psyche to write psychological reports.

But clients' reports are safe with Loren, who guards secrets fastidiously. Indeed, one of her aspirations is to work as a psychotherapist for the CIA, but since she now lives with her family in Canada, that dream will have to await its turn…

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Scents and Senses by by Loren Secretts (Scents and Senses, #1) $25 Amazon or Paypal Giveaway

Scents and Senses: Supernatural Friends. What the fairy tales didn’t tell you

Playing the role of a knight in shining armor is more complicated than it seems in the storybooks, as sixteen-year-old Joy discovers when she repeatedly comes to the rescue of a fifteen-year-old human. But when she meddles in the girl’s social life, Starra sends her packing.

Starra is determined to completely dissociate herself from the subterranean creature that has manipulated her life and cast her into the limelight. However, her resolve is soon tested when she becomes involved in a critical situation where supernatural assistance can enable her to carry out a daring plot.

Eventually, Starra’s involvement with her new other-wordly friends extracts a heavy price when she is beset by challenges that range from the down- to-earth struggles of a typical teenage student, to the realm of the fantastic. Nothing prepares her, however, for the ultimate challenge.
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Publisher: Astraea Press (April 14, 2014)


Author Loren Secretts

Loren Secretts was raised in a book-filled home, in a sleepy east coast suburb of the US. These factors are undoubtedly responsible for her early design of a number of exciting imaginary worlds that she could escape to from time to time during her childhood.
In her teen years, between schoolwork and lending an ear to her friends, Loren had less opportunity to go AWOL. Instead, her experience as a confidant to others inspired her to major in psychology in college and earn her M.A. in the field on the west coast.
As an adult, Loren has found fulfillment in her work with children and families for more than a decade. Her passion for writing was revived when she discovered that she enjoyed delving into the human psyche to write psychological reports.
But clients’ reports are safe with Loren, who guards secrets fastidiously. Indeed, one of her aspirations is to work as a psychotherapist for the CIA, but since she now lives with her family in Canada, that dream will have to await its turn…


My Review:Scents and Senses by by Loren Secretts

4 STARS

I loved the first part of the book. The second part of the book was almost like a new story. Where it had a very slow build up again, introduced a whole new bunch of characters and countries. Then again came back with a strong finish. Personally I think it would have worked better for two books. It was written to have two more stories to come.

It is part fantasy and part everyday life off of the California coast on a island. The fantasy part has a underground people called Deems. We mortals can't see them, but hear them we can. They really are not supposed to mix with humans. Some do and you have demeans. Who at 21 years of age have to decide which people they want to live with.

The Deems are a shorter race with good and bad in them. Joy is a deem. She is worried about her sister Radiance who is a Deeman. She wants to give her one good human friend. So Joy has been shadowing Starra to see if she can be such a friend. Now you are not supposed to introduce yourself to a fivetoe being. Or getting involved with them.

Joy saves Starra not once but twice. She also gets her a lot of attention that Starra does not want. She wants Starra to be popular.
Joy loves her adoptive sister. She wants the best for her.

Radiance is visible to fivetoes. She is not allowed to live among the fivetoes till she is twenty-one has to choose. She would be super smart and a athlete in fivetoe world. She is weaker to Deems. She gets teased a lot too.

Starra is a teenager. She is the only child. Starra has two cousins that she is close too. She also has a good sense of smell. Every time Joy is around her she smells Vanilla. Her mother is French and owns a dress shop. Her father is a science dr. Starra is no athlete.

Dew is Starra cousin and good friend. They walk to school together and hangout too.

Brook is a senior. He finds out a lot of secrets about Starra, Joy, Radiance and Tag

Their island life gets evil and the friends get together and come up with a plan to rescue it. It is full of drama, humor, action as they come together. No one besides their group knows about what they plan.

The next part of the book Starra starts off in France. Her next two years she is apart from all of her family and friends except for emails and phone calls once in awhile. So we get to find out why she is in exile and get to meet whole lot of new characters. That we build up to knowing slowly. Real slowly. As new and old friends help each other again.

I am willing to read the next book in the series. See what happens next. I wonder who the next book will be about.

I was given this ebook to read so that I can give honest review about it.

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Fields of Elysium Tour and Special Giveaway

Day 3: Annabella

Annabella Volta is an Arkanian, a shy and nice girl, the only daughter of a furrier family. She likes to paint her jeans and - just like Molly - she also plays the guitar. Her secret? She is in love with Weston.   

