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Purloined Poinsettia - Book Tour and Giveaway

8/6/2022

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Purloined Poinsettia
Motts Cold Case Mystery Book 4
by Dahlia Donovan
Genre: Cozy Mystery 

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Murder comes knocking when a killer hunts for budding amateur detective Pineapple “Motts” Mottley in the fourth novel of the Motts Cold Case Mystery series.

The past and present collide for Motts when two serial killer brothers barge into her plans for Christmas in London. Her desire to solve her childhood friend’s murder brings her ever closer to danger. She finds herself one fall away from the grave herself.
When one of her former primary school teachers winds up dead in her burning house, Motts realizes the mystery is far more twisted than she ever imagined.

Is she running out of time to catch not one but two killers?
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What sort of macabre gift will Motts find wrapped under the tree?


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​Chapter One


A Pineapple, a cat in a sweater, and a turtle hide in a garden in the middle of winter to avoid the clutches of the icy queen ogre.
Right.
Mildly dramatic.
More than mildly dramatic.
After living in Cornwall for almost a year, Pineapple “Motts” Mottley hadn’t anticipated returning home for the holidays. Not when home meant her overbearing mother and her mild-mannered, loving father. If it hadn’t been for the serial killer trying to complete his schoolgirl collection, she’d have stayed hidden in her little cottage on the top of the cliff above Polperro.
No one knew for certain who the serial killer was. Or if they were really after her. The police had managed to determine many of the girls in her primary school class had been murdered or died in suspicious circumstances over the past thirty-plus years.
Definitely not a coincidence.
So Motts had resigned herself to spending most of December in her childhood home. With her parents. At forty years old. She was not looking forward to any of it, considering she’d left London for a reason.
To get away from the noise and her mother.
Sometimes the noise is Mum.
Her mother meant well. She just hadn’t ever managed to adjust to having a daughter who was autistic, asexual, and biromantic. Motts had hoped at some point she would.
She hadn’t.
At least her mother had stopped trying to set her up on dates with unsuspecting men and women. Motts had enough chaos in her life. She didn’t need random strangers thinking of her romantically.
She couldn’t manage the people she already knew thinking of her romantically.
“Still hiding in the garden after all these years, poppet?” Her dad came over to sit beside her. “What’s she done now?”
“Tried to insist I go carolling with her this evening,” Motts grumbled. She lifted Cactus, her beloved Sphynx cat, into her arms to ensure his knitted sweater was on correctly. “First, I can’t sing. Second, she’s going to try setting me up on a date again. Third, why would I want to parade myself around to a bunch of strangers’ houses?”
Her mum simply couldn’t grasp that Motts wasn’t interested in falling head over heels into a romance. She had enough dating confusion with her friend, Detective Inspector Dempsey Byrne, who might be flirting with her, and Beckett Ferris, who had recently moved to Polperro to be closer to their grandparents and ran a restaurant in the village. They were definitely flirting with her.
“What happened to the Teo chap?”
“Moved to Yorkshire.” Motts missed Detective Inspector Herceg. He was lovely. Just not the one, whatever that meant. She didn’t know if she had a one. “We chat via text.”
“And Vina?”
“Vina? My best friend? Who I broke up with years ago? Who is in love with a lovely woman?” Motts stared at her father in confusion. Pravina Griffin (and her brother Nish) were two of her closest mates. They ran a café and bakery with their parents out of Polperro. “I’ve told you this.”
“Never hurts to ask.”
Right.
Sometimes it does.

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​Poisoned Primrose

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Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. She prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. An autistic and occasional hermit, her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.


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34 Comments
Beyond Comps
8/6/2022 04:25:18 am

Great cover!

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Dahlia Donovan link
8/6/2022 07:47:49 am

Thank you!

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Kim Kern
8/6/2022 09:20:16 am

Sounds like an engaging mystery.

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Marcy Meyer
8/6/2022 09:49:19 am

Enjoyed the chapter. Sounds really good. Cute cover!

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Sherry
8/6/2022 11:34:58 am

I really like the cover and the excerpt. I love a good mystery book.

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Rita Wray
8/6/2022 11:34:59 am

Great excerpt and cover.

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Jen L
8/6/2022 11:49:21 am

Enjoyed the excerpt

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wendy hutton
8/6/2022 01:20:10 pm

cute cover, this sounds like a great book

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xjanelx78
8/6/2022 01:54:21 pm

Really nice cover and excerpt, looking forward to reading this!

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bn100
8/6/2022 03:49:19 pm

cute cover

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Wendy Jensen
8/6/2022 04:07:38 pm

The book details sound like an interesting mystery.

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Terri Quick
8/6/2022 08:24:18 pm

Great covee

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Susan Smith
8/7/2022 03:09:50 pm

I enjoy reading cozy mysteries. Cute cover!

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Nancy
8/7/2022 05:37:13 pm

I think it is interesting that all these book titles feature a word starting with the letter P and and a flower that starts with P also.

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Angela Heerde
8/9/2022 07:20:50 am

I like book details

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David Basile
8/9/2022 11:24:29 am

Looks like a good murder mystery

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Debbi Wellenstein
8/9/2022 02:35:23 pm

I enjoyed the excerpt. Thanks for the giveaway!

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Stephanie Liske
8/9/2022 02:54:05 pm

I like the book details.

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Francine A
8/9/2022 04:39:58 pm

Sounds like a good book

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beth shepherd
8/9/2022 05:57:26 pm

This looks so good!

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Amy F
8/11/2022 04:08:38 pm

Love the cover! sounds like a great cozy read!

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Peggy Clayton
8/12/2022 11:43:14 am

Love cats and flowers and what goes better than flowers and cat on the cover so eye catching! Love to read and review on goodreads and amazon battling RSD for 30+ years so can only be on comp for short amount of time and don't do anything but print as fingers are deformed

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Thomas Gibson
8/14/2022 04:30:28 pm

The cover art is really good. Congrats on your tour!

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Piroska
8/18/2022 04:54:09 pm

Thanks for the great excerpt. The book sounds like a fun read. Absolutely love the cover!

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Christy R.
8/21/2022 06:33:32 pm

The book details sound wonderful! I'm a sucker for any story that has a cat in it.

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Peggy Clayton
8/29/2022 11:34:59 am

Love the cover and I would love to read as it sounds so good. Anything with a dog or cat is right up my alley

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Heather Mahley
9/1/2022 01:46:33 pm

Cute cover

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Tracie Cooper
9/4/2022 11:39:46 am

Do you have a favorite flower?

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Jen Reed
9/5/2022 06:38:41 pm

I enjoy reading these light hearted mystery style books. Thanks for the introduction to this series.

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Christina Gail Pearce
9/5/2022 09:59:51 pm

I can't wait to read it

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Cheri M
9/6/2022 07:23:48 am

sounds like some stories I'd like to read! Thanks for sharing!

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KELSEY B VINSON
9/6/2022 02:02:25 pm

great cover! makes me think of christmas which is always exciting.

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Cassandra Darensbourg
9/6/2022 03:37:53 pm

Great cover.

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Sand
9/6/2022 09:40:33 pm

Sounds like a great book!

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