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From Amazon.com:
On the same night that Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, ten-year-old Charlie Olmstead jumped on his bike to see if there was some way he could get a better look. It was the last anyone ever saw of him. After Perry Hollow Police Chief Jim Campbell found Charlie’s bike caught in the water above Sunset Falls, he assumed the worst. Everyone did—except Charlie’s mother.

Years later, Eric Olmstead—now a famous author and Charlie’s younger brother—has come back to Perry Hollow to bury his mother and fulfill her last request: Find Charlie. To do so, he goes to the current police chief, his former sweetheart, Kat Campbell, who happens to be Jim Campbell’s daughter. Together they soon discover that Eric’s mother was convinced Charlie was kidnapped, and that finding him—whether he was dead or alive—was her secret obsession. While she never succeeded, she did uncover clues that suggested he wasn’t the only boy across Pennsylvania to vanish into thin air during that time.

The haunting story of a boy missing for forty years, and of a small town that found lies easier to believe than the truth, explodes into the present in Bad Moon, Todd Ritter’s excellent follow-up to his acclaimed debut.

Woo for the first book of 2012! I’m going to have to make a new tab now! I got this book from Dana Kaye at Kaye Publicity. It was a surprise book and it took me forever to get to it, but what a way to start a new year of reading. Just by reading the description, I wasn’t 100% sure I would like this book, or even be able to finish it. It just didn’t strike that “aha” cord with me. It sat on my bookshelf for a couple of  months and I finally got tired of seeing it, so I picked it up and couldn’t put it down.

There is such mystery in the disappearance of little Charlie and nothing like a mother’s intuition to know that he didn’t just fall into the water as believed. I imagine that as a mother myself, I would be in her same shoes and wouldn’t be able to give up until I died, as she did.

I try to think of myself as an awesome mystery solver. Not so much. The more I read books like this, and hope to write them someday, you would think that I would be able to get these figured out right off the bat. Nope, this one got me again. It wasn’t until it was spelled out in front of my face did the mystery come to light. Then it all made sense. The moon, the disappearance, the connection with all of the other boys disappearing and an ending that came from a beginning that should have never happened.

This is the second book for Kat Campbell and State Police Investigator Nick Donnelly. I like to read books in order, it’s a pet peeve of mine. This one was written well enough that I didn’t have to read the first one, but I still like to follow the order. I did learn some things in this book that I think will spoil it if I go back and read the first one, but I liked these characters enough that I may be able to close off the second one to get caught up.

Kat Campbell is a very strong female character. She is a cop, followed in her father’s footsteps. And for such a small town, it seems like a big feat. She has some issues though with trust and men. They are brought to light in this book and I hope that another will come out in this series and push forward in a relationship that was broken, then rekindled. There seems to be a fire burning beneath the surface (if you read this book already, then pun intended )

I give Bad Moon 4 bookmarks.

ISBN: 978-0312622817
Released: October 2011
Author Website
Kari got this book from Kaye Publicity

WAIT! Don’t click away just yet! Normally my posts end when I put who I got the book from… but not this time! I got an extra copy of Bad Moon and am going to do a giveaway. All you have to do it leave a comment and leave your email address, saying you want to read this book. Easy enough right?  This giveaway will end on Wednesday, January 18, so get in your comments and spread the word (unless you don’t want competition).

Happy one week from Christmas. To celebrate, I am announcing the winner of The Christmas Candles by Bart Harper. Thanks to everyone who entered and Bart and I will continue to team up for giveaways on his books, so keep stopping by!

The winner is…. drum roll please…

DAVID TUCKER

Congrats David. I have emailed to get your address and your book will soon be on it’s way! Merry Christmas!

Christmas is a time of giving. And this holiday season, my buddy Bart and I are teaming up to give you a Christmas read.

Bart’s new book, The Christmas Candles, is a short story about two young boys who are visited by a guardian angel on Christmas Eve. They are given three wishes. By doing for others and sacrificing their own needs, the boys receive a gift more valuable than any wish.

This is such a cute inspirational book. I read this book when it was in it’s preliminary stages and Bart had just penned it. It wasn’t Christmas at the time, but put me in the holiday mood. It’s amazing what a cute little story can do for your spirit.

Bart lives in West Virginia. He is a teacher, realtor and author. This is his fourth book. He has given me a chance to take part in his career by reading and reviewing all of his books and they all have great meaning.

Here’s your chance: I will give away a personalized copy of Bart’s new book to one lucky person! And it’s easy to win. All you have to do is leave a comment with your name and email.

I will randomly choose a winner on SUNDAY at 7pm and have Bart get the book in the mail Monday morning, so hopefully you will have it to read on Christmas Eve!!!

Hello blogging buddies! Sorry I am a little late at posting this. I actually got caught up finishing a book last night and forgot until I went to bed. Mahh Sorry

Marce wins Duty of Love hands down, no competitors

Lindsey wins Season of Water and Ice with no competitors, and thanks to Random.org, she also wins Rooms.

Thanks all that participated! I’ll be contacting the winners and sending out the books ASAP!

So if you’ve been keeping up with my On My Bookshelf posts for the past couple of weeks, then you already know I got two copies of Truly Madly and that means one will go to one of my lucky readers.

Now since I got these from Goodreads.com and Librarything.com, I will ask that you post a review of the book when you are done reading.

Normally I make the giveaway periods a month, but since this book comes out in February, I want to make sure I get it sent out so you have time to read and review before the release date. So, this giveaway will end at midnight on Saturday,  January 9th. I will announce the winner on Sunday the 10th and send it out on the 11th.

Here’s what Goodreads.com says about the book:

Meet Lucy Valentine; sassy, fabulously original…and psychic.

Lucy hails from a long line of matchmakers known as Valentine INC. According to family legend, the Valentines have been blessed by Cupid with the ability to help couples find true love. Trouble is Lucy’s powers were zapped away by an electrical surge and now all she can find are lost objects.

But what good is that in the matchmaking world?

Lucy is about to find out when she tries to solve a murder and winds up falling into a romance of her own.

Here’s how you enter the contest:
+1 Leave me your email address
+2 Put this on your sidebar or tweet about it (leave me both links)
+3 Tell me about one of your matchmaking experiences

Again, this ends at midnight January 9th. I am really excited about this book and hope you are too!

Now, here’s my matchmaking experience: My senior year of high school, my homecoming date asked me to go shopping with him to get his outfit. We were going to go meet his dad at the mall, go shopping and have lunch. Although I had known this guy since kindergarten, I had never met his dad. The next weekend, he was at the homecoming game to watch his son and I thought my mom would hit it off with him. I introduced them and the next day he came to my cross country meet. They talked for a while, started dating, quit dating and now almost 6 years later, they are still together. Maybe Valentine Inc. should hire me