I’m swearing off men.
Forever.
You would too if you’d found your hair stylist husband in flagrante dilecto with one of his hair models. In our own bed! So I’m divorcing the lowlife and attempting to boost my spirits by touring Cornwall with a lovable group of Iowa seniors who absolutely adore me. The tour stuff is handled by Emily Miceli, who was married to me for a brief time when we were both struggling actors in the Big Apple. I say “brief” because we parted ways when I ran off with another man, leaving Emily high and dry. My bad. But I think she’s forgiven me. We’ve become BFFs since I underwent gender reassignment surgery, transforming myself from Jack Potter to Jackie Thum, which is my married name, but not for much longer!
Being female is so much more rewarding than being a guy. It’s perfectly normal for me to chat with complete strangers about hormone replacement therapies and mammograms while we’re waiting in those endlessly long lines to use the ladies room. And I get to wear makeup, and stiletto heels, and sexy wigs that help disguise my identity when I’m helping Emily with her sleuthing. I’m good at tailing murder suspects. And I’m quite sure no one suspects that the six-foot transsexual skulking behind them in a wig and stiletto heels is me.
I rock disguises.
We’re being joined on our Cornish tour by several bloggers who are going to live-blog our daily adventures to their thousands of internet followers. Emily thought this was a great way to advertise her travel agency tour services, so she offered them discounted fares in exchange for their free commentaries. Only problem is, two of the female bloggers – the Jane Austen aficionados – are mixing with each other as well as oil mixes with water, and the chef at our inn, a shaven-headed hulk from New Jersey, seems to enjoy terrorizing the guests rather than cooking for them. Thank goodness for the mediating efforts of our genealogist blogger. She’s looking into our collective ancestries, and do you know what she found out about my forebears? They were famous bakers. So famous, that they became the premiere confectioners in the court of Henry VIII.
My ancestors catered to the culinary whims of British kings!
So here’s the thing. After my divorce goes through, I’m going to need permanent employment, and I’d love to find a job where I can travel to exotic locales, have all my expenses paid, hang out with the group, smooth the occasional ruffled feather, and schmooze with the tour director. A powder puff job that’s stress-free and pays lots of money. You know. A job like Emily’s. She says she’s going to have to check with her husband before she can offer me a position, but as luck would have it, she’s hiring me on a probationary basis because she thinks her grandmother needs help.
In the kitchen.
The kitchen of the historic inn where we’re staying.
Did I mention that the anti-social chef is no longer with us? Yup. He suffered an unfortunate accident that has left us chef-less. (Emily says accident, but I say murder. It’s always murder, which means, I’d better shake out my sleuthing wig.) So Mrs. S. volunteered for KP and Emily thinks that my latent culinary genes qualify me to assist her. Considering everything else that’s going on at the inn, Mrs. S. and I need to cook up a storm to help the guests cope with our sudden change in status from a luxury inn to a self-catering facility, with the inexplicable thievery, with the disappearance of one of our Iowa regulars, and with the tragic incident in the spa.
And I’ve just noticed that my sleuthing wig has gone missing.
But I remember unpacking it.
Hmm. I wonder what’s up with that?
You can read more about Jackie in Say No Moor, the 11th book in the “Passport to Peril” mystery series.
Tour escort Emily Andrew-Miceli’s plan to boost her business with social media threatens to backfire in merry old England
Hoping to reach an expanded clientele of senior travelers, Emily Andrew-Miceli invites a handful of bloggers to join her group’s tour of England’s Cornwall region. But when the quarrelsome host of a historic inn dies under suspicious circumstances, Emily worries that the bloggers’ online reviews will torpedo her travel agency.
To make matters worse, Emily is roped into running the inn, and not even a team effort from her friends can prevent impending disaster. As one guest goes missing and another turns up dead, Emily discovers that well-kept secrets can provide more than enough motive for murder.
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Giveaway: Leave a comment below for your chance to win a print copy of Say No Moor. U.S. entries only, please. The giveaway ends January 13, 2018. Good luck everyone!
