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The Secret Sauce is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability. 

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The Secret Sauce by MJ Porter

Genre: Quirky historical mystery

Tour Dates: 19th - 25th November 2025

Publication Date: 25th August 2025

Estimated Page Count: 234

Formats available: Epub, PDF and limited UK paperbacks

Standalone third book in the Erdington Mysteries

Types of post available: Reviews and limited extracts, guest posts and Q&As

Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Sauce-incredibly-historical-Erdington-ebook/dp/B0F4PCVJWP

Birmingham, England, November 1944.


Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory in Aston on a wet Monday morning in late November 1944.Greeted by his enthusiastic sergeant, O’Rourke, Sam Mason finds himself plunged into a challenging investigation to discover how Harry Armstrong met his death in a vat containing BB Sauce – a scene that threatens to put him off BB Sauce on his bacon sandwiches for the rest of his life.


Together with Sergeant O’Rourke, Mason follows a trail of seemingly unrelated events until something becomes very clear. The death of Harry Armstrong was certainly murder, and might well be connected to the tragedy unfolding at nearby RAF Fauld. While the uncertainty of war continues, Mason and O’Rourke find themselves seeking answers from the War Office and the Admiralty, as they track down the person who murdered their victim in such an unlikely way.


Join Mason and O’Rourke for the third book in the quirky, historical mystery series, as they once more attempt to solve the impossible in 1940s Erdington.

About MJ Porter


I’m an author of historical fiction and non-fiction (Early English (Saxon), Vikings and the British Isles as a whole before the Norman Conquest, as well as five twentieth-century mysteries), born in the old Mercian kingdom at some point since the end of 1066. Historical mysteries allow me to use such modern inventions as the telephone and the car, which is very exciting when I spend so much of my time worrying about feeding the horses my warriors usually ride.

I was raised in the shadow of a strange little building and told from a very young age it housed the bones of long-dead kings of Mercia, it’s little wonder my curiosity in the early English ran riot. I can only blame my parents!

I like to write. You’ve been warned!


​Follow MJ Porter


https://linktr.ee/MJPorterauthor 

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Blog Tour Schedule


Maximum 3 stops per day.  Confirmed blogs will appear here. 


19th November

  1. ramblingmads.com

  2. Splashes Into Books

  3. Colin Garrow

20th November

  1. Let us talk of many things...

  2. TBHonest

  3. The Book Elf

21st November

  1. @candygirl73reads

  2. redhead_reviews1

  3. Kitty McIntosh

22nd November

  1. WildWritingLife

  2. Bookworm86

  3. Novel Kicks

23rd November

  1. My Books and Crafts

  2. Sarandipity's

  3. Against the Flow

24th November

  1. Becca’s Book Reviews

  2. Heather Adores Books

  3. malloch_books

25th November

  1. Kat's Book Cave

  2. Scrapping&Playing

  3. annette_reads_daily

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