Sunshine Meadows aka Sunny’s Library List
The Power of Being Different by John Paul Carinci (I’ve finally embraced who and what I am. Hopefully the town of Divinity will as well.)
Country Towns of NY: Charming small towns and villages by Mike Tougrias (I just love the small, quaint town of Divinity in upstate NY)
America’s Painted Ladies: the Ultimate Celebration of our Victorians by Elizabeth Pomada, Michael Larson, Douglas Keister (The ancient Victorian I bought is simply adorable. I named her Vicky.)
Haunted Houses by Corinne May Botz (People say Vicky is haunted, but I think it’s the cat I found living within who is doing the haunting.)
Don’t tell the Cat…how to take care of your cat without turning him into a tiger! by Grazia Valci (Morty, short for immortal, is quite the character. A big white mysterious cat with more attitude than should be legal. What am I going to do with him?)
Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers by Lee Lofland (I’ve got to learn how to investigate somehow, because Detective Grumpy Pants sure isn’t showing me how.)
Alpha Male Syndrome by Kate Ludeman & Eddie Erlandson (Maybe if I understood Mitch a bit more, I’d be able to work with him better. Yeah, I know. I’m not holding my breath.)
Love Smart: Find the one you want–fix the one you got by Dr. Phil McGraw (If only it were that easy, Dr. Phil. You’d understand if you’d ever met Mitch.)
How to Deal with Parents Who are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Plain Crazy by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins (Trust me, people, I’ve tried. There is NO dealing with Vivian and Donald Meadows.)
As far as fiction….I’ll read pretty much anything by Kari Lee Townsend. I hear she’s fabulous.
Kari Lee Townsend’s Library List
Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers by Lee Lofland (Like Sunny, I too have to know how to investigate. And no one does it better than Lee.)
Tea Leaf Reading for Beginners by Caroline Dow (This was a great source of research for me, as well as sites online for learning how to read someone’s tea leaves.)
How to Write a Damn Good Mystery by James F. Frey (Frey does a great job on teaching authors how to plot and write a mystery that works.)
Elements of Style by Strunk & White (I have a masters in English and yet I couldn’t live without this handy dandy resource.)
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series (She is the person who first turned me on to mysteries. She is so funny and her characters are a hoot. I want to be her when I grow up.)
Donna Andrews’ Meg Langslow Series (She is another funny cozy mystery author. Love her wacky characters.)
Annette Blair’s Vintage Magic Mysteries (Love anything written by Annette. Great characters, hilarious humor, and light paranormal….it doesn’t get any better than that!)
Peggy Webb’s Southern Cousin’s Mysteries featuring Elvis the dog (Peggy is a hoot and anything she writes is just as funny as she is. Love her books!)
Tamar Myers Den of Antiquity Mysteries (Her books are funny and interesting. Real page turners.)
Liz Lipperman’s Clueless Cook Mysteries (Liz is hilarious and her characters are ones you won’t want to leave. There are so many others I love as well, but atlas, my own books are calling for me to finish them. Enjoy and happy reading.)
Title: Tempest in the Tea Leaves
Author: Kari Lee Townsend
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: August 2, 2011
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN: 978-0425242759
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
Book synopsis from the author:
TEMPEST IN THE TEA LEAVES: A Fortune Teller Mystery
In the fortune telling business there are a lot of pretenders, but Sunshine Meadows is the real deal–and her predictions can be lethally accurate…
Sunny is a big city psychic who moves to the quaint town of Divinity, NY to open her fortune-telling business in an ancient Victorian house, inheriting the strange cat residing within. Sunny gives her first reading to the frazzled librarian and discovers the woman is going to die. When the woman flees in terror, Sunny calls the police, only she’s too late. The ruggedly handsome, hard-nosed detective is a ”non-believer.” He finds the librarian dead, and Sunny becomes his number one suspect, forcing her to prove her innocence before the real killer can put an end to the psychic’s future.
Kari Lee Townsend lives in Central New York with her very understanding husband, her three busy boys, and her oh-so-dramatic daughter, who keep her grounded and make everything she does worthwhile…not to mention provide her with loads of material for her books. Kari is a longtime lover of reading and writing, with a masters in English education, who spends her days trying to figure out whodunit. Funny how no one at home will confess any more than the characters in her mysteries!
Kari writes fun and exciting stories for any age, set in small towns, with mystical elements and quirky characters. You can find out more about her on her website: www.karileetownsend.com and also on the group mystery blog she cohosts, called Mysteries and Margaritas, at www.mysteriesandmargaritasblogspot.com
