With the advent of the new Project Runway,  I think it’s only fitting to have a cozy mystery centered around the world of fashion, don’t you? This book has some cozy and historical elements to it when you add a ghost from the 1930s. Fun! Gayle Leeson (aka TRENT!) was kind enough to answer a few questions about her newest cozy mystery, Designs on Murder. 

About the Book

Designs On Murder: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series

What if you discovered your lively new friend wasn’t really…alive?

Amanda Tucker is excited about opening her fashion design studio in Shops On Main, a charming old building in historic Abingdon, Virginia. She didn’t realize a ghost came with the property! But soon Maxine “Max” Englebright, a young woman who died in 1930, isn’t the only dead person at the retail complex. Mark Tinsley, a web designer with a know-it-all attitude who also rented space at Shops On Main, is shot in his office.

Amanda is afraid that one of her new “friends” and fellow small business owners is his killer, and Max is encouraging her to solve Mark’s murder a la Nancy Drew. Easy for Max to want to investigate–the ghostly fashionista can’t end up the killer’s next victim!

You can pick up a copy of Designs on Murder at Amazon.

A Visit With Gayle 

How did you come with an idea for your book?

I believe it was a combination of things. I’d been watching the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries tv show on Netflix, and Phryne inspired my ghost Max. And I’ve always been drawn to that particular building in Abingdon, and since there are so many old buildings believed to have resident ghosts in town, that it was only natural for my heroine to set up shop there and discover Max.

What scene do you hope your readers enjoy the most?

I think the scene where Amanda meets Jason, the photographer, is cute. I think that scene really emphasizes the differences between Amanda and Max.

What other things have you written or what projects might we see in the future?

The next book in this series and the next book in the Down South Café series will be out later this year.

If you could write any other genre what would that be?

Psychological thriller.

Is there a giveaway or promotion with this book?

Yes. There’s an overall prize through the blog tour.

Where can readers leave reviews of your book?

Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, and Bookbub

Gayle Leeson is a pseudonym for Gayle Trent. Gayle has also written as Amanda Lee and Gayle Trent. As Amanda Lee, she wrote the Embroidery Mystery series, and as Gayle Trent, she writes the Daphne Martin Cake Mystery series and the Myrtle Crumb Mystery series. Going forward, Gayle intends to keep her writing until the Gayle Leeson name. She has a series of women’s fiction novellas set in a shopping mall that has been converted to include micro-apartments (the Kinsey Falls series) and has just begun this new cozy series, the Ghostly Fashionista Mystery series. Another Down South Cafe novel is slated for release in August with book two in the Ghostly Fashionista series scheduled for October.

Author Links

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Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Gayle-Leeson/e/B01NBSTBDU/

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/426208.Gayle_Trent

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