Book Four in the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series has a title and a release date —
BOUND FOR MURDER will be published by Crooked Lane Books on Jan. 7, 2020.
We don’t have a cover yet — I will reveal that when it is finalized.
PAST DUE FOR MURDER Blog Tour
The blog tour celebrating the release of the third book in the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series — PAST DUE FOR MURDER — begins on Monday, Feb. 11th and runs through Friday, Feb. 22nd.
The prize listed is a signed hardcover of PAST DUE, but I am also throwing in signed hardcovers of A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS and SHELVED UNDER MURDER.
You can check out all the info. here: GREAT ESCAPES BOOK TOURS
Tour stops:
February 11 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW
February 11 – Jane Reads – GUEST POST
February 11 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
February 12 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
February 12 – Mallory Heart’s Cozies – REVIEW
February 12 – 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, & Sissy, Too! – SPOTLIGHT
February 13 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
February 13 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT
February 13 – A Blue Million Books – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
February 14 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
February 14 – Rae’s Books and Recipes – SPOTLIGHT
February 14 – The Montana Bookaholic – SPOTLIGHT
February 15 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT
February 15 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIE
February 16 – Laura`s Interests – REVIEW
February 16 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
February 16 – That’s What She’s Reading – REVIEW
February 17 – StoreyBook Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
February 17 – Curling Up by the Fire – REVIEW
February 18 – The Bookwyrm’s Hoard – REVIEW, GUEST POST
February 18 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
February 19 – A Wytch’s Book Review Blog – REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW
February 19 – Mysteries with Character – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
February 20 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST
February 20 – Here’s How It Happened – SPOTLIGHT
February 21 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW
February 21 – The Book Diva’s Reads – CHARACTER GUEST POST
February 22 – Melina’s Book Blog – REVIEW
February 22 – A Holland Reads – SPOTLIGHT
NEW BOOK DEAL!
I have big news!
I have signed another contract with Crooked Lane Books for the start of a new mystery series — the Booklovers B and B series.
Here’s the Publishers Marketplace announcement:
Author of the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series Victoria Gilbert’s Booked for Death, the first in a contemporary cozy mystery series in which a young widow solves murders at her B and B in historic Beaufort, North Carolina to Faith Black Ross at Crooked Lane, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Frances Black at The Literary Counsel.
For more info. on the first book, BOOKED FOR DEATH, please click here.
SHELVED UNDER MURDER Blog Tour
Today (July 9th) kicks off the virtual blog tour celebrating the release of SHELVED UNDER MURDER.
You can find all the info. and links to the tour stops over at the Escape with Dollycas Into a Great Book blog:
There’s a giveaway you can enter at any of the stops too!
PAST DUE FOR MURDER Cover Reveal
#CoverReveal time!
The third book in my Blue Ridge Library Mystery series has a cover, and it is a beauty. It includes the exterior of the library and a new character who shows up in book three — Loie, the abandoned kitten adopted by one of my main characters.
Cover Reveal for SHELVED UNDER MURDER
The second book in the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series has a cover!
SHELVED UNDER MURDER will be published by Crooked Lane Books on July 10, 2018.
It’s already up for preorder on many sites, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Signings! A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS Launches in Style
I was fortunate to have had three book events celebrating A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS over the last week:
First, a book discussion and signing for my book launch on Tues., Dec. 12th at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC.
Then a book signing at the Triangle Town Center Barnes & Noble in Raleigh, NC on Sat., Dec. 16th
And finally, a book signing at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC on Sun., Dec. 17th
All three went splendidly and I would like to thank the very gracious bookstores who hosted me and my book!
Virtual Book Tour for A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS
Starting Monday, Dec. 11th and running through Thursday, Dec. 21st, Great Escapes Book Tours is hosting a virtual book tour for A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS.
As part of the tour, I am giving away a signed copy of the hardback book and some swag to one lucky winner. Starting on Dec. 11th, head over to the “Escape with Dollycas into a Good Book website” to enter the Rafflecopter!
