Murder on Cape Cod Cover Reveal!

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News Flash: Sheila Golding is the randomly selected winner of the author apron! Congratulations. Sheila, please send your mailing address to edith at edithmaxwell dot com and I’ll get the apron out to you.

Maddie Day here, otherwise known as Edith, at Barb’s Boothbay Harbor home with all the other main Wickeds on our annual retreat, and boy, is it ever lovely.

I’m using one of our occasional Saturday posts to share some exciting news. The preorder page for Murder on Cape Cod, complete with a special exclusive edition cover, is finally ready over at Barnes & Noble. This is book one in the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, due out December 18, and I’ve been waiting to show you all this cover for a while. I’ll celebrate by sending one commenter a special author apron!

Here’s a little about the series, but you’ll be hearing more about it in coming months.

The series is set in the quaint fictional Cape Cod village of Westham, which is replete with a salt-water taffy shop, craft distillery, gourmet ice cream store, fudge shop, nautical-themed gift shoppe, bakery and cafe, sushi restaurant, lobster shack, and indy bookstore. The shops are bookended on each end by churches, with the town hall, library, and police and fire stations in the middle. Many of the proprietors are members of the Cozy Capers book group – a group that reads and meets to discuss one cozy mystery every week – as are the almost-due-to-retire police chief, the head librarian, and the town clerk. Unfortunately, murder starts popping up in and around the town’s shops.

Mac Almeida is our protagonist, a wiry thirty-six year old with short black curls, who owns and operates Mac’s Bikes, a bicycle repair and rental shop serving locals and tourists alike.  She lives in a tiny house behind the store. Her parents reside in the UU rectory, her half-brother and his little daughter live in a local lighthouse, and her baker boyfriend is just down the road, too. I’ve loved setting up these new characters and this fictional town.

So are you ready for the cover? Ta-da!

MURDER ON CAPE COD with sticker 1.5

I love it! As you can see, Murder on Cape Cod is an exclusive deal with Barnes & Noble for the first year, but after that Kensington Publishing will re-release it on all platforms. My agent and my editor were both excited about the unusual arrangement, and who was aprontenpercentI to say no? The books will have seaside-based recipes and lots of intrigue. Oh, and murder – on the bike trail in this book!

Readers: Who has been to Cape Cod and what do you love about it? If you haven’t, what’s your favorite waterside place to visit (or live)? I’ll send one of you an author apron!

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Agatha Award -winning author Edith Maxwell writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries (Beyond the Page) and short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she writes the Dot and Amelia Mysteries, the Country Store Mysteries series, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, and the Cece Barton Mysteries (all from Kensington Publishing). She lives north of Boston in an antique house with her beau and cat Martin, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook.

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  2. Looks very for intriguing! Love all the coast lines in Michigan no matter where you stop!

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  3. That cover!!! The swirling fog, with the tipped over bike, the lighthouse beam, it makes it so ready for mystery and intrigue! I am so eager to read this new series!
    Have fun with the Wickeds!

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  4. Love the cover. I think the best thing about the Cape is the beaches in off season, and the food anytime.

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  5. Wonderful cover, Edith! You sound excited and so you should be. Congratulations. We will actually be in Brewster on Cape Cod for a week in August with kids and grandkids. Guess which book goes right in my stockpile to bring along?

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  7. I love the idea of a new book. Last summer I got to go to Lake Michigan and it was beautiful.

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  8. Never been to Cape Cod but my favorite waterside area is the Saint Lawrence River. Not only can you see all the vessels you can look across and see Canada which is pretty cool considering is another country to us.

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  9. I can’t wait to read this!! I grew up going to the Cape with my Grandma and other family members. I worked in South Yarmouth for 10 years teaching kindergarten. My aunt & family live on one side of the Sagamore Bridge and my mom lives on the other. The Cape owns a piece of my heart forever!!

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  10. Love the cover! I live in Michigan and you cannot go wrong with any of our beaches or shorelines during the summer no matter which side the of the state you find yourself. It’s one of the reasons I love living here, you are never far from the water.

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  12. Congratulations on the new series. Oh my, I’m going to LOVE the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries! I’m already in love with the cast of characters and the town itself. If not so much in love with where I live, I could see myself living there. However, it will be an amazing place to visit through your books. 🙂 Can’t wait to get my hands on “Murder on Cape Cod” and start reading this series.

