Pickled Petunia (Motts Cold Case Mystery #3) Blog Tour +Review

Title: Pickled Petunia (Motts Cold Case Mystery Series + 3) 

Author: Dahlia Donovan

Genre: Cozy Mystery LGBTQA+  Suspense (MC is A Sexual) 

Release Date: November 6, 2021 

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

Mystery beckons when a young woman seeks out budding amateur detective Pineapple “Motts” Mottley to find her missing mother in the third novel of the Motts Cold Case Mystery series.

Murder comes to Motts’s doorstep when a stranger asks her to investigate a suspicious disappearance. Past experience tells her to say no yet her curiosity wins out. What’s the harm in asking a few questions?

The missing person case quickly evolves into murder when a body is found in the strangest circumstances. Motts sifts through various suspects and lies, only to come face to face with danger. Things become even more personal when a killer from her childhood makes an unwelcome appearance. 

How many close calls can Motts escape?

Will she survive amidst a flood of beer and a catastrophic inferno?

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 This is the third book in this series and they must be read in order. Motts has been trying to stay out trouble. Meaning not get involved with any more investigating after what she had been through recently. Then she got a call asking her help investigate the disappearance of the stranger’s mother. Well, how can she say no. Of course, things are going to get interesting. They always do when Motts and the gang are involved. The missing person case quickly turns into a murder case. The suspects begin piling up. Then there is the case of Motts friend from when she was a child. She is learning there aren’t many girls from her year left. He detective friends are concerned that Motts will be the killer’s next target. How many close calls can Motts escape? Motts and her crew are hilarious and wonderful. They are just as interested in solving the crimes as Motts is. They are always there to help her interview someone, search for clues, and help when everything becomes too much. I love Motts and her crew. This series is fantastic and I can’t recommend it enough. I can’t wait for Dahlia’s next book. I recommend all of Dahlia’s books. Great job Dahlia.

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. 

BOOK ONE – POISONED PRIMROSE

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Meet Motts and the quirky cast of characters in her world. Poisoned Primrose is a quintessential cosy British mystery and an all-round fun story to throw yourself into. Autistic, asexual, and almost forty, Pineapple “Motts” Mottley flees London with her cat and turtle to a quaint cottage in Cornwall. She craves the peace of life in a small village. The dead body buried in her garden isn’t quite what she had in mind, though. Unable to resist her curiosity, she falls directly into a mess of trouble and runs head-first into the attractive detective inspector, Teo Herceg. She tries to balance her business with the investigation, but as the killer focuses on her, staying alive becomes trickier than advanced origami. Will Motts survive the onslaught of murderously bad luck? Can she solve the mystery before it all spins out of control and off a cliff?

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BOOK TWO – PIERCED PEONY

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On a casual walk along the Cornish Coast, Pineapple “Motts” Mottley stumbles upon a body and a perilous new murder case in the second novel in the Motts Cold Case Mystery series. As spring rolls into summer, Motts settles into her cottage. She’s enjoying a daily stroll when a body in the sea destroys her peace and quiet. It brings yet another mystery for her to solve. How does a woman who vanished from Polperro three years prior wind up battered by waves? Motts is drawn into the investigation despite her best attempts. She finds a family in turmoil and loads of suspects. With no easy answers, she tumbles further into chaos and ever closer to danger. Can Motts find the killer before she’s the one put on ice? Will she survive a bone-chilling brush with death?

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