BooksChatter: ☀ Up the Creek: Culver Creek [1]

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Up the Creek, a Mystery Thriller by Alissa Grosso (10 January 2021, Glitter Pigeon Press, 310 pages).

This is the first book in the Culver Creek series.

Don't miss our interview with author Alissa Grosso.

PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and the Kindle Cloud Reader Preview below, as well as full details of the series.

Author Alissa Grosso will be awarding a $20 Amazon gift card to two randomly drawn winners via Rafflecopter during the tour. Please do take part: comment on our post and follow the tour where you will be able to read other excerpts (☀), interviews (ℚ), reviews (✍) and guest blog posts (✉).

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Synopsis

An unsolved murder. Disturbing dreams. A missing child.

Caitlin Walker hasn’t had a dream in nine years. Nightmares torture her son Adam and awaken in Caitlin buried memories and a dark secret. Her husband Lance has a secret of his own, one that his son’s nightmares threaten to reveal.

In Culver Creek newly hired detective Sage Dorian works to unravel the small town’s notorious cold case, the grisly murder of a young girl.

How are Caitlin and Lance connected to the horrific crime? And how far will they go to make sure their secrets stay hidden? Find out in this riveting thriller.

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The Series: Culver Creek

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Factory Girls [2]

**Available for pre-order**

Dead Women, Shady Employers, Dark Conspiracies.

Chaz is struggling to make it as a freelance journalist while her boyfriend toils away as the assistant to a washed up comic book creator. He isn’t happy when Chaz goes undercover as a factory employee in the small town of Culver Creek to investigate the deaths of four former workers. Now a fifth woman has been killed, and thanks to his boss Parker knows her.

But Detective Sage Dorian can’t find anyone in Culver Creek who knows the murdered woman. As he investigates the crime he finds disturbing connections to his own sister’s murder.

Parker fears his life is turning into a comic book as his girlfriend’s search for the truth puts her life in jeopardy. Will Sage track down the murderer before they can strike again? Find out in the second book in the Culver Creek Series.

[Published 9 February 2021, 328 pages]

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Haunted Houses [3]

**Available for pre-order**

Family secrets, ghostly photos, shady business deals.

When her father’s murder conviction is overturned a real estate agent with some unconventional business practices attempts to find out who really killed her childhood babysitter. While Detective Sage Dorian tries to catch a local porch pirate, he investigates his sister’s murder. His line of inquiry threatens to land him in hot water just as the porch pirate case takes a dark turn that involves, of all people, his mother’s real estate agent.

A killer is on the loose and Sage’s job is in jeopardy, but could a ghost have the answers he seeks? Find out in Haunted Houses, the third book in The Culver Creek Series.

[Published 9 March 2021, 242 pages]

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Blood Answer [4]

**Available for pre-order**

Stolen Identities, Found Family, Relentless Killers.

A telephone psychic with a guilty secret struggles to escape his past, but he’s pulled back in when a murder victim’s mother calls him for help.

Sage Dorian has developed an unhealthy obsession with finding his sister’s killer, but when someone from his past shows up seeking his assistance in a possible missing person’s case, only to disappear himself, Sage wades into the strange case, only to find a link to his own sister's murder and some surprising truths about his family.

The killer’s still out there, and when Sage realizes who the next intended victim is, he’ll have no choice but to turn to a psychic for help. Will the pair be able to stop the murderer in time? Find out in the thrilling conclusion of the Culver Creek series.

[Published 13 April 2021, 261 pages]

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About the Author

Alissa Grosso is the author of several books for adults and teens.

Originally from New Jersey, she now resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Alissa's first novel, Popular, was published by Flux in 2011, who then went on to also publish two more young adult novels; Ferocity Summer came out in 2012 and Shallow Pond was published in 2013.

Alissa's fourth young adult novel Unnamed Roads came out in 2018, but in the meantime she published a nonfiction book titled How To Make Money Selling Vintage Items on Etsy.

In 2018 Alissa also published her first adult novel, Girl Most Likely to Succeed, a thriller, along with the thriller novella In the Bag.

When she is not busy writing, she hangs out with her boyfriend Ron, selling stuff on the internet, and creating cute and funny digital artwork. Alissa sells some of her designs on t-shirts, stickers and other products through different online retailers.

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