I love the family and friends populating the Meg Langslow cozy mystery series. Reading the two new books published each year is usually a highlight for me. While Probable Caws does have the whole gang involved in horse rescuing, the mystery is kind of a miss. There weren’t enough redContinue Reading
Bubble, Bubble, Tea and Trouble is the seventh book in the popular Tea by the Sea cozy mystery series. This time tearoom owner Lily and her trusty writer/hacker friend Bernie have to contend not just with murderers but also ghostly presences. A medium and her believers are visiting Lily’s grandmother’sContinue Reading
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts is another great Marlow Murder Club Mystery. Get ready to challenge your armchair detecting skills! Minor celebrities are dropping like flies in Marlow! Judith, Suzie, and Becks investigate, as usual, but don’t have the police’s support this time around. With plenty of twists andContinue Reading
Dead Men Don’t Play Fetch is another fine entry in the Andy Carpenter cozy mystery series. Andy really wants to retire from his defense attorney practice. But just when he thought he was out, they pull him back in. A homeless vet staying in a rehab facility is accused ofContinue Reading
In Whose Body in the Library, Nichelle is the new librarian at the lighthouse library on the shores of the Outer Banks. This is her first job after graduating with a library science degree after a late career change. On the morning of her first day, she finds a bodyContinue Reading
Sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her best friend Tinkie are back detecting in Ode to the Bones. A farmer is missing. Could Tinkie’s husband initiating foreclosure proceedings on his family farm be the reason? Could his rumored affair with a local preacher’s wife be behind his disappearance?Continue Reading
Jessica, Seth, Sheriff Mort and his wife Maureen go to Hollywood to compete on a trivia game show in Murder Most Trivial. When a show crew member is killed, Jessica and her gang investigate. The Maine visitors are staying in a rundown mansion soon to be opened as a bedContinue Reading
In A Disorganised Death, Ellen is a professional declutterer…and an amateur detective. Just like a hammer always seeing a nail, Ellen sees two suspicious deaths among her decluttering jobs. The daughter of a recently deceased pub owner asks Ellen to declutter his house but really wants Ellen to locate hisContinue Reading
It is always a pleasure to spend time with Bailey and the gang in Harvest, Ohio. In Truffle Trouble, Bailey and Aiden are finally getting married! While the wedding goes off without a hitch, the reception is marred by finding a dead vintner in the kitchen. Not to mention aContinue Reading
House flipper Whitney is reading a book in the loft of a new project when an investigative reporter is killed in the barn below. Amateur detective Whitney feels obligated to investigate right along with the police in The Barn Identity, the eighth book in the House-Flipper cozy mystery series. ThisContinue Reading
It is refreshing to read a cozy mystery from a male perspective especially when it is as fun to read as Stakeouts and Strollers. Charlie is a former reporter who is transitioning to a private detective role. He and his businesswoman wife are struggling with their newborn daughter’s sleep patterns,Continue Reading
The Case of the Christie Curse is a rousing old school mystery starring famous golden age writers. In 1930, the main characters, Eliza and Theo, have been invited by Agatha Christie to join her on an archaeological dig in the desert of Mesopotamia. Once there, they dismiss the curse rumorsContinue Reading
Murder from A to Z has an intriguing plot. Can amateur detective Samantha solve a murder before it happens? The short answer is no. Unfortunately, Alva, an elderly woman who accuses her relatives of trying to kill her, kicks the bucket in the first couple of chapters. Was she murdered?Continue Reading
My Review It is autumn in Cabot Cove, Maine. Jessica Fletcher and her friends and neighbors are enjoying the fall weather as are the usual leaf peeping tourists. Unfortunately, a young female tourist is murdered. In addition, a bicycle-riding thief is terrorizing anyone foolish enough to carry a purse. WillContinue Reading
Road trip! In Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off, BFFs and amateur detectives Amish Millie and non-Amish Lois hit the road for Florida. On the bus to get there, Millie befriends a young Amish girl. When Millie soon finds the girl dead, the two seventy-year-old women once again team up toContinue Reading
Are you ready for a fun little Christmas mystery set in a rural English village, where everyone knows your name, and all your business? The Cornish Christmas Pantomime Murder provides all that while also managing to be gently humorous too. It really is the perfect cozy mystery when you needContinue Reading