Behold -

the beauteousness of DIY-4, Mortar and Murder!

Due to arrive in a store near you on January 4th, 2011 - that's just over six months from now - Mortar and Murder has a cover, and as usual, the brilliant Jennifer Taylor has outdone herself. My sinister shadow is back, which makes me very happy - he was missing from DIY-3, Plaster and Poison - and you'll notice a new cat up there in the middle of the stairs. He's a small Russian Gray kitten named Mischa, and he lives under the porch of the 1783 center-chimney Colonial house on Rowanberry Island that Avery and Derek take on in Mortar and Murder. I wanted the book to be called Island Getaway, which should give you an idea of what it's about, but that was deemed not renovate-y enough. So we ended up with the current title instead. And the current cover. Innit beautiful?

It's Official

A Cutthroat Business is in stores - yay! - and DIY-4, Mortar and Murder, has an official release date of January 4th, 2011. It's available for preorder from Amazon, HERE. There's no cover art as of this writing, but I have it on good authority that the cover will feature a colonial staircase, a sailcloth rug, a view of the ocean, and a small, blue-gray kitten. Considering the previous three covers, I'm sure Jennifer Taylor will blow it out once again. I'll post a picture of the cover as soon as I have one. In the meantime, get thee to a store and purchase A Cutthroat Business, by my alter ego, the real me, Bente Gallagher.