Blog Tour & Giveaway: Bewitching Boots by Joyce and Jim Lavene

Once Upon A Time
By Joyce Lavene

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Isabelle. She liked to play around and take things away from those who weren’t as beautiful or royal as she. She especially liked taking other women’s boyfriends.

They didn’t like it much. But the men were happy—until she dumped them.

Then Princess Isabelle met a wonderful shoemaker named Bill who had elf magic. Bill was from a long line of shoemakers, the ones who’d made Cinderella’s glass slippers, and other enchanted shoes. He tickled her fancy, and her feet, for a short time.

But fickle Isabelle took his slippers and sent him packing.

What Isabelle didn’t know was that someone wanted to kill her. The killer took advantage of Isabelle’s new slippers to blame her death on the new shoemaker. Poor Isabelle was carelessly tossed from the castle terrace.

But a woman who was not Isabelle’s friend wouldn’t allow the shoemaker to be falsely charged with the princess’s murder. Lady Jessie Morton set out to prove that someone else was responsible for Isabelle’s death.

In the end, Lady Jessie found the killer and put Princess Isabelle’s spirit to rest. She had help from her hunky husband, Bailiff Chase Manhattan. Even that stupid blue ghost, Wanda, was something of a help.

And they all lived happily ever after in Renaissance Village and Marketplace, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Huzzah!

About the Author:

Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, bestselling mystery fiction as themselves, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. They have written and published more than 70 novels for Harlequin, Berkley, Amazon, and Gallery Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in rural North Carolina with their family.

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Jessie is thrilled when she finds Bill Warren, an old fashioned shoemaker, and he agrees to come back to Renaissance Village with her. She’s not so thrilled when claims to have elf magic, and he falls for Princess Isabelle. The dancing slippers Bill makes for Isabelle make him a suspect when the princess takes a leap from the castle terrace. Now, Jessie must find the lady or lord who helped the princess with her last dance before she loses her star attraction.

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Jennifer’s Review of Bewitching Boots

Review (4.5 Stars): Whenever I have the opportunity to read a mystery from Joyce and Jim Lavene, I know that it will definitely be a winner.  The Renaissance Faire Mystery series is one of my favorites and I’m delighted to say that Bewitching Boots is a charming addition to an already wonderful series.  In Bewitching Boots, Jessie is excited to have Bill Warren at the Renaissance Fair showing the daily visitors how he makes his old fashioned footwear.  Just when his exhibit is supposed to open at the museum, Princess Isabelle is found dead and the last person to have seen her alive just happened to be the new shoemaker.  Jessie doesn’t believe for an instant that he is guilty of murder but when he starts talking about his shoes having elf magic, Jessie has to wonder if Bill may be somehow responsible for Isabelle’s death.  Now, Jessie has to find the true killer before another victim is taken out of the Renaissance spotlight.

I love Jessie and the other characters of the Renaissance Faire series and I am always so excited to be able to spend time with them in each book of the series.  Bewitching Boots was a quick yet entertaining mystery that had me guessing about who was truly responsible for Isabelle’s death.  I can’t wait to read more from these talented authors and I hope that there will be another book in the series sometime next year.

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