1–What is the title of your latest release? MURDER AT THE PUMPKIN PAGEANT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Running a bakery in a hunted lighthouse, Lindsey Bakewell loves fall baking but dreads Halloween, and this year the Halloween antics are ramping up. Someone keeps hanging hideous dummies from her tree, kids keep trying to break into the lighthouse to see her resident ghost, and her best friend, Kennedy, surprises her by announcing a livestream ghost host hunt on Halloween night. Just when Lindsey believes she’s successfully made it through Halloween, the ghost hunt takes a deadly turn, and a body is discovered. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant is the 4th in my Beacon Bakeshop mystery series. In the first book my protagonist, Lindsey Bakewell, is a Wall Street investment banker who desperately needs a change of pace. She ends up purchasing a lighthouse in Michigan on the internet and decides to move there and open her dream bakery. That’s basically the gist of the series. When I was trying to come up with this series, I knew that I wanted to set it in a…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Darci Hannah!   Writes: I cut my teeth writing Scottish historical fiction, but now I’m indulging my passion for cozy mysteries by writing the Beacon Bakeshop Mystery Series. My third book in the series, MURDER AT THE BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL, will be out on July 26th. What is a cozy mystery you ask? To me it’s a lot like visiting a favorite, welcoming, happy place. I set my cozy mystery series in the beautiful yet fictitious lakeside village of Beacon Harbor, Michigan. It’s such a delightful place that I (and hopefully readers) want to visit it again and again. The characters in cozy mysteries can be a bit quirky, but often they’re a hoot. They’re they type of people you want to hang out with and invite to dinner, because you know the conversations are going to be entertaining. I love writing feisty, interesting, and endearing protagonists. I also delight in giving them a host of interesting family and friends who both challenge and help…