Today we are excited to show you the exclusive cover reveal for Joe Cosentino’s upcoming release “The Player”, book 1 in his new The Player Piano Mystery series.
Check out how Joe introducses you to the series and have a chance to win an ecopy by the author.

Okay, I’ll admit it. I talk to my characters all the time. They are as real to me as my family and friends. This isn’t as peculiar as it sounds, since I spend more hours with my characters than with anyone else.

When I created my brand new series, the Player Piano Mysteries, I ventured into new territory for me by creating my first ghost character. However, he is no ordinary ghost. Freddy Birtwistle was a wealthy socialite in the Roaring Twenties era. His family made their fortune in the railroad industry. Before Freddy was shot in 1935 at thirty years old by a misinformed jealous husband, he was quite the charismatic player. Freddy was tall and lean with slicked-back hair, violet eyes, high cheekbones, and an irresistible smile. True to the period, he was meticulously dressed at all times. Even more interesting than Freddy’s looks and wardrobe was his joyous sexual magnetism. Sadly, Freddy died without ever finding true love. Thankfully Freddy got a second chance at love when in 2020 Andre Beaufort, a young music teacher, found Freddy’s old player piano in the Art Deco style building once owned by Freddy’s family.

By pedaling the pianola, Andre somehow summoned the ghost of Freddy. At first Freddy was not pleased with a stranger living in his family’s house. However, when Andre’s neighbor is murdered and the police suspect Andre, Freddy and Andre become a ghostly Holmes and earthbound Watson. They also fall deeply in love while solving the two cozy mysteries in this first book in the series: The City House and The Country House.

The two stories are loaded with captivating characters, plot twists and turns, and shocking yet happily ever after endings. The challenge was to find a cover that would represent the cozy mysteries, enchanting characters, delightful humor, and sweet romance in the two stories. Cue to artist Anna Sikorska who created the wonderful cover, which evokes the contemporary Art Deco setting of the stories, but also perfectly captures the essence of Freddy, Andre, and their player piano.

Thank you, Anna, for designing this lovely cover. I hope it will lead all of you readers to The Player. If so, I know you will fall in love with Freddy and Andre and enjoy their fascinating mysteries.

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THE PLAYER, PLAYER PIANO MYSTERIES BOOK 1

by Joe Cosentino

cover by Anna Sikorska

Release Date September 15

Book Blurb:

When young music teacher Andre Beaufort discovers an antique player piano in the basement of his apartment building, he is visited by the ghost of the original owner: a dapper and charismatic playboy from the Roaring Twenties, Freddy Birtwistle.

Andre has never seen a ghost and Freddy has never been one, so they get off to a rocky start. But when Andre finds his neighbor murdered on his doorstep, he and Freddy join forces to narrow the pool of suspects.

Soon Andre and Freddy discover that opposites attract, even if one’s alive and the other dead. Together these amateur detectives make an enticing team, and it’s a good thing too, because the first murder they solve together won’t be their last. But the real mystery isn’t just whodunit—it’s how a romance between a man and a ghost can have a happily ever after ending.

The Player contains two stand-alone cozy murder mysteries, The City House and The Country House.

 

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Joe Cosentino was voted Favorite LGBT Mystery, Humorous, and Contemporary Author of the Year by the readers of Divine Magazine for Drama Queen.

He also wrote the other novels in the Nicky and Noah mystery series: Drama Muscle, Drama Cruise, Drama Luau, Drama Detective, Drama Fraternity, Drama Castle, Drama Dance, Drama Faerie, Drama Runway, Drama Christmas; the Dreamspinner Press stories: In My Heart/An Infatuation & A Shooting Star, the Bobby and Paolo Holiday Stories: A Home for the Holidays/The Perfect Gift/The First Noel, The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland/Holiday Tales from Fairyland, Found At Last: Finding Giorgio/Finding Armando, The Player Piano Mysteries: The Player/The Player’s Encore; the Cozzi Cove series (NineStar Press): Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back, Cozzi Cove: Moving Forward, Cozzi Cove: Stepping Out, Cozzi Cove: New Beginnings, Cozzi Cove: Happy Endings; and the Jana Lane mysteries: Paper Doll, Porcelain Doll, Satin Doll, China Doll, Rag Doll (The Wild Rose Press).

He has appeared in principal acting roles in film, television, and theatre, opposite stars such as Bruce Willis, Rosie O’Donnell, Nathan Lane, Holland Taylor, and Jason Robards.

Joe is currently Chair of the Department/Professor at a college in upstate New York, and he is happily married. Joe was voted 2^nd Place Favorite LGBT Author of the Year in Divine Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards, and his books have received numerous Favorite Book of the Month Awards and Rainbow Award Honorable Mentions.

 

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Would you like to own a player piano, solve mysteries with Freddy and Andre, fall in love with a sexy ghost? Post your comment here about the cover. Freddy’s favorite will win a Dreamspinner Press backlist e-copy by Joe Cosentino of your choice!