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Why Not Travel to Paris for Valentine’s Day?

Why Not Travel to Paris for Valentine’s Day?

If you are looking to cozy up with a good book this Valentine’s Day, why not join tour guide Lana Hansen for an romantic week in France? Unfortunately it will be the last trip for one passenger… Death by Baguette: A Valentine’s Day Murder in Paris is available as paperback, eBook, and in Kindle Unlimited. Buy it now on Amazon (eBook / paperback / LARGE print edition), Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Waterstones, and other fine retailers. Lana Hansen’s future is looking bright. She has money…

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Death by Flamenco Paperback Available Now!

Death by Flamenco Paperback Available Now!

Great news! The paperback and large print editions of Death by Flamenco: An Easter Murder in Seville are now available for purchase on Amazon worldwide! The eBook version releases on Amazon on December 10, 2021, and the paperback edition will be for sale on other retailers soon after. Death by Flamenco: An Easter Murder in Seville (Book Seven of the Travel Can Be Murder Mystery Series) Seville—the home of tapas, flamenco, and … murder? Tour guide Lana Hansen is finally…

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Christmas cozy mystery for travel lovers!

Christmas cozy mystery for travel lovers!

Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she sleuths out a killer during a Christmas-themed trip to Rome in Death by Fountain, book five in the Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series. Treat yourself or a loved one to an armchair vacation and order a copy now! Available as paperback, eBook, large print edition, and in Kindle Unlimited.

Normandy Coast and WWII

Normandy Coast and WWII

This summer, my family spent a wonderful ten days traveling around the Normandy coast of France. It was only intended to be a vacation, but I came back inspired to write two new stories set in this lovely location! Look for a Travel Can Be Murder cozy mystery set here sometime next year! The second novel will remain a mystery for a while longer 🙂 Here is a brief look at this fascinating region on the west coast of France….

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Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mysteries Boxset

Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mysteries Boxset

I am so excited to announce that the first three eBooks in the Travel Can Be Murder series are now bundled and can be purchased at a discount! This collection includes Death on the Danube, Death by Baguette, and Death by Windmill. It’s the perfect way to binge read the weekend away 🙂 You can buy it as eBook on Amazon worldwide. CLICK HERE to order it now!

Rome: Location Research for Travel Can Be Murder

Rome: Location Research for Travel Can Be Murder

Here in the Alderson household, we are still recovering from a week’s vacation to Rome. It sounds quite jetsettery, but it’s only a two-hour flight from Amsterdam! It was to celebrate my husband’s birthday and conduct a little location research for Book 5 in the Travel Can Be Murder cozy mystery series – Death by Fountain: A Christmas Murder in Rome. Luckily, we left Rome two days before the corona virus reared its ugly head there, as well. A trip…

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New Release: Death by Bagpipes

New Release: Death by Bagpipes

Follow the further adventures of tour guide Lana Hansen in Death by Bagpipes: A Summer Murder in Edinburgh! When a trip to Scotland ends in tragedy, travel guide Lana Hansen must sleuth out who murdered her guest before she ends up paying the piper. Lana hasn’t seen her ex-husband Ron since their divorce was finalized six months earlier. So when they bump into each on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, she is not exactly jumping for joy. To make matters…

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New Release: Death by Windmill

New Release: Death by Windmill

Welcome to the world, Death By Windmill: A Mother’s Murder in Amsterdam – Book Three of the Travel Can Be Murder Mystery Series! Wanderlust Tours guide Lana Hansen and her mother, Gillian, haven’t seen eye to eye in over a decade, ever since Lana was wrongly fired from her job as an investigative reporter. So when Lana’s boss invites Gillian to join her upcoming Mother’s Day tour to the Netherlands, Lana is less than pleased. What could be worse than…

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Road trip through Bavaria

Road trip through Bavaria

Last week my family and I headed out to Munich, Germany by car. We are glad we did drive because an unexpected heatwave had us heading to the forested Bavarian hills sooner than planned! Because this was our first major road trip since our son’s birth, we split it up into half-day drives with plenty of time to stop and stretch our legs. I am so glad we did, otherwise we wouldn’t have discovered Nassau or Heidelberg! Our first stop…

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Marked for Revenge: Settings of my Art Heist Thriller

Marked for Revenge: Settings of my Art Heist Thriller

My latest novel, Marked for Revenge, is an art heist thriller about the theft of forty paintings from modern art museums spread across the Netherlands. It is also the third novel in this series featuring art history student and reluctant amateur sleuth, Zelda Richardson. In this book, one of the museum’s Zelda Richardson is working for is robbed at the beginning of the novel and soon our heroine finds herself entangled with the robbers, mob, and police. To save herself…

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