Marcy Blesy, author of Murder Movie Club (Murder on a Monday), a Monthly Murder Movie Club mystery, is visiting Ascroft, eh? today to tell us a bit about her writing and her cozy mystery series.

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

Hello! My name is Marcy Blesy, and I am the author of the Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series. Books 1-8 are out now with Book 9 coming in June.  I’ve also completed the three-book series: The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series.

As a fan of Murder, She Wrote and cozy mysteries, I began writing my own cozies a couple of years ago and have fallen in love with the genre and the readers who love it, too. Cozy mystery readers are the kindest, most supportive readers! The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series features a 39-year-old woman who flees the problems in her life by running off to visit her parents in their snowbird retirement community in Arizona. Little did she know she’d find even more drama when she discovers a dead body, adopts a puppy, and learns to date again after twenty years!

In the Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series, a frazzled kindergarten teacher is sent a text message from her jerk of an ex-boyfriend asking for help in solving a murder of their former high school lunch lady. The problem (besides the fact that Kasper is a jerk)? HE has been dead for five years!

My newest series is The Monthly Murder Movie Club Cozy Mystery Series. The first book is called Murder Movie Club (Murder on a Monday) and was just released on February 21^st! Book two comes in March. Here is the blurb:

Murder: best served with popcorn.
That’s the mantra for the members of the Monthly Murder Movie Club at The Northwoods Movie Theater. Every month, this eclectic group of northern Michigan residents gather to watch a murder mystery movie on the big screen. After stopping the projector in the middle of the movie, the members gather to discuss the crime and suspects, each making a whodunit pick before resuming the movie. The hairdresser with the scissors? The jilted lover with poison?

But nothing is normal on this Monday morning when the club members find the ticket-taking popcorn maker John E. Cash in the lobby of the theater, deader than any actor in their beloved movies. Using their unique talents and eccentricities, the Monthly Murder Movie Club members work collectively to solve the crime before the Northwoods Police force does. Members strive to protect the reputation of their beloved theater–and to protect their Monday meetings–because what each member is discovering is that there is so much more to their Monday club than a good old-fashioned murder mystery.

Found family, new friends, and murder investigations!

I love writing cozy mysteries. I love starting with an idea, deciding how I want the story to end, and jotting down lots and lots and lots of notes along the way. My favorite is creating a visual whodunit organizer where I put the victim’s name in a circle with lines drawn out representing each of the suspects. I then add motives for each of them to keep the reader guessing. Sometimes, I even change the murderer along the way! What power I wield in my fingertips. LOL

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk about my writing and my cozy mystery series!

Thank you for sharing this with us, Marcy, and good luck with Murder Movie Club (Murder on a Monday), the latest book in the Monthly Murder Club mystery series. Readers can learn more about Marcy Blesy by visiting the author’s website and. her Facebook, Instagram and Goodreads pages.

The book is available online at  Amazon 

About Marcy Blesy: Marcy Blesy is the author of over thirty  books including the popular cozy mystery series: The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series, a hilarious misadventure in amateur sleuthing. Her adult romance mystery series includes The Secret of Blue Lake and The Secret of Silver Beach, set in Michigan. The Ghost Texter Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series, featuring a sleuthing kindergarten teacher in Michigan was recently released. Children’s books include the best-selling Be the Vet series along with the following early chapter book series: Evie and the Volunteers, Niles and Bradford, Third Grade Outsider, and Hazel, the Clinic Cat.

Marcy enjoys searching for treasures along the shores of Lake Michigan. She’s still waiting for the day when she finds a piece of red beach glass.

Marcy is a believer in love and enjoys nothing more than making her readers feel a book more than simply reading it.