While we all look forward to another pandemic winter (not!), many of us will dream of future vacations. If your idea of fun is seeing businesses shaped like giant dogs, picnic baskets, or train cars, The Impossible Road Trip is the perfect escapist treat. Surveying three unusual attractions in eachContinue Reading
The Home Office is once again trying to close down the Peculiar Crimes Unit. But Arthur Bryant has a plan to keep the Unit open, he just needs to quickly find a suspicious death to investigate. Mrs. Hoffman is found dead of seemingly natural causes. But Bryant and May findContinue Reading
True Crime Story is a mystery wrapped in a podcast format that sucks in both the author and book publisher as characters. It is unusual, delightful, and twisty as can be! Zoe goes missing three months after beginning her new college life. Seven years later, she has still not beenContinue Reading
Raina runs a trendy hot yoga studio on touristy Devil’s Beach, Florida. One day, she disappears. Her boyfriend, Kai, uses his state senator father’s clout to get all levels of law enforcement to search for her. Since the title of the book is Cold Brew Corpse, I think you canContinue Reading
A Cornish Christmas Murder is an amusing and challenging locked house mystery with both Clue(do) and Agatha Christie vibes. A group of people trapped by snow and forced to spend the night in a large country house. Four lost Japanese girls with a wrecked car. A couple who also claimContinue Reading
Lillian Pentecost is a private investigator in 1946 New York City. Will Parker is her female assistant. Will’s former job was as a circus knife thrower’s assistant. When the knife thrower is arrested for the stabbing death of the tattooed lady, Lillian and Will travel to rural Virginia to investigateContinue Reading
Delphine, Lindsay and Margaux are The Ballerinas. In flashbacks, we see their complicated friendship from the age of twelve set in the world of Paris ballet. Now, Delphine has returned in her thirties to choreograph a new ballet with her old company, the Paris Opera Ballet, after a long stintContinue Reading
Trese Vol 3: Mass Murders is the origin story for the streaming anime. It is set in an alternate world. The manga begins with Alexandra Trese at 16 learning her investigative skills. It also relays the origins of her mask-wearing sidekicks, the Kambal. I watched the anime first, which mightContinue Reading
My Review Olivia visits her father on her way to a new high-powered publishing job in NYC. While in her hometown, her friend Paige is found bludgeoned to death. When another old friend, A.J., is accused of the crime, Olivia decided to find the real killer. Where the Light ShinesContinue Reading
Isabel Puddles has returned to college to finish up her degree forty years after beginning it. She just completed a correspondence course to become a newly minted private investigator. Isabel breakfasts with her best friend every morning at the town’s cafe. She also works part-time in her nephew’s hardware store.Continue Reading
My Review Mystery bookstore owner Sam and her grandmother Nana Jo are once again detecting in Killer Words. When obnoxious mayoral candidate, John Cloverton, is murdered, Detective “Stinky” Pitts is accused of the crime. While Sam and her grandmother saw Pitts strike Cloverton, they don’t think the Detective committed murder.Continue Reading
Amish matchmaker Millie and her best friend non-Amish Lois are investigating a forty-year-old cold case in Marriage Can Be Mischief. When buggy maker Samuel Zook is found murdered in his buggy, the obvious suspect is his abused wife Gali. But when Gali’s skeleton is found nearby forty years later, MillieContinue Reading
My Review Lynley is a volunteer at the Friends of Felines cat shelter. Five years ago, she found a stray kitten with unusual markings in a duffle bag with a cat toy, drugs and $10,000 cash. She placed the kitten in the shelter and gave the bag to the police.Continue Reading
Author’s Guest Post Setting the Scene – Scenery as a Character What’s the most important thing in a book? Some people will say plot. Others will say characters. Still others will say the writing itself. But somewhere in there is the setting. It sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. SettingContinue Reading
Author’s Guest Post Setting Books in a Different Country I say a “different” country and not a “foreign” country because England and Scotland don’t feel foreign to me. Different because In Britain they drive on the other side of the road, have pounds and pence, and call me “luv”. ButContinue Reading
\ Murder in the Christmas Tree Lot (A Tory Benning Mystery) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Publisher : Beyond the Page Publishing (November 17, 2020) Paperback : 230 pages ISBN-10 : 1950461858 ISBN-13 : 978-1950461851 Digital ASIN : B08LQY49YM LandscapeContinue Reading