You can also check out the post listing all the participating bloggers and more info. on the Great Escapes site here: A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS Blog Tour
As part of the tour, I am giving away a signed copy of the hardback book and some swag to one lucky winner. Starting on Dec. 11th, head over to the “Escape with Dollycas into a Good Book website” to enter the Rafflecopter!
TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 11 – A Chick Who Reads – REVIEW
December 12 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 12 – Teresa Trent Author Blog – REVIEW
December 13 – Babs Book Bistro – SPOTLIGHT
December 13 – Readeropolis – INTERVIEW
December 14 – The Book’s the Thing – REVIEW
December 14 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW
December 14 – Bea’s Book Nook – REVIEW
December 15 – Jane Reads – CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 15 – That’s What She’s Reading – REVIEW
December 15 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, INTERVIEW
December 16 – The Power of Words – REVIEW
December 16 – A Holland Reads – SPOTLIGHT
December 16 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – REVIEW
December 17 – The Montana Bookaholic – SPOTLIGHT
December 18 – The Pulp and Mystery Shelf – GUEST POST
December 18 – Melina’s Book Blog – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 19 – Valerie’s Musings – REVIEW
December 19 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 19 – A Blue Million Books – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 20 – Moonlight Rendezvous – REVIEW
December 20 – Brooke Blogs – GUEST POST
December 21 – I Wish I Lived in a Library – REVIEW
December 21 – Sleuth Cafe – SPOTLIGHT
December 21 – Girl with Book Lungs – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
Author Copies Have Arrived!
My author copies of A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS arrived today from my publisher, Crooked Lane Books.
This is the first book I’ve had published in a hardback edition (in addition to eBook and paperback) so to say that I am very excited is definitely an understatement!
A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS officially releases on December 12th. The next book in the series, SHELVED UNDER MURDER is already going through edits and will be published in July 2018.
IndiePicks Magazine Review of A MURDER FOR THE BOOKS
Another great review! This one is from the charter issue of IndiePicks Magazine.
See the first issue and learn about this great new review source here:
A Murder for the Books: A Blue Ridge Line Mystery. Gilbert, Victoria. Crooked Lane.
A mystery set in a small town can be perfect. There’s something about the same people being around each other for decades that adds an Agatha Christie, trapped-in-a-mansion-with-a-killer motif to even tales set in the quaintest environs. (Perhaps, especially those.) In Victoria Gilbert’s modern take on village sleuthing, A Murder for the Books: A Blue Ridge Line Mystery (Crooked Lane, $26.99, ISBN 9781683314394), Amy Webber is a librarian who lives with her elderly aunt in a rambling old house in Taylorsford, Virginia. (Librarians should note that, despite the book’s slightly clichéd title, the small library featured here—and Amy’s role in it—rings true, which is unsurprising as author Gilbert is a librarian.) Amy’s life is as you’d expect—busy workdays and evenings spent gardening and passing the time with neighbors and family. She’s also slowly getting over smarmy ex-boyfriend Charles, whom she’s starting to realize is better off in her past. But all is not well. Under the town’s placid surface, old resentments and wrongdoings fester, and the polite pretensions that keep them hidden can’t be maintained when there’s a murder at the library. The investigation that ensues happily causes Amy to have more interaction with a handsome new neighbor, but mostly it causes tongues to wag and the town’s rifts to deepen. Can Amy find out who committed the murder without jeopardizing those that she loves? Is her new romance a good idea or is she just asking for more heartbreak? And perhaps most puzzling of all, who was behind a notorious crime in the town’s history, one that has rumors still swirling? Gilbert keeps readers wondering till the tale’s rewarding conclusion, one that they will not see coming and that will leave them wanting more from the author; more is on the way, with the second book in the series slated for July 2018. Until then, pick up some of the books in Elizabeth Kate Buzzelli’s Little Library Mystery series, also published by Crooked Lane.
IndiePicks Magazine