Cover Reveal for my New Mystery - A Sprinkling of Murder + #book #giveaway by @DarylWoodGerber

Cover reveal + book giveaway!

I have a new series coming in June, the Fairy Garden Mysteries.  

This is the cover for the first in the series, A SPRINKLING OF MURDER.

What's it about? 

Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into your life. But when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she’ll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve a murder . . .

Since childhood, Courtney has loved fairies. After her mother died when she was ten, she lost touch with that feeling of magic. A year ago, at age twenty-nine, she rediscovered it when she left her father's landscaping business to spread her wings and start a fairy garden business and teashop in beautiful Carmel, California. At Open Your Imagination, she teaches garden design and sells everything from fairy figurines to tinkling wind chimes and trickling fountains. Now she's starting a book club tea.

But the light of the magical world she's created inside her shop is darkened one night when she discovers neighboring dog-grooming business owner Mick Watkins dead beside a fountain. To make matters worse, the police suspect Courtney of the crime. To clear her name and find the real killer, Courtney will have to wing it. But she’s about to get a little help from an unexpected new friend . . .

-->

You can pre-order on Amazon HERE.  

And my website has links for all the other venues HERE

Plus you can read a chapter, learn the history of the series, and more HERE.

What is a fairy garden? Well, here are a few I've made. They're sort of like dollhouses for your garden. I've made a video giving a tour of my gardens. I fell in love with this art about a year ago. I couldn't keep doing the big pojects in my garden, due to shoulders and elbows and aches and pains. But petite gardening? Perfect!

You can see more on my Pinterest page and on my Website. ADD LINKS  And I've made a couple of how-to videos, if you're interested. HERE

And now for today's recipe!

BLUEBERRY LEMON COBBLER

(Gluten-free version, serves 4-6)

Blueberry Filling Ingredients:

3 cups blueberries, rinsed

1 1/2 tablespoons sugar

1/2 tablespoon gluten-free flour (*I used sweet rice flour)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

Lemon Cake Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup gluten-free flour (*I used sweet rice flour here, too)

1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum

2 tablespoons whey flour

4 tablespoons brown sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cut into pieces

8 generous tablespoons cream cheese

3/4 cup milk

2 eggs

2-4 tablespoons lemon juice (from fresh lemon)

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

*1/8 cup granulated sugar to sprinkle on top, if desired + 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

*vanilla ice cream or whipped topping, if desired

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Line 8-inch square pan with parchment paper.

In a bowl, toss the blueberries with the sugar, flour, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.

In a pastry blender or food processor, whisk together the gluten-free flour, xanthan gum, whey powder, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add in the butter and pulse until the mixture looks crumbly.

Add in the cream cheese and pulse, then add milk, eggs, lemon juice, lemon zest, and cinnamon, and mix until the dough has come together but is just combined. It will resemble cooked oatmeal. *It could be thinner if you added more lemon juice or used jumbo eggs instead of large eggs.

Spoon half the dough into the prepared pan and pat, if necessary, to make it even.  Distribute the berry mixture evenly on top of the dough. Top with the rest of the dough and pat to make it even. If desired, sprinkle with granulated sugar mixed with extra cinnamon.

Bake for 30-35 minutes (or more, depending on your oven and whether you added more moisture as noted above), until the coffee cake is a warm brown and a toothpick comes out clean.

*FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO MAKE THIS USING REGULAR FLOUR, substitute out the gluten-free flours and omit the xanthan gum.

-->

GIVEAWAY

To celebrate my new series, I'm offering a giveaway of winner's choice of my cozy msyteries. 

Leave a comment and your email to enter.

Winner picked Friday.

And here are a few of my other books...

Order FAN MAIL, the second in series, trade paperback and e-book:
Applebooks 
Kobo

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

Order SIFTING THROUGH CLUES HERE, trade paperback and e-book

SAVOR THE MYSTERY!

 

Friend Daryl and Avery on Facebook
Follow Daryl on Twitter
Follow Avery on Twitter
Follow both of us on Pinterest
Plus check out my website

Follow Daryl on Bookbub