Book Tour: The Case Of The Christie Curse(A Detection Club Mystery)

The Case of the Christie Curse: (A Detection Club Mystery) by Kelly Oliver

About The Case of the Christie Curse

The Case of the Christie Curse: (A Detection Club Mystery) Historical Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Setting – Mesopotamia Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 21, 2026 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Boldwood Books Digital Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1836175681 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F4W1D5Z6 Other formats will be available

Mesopotamia, 1930: When Agatha Christie invites fellow members of the Detection Club to witness the famous excavations at the ruins of Ur, Dorothy L. Sayers, her quick-witted assistant Eliza Baker, and Theo Sharp expect ancient wonders – not fresh corpses.

But when an archaeologist is found dead in the sand, whispers of a deadly curse sweep through the camp. Eliza suspects something far more dangerous than superstition. Amid glittering artifacts and fragile alliances, every guest harbors secrets: the Woolleys, whose marriage is shadowed by tragedy; a journalist hungry for scandal; even academic Max Mallowan, whose loyalties are not what they seem.

As theft, forgery, and coded messages surface, the line between archaeology and espionage blurs. And when Eliza and Theo find themselves in danger, they must face not only the truth about the murder – but also the truths they’ve long denied about each other. Can they uncover the killer before the desert claims another victim? Or will this dig unearth secrets too dangerous to survive?

About Kelly Oliver

Kelly Oliver is the award-winning and bestselling author of four mystery series: The Jessica James Mysteries, The Pet Detective Mysteries, The Fiona Figg Mysteries, and The Detection Club Mysteries.

Kelly is the Past President of Sisters in Crime National, current Education Coordinator for SinC Guppies, and a Distinguished Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

To learn more about Kelly and her books, go to kellyoliverbooks.com. Author Links BookBub https://www.bookbub.com/authors/kelly-oliver Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/Kelly-Oliver/e/B001HN3HCM/ INSTAGRAM @kellyoliverbooks Pinterest Kelly Oliver Books https://www.pinterest.com.au/oliver743 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kellyoliverauthor/ Pinterest Kelly Oliver Books https://www.pinterest.com.au/oliver7431/ Purchase Links: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon AU Amazon IN TOUR PARTICIPANTS February 18 – Jody's Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT February 18 – @bibliophile_foodie – REVIEW February 19 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT February 19 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT February 20 – Boys' Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT February 20 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT February 21 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT February 22 – StoreyBook Reviews – AUTHOR GUEST POST February 23 – Christy's Cozy Corners – AUTHOR INTERVIEW February 24 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST February 25 – Salty Inspirations – AUTHOR GUEST POST February 25 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT February 26 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW February 27 – Maureen's Musings – SPOTLIGHT February 28 – Sarandipity's – AUTHOR GUEST POST February 28 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – AUTHOR INTERVIEW March 1 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT March 2 – Elizabeth McKenna - Author – SPOTLIGHT March 3 – Sapphyria's Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

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Book Blast: Love , Life, And Mother Nature

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. James C. Glassford will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture in the lonely shore,
There is a society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.
– Lord Byron

These poems reflect the healing powers of nature both without and within. It can amaze you and comfort you, rejuvenate and rehabilitate you— if you let it.

Discover its powers—read on!

Read an Excerpt

Summer Sunrise

Sunrise in the mountains is a majestic and moving sight

It undresses the cloak of darkness and brings the world light To the east a rosy blush begins as earth embraces the dawn Curtains of night are lifted and its shadows soon withdrawn

Tendrils of light steal down the cavernous canyons tall Like fingers of liquid lava running down a volcano wall

Caressing the cliffs and painting a sheen on their snowy faces An artist’s hand and a pastel palette touching many places

Tree by tree tree the forest takes on a new found tinge The seas too are painted from their centre to their fringe

A kaleidoscope of colour as you watch the masterpiece unfold With subtle grace and beauty like an alluring dream untold

Rays of sunlight kiss the soft belly of the fluffy clouds Brushing them with chameleon colours endlessly endowed The world awakens in the sun’s tender soft-hued glow, Each ray a promise, a new day of heartfelt hope to sow.

From darkness to light, there is a magical transition A celestial ballet in a splendid and stately exhibition The wind seems to whisper softly dispelling all fears As a chorus of songbirds add their comforting cheers

The sun ascends faster now as purples turn to gold Bringing its welcoming warmth and dispelling the cold The sky is suddenly ablaze with the early morning light Finally vanquishing the demons of the daunting night

Enjoy Nature’s peace and grandeur as it percolates within Let your heart be touched and feel a solemn serenity begin Cast aside your worries, your troubles and your woes
As renewal begins and a blissful energy soon flows

  About the Author: I am a retired physician who has been blessed with the opportunity to live in one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring places on earth: Vancouver Island. Throughout my life I have remained intimately connected to nature. I consider it an alternate classroom and a timeless and thought-provoking teacher. It has taught me many enduring life lessons.