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Fields of Elysium

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“What are you doing, Victor?” Weston asked, awe-struck, breaking the moment of life and death.

“You do know that we can’t let her go now,” Victor growled between his teeth.

“I’m sure she means no harm to us,” Weston countered, his voice unnaturally even, considering the situation.

“You give me no choice, Weston! I can’t let her get away, knowing what she knows about us. And it’s all your fault,” Victor thundered at me, his eye twitching again.

“I didn’t do anything. I didn’t …” I stuttered, my voice trembling with frustration.

“But you will!” Victor snarled.

“Are you mad, Victor? You must calm yourself down.” Weston laid a hand on his shoulder, but Victor shrugged it off.

“Look what you’ve done, Weston. By bringing her here, you force me to do something I didn’t want to do.”

The string of the bow tightened once again, and I gasped in horror. I needed a miracle.

And as if the heavens answered my prayer, a cheerful girl burst through the door, her face full of anticipation. Her orange-shaded red hair came down in wavy locks to her back. She wore a short plaid skirt and bright top with a boat neck hanging over her shoulders. The strap of a guitar was crossed between her breasts.

“So it is true,” she said in an angelic voice, pulling the strap over her head and setting the guitar on the floor.

“Why, have I ever lied to you?” Weston said, smiling. “I found her.”

It was strange to listen to these people talking about me like I wasn’t there. They were so kind to me earlier, at the campfire. What had I done to Victor to make him treat me so dreadfully? And all that, while Weston talked about me like I was a new species of animal he discovered?

“What’s the Terraka?” I asked, my stomach in a knot.

“Terrakas are exactly what you are: troublemakers from Earth. You come here and make us slaves, kill our parents, and …” Victor trailed off, his eyes boring into the space down the hallway.

“There are others here from Earth?” I asked, shocked.

“Why, you thought you were the only one who found the Sacred Passage?” Victor snapped, his eyes sparkling with irony.

The skin on my face started to burn as if tongues of fire were licking at it.

How could Victor hate me so much when he doesn’t even know me?

“I don’t know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I’m not one of them,” I whispered, on the verge of tears.

“You are. You just don’t know yet.”

“Leave her alone, Victor.” The girl stepped between us, pushing him away. His arm relaxed, but the arrow was still pointing at me.

“Don’t listen to him. He’s just bitter because he suffered a lot in the past. I’m Annabella, by the way, but just call me Ann.”

“Molly.” I breathed and showed her a faint smile of appreciation for helping me.

“This is amazing,” Ann gushed, fidgeting in front of me excitedly. “How old are you? Who are your parents? …” she bombarded me with questions, but my ears tuned her out. I glanced at Victor over her shoulders. The bow was parallel with his legs now as he paced up and down in front of Weston’s room, squeezing the back of his neck. He had a strange haircut. In the middle of the back of his head his dark blond hair was divided in half. The top part was longer and pulled back into a braid held by a leather strip, while the bottom was shaved to almost nothing. It was so unique and quite masculine.

Lean muscles bulged on his arms as he carried his bow around, obviously struggling with himself. Then suddenly he stopped, pulled the bow over his head and fixed its black leather string over his chest. There was a sheaf of arrows in a black quiver on his back, and I gulped just from the mere thought of why he brought them. I lowered my eyes to his straight black pants and knee-high black leather boots with silver buckles, which clinked together as he moved around. I could hardly draw a breath just by looking at him. He was the most beautiful thing I’d ever laid eyes on. Beautiful, but furious.

Then he stopped and fixed his eyes on me as if he could hear what was I thinking. I held his gaze, not because I was confident enough, but because physically I was unable to move my eyes away.

Written and illustrated by A.B. Whelan

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I'm a Hungarian born American writer, who was lucky enough to travel Europe, Africa, and The Middle East and live in Ecuador, Crete and Italy. I graduated as a computer engineer, thus if anybody tells you math and literature can't walk hand in hand, don't believe them. *smile*




I'm the author of the Fields of Elysium saga, which I like to call a young adult romantic fantasy. The first book of the series was inspired by amazing movies like Dirty Dancing, Avatar, and Twilight and earned praise from prestigious review companies and readers. I'm currently working on book three and four, and planning to write one more novella to finish the series, dedicated to another very interesting character in my story, The Prophet, the mysterious leader of the Arkanians.







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