Jade Hicks from Twinkle Twinkle au Revoir, A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe mystery, is visiting Ascroft, eh? today to tell us a bit about what happened when Hollywood arrived in Mermaid Bay.

Welcome, Jade. I’ll turn the floor over to you –

Hi, y’all. I’m Jade Hicks, and I own ‘Tis the Season, a Christmas store in the beach town of Mermaid Bay, Virginia.  My grandmother opened the store about thirty years ago in a converted beach cottage. Each themed room has decorations, and at last count, there are over 300 trees in the store. My spunky French bulldog Chloe comes to work with me every day. She thinks she’s head of security, but Neville the Devil Cat, the store’s chief mouser, has other ideas.

Guess what happened to our quiet little beach! Love is in the air when Hollywood arrives in Mermaid Bay, and the town may never be the same. Fans will do almost anything to get a glimpse of the actors or a chance to be an extra in the Love Channel’s “My Coastal Valentine.” Crowds flock to our cozy beach town from all over and business is booming. All is going well until the body of a testy reporter is found in one of the actor’s rooms. And if murder isn’t bad enough, someone tries to kill the show’s star, hunky Raphael Allard.

Mermaid Bay feels cursed, as the Love Channel threatens to pull out of the project. Along with my team, Lorelei, Peppermint Patti, Bernie, Chloe, and Neville the Devil Cat, I have to solve the crimes before it ruins the town’s reputation and breaks the hearts of fans across the country.

Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir is the second book in the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries cozy series. Jade and the gang will also appear in A Tisket A Tasket, Not Another Casket (2025). The series has been extended for three additional cozy mysteries.

Thank you for sharing this with us, Jade, and good luck to you and your author, Heather Weidner, with Twinkle Twinkle au Revoir, the latest book in the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe mystery series.

Readers can learn more about Jade and her author, Heather Weidner by visiting the author’s website and. her Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, BookBub and Goodreads pages. You can also follow her on Twitter and BlueSky.

The book is available online at  Amazon 

About Heather Weidner: Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries. Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill. Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.