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Book Tour: Primal Destiny

Fate that refuses to be ignored

Primal Destiny

by Dania Voss

Genre: Steamy Paranormal Romance

The secret is out. Shifters exist and live among humans.

Humans fall into two camps: Those who consider shifters monsters but manage to co-exist with them, and those who want to get close to them, relishing their power.

Tessa Cooper, a single mother devoted to her three-year-old daughter, is firmly in the first camp, doing her best to keep her biases to herself. But one look at Dario Kingston Renzetti, a wealthy lion shifter, and she senses her life will never be the same.

The moment Dario sees Tessa in his bar, he knows he’s found his fated mate – age difference be damned. Learning she wants nothing to do with shifters – especially romantically – is another matter altogether. But nobody said he wasn't determined.

Can Dario’s persistence convince Tessa he’s not hiding dark secrets that would reinforce her opinion of shifters, or will she deny them their primal destiny?

Pick up this steamy, age gap, rejected mate paranormal romance today and find out.

 

 

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Tessa was impressed by Dario’s and Fabrizio’s generosity. She now understood why Emelia had sung Dario’s praises since she’d started at the magazine two years ago.

Over delicious and filling appetizers, they helped Emelia calm down and organize what needed to be done in the next couple of hours before she and Fabrizio flew to Boston.

“I hate leaving you in the lurch for so many weeks though, Dario,” Emelia lamented. Then she glanced at Tessa with excitement in her eyes. “I know! Tessa should fill in for me while I’m gone. The idiots she worked for laid her off two days ago. That job was beneath her anyway. It would be perfect.”

Tessa’s head was spinning. In a matter of minutes, she had all of Emelia’s magazine system login credentials, had hugged her goodbye, and was now alone with Dario.

Who had removed his costume cape and was now gloriously shirtless.

She bolted out of her chair, needing to put some distance between them, and leaned against his desk. “Surely you can find someone else to fill in for Emelia. Someone already at the magazine? I appreciate her confidence in me, but I can’t work for you.”

Dario raised a brow from his seat at the conference table. Hunger flared in his hypnotic blue eyes. “Because of your shifter bias, as Emelia put it?”

A flush crept across Tessa’s cheeks as he called her out on her shifter issues. “I… I’ll admit shifters make me uncomfortable. I mean no offense to you and yours personally.”

Dario regarded her compassionately before he stood and walked toward her. He stopped in front of her, leaving some much-needed space between them. Still, she felt his body heat and her pulse ratcheted up.

“I appreciate that. Think of the practicalities, though. You’d be helping your friend when she needs you and finally getting work experience worthy of your Columbia MBA.”

Dario was right of course, but he did strange things to her emotions. Tessa felt out of control around him and that scared the shit out of her. “I could get that work experience anywhere. I don’t need to get it from your magazine. Why are you so insistent?” He stealthily got closer, making her tremble against her will, his unique scent driving her insane with desire.

He twirled a lock of her hair around his fingers, and Tessa’s body lit up with awareness. How did he do that?

“Because you, per sempre mio, are my mate.”

Tessa couldn’t bring herself to resist when Dario captured her lips in a hungry kiss. Their tongues tangled greedily, and her head swam. Their connection was electric. He tasted like heaven and sin, and she was hopelessly hooked.

They were both panting when they broke apart. “No. I can’t be your mate.” She whispered, but in her heart, she believed Dario was probably right.

“I know it doesn’t fit with your shifter bias narrative, but I and my lion knew the moment we saw you; the moment we smelled your delectable scent that you were our destiny. Our primal destiny.” Dario didn’t stop her when she moved away from him and rubbed her arms, nearly in a panic.

“You might be mistaken.”

“I’m absolutely certain and I think you are too. You feel the mating bond just as I do, don’t you?

If that’s what she felt toward him was called, she did. “No, I don’t. I’ll help Emelia out because she needs me, but we can’t ever kiss again. I mean it.”

The deep timbre of Dario’s laugh sent chills down Tessa’s spine.

“Oh, my sweet mate, but we will. Many more times. Because you’ll want to. You can count on it,” Dario declared as a wicked grin spread across his face.

Int’l bestseller and award-winning author Dania Voss writes compelling, sexy romance with personality, heat, and heart. Born in Rome, Italy and raised in Chicagoland, she creates stories with authentic, engaging characters. She loves anything pink and is a huge fan of 80s hair bands.

