“Finding one body could be considered bad luck. Finding two within the space of thirty days was beginning to look like destiny.”—most honest words ever spoken by a cozy mystery’s heroine from A Legacy of Murder. Widow Kate is back in England collecting antiques for her shop in Ohio. WhileContinue Reading
Andy, the perpetually retiring defense lawyer, gets sucked into two cases involving dogs in the fun cozy mystery, Dachshund Through the Snow. Andy is asked by an old cop frenemy to find a way to get the city to allow the cop’s K-9 partner, Simon, to retire with him inContinue Reading
It’s December in Massachusetts in the latest adventure of Sid the animated skeleton where The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking in anticipation of Christmas morning. When Bryon, teenager Madison’s Akita, finds a human femur, it is no surprise. After all, their family has an animated skeleton named Sid living in theirContinue Reading
Author Interview with Marc Jedel Marc Q: Tell us about your novel and series. Marc: Chutes and Ladder is the second book in the Silicon Valley Mystery series, but can be read standalone. Marty Golden is not your typical, cozy mystery protagonist. As a male sleuth who doesn’t own aContinue Reading
Two Bites Too Many (A Sarah Blair Mystery) by Debra H. Goldstein My Review It’s all about the characters, baby, in Two Bites Too Many (and yes I did just reference an old Puff Daddy/Diddy hip-hop song from 1997.) Maybelle is the protective Southern mama of twins, Sarah and Emily.Continue Reading
The Garden Club Murder (A Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade About The Garden Club Murder The Garden Club Murder (A Tish Tarragon Mystery) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Severn House Publishers (September 1, 2019) Hardcover: 208 pages ISBN-10: 0727889443 ISBN-13: 978-0727889447 Digital ASIN: B07TXLVLPP Literary caterer Letitia ‘Tish’Continue Reading
Small town life in Fettering will never be boring as long as there may be a Killer in the Choir. Leonard, a retired and rich industrialist, is dead. Did he fall down the stairs or was he pushed? His daughter, Alice, thinks her stepmother, Heather, did it for money. AfterContinue Reading
There is Wonton Terror when the Wonton on Wheels food truck explodes at the first Asian Night Market in Cleveland. Lana Lee is now managing her parent’s restaurant, the Ho-Lee Noodle House. While promoting the restaurant at Market night, her parent’s old friend, Ronnie, is killed in the explosion. WhenContinue Reading
Terns of Endearment brings the whole Meg Langslow crew aboard a cruise ship to Bermuda where both murder and secrets abound! When called upon to be a wildlife lecturer, Meg’s grandfather Dr. Blake brings the whole family along on the questionably run Pastime cruise line. The ship’s crew is disorganizedContinue Reading
Bark of Night had me with the cute French Bulldog on the cover. But I stayed for the hatred of veggies and pronounced love of dogs evident in this conflicted defense lawyer protagonist’s cozy mystery. Truman, a healthy French Bulldog, is brought into a vet clinic to be euthanized. TheContinue Reading
Peach Clobbered is a great start to Nina’s life after divorce and to the reader’s (hopefully) long journey through the Georgia B&B cozy mystery series. I’m already looking forward to the next one! Nina decides to start over after her divorce. She impulse buys a Queen Anne house in smallContinue Reading
The author of Left Fur Dead had me at “telepathic rabbit”. Jules runs a rabbit rescue on her farm in rural New Hampshire with a yarn store on the premises. Walking with Jules one snowy morning, her pet rabbit, Bun, finds a dead body. The body is Arty, the localContinue Reading
Darn Crepe Expectations! The good news is that I have found another great cozy mystery series where the characters feel like real friends. The bad news is that I will have to buy and read the four prior books in the series even though my To Be Read pile isContinue Reading
The private investigative team of Sarah Booth and Tinkie are investigating a murder by exsanguination during an archaeological dig in Game of Bones. Two competing archaeology professors set up an excavation on a Native American burial mound. To stop the work, a local Native American attorney files an injunction. WhenContinue Reading
Foul Play on Words is a cozy mystery set at a writer’s conference with dogs and a possible kidnapping on the side. Charlee, a mystery writer, is forced to run a writer’s conference when her best friend, Liv, tells her she has to look for her daughter Hanna, who hasContinue Reading
Scot & Soda is a humorous fish-out-of-water tale and the second in the Last Ditch Mystery series. Lexy Campbell is a Scottish therapist in rural Northern California. During a small Halloween party on her houseboat home, a body is found caught on the rope holding the party’s cold beers inContinue Reading