Muddled Through is the tenth book in the Maine Clambake cozy mystery series. The small coastal Maine town of Busman’s Holiday is discussing closing four blocks of main street to cars on the weekend during the summer months. Phinney is vehemently opposed to the idea. When he is found deadContinue Reading
Whether you are luxuriating on a beach somewhere or sweating inside your own house this summer, you can feel like One of the Girls at a hen party in a secluded Greek villa. But beware! The secrets are oozing out faster than the sweat at this boozy gathering. “What happensContinue Reading
My Review Drop your cares and enter the fantasy world of hidden fairies and visible murder suspects in A Hint of Mischief. Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you. Farrah is a famous actress who is in town to attend an informal sorority reunion. When out on a spaContinue Reading
This time it’s personal in Vera Kelly: Lost and Found. Vera’s girlfriend Max is summoned back to her California family home. Max’s parents are divorcing, and a shady occultist may be stealing some of their ample funds. It’s 1971 and even in California being in love with another woman makesContinue Reading
After her mother is conned out of their beautiful estate, Meg becomes a con artist herself. Her latest mark is the very person who stole her family’s house. She is being tracked by disgraced reporter, Kat, in The Lies I Tell. This book is a fun cat and mouse tale!Continue Reading
Andrea is a suburban mom of five. She has a group of female friends including perfectionist Molly, talkative Crystal, and triplet wrangler Brianne. In The Self-Made Widow, Andrea has a problem. She thinks widowed Molly killed her husband but has no proof or motive. Enter Andrea’s new female friend, theContinue Reading
My Review Sarah is her mother Maybelle’s chaperone on a reality show in Five Belles Too Many. Tiny Wheaton Alabama is host to the Southern Belle Perfect Wedding Competition, a reality show offering a free wedding to the winning couple. Five couples are competing including older generation Maybelle and herContinue Reading
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In Can’t Look Away, Molly is at certain stage in her life when regrets begin to fester. Should she have stayed with her rock star boyfriend ten years ago? Should she have started her family with her husband Hunter earlier to avoid the fertility issues that she is having withContinue Reading
Author Guest Post The Ultimate in Kitchen Envy One of the great joys of writing cozy culinary mysteries is, of course, writing about food. But even better is engaging in kitchen envy without any shame. In the Cape Cod Foodie mysteries, our heroine, Samantha Barnes, is a disgraced but resilientContinue Reading
In The Sanctuary, four pregnant women go to a secluded yoga spa owned by Selina. All of them including Selina have secrets and hidden agendas. When someone dies, their secrets begin to seep out into the open. Yawn. This book has almost the exact same plot as Nine Perfect StrangersContinue Reading
In Death by Beach Read, librarian Lucy and her boyfriend Mayor Connor are fixing up their recently purchased beach house. The house is rumored to be haunted but it is a real corpse that Lucy finds on their kitchen floor. Death by Beach Read is my least favorite book inContinue Reading
I picked up this book because I was looking for something different than my usual domestic suspense or cozy mysteries. Imagine my surprise when I discovered Little Bird is a darkly humorous cozy horror tale (or maybe fantasy or even magical realism—it’s hard to categorize and that is part ofContinue Reading
What if you took the plot of Strangers on a Train but removed the train and added spousal abuse and copious alcohol? You would have The Favor. While the plot is familiar, it moves at a good pace. I read it in one sitting. I was expecting a bit moreContinue Reading
Black Tide begins with a romance that quickly turns into an apocalyptic horror tale. Beth and Mike meet over their garden wall and quickly get drunk together. When Beth wakes up alone in Mike’s bed, she has dreamed of an alien invasion. However, it turns out it is not justContinue Reading
Five strangers with nothing in common find themselves in absolute terror. All have had a child, fiancée, or best friend go missing. A text tells them there is only one way to save their loved one. They must play—and win—The Game… This book is such an adrenaline-filled rush that IContinue Reading