Lucy Lakestone's Blog

Roz and Alden are back!

Who are Roz and Alden, you may ask? They’re the rival reporters thrown together in the delicious romcozy Scoop and Scandal. (You can read more about the origins of Scoop and Scandal here.)

Romantic comedy meets cozy mystery in the Comet Cove Mysteries, set in a small beach town in Florida that’s full of cute space-themed businesses. It’s also become a draw for celebrities, making it a fantastic place for our journalists to find juicy stories.

They’re back on the...

I love romantic comedies and mysteries, and I really love it when they get together. Think Castle or Moonlighting on TV. But some mystery readers really do not like their chocolate in their peanut butter. (Remember those Reese’s ads? I just went to look at a couple, and I don’t think I realized as a kid how hysterically weird they are.)

Now, cozy mystery readers might like a dab of romance in their whodunit as long as it doesn’t get in the...

I’m one of twelve authors in a Cozy Mystery Book Club this year (as you know if you subscribe to my newsletter, which always highlights giveaways). It’s a great perk for readers who sign up for the book club, because they get an exclusive free ebook every month, a book they can’t get free anywhere else. And this month, it’s my book!

Wrecked by Rum has never been free before and probably never will be again, but it’s free in March only if you sign up for the club. You’ll keep getting books thr...

At long last, Smoked by Scotch is here! It’s the eighth novel in the Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries (how can there be eight already?), and it brings mixologist Pepper Revelle and her friends to Scotland to face stars, stalkers and suspects. It’s full of giggles and twists (in fact, if you like surprises, you might want to avoid reading reviews, because a couple already have spoilers). It’s also packed with beautiful real locations, particularly in Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

I love all the m...

After total immersion into soooo much research, poring over my photos and video from Scotland, and months of writing, I’m happy to report that SMOKED BY SCOTCH is almost here! This new Bohemia Bartenders Mystery brings Pepper Revelle and her mixologist friends to Scotland to solve a mystery surrounding creepy letters plaguing her favorite Scottish actor, who also happens to be the front man for their client, an iconoclastic scotch distiller. The story starts in Edinburgh and proceeds to the Orkn...

Sometimes when series start to get long and a plot in a middle book intrigues me, I wonder how much I’ll miss if I read them out of order. Sometimes it really doesn’t matter. My romances, for instance, are sequential, but hey, they’re romances, and it’s not really a spoiler that each couple gets together by the end of a book. It’s how they get together. So you can read them in any order with no issues.

My Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries can be read on their own. The main mystery is solved in eve...

It’s been a fun launch week for the newest Bohemia Bartenders Mystery, Why Oh Rye? I was a tad bit concerned that the novel’s parallel plots would be, shall we say, too much? But I’m happy to say that there’ve been some lovely reviews so far that see what I hoped to do with this zany story.

The Book Decoder calls Why Oh Rye? “a scintillating, intoxicating, and thoroughly engrossing mystery.” Stephanie at Book...

I’m so excited … WHY OH RYE? – the newest Bohemia Bartenders Mystery – releases on March 5, and I’ve just dropped the book trailer. I shot a lot of this video myself last spring in New Orleans. Get a sneak peek of Pepper Revelle’s wild Easter weekend as she and her fellow mixologists face her nemesis — and murder!

Here’s a little more about the book:

Bunnies, bonnets and bedlam in New Orleans …

Are the rhyming threats of a crafty con man a good reason to return to New Orleans? Maybe no...

It so happens that the next Bohemia Bartenders book is another holiday cozy mystery—this one set in New Orleans at Easter. Mr. Lakestone and I visited the city last spring for the festivities, and it was inspiring, to say the least. Fortunately, we didn’t confront the murder and mayhem our heroine Pepper has to deal with in WHY OH RYE? This latest funny installment in the series is now available for preorder. The book publishes March 5.

The Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries can stand alone, but yo...

Of course you want a hot deal on hot romances. Don’t you? It’s December. It might even be cold where you are (it isn’t here, but still). And we all need a break from the holiday madness.

My BOHEMIA BLUES is featured in Kobo’s buy one/get one romance sale all through December. (The Bohemia Beach Series of steamy romances is also in the Kobo Plus subscription program – meaning you can read them for free if you’re in Kobo Plus or do the trial membership.)

Here’s a little about the book, w...