#BlogTour-‘A Bloody Stiletto,Cold Lasagna and a Bestseller’ by Cheryl Denise Bannerman

About the book…

In this second installment of The Anna Romano Mystery Series, Anna gets herself into a mess that lands her in hot water with the prime suspect and her new Bo, Detective John Solace. Their new romance was going great, when all in the sudden, a simple trip to the grocery store turned into wrestling match between two scorned women.

Peeking her interest for a juicy story, Anna’s snooping to find out more about the seemingly ‘innocent’ love triangle, catapulted her into the middle of a murder investigation. The murder weapon of choice? A red stiletto…conspicuously pointing the police in the direction of a female assailant.

No one knows whether the adulterating husband killed his wife to avoid a costly divorce, or if his mistress killed her in a fit of jealous rage. While the detectives are convinced the husband is the ‘killer’, it seems Anna’s faith in his innocence may be in vain, as additional bodies, and mistresses, keep piling up.

Meanwhile, Anna’s publicist, Shirlene, tries to convince Anna to leave the detective work to the police, but, as usual, falls on deaf ears.

In the end, not even a pan of lasagna and a neighborly smile could save Anna!

Find out in A Bloody Stiletto, Cold Lasagna, and a Bestseller if Detective Solace will be able to handle Anna’s crazy antics, or if he will make her vow to stay OUT of the realm of ‘Murder and Mayhem’ once and for all.

Detective John Solace (well named because he literally never gets any!) certainly has his hands full with Anna Romano! When she is not getting involved in his current investigations, she is being accused of murder after being at the scene of not one, but two crimes…

Using a pseudonym, she is the local agony aunt, or self-described ‘author cat-lady’ and regularly writes columns in her local paper.

Her tentative and new-ish relationship with John is so sweet-it’s time for him to move on from his first wife, Martha, but he still feels a little guilt but also, Anna Romano is a force of nature and he is still a little unsteady on his feet.

It’s a little thrill but I really enjoyed going through the story and saying ‘There’s the stiletto!’ There’s the lasagna!’ and as for the bestseller? Read the book and find out !!

‘A Bloody stiletto…’ gave me big Jessica Fletcher vibes-she is a huge hearted and well meaning writer who cannot help but get involved when she sees things which don’t add up. Unfortunately, in this case, they end up with 2 dead bodies in quick succession!

The only little niggle I had, and it’s tiny, is that the narration swaps back and forth quite quickly and there are no names at the top of the chapters so that it takes a paragraph or two to realise whose perspective you are reading.

That’s just me as a reader though, the story is engaging and easy to follow and I absolutely would love to read more by Cheryl!
Huge thanks to Cheyl and Emma for having me on the blog tour !!

About the author…

Writing under pen name, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Ms. Powell is an author of two self-published books, and an owner of a 22-year-old Training and Development company, specializing in eLearning, called Learn2Engage.

In her personal life and relationships, Ms. Powell has learned how to turn tragedies into triumphs through her strong will, faith, tenacity and most importantly, her quirky sense of humor. She now turns that keen knowledge of relationships and people, along with her various degrees and experience in Training and Development, into fun, engaging online courses for ‘Corporate America’, and, of course, in her works of fiction.

Within each of her works of fiction, a topic of social concern is addressed. From addictions to domestic violence, and suicide to molestation.

Her writings inspire people to live, laugh, love, learn and grow. She believes that when the world laughs at you, laugh harder. In Ms. Powell’s real and fictional world, she has learned how to create her own ‘happy ending’…one day at a time..

Links-https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bloody-Stiletto-Lasagna-Bestseller-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07P9DBRGB/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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