Ever since she was a child, Cami has loved the sparkling beauty of snow globes, and now, she sells them. In fact, they’re so popular, Cami and her friend—coffee shop owner Alice “Pinky” Nelson—are hosting a snow globe making class.
After the flurry of activity has ended and everyone has gone off with their own handmade snow globes, Cami spots a new globe left behind on a shelf, featuring an odd tableau—a man sleeping on a park bench.
On her way home, she drifts through the town park and is shaken to come upon the scene from the globe—a man sitting on a bench. But he isn’t sleeping—he has a knife in his back. When the police arrive, it’s clear they consider Cami a little flaky and possibly a suspect. After her friends also come under suspicion, Cami starts plowing through clues to find the cold-blooded backstabber—before someone else gets iced…
Snow globe making projects and tips included!
We’re in the season of winter and I live in
Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Frozen Lakes. Christmas 2014 is now part of our memory
banks, but I know there are people of all ages who were given a snow globe as a
gift and are this very minute picking them up, giving them a shaking, and
watching the snow settle over a wide variety of scenes.
From little on, I have been drawn to the seeming magic
of snow globes. I loved giving them as gifts for my children because they
always appreciated them. Even now, when I see one on display in a store, I can’t
resist flipping it over then back again to see how the scene looks in a snow
fall.
When the opportunity arose to write a series set in
a shop that specializes in snow globes, it was a natural fit. The catch is that
Camryn Brooks, the one running Curio Finds, never planned to do anything like that
in her lifetime. She had a successful career as a senator’s legislative affairs
director in Washington D.C., and thought she’d be working there forever.
But a scandal changed her career path and she returned
to her hometown of Brooks Landing in a hurry. For how long, she had no clue. But
it appears to be the best place for the time being. Her parents need help
running Curio Finds, and an added bonus is Cami has a large family and many friends
who love and support her, no matter what the media had to say about her.
The cast of characters who are part of a small
community in Minnesota often get pulled from their day to day activities to
deal with events that are anything but ordinary. Alice “Pinky” Nelson, Erin
Vickerman, and Mark Weston are Cami’s childhood friends who stayed in Brooks
Landing and are glad Cami came back. Pinky runs Brew Ha-Ha, a coffee shop
adjoining Curio Finds.
When Snow Way
Out opens, Jerrell Powers, a man that had wreaked havoc in Brooks Landing a
few years before has returned to town. And Erin was one of his victims. Cami
and Pinky are getting ready for a snow globe making class that evening, and
they’re also wondering what Erin will do if she runs into her nemesis. What
they have no way of knowing is the role Jerrell Powers will play in the evening’s
events or how the night will end after the class is over.
This is a snippet from the back cover, “After the
flurry of activity has ended and everyone has gone off with their handmade snow
globes, Cami spots on a shelf a new globe left behind, featuring an odd
tableau—a man sleeping on a park bench. On her way home, she drifts through the
town park and is shaken to come upon the scene from the globe—a man sitting on
a bench. But he isn’t sleeping—he has a knife in his back.”
I’d love to have you join me on this Snow Globe Shop
Mystery series adventure, I hope you make the people of Brooks Landing and
their relationships, and all the things they get involved with, a part of your
reading pleasure.
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Thanks so much for posting this, Marie!
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