Cooking to Death

July 30, 2024

Cooking to Death

Cooking to Death: Stirring the Pot
(The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series)
by Marcy Blesy

About Cooking to Death

Cooking to Death: Stirring the Pot (The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series)
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Michigan
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently Published (June 14, 2024)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8323615087
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D21LBL3M

A Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series:

Twenty-four-year old Vivien Belcher–Ms. B, for obvious reasons–teaches a full class of kindergarten students in Southwest Michigan in a Lake Michigan beach town. Trying to maintain control of her overly enthusiastic students while managing life as a fully-fledged adult, Vivien’s life is balancing as perfectly as a gymnast sticking her landing until the scale tips when she receives an unlikely and unwelcome text message from her ex-boyfriend…her dead ex-boyfriend.

Trapped in the Transitional World and having to atone for his many sins in life, Kasper must “make good” by helping to solve the murder of his beloved high school lunch lady. The problem? It’s hard to solve a murder as a ghost. But Kasper doesn’t count on Vivien’s reluctance to help him, not to mention her doubt. And he really doesn’t count on his reaction to Vivien moving on with relationships in her life that don’t include him.

What ensues is hilarity and frustration as Kasper’s time is running out to convince Vivien to help him. Being a ghost is hard. But so is being a new teacher.

Marcy Blesy is the author of The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series which has sold thousands of books in the hilarious whodunit series.

About Marcy Blesy

Marcy Blesy is the author of over thirty books including the popular cozy mystery series: The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series. Her adult romance mystery series includes The Secret of Blue Lake and The Secret of Silver Beach, set in Michigan. Her children’s books include the best selling Be the Vet series along with the following early chapter book series: Evie and the Volunteers, Niles and Bradford, Third Grade Outsider, and Hazel, the Clinic Cat.

Marcy enjoys searching for treasures along the shores of Lake Michigan. She’s still waiting for the day when she finds a piece of red beach glass. By day she teaches creative writing virtually to amazing students around the world.

Marcy is a believer in love and enjoys nothing more than making her readers feel a book more than simply reading it.

Q&A With the Author

Who is your favorite author and why?
I love a lot of authors. I suppose I would say that Kristin Hannah has a way of painting a picture with her words that really gets to me on an emotional level.

What is something unique/quirky about you?
I love collecting Fisher Price Little People from my favorite television shows. I have the cast of The Golden Girls, The Office, Friends, and Brooklyn 99 on my desk!
They make me smile as I loved the shows, and my boys loved the Little People toys when they were young many years ago!

What was your inspiration for writing this book?
I watched a TikTok video from a creator talking about receiving a text message from his dad, but his dad had died three years prior. He went on to explain that, unbeknownst to him, his mom had kept his dad’s cellphone and used that phone to call her son that day. It really shook him, and he wished it could be real. While my story has the main character receiving a text message from her jerk of an ex-boyfriend and not someone she still cared for, the fact that he was dead and should not be able to text her is where this idea came from for The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series.

What did you enjoy most about writing this book?
I have been a teacher and school librarian. I absolutely loved being able to tap into my personal experiences when writing a book that is set in an elementary school. It was all so easy to visualize.

Do you have any other books you are working on that you can tell us about?
Book 2 in The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series will be out on August 1. It is called Dribbling to Death (Taking His Shot). I am also working on book 7 in my Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series. I love my job!

Anything more you would like to say to your readers and fans?
Readers in the cozy mystery community are such warm, engaging, kind people. Thank you to all of you that have read my books and shared your kindness with me! It is truly not taken for granted.