About the author
Maddy Hunter is author of the nationally bestselling humorous Passport to Peril Mystery series featuring tour escort Emily Andrew Miceli and her band of globetrotting seniors. Say No Moor is book eleven in the series. Book twelve, Catch Me If Yukon, is scheduled to be released in December of 2018. Maddy lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and a head full of Iowa seniors who keep asking, “Are we there yet?”
Reach out to Maddy on Facebook at @AuthorMaddyHunter.
All comments are welcomed.
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Thanks for the chance
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Where has this series been? Not on my radar that’s for sure…Must look for #1 in the series.
It tends to fly under everyone’s radar, Gram!
This is one of my favorite series of all time! Ms. Hunter is hilarious and the books always make me smIle on bad days. Plus you get to escape to an exotic local and solve a mystery.
Thank you for your kind words, Eric. I’m thrilled to be allowed the opportunity to make you smile on bad days. I guess that’s what the series is all about!
Delightful and intriguing. Thanks for this lovely feature and giveaway.
I hope you’ll be able to give the series a try one of these days, Anne. Good luck on the drawing!
Thanks for your kind words, Anne.
I love the books that I have read in this series. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you, Doward. I hope you’ll have a chance to read all the books in the series one day!
This sounds like a sleuthing hoot! What fun.
A sleuthing hoot. I love that!
Love this series!
Thank you, Catherine. This is truly music to any author’s ears. Especially mine!
i have bought all her books.there should be more like these books.
Aww. Thanks, Catherine. I so appreciate that.
Oops! Sorry about that, Marilyn. I’m trying to reply to everyone and confusing my fingers! Thank you for being such a loyal fan. I’m sending hugs!
Say No Moor sounds like a good change of pace — thanks for the day in the life and the giveaway!
It *is* a change of pace, Celia. Go ahead. Give it a try! 🙂
I lost track of this series a while ago and I’m so glad to be reminded of it! Thanks for the chance to win.
Time to get reacquainted, Autumn. I’ve really enjoyed writing these last few books. The characters seem to have taken over and they’re running the asylum. I’m simply documenting their antics!
this is a great series and im really looking forward to this newest installment…fun fun!!
I hope you’ll enjoy it just as much as the previous titles, Johnna!
I’m not familiar with this series but it sounds like fun, and there’s the added benefit of armchair travel too. Please enter my name in the draw. Thanks
You can’t beat armchair travel, Carl. You get to skip the security line at the airport!
Sounds like an interesting book! This is a series I have missed, so I am going to look up book 1 right now and get acquainted! Thanks for a chance to win the newest book!
I hope it tickles your fancy, Barbara. Good luck on the drawing!
I love this series–the characters are so quirky and fun. Can’t wait to read this one.
It seems the characters have become a part of my family, Rochelle. I hope you feel that way too!
I’m so excited to read the latest book in the ‘Passport to Peril’ cozy mystery series! I am lucky to have a wonderful used bookstore in my town, with an owner who is well versed in many different genres and authors. She turned me onto the Passport series and I’ve been a fan since that day. Maddy Hunter is a wonderful author who can tell a tale that brings you in with mystery, humor, thoughtfulness…..and the perfect amount of adventure, too.
I’m so happy you found the series, Jeana, and that you enjoy it so much! I hope the new misadventure will tickle your funnybone as much as the others have. 🙂
I love any book that is set in England – especially Cornwall. I hope I win!!!
Good luck!
Love that Jackie is featured. She’s a great character.
I love Jackie, too, Rita. I’m so happy she appeals to you as much as she does to me!
My husband and I both love reading this series! So fun and I have to laugh when my husband is reading Maddy Hunter, he is always yelling out “Uff da”.
Can’t read to read Say No Moor! Maddy always takes us on a great journey to a foreign land. Thanks Maddy!
Your husband really yells, “Uff da,” LouAnn? What a hoot. I’m so tickled you’re both enjoying the series. Thank you so much for being such loyal fans!
New author to me. Sounds like an interesting read.
I’m intrigued by that sleuthing wig.
This sounds like a book I would enjoy reading!!!
I would love to start reading this series.
Sounds like a great read.
**** WINNER ****
Say No Moor is LouAnn Craig
Congratulations!
I’m so excited I won!!! Thank you very much 🙂