Blog Tour and Giveaway - Bubba Done It by Maggie Toussaint

I'm thrilled to have Maggie Toussaint here today. Her new book Bubba Done It is out and it was a good one.  Leave a comment and email for a chance to win. One lucky reader will win 1 e-copy or 1 print copy from the authors backlist:

In For A Penny

On the Nickel

Dime If I Know (Silver Falchion winner)

Death, Island Style

Murder in the Buff

Thanks for being here today Maggie! 

Bubba Done It
by Maggie Toussaint

Bubba Done It (A Dreamwalker Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Five Star (May 20, 2015)
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-1432830670

Amateur sleuth and dreamwalker Baxley Powell is called in on a stabbing case. She arrives in time to hear the dying man whisper, “Bubba done it.”

Four men named Bubba in Sinclair County, Georgia, have close ties to the victim, including her goofball brother-in-law, Bubba Powell.

She dreamwalks for answers, but the victim can’t talk to her, leaving Baxley to sleuth among the living. The suspects include a down-on-his-luck fisherman, a crack-head evangelist, a politically- connected investor, and her brother-in-law, the former sweetheart of the victim’s ex-wife.

The more Baxley digs, the more the Bubbas start to unravel. Worse, her brother-in-law’s definitely more than friendly with the victim’s ex-wife.

Between pet-sitting, landscaping, and dreamwalking, Baxley’s got her hands full solving this case.

My review:

This book captured me from the beginning and left me wanting more in the end. Baxley is a strong character who really knows what she is doing and how to get what she needs. When she finds out there there are four suspects all named Bubba she will have her work cut out for her to find out which one is the killer before the killer gets another victim. A great story line with a cast of characters that keep you interested till the last page. Get this fast-paced action book and enjoy a night so compelling and gripping. I loved it and eagerly wait to see what Baxley will do next. 

Guest Post:

Feeling Different

By Maggie Toussaint

Raise your hand if you know what it’s like to be different. Uh-huh. That’s what I thought. We’ve all been too “this” or too “that” at one point or another.

For me, the biggest out-of-sync experience came at the start of 8th grade. My parents split just before Easter of 7th grade, and I had the summer to accept that new reality, the subsequent move to another county, and enrollment in another school zone.

I endured the terrible awkwardness of those first weekend custody exchanges, learned a new landscape, and thought I was okay with the whole thing. I didn’t know I’d have a new label attached to my name.

People whispered behind my back, “There’s the new girl. She comes from a Broken Home. Bless her heart.” (Maybe some of you are too young to remember there used to be a terrible stigma attached to divorce. I was just glad my parents were no longer fighting, you know?)

Anyway, being the new kid in school was hard for me because I’d grown up surrounded by a wealth of cousins in a much smaller town. For the first time, I was truly alone everywhere I went. That formative experience taught me to dig deep, to know who I was, and what I wanted.

In truth, it launched me into an adult mindset at 13, and in many ways it prepared me to be a mystery writer. I began to be more analytical and to say “what if” to myself as I addressed challenges.

I wrote romances to begin with, then my Cleopatra Jones mystery series, and several stand-alone mysteries. I recently began a new mystery series with a paranormal sleuth named Baxley (Nesbitt) Powell. She’s a dreamwalker, though for many years she denied her extra powers. Her awakening to her differences came at an early age when people would point to her and her family and whisper. She never wanted to be a Nesbitt. Never wanted to have extra gears of sensory perception.

During her school years, Baxley longed to fit in, but she was always excluded. The popular kids wouldn’t accept her because her clothes were different (tie-dyed and jeans during a very preppy fashion era), her family philosophies were too liberal, and her parents didn’t have real jobs. For years, she worried they might be secret pot growers. Bottom line, she became self-reliant and a straight-A student because she couldn’t wait to get out of her small town.

I couldn’t let Baxley grow up alone, so I gave her a BFF. You see, another young girl in her class also didn’t fit in. Charlotte Armstrong was ostracized because of her overweight issues as early as elementary school, and she and Baxley became inseparable. Their friendship endured the years when Baxley married a service man and lived at different military bases around the country for eight years. When her husband didn’t return from a mission, Baxley and her daughter moved back home to coastal Georgia.

My Dreamwalker Mystery Series began with Gone and Done It, in which Baxley is determined to

prove she can be a police consultant. In this story, she learns to accept the entirety of who she is, including her extrasensory powers and talking to the dead. In my new book, Bubba Done It, she has attained police consultant status, but she learns every case is different and discovers regular rules don’t apply to the paranormal world.

In short, even though Baxley has come full circle, from outsider to insider in her home community, she’s still coping with differences, still learning new things about herself, still eager to face each challenge. Because she’s learned what many others haven’t. There is no “Easy” button in life; it’s all a mystery.

About This Author

 From her youthful days of tree climbing and dreams of flying to her career days of pocket-protector geekiness as a toxicologist, Southern author Maggie Toussaint remains riveted by a good story. As a book aficionado, she put into practice what she’d learned and began penning novels.

Maggie is published in mystery and romantic suspense, with six titles in each genre. The third book in her Cleopatra Jones mystery series recently won the Silver Falchion Award, while her romances have won the National Readers’ Choice Award and the EPIC eBook Award for Romantic Suspense. She also writes science fiction under the pen name of Rigel Carson. More at www.maggietoussaint.com.

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