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Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength. (New Living Translation) Amid the current global pandemic, job layoffs, social distancing, working from home, mandatory shutdowns and stay at home orders, it’s easy to have a broken spirit right now. But laughter […]
PAWS FOR MURDER SERIES: Barking Mad Mysteries #1 GENRE: Cozy Mystery RELEASE DATE: January 5, 2020 PAGES: 163 Welcome to Adlebury where village life can be downright deadly. Veterinarian Petronella Knight seems to have it all. A job she loves, good friends, and patients who adore her. But when she […]
LAVENDER BLUE MURDER SERIES: A Tea Shop Mystery #21 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Berkley Books RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2020 PAGES: 336 Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier […]
SLEUTH ON SAFARI SERIES: A Traveler Cozy Mystery #1 GENRE: Cozy Mystery RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2020 PAGES: 267 A bargain deal on a safari + one dead body = An adventure no one could plan for. Naomi and her estranged sister are off on a trip of a lifetime—an […]
ON THE LAMB SERIES: Kebab Kitchen Mystery #4 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: February 25, 2020 PAGES: 352 Lucy Berberian is busy preparing her family’s Mediterranean restaurant for Easter on the Jersey Shore–but a batch of sweets is to die for . . . Bikers are thundering into […]
MURDER MAKES SCENTS SERIES: Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery #2 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: February 25, 2020 PAGES: 272 Stella Wright loves creating candles at her Nantucket store–and she also has a burning passion for justice. Now, after visiting a perfume conference, she must solve a vial crime […]
HERE COMES THE BODY SERIES: A Catering Hall Mystery #1 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: February 25, 2020 PAGES: 304 After her philandering husband’s boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her […]
DEATH BY BAGUETTE SERIES: Travel Can Be Murder #2 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Traveling Life Press RELEASE DATE: February 7, 2020 PAGES: 200 Paris—the city of love, lights … and murder? Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she escorts five couples on an unforgettable Valentine-themed vacation to France! Unfortunately it […]
BONBON WITH THE WIND by Dorothy St. James SERIES: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery #4 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Barking Dog Press RELEASE DATE: December 9, 2019 PAGES: 251 Join Penn and Stella on their latest adventure! There’s a legend in the Sea Islands that before a hurricane hits the […]
A FIELD GUIDE TO HOMICIDE SERIES: Cat Latimer Mystery #6 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2020 PAGES: 288 Cat Latimer and her writer’s retreat group go on a hiking trip—but a murderer has been lurking off the beaten path . . . Cat’s sweetheart, Seth, is […]
HEMS & HOMICIDE SERIES: Apron Shop #1 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: St. Martin’s Paperbacks RELEASE DATE: December 31, 2019 PAGES: 288 Welcome to the first in the Apron Shop mystery series by Elizabeth Penney, set in the quaint village of Blueberry Cove, Maine where an expert seamstress turned amateur sleuth […]
Hi friends! It’s time for a new season of new books! At the start of each new publishing season, I find myself buried a little deeper beneath my TBR pile (the term ‘pile’ is misleadingly small), and the early 2020 crop of new releases is positively magnificent. So long, all […]
Please join me in welcoming author Amy K Rognlie to the blog today to chat about her new cozy mystery To Err is Human! Amy K. Rognlie won her first contest for her debut story, “My Pet Kangaroo,” in second grade. Since then, Amy has gone on to author two novels […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Saying goodbye to another year full of highs and lows and everything in between. There have been so many great books out this year (again!) but life prevented me from reading as much as I wanted to (again!) – I only read 158 books this year as […]
BOOKMARKED FOR MURDER SERIES: Mystery Bookshop #5 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: November 26, 2019 PAGES: 256 Amateur sleuth Samantha Washington’s shopping trip to Chicago takes a deadly detour when a man is murdered on her bus . . . After some post-Christmas retail therapy in the Windy […]
today’s book: a legacy of murder by connie berry Christmas is only 22 days away according to Google (if we get to Dec 25th and we have days left over, blame Google, not me lol.), BUT now ’tis the season when I start