Blog Tour With Gini Miller by Mary McHugh

Feb 25, 2015 | A Day In My Life

Flamenco Flan and FatalitiesI’m Gini Miller, narrator of the second book in the Happy Hoofers series by Mary McHugh called “Flamenco, Flan and Fatalities.” It takes place on a luxury train traveling across northern Spain from Santiago de Compostela to San Sebastian.

My four friends and I are hired to tap dance on the train and we’re having a great time until a famous, loud-mouth talk show host is murdered on our first day. If you read the first book in this series called “Chorus Lines, Caviar and Corpses,” you’ll remember my four dancing friends: Tina Powell, a travel editor for a bridal magazine and our fearless leader who gets us jobs on cruise ships, luxury trains and resorts; Janice Rogers, an actress and director who falls in and out of love regularly; Pat Keeler, a family therapist and our mother hen, Mary Louise Temple, a housewife, and me, a documentary film maker.

As in all these Happy Hoofer cozy mysteries, there are recipes, a dog, a language lesson, romance, suspense, and visits to lovely places in northern Spain like the little seaside town of Luarca where all the houses are white.

Best of all, you’ll dance the flamenco with us, learn some dance steps, enjoy a cooking lesson with a wise-cracking chef, share my photography tips, visit a pre-Romanesque monument and a cave in Covadonga.

Laugh along with me as my four dancing friends and I solve another couple of murders and marvel at the beauties of northern Spain.

You can read more about Gini in Flamenco, Flan and Fatalities, the second book in the “Happy Hoofers” mystery series, published by Kensington. The first book in the series is Chorus Lines, Caviar and Corpses.

This is the 7th stop on the Flamenco, Flan, and Fatalities Great Escapes Tour. Click HERE to enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway for the chance to win one of five print copies of Flamenco, Flan, and Fatalities. More stops on the tour can be found here.

About the author
Mary McHugh has published 22 books on subjects ranging from feminism to Crotchety Old Men. At present she is writing MaryMa series of murder mysteries for Kensington Books.

She worked for The New York Times for their special sections, and her article, “Telling Jack” in the Sunday Times magazine was nominated for an award for best personal essay by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her book, Special Siblings: Growing Up with Someone with a Disability, was awarded a prize for Special Recognition of a National Project by The Arc of New Jersey.

She worked as an articles editor at three national magazines and was a contributing editor for Cosmopolitan magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle and senior women.com.

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22 Comments

  1. Dotty Kelley
    Dotty Kelley on February 25, 2015 at 4:15 am

    Sounds like a fun read.

  2. Jen
    Jen on February 25, 2015 at 4:27 am

    With a cozy mystery series named Happy Hoofer, what could go wrong? Flamenco, Flan and Fatalities sounds like a great book. I am looking forward to reading it.

  3. Jen
    Jen on February 25, 2015 at 4:28 am

    I forgot to my email: myrifraf(at)gmail(dot)com

  4. Dawn Frazier
    Dawn Frazier on February 25, 2015 at 5:54 am

    Sounds great!!

  5. Beverly Guy
    Beverly Guy on February 25, 2015 at 6:18 am

    This looks like a super duper awesome book…love how the cute doggie on the cover is just looking at me as if to say….you gotta read this awesome book….love the name Happy Hoofer. So anxious to read this book!

  6. Gram
    Gram on February 25, 2015 at 7:22 am

    Great sounding fun books.

  7. mary robinson
    mary robinson on February 25, 2015 at 8:12 am

    Would love to win this one! Thanks . Dru.

  8. Debbie S
    Debbie S on February 25, 2015 at 9:06 am

    These definately sounds like a fun read, thanks for the chance to win.

  9. Amy M, Reade
    Amy M, Reade on February 25, 2015 at 9:55 am

    It sounds like there’s so much packed into this book–fabulous! Dancing, cooking, traveling, and murder…that’s my kind of trip!

  10. Rita M Quante
    Rita M Quante on February 25, 2015 at 10:35 am

    Another new author I’m looking forward to reading! Am looking forward to a good series!

  11. Robin Coxon
    Robin Coxon on February 25, 2015 at 11:23 am

    Thanks so much for the great interview/review. Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of this book.

  12. Patricia
    Patricia on February 25, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Thanks, Dru and Gini/Mary. I love that the ladies, in this series, are 50+ and enjoying life to the fullest.

  13. Libby Dodd
    Libby Dodd on February 25, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    What a clever premise.
    Wish rafflecopter weren’t so twitter centric!

  14. Rita Wray
    Rita Wray on February 25, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Sounds like a great read.

  15. griperang
    griperang on February 25, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    Thank you for sharing, this sounds like a great addition to a fun series

  16. Sandy Hemsher
    Sandy Hemsher on February 25, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    I have added to my Must Read list!!!!!

  17. suekey12
    suekey12 on February 25, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    I like the ages of these hoofers—they’re just like me.

  18. Wendy Lee
    Wendy Lee on February 25, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    Sounds really good! another must read series!

  19. holdenj
    holdenj on February 25, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    Nice to meet Gini and hear about the Hoofers–would love to win and read this! Thanks for the chance to win!

  20. Anita Miles
    Anita Miles on February 25, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    Can’t wait to read

  21. sallycootie
    sallycootie on February 26, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    These women are a hoot! Thanks for the giveaway.

  22. Stacie Amelotte
    Stacie Amelotte on March 1, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    This series sounds like a lot of fun. I have the first one, need to bump it up on my tbr list. Fingers crossed for the giveaway!