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Crystal Casavant Otto Gives a 5 Star Book Review for Guns and Gods in My Genes by Neill McKee

Thank you to WOW! Women on Writing for allowing us the opportunity to participate in the book blog tour for Neill McKee's Guns and Gods in My Genes!    Guns and Gods in My Genes       Book Summary   Neill McKee, author of the award-winning travel memoir  Finding Myself in Borneo , takes the reader through 400 years and 15,000 miles of an on-the-road adventure, discovering stories of his Scots-Irish ancestors in Canada, while uncovering their attitudes towards religion and guns.  His adventure turns south and west as he follows the trail of his maternal grandfather, a Canadian preacher who married an American woman in Wisconsin, and braved the American Wild West from 1904 to 1907, finding a two-story brothel across from one of his churches and a sheriff who owned a saloon and dance hall, while carrying a gun with 20 notches, one for each man he had killed.  Much to his surprise, McKee finds his American ancestors were involved in every major c...

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 WOW! Women on Writing is hosting a book blog tour for award winning author Neill McKee's latest and greatest book and now is YOUR chance to read this book first. If you'd like to join in on this tour, please email: nicole@wow-womenonwriting.com and she can get you all the details. I promise you will love this book and author! Neill McKee, author of the award-winning travel memoir  Finding Myself in Borneo , takes the reader through 400 years and 15,000 miles of an on-the-road adventure, discovering stories of his Scots-Irish ancestors in Canada, while uncovering their attitudes towards religion and guns.  His adventure turns south and west as he follows the trail of his maternal grandfather, a Canadian preacher who married an American woman in Wisconsin, and braved the American Wild West from 1904 to 1907, finding a two-story brothel across from one of his churches and a sheriff who owned a saloon and dance hall, while carrying a gun with 20 notches, one for each man he ...

5 Star Review for " A Christmas Carol Murder " by Heather Redmond

      A Christmas Carol Murder by Heather Redmond on Tour November 1 - December 31, 2020 Synopsis: The latest novel from Heather Redmond’s acclaimed mystery series finds young Charles Dickens suspecting a miser of pushing his partner out a window, but his fiancée Kate Hogarth takes a more charitable view of the old man's innocence . . . London, December 1835: Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. But their blood truly runs cold when their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house. They soon learn the dead man at their feet, his neck strangely wrapped in chains, is Jacob Harley, the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws. Ever the journalist, Charles dedicates himself to discovering who's behind the diabolical defenestration. But before he can investigate further, Harley's corpse is sto...

5 Star Review of Margi Preus' "The Silver Box" - a WOW! Women on Writing Book Blog Tour!

  Margi Preus'   WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR OF    The Silver Box   Tour Begins October 12th   Book Summary   In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie’s search for the truth about her mother—and herself—plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter.   When she wakes in her aunts’ cold cabin on the shore of Enchantment Lake, Francie remembers: everything about her life has changed. Or is about to. Or just might. Everything depends on the small, engraved silver box that she now possesses—if only she can follow its cryptic clues to the whereabouts of her missing mother and understand, finally, just maybe, the truth about who she really is.  Francie, it turns out, has a lot to learn, and this time the lessons could be deadly. Her search for answers takes her and her best friends Raven and Jay as far afield as an abandoned ranch in Arizona and as close to home as a sketchy plant collector’s conservatory and a musty ol...