Makeover Cover Reveal to My Latest Cozy Mystery Series Title

This week I spiffed up my front cover to my latest ebook, The Amber Top Hat: Book 4 of the Isabel & Alma Trumbo Cozy Mystery Series, and released its new front cover. It depicts the murder victim's crayon drawing as a kid of a taxicab's roof sign, also known as the top hat in the cabbies's trade lingo. Ralph Blue dreams of driving his own taxicab, and when he grows up, he buys one to serve the good folks of Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, the small town where he lives. When he's found murdered inside of his taxicab, it's time for Isabel and Alma, our feisty and funny sister sleuths who live in the brick rambler on Church Street, to get busy with their proven detective skills. Of course, they also have to deal with their bumbling and often contrary Sheriff Fox. I included more small town humor in The Amber Top Hat because Isabel and Alma never take themselves too seriously while they snoop for the right clues and leads to unmask Ralph's killer. All of my cozy mysteries are fair play and clean reads. Here's a sample taken from Chapter 1 of The Amber Top Hat:

Alma was quick on the nod, thrilled the chase was on again. “Righter than rain, Isabel,” she said.

“Don’t forget three Trumbos sleuth on your behalf.”

“That’s right.” Blue smiled for the first time. “I get three for the price of one.”

“You didn’t let me finish,” Alma said. “We’ll also call on Sammi Jo and Phyllis Garner as well as Petey Samson. He’s getting his beauty rest but don’t let that mislead you. He’s a ball of fire bloodhound when he’s called upon.”

“Is Petey Samson a bloodhound for real?” Blue asked. “I could’ve sworn he’s a mixed breed, what my folks used to call a pound mutt.”

“Oh, brother,” Alma said. “I wished you hadn’t said that.”

“I’ll have you know Petey Samson is no pound mutt,” Isabel said, shaking her finger at Blue. “His best breeding lies in his bloodhound line,” she said.

“I didn’t know that,” Blue said.

“Pay no mind to Isabel,” Alma said. “She’s just overprotective of her fur baby.”

I hope you enjoyed reading my sample. Please consider reading The Amber Top Hat with your other summer books. Thanks for your interest in my cozy mystery series.

Ed Lynskey
Author of the Isabel & Alma Trumbo Cozy Mystery Series