A favorite with romance readers, her debut novel “On the Ropes,” the first in her Windy City Nights series, became an international bestseller. Dania’s books have won multiple awards, and her work has been highlighted on NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX. She has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Southern Writers Magazine, and Chicago Entrepreneurs Magazine (selected as the #8 Top Chicago Author in 2021).

When she’s not writing, you can find Dania at a sporting event, a rock concert, or the movies (preferably a comedy).

 

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Release Boost: Writing Mr.Right

Spin the wheel. Date the guy. Write the book. Catch feelings?

 

Kitty Valentine used to be that girl—rom-com royalty with a #1 bestseller and a string of swoonworthy novels. But now? Her latest book flopped harder than a bad Tinder date, and her editor says it's time to spice things up … like, a lot.

 

The problem? Kitty is more vanilla latte than spicy marg. Writing steamier stuff feels … well, like literary burlesque. But with her bank account ghosting her and her royalties in a situationship with rock bottom, desperate times call for creative (unhinged?) measures.

 

Enter the Hot Guy Dating Wheel—courtesy of her BFF and a bottle of rosé. A colorful contraption filled with classic romantic “types” Kitty has to date—purely for research, of course. One spin, one guy, one story at a time.

 

What starts as a last-ditch effort to save her career quickly spirals into a series of unexpected dates, hilarious encounters, and maybe, just maybe … her own real-life love story.

 

Perfect for fans of Sex and the City, awkward heroines, hilarious dating mishaps, and books you can swoon over.

 

 

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Jillian Dodd is a USA Today and Amazon Top 5 best-selling author of over fifty books. She writes fun binge-able romance series with characters her readers fall in love with—from the boy next door in the That Boy series to the daughter of a famous actress in The Keatyn Chronicles to a spy who might save the world in the Spy Girl series. Her newest series include London Prep, a prep school series about a drama filled three-week exchange, and the next generation of The Keatyn Chronicles, Eastbrooke Academy.
She is married to her college sweetheart, adores writing big fat happily ever afters, wears a lot of pink, buys way too many shoes, loves to travel, and is distracted by anything covered in glitter.

 

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Release Boost: My Heart To Remember

Identical twins London and Lennon Tyler have always lived as mirror images--one a fearless race car driver, the other a quietly brilliant chef. Their secret talent? Switching places whenever life demands it. It's always been harmless...until one switch ends in tragedy.

One twin wakes in a hospital bed with no memory.

The other never wakes at all.

Doctors tell the surviving sister who she is. They tell her who she loves--a charming physician who claims to be her boyfriend. She tries to settle into the life she's supposedly lived...until a shaken race car driver storms into her room, calling her by a different name.

Her sister's name.

Hospitals don't make mistakes this big...right?

As her body heals, fragments of the accident--and the life she might have lived--start surfacing. Someone isn't telling the whole truth. Her heart tugs her one direction, her mind another, and every step forward blurs the line between memory, desire, and what is real.

Is she falling back in love with the man she had before?

Or are there new feelings for the man who loved her sister?

 

 

 

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Release Boost: Crimson Refuge

ANTON

I swore I was done with wanting things.

Done with trust. Done with hope. Done with pretending a man like me gets more than survival.

Then Freya Johnson walked into my life—curious, relentless, too young for me, and completely off-limits. I was her mentor. Her safe place.

The one man who knew better than to touch her.

And I didn’t.

Not until she left for the LAPD.

Not until one night blew straight through every line I’d drawn.

I never meant for that night to change anything.

But it changed everything.

The line I drew is now two pink ones, and when she comes back to Echo Valley—taking a quieter desk job while we try to figure out next steps—every boundary I’ve built starts to crack.

Because being her friend, her co-parent, her roommate… none of it touches the truth of what I want when I look at her.

And when she becomes the lead officer on a case no one can quite explain, when something dangerous starts circling closer than she realizes, it isn’t just instinct that locks tight inside my chest.

It’s possession.

It’s fear.

It’s the knowledge that she’s already mine, whether I’ve told her or not.

I should step back.

Wanting her is the fastest way to lose myself again.

But if this threat reaches her first, it won’t just cost me control.

It will cost me the one thing I never planned to risk again.

 

 

 

 

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Sienna Judd is a small town, contemporary romance author who lives for all the spice. She thinks kitchens are for dancing, is a self-professed hype girl and might be known for talking too loudly.

Like every respectable woman she also loves drinking champagne and eating half of every chocolate in a truffles box.

Her spirit animal is a butterfly.

 

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