Beware the East Wind (The Mah Jongg Mysteries) by Barbara Barrett Author Guest Post The Mysteries of Mah Jongg I decided to use the game of Mah Jongg as the focus of my first mystery series for two reasons. First, it was a subject with which I had some familiarityContinue Reading
Meg is helping her Grandfather run Owl Fest 2019 at the Caerphilly Inn at Christmas. When its 200 ornithologist guests are stranded by a snowstorm, one of the most cantankerous and least-loved professors is killed. Time for Meg to step in, with help of her extensive family, to solve theContinue Reading
You don’t have to have lived in the 1950s to enjoy The Man that got Away. However, it is eminently easier to understand if you’re from England. There is a murder, a con man, and a criminal mastermind in Brighton, a beach town on the English coast in1957. Only youngContinue Reading
Molded 4 Murder (Sophie Kimball Mystery) by J.C. Eaton My Review When an acclaimed local potter is killed by suffocation, he is truly Molded 4 Murder. In Glendale Arizona, Phee is a bookkeeper at Williams Investigations, a private detective firm. One day two acquaintances come in asking for Phee’s help.Continue Reading
Here is a quick look at the paranormal cozy mysteries featuring Viola Valentine A Ghost of a Chance A Viola Valentine Mystery Book 1 by Cherie Claire Genre: Paranormal Mystery From award-winning novelist Cherie Claire comes a new paranormal mystery series. They say there are blessings from Hurricane Katrina. ForContinue Reading
Better Watch Out (A Merry & Bright Handcrafted Mystery) by Christina Freeburn Author Guest Post Favorite Holiday Reads By Christina Freeburn It’s that time of the year, where I start making my list and checking it twice for the newly released and new-to-me holiday books. From November 1 until JanuaryContinue Reading
Read and Buried: A Lighthouse Library Mystery by Eva Gates Character Guest Post Into the Center of the Earth By Lucy Richardson from the Lighthouse Library Series by Eva Gates My employment contract says “other duties as assigned”. I guess descending toward the center of the earth qualifies. Although I’dContinue Reading
“Don’t worry. I promise to stay completely out of it this time.” are the last words spoken by Assistant Librarian Lucy in Read and Buried before she gets involved up to her neck in the mystery and murder. The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library is being renovated to shore up itsContinue Reading
“You’re developing quite a tendency to stumble across murder in your middle age.” Said to our heroine, Rachel, after she finds a corpse in the men’s room on the first page of the Books of the Dead. Rachel lives in Paris with her husband, Alan, and her best friend Magda.Continue Reading
Haunted House Ghost: Death At The Fall Festival (Braxton Campus Mysteries) by James J. Cudney My Review It’s Halloween and Professor Kellan is renovating his newly purchased rundown mansion in the Haunted House Ghost. A current mystery and a historic one compete for Kellan and his potential girlfriend, Sheriff April’sContinue Reading
“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