First, please pay attention to the deadline for this giveaway. I’m going to be out of town next Friday, so I’ll be running a contest then, but I won’t be mailing anything at the end of the week. The British Mystery Giveaway wilt end, Tuesday, October 25 at 5 PM CT. so the winners can get their books.

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Jan L. from West Covina, CA will receive Murder By the Book. Fatal Booking will go to Daniel M. from Weymouth, MA. The books are going out in the mail today.

Some of us here have been raving about Richard Osman’s latest Thursday Murder Club Mystery, The Bullet That Missed. If you haven’t yet had a chance to read it, you can enter to win a copy. It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind–leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?

Or maybe you’d like to win the latest Vera Stanhope mystery by Ann Cleeves, The Rising Tide. For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . . .But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . .

Which book would you like to win? You can enter to win both, but I need separate entries. Email me at Lesa.Holstine@gmail.com. Your subject line should read either “Win The Bullet That Missed” or “Win The Rising Tide.” Please include your name and mailing address. Entries from the U.S. only, please. And, remember, this giveaway will end Tuesday, October 25 at 5 PM CT.