    The cover is AWESOME! Such a quaint little house so welcoming so lit up inside and the pretty flowers outside. Since I love lighthouses and the coast, the location is superb. Having lived on the coast of California in my youth, I know all about the fog rolling in. Love the hint of mystery for us cozy lovers in the bicycle laid down on the path. Just LOVE everything about it!

    I’ve not been to Cape Cod but after our trip up the coastline of Maine a couple years ago, I’d love to go back again. How do you pick your favorite when there were so many? 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win one of your author aprons.
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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    1. Thanks so much, Kay! I’m really excited about the series, too. Where in California did you live? I grew up in the Pasadena area and spent a lot of time at Huntington and Newport beaches.

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  13. I love the cover. I was just in Chatham a few weeks ago.My in-laws live there so we always stay there but I love to travel to Provincetown and just drive around or park at the beach and just soak up the surroundings. Haven’t done that in a long time. Congrats on your new book, looking forward to reading it.

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  14. Unfortunately I’ve never been to Cape Cod. My favorite waterside place to visit is TiKaye on the isle of St Lucia. Snorkeling, sitting on the beach and reading. Cannot beat that.

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  15. Love the cover. I’ve never been to the Cape. I would love to visit, despite not being a beach person. I want to go to an authentic clam bake.

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  16. That cover is absolutely INCREDIBLE!! I LOVE it!! I want this book, that’s all I have to say.

    And oh, I forgot, I haven’t been to Cape Cod but have always wanted to go. Congratulations on the new series. 😊

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  17. That cover is so colorful! I am looking forward to this new series. I have not been to Cape Cod, but I have spent time at Old Orchard Beach, Maine. I just love it there!

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  18. I was a nanny for two years for a family in New York. They would spend two weeks on Nantucket each August and we had to drive to the Cape to catch the ferry. Being from the Midwest, I had never seen a round about/ rotary on a road and the kids thought it was fun to make a circle on the road! I remember stopping somewhere for really delicious ice cream, but can’t remember the place. The other fun part was the accent. When we drove up to the ferry parking lot, the attendant asked if we wanted to “pahk the cah”. And they told me I had an accent! The coast was so beautiful and I miss seeing the ocean every summer! The new book looks like a great way to reminisce about the Cape. I’m excited to read it!

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  19. Congratulations! Love the cover. Haven’t been to Cape Cod in many years. Found I have to stay out of the sun so I don’t really enjoy being at the beach as much as I did in my younger days but I still love reading about it and seeing pictures.

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  20. Congratulations! What a great cover! I am so excited for it to release! I have been to Cape Cod and one of my favorite things about any of the coastal towns is the honest to goodness salt water Taffy! Yum! It just isn’t the same anywhere else!

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  21. Love, love, love the cover. It truly invokes the feel of Cape Cod. I’m really excited about a new series by you! I spent week on the Cape for a geology class (as a very adult college student) and then had to go back a couple of times to complete the study I was doing. I’m not a beach person at all, but I love the atmosphere and relaxed attitude of the place. And lobster was delicious!

    I would be proud to wear your apron, Edith!

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  24. Have not been to Cape Cod, although someday I’d like to.
    My seaside place I want to visit again is Cambria, California.

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  25. So that’s how I missed it. I wasn’t looking for pre orders only at Barnes and Noble.

    Love the cover. Can’t wait to read it!

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  26. Beautiful cover! I’ve never been to Cape
    Cod. My favorite place to go is St. Simon’s Island.

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  27. I have never been to Cape Cod, but would love to visit there! My favorite destimation is beachside in Sanibel Island, Florida. I simply adore the sunshine and ocean breeze (with a good book). 🙂

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  28. Love the cover! Big congrats!!! No, I’ve never been to Cape Cod, though would like to go. I love
    Anna Marie Island in Fla.

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  29. Congratulations on this new upcoming series. Will definitely order it. It has such a great cover and obviously a wonderful book. I lived in CT for the first 19 years of my life and in MA since. We have made many trips and had vacations to the Cape in the last 50 plus years, having a summer place in Wellfleet (one of our favorite places due to lovely memories I imagine) for the first ten years of our marriage and then a year round/vacation home in Buzzards Bay for another ten years in the 80’s. I am a big food person (and it shows😀) and love to cook. When we retired and downsized, a packed box of kitchen items was lost and that had most of my aprons in it collected over 40 plus years. Since then I’ve only bought a utility apron and a fancy quilted one in Lancaster County, PA. at an Amish shop when we went to Hershey for our 50th anniversary with our daughter and her family. All that being said, I really would love to receive your author apron, Edith. Thank you so much for the chance.

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  32. I have never been to Cape Cod. I’ve always been interested in going. My favorite place by the water, is where I live, Oceanside CA.

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    2. Sheila, you are the randomly selected winner! Congratulations. Please send your mailing address to edith at edithmaxwell dot com and I’ll get the apron out to you.

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  33. Nice cover. Just wish I did not have to wait until 2019 to order and read. I do Kindle only.

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  34. Love the cover!
    As a Michigander, I love the west side of the state on Lake Michigan. I also love going up to the upper peninsula to Whitefish Point on Lake Superior.

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  36. I’ve been to Cape Cod, but it was back in the mid to late 70’s. My favorite coastal communities are along the Florida coasts: New Smyrna Beach, Fernsndina Beach, and so many other smallish waterfront towns. I also adore Lahaina. Maui. I love seafood, the ocean, and pristine sand, although a rocky shoreline is also beautiful.

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  37. The cover is great! My favorite seaside place is Cannon Beach, Oregon. Looking forward to this new series!

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  39. New series, yay! I know Cape Cod is on the map, but I’m from Texas and have never traveled further north than Dallas! My favorite waterside place(s)… Gruene (riverside), Lake Buchanan (well…lakeside) and Port Aransas (gulf-side). Honestly, I’m really more of the INSIDE kind, though. Texas is just too hot!

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    1. Jenn,
      I’m from Texas too. The Cape is SO nice! My family was from the East Coast and we would go there when I was a kid. When I saw the beaches in Galveston for the first time, I was so let down, nothing like the Cape.

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  40. I just LOVE Cape Cod. My family would go to the Cape and Nantucket ever summer up to when I was an adult. I haven’t been in years and I really miss the place, especially during the summer! Where I live, between the humidity and high temperatures, it’s like being slapped in the face with a warm, wet washcloth every time I go outside.

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  41. Love the cover. I have never been to Cape Cod. But I do love Seaside, Oregon and all of the Oregon coast. It is beautiful! Thanks for a chance to win!

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    1. I’ve been to Seaside a number of times, Lori. My ex-husband’s family has a house in Tolovana Park, so we used to take the boys there every summer! Thanks for stopping by the blog.

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  42. Fantastic cover! It has the same “feel” as your portrait on the web page — gentle, mysterious, waiting for the next thing to happen.Looking forward to walking around the new place with these new characters.
    My most memorable trip to the Cape was around 1962 as a naive 15 year old, traveling with my equally naive 17 year old neighbor with her first car. How relieved we were to discover my parents’ best friends at the same cabins in Turro. They chaperoned us to an evening in Provincetown. Without them, I am sure we would never have gone.
    My current favorite ocean and beach, Hillsboro Beach, FL. Breath taking sunrises over the ocean and the hypnotic sound of waves. Bliss.

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  44. I love at Lake McConaughy in western Nebraska and it is incredible. But, I have always wanted to visit the Cape. I know it would blow my mind.

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  45. I was on Cape Cod but the tour took us to Nantucket for the day and on to someplace else the next day. I was disappointed not to see more of the Cape. The new book sounds wonderful!

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  47. So excited for this!!! I’ve been looking for a Cape Cod kind of style cozy mystery! I will definitely read.

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  48. I have never been to Cape Cod. One of my favorite places to visit is Mackinac island, Michigan. I like that there are no cars allowed on the island and all of the old Victorian houses and the Grand Hotel make it a quaint, charming place to visit.

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  49. We’ve been to the Cape at least 5 times. The last two we stayed at the same place The Seashore Park Inn. I’ve become friends with the day manager who is a retired police officer. My son in law is a cop in NYC and my son spent 10yrs as the Dep. Dir. Of Operations and Training for NY OEM.

    We spend at least one full day in P-town walking the streets and alleys to see what’s new. We also check out the food scene. I’d love to own a home there year round and make it big enough to host author weekends.

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  50. Love the cover! I’ve been to the cape many times. Such a beautiful place. It’s been a while though since I’ve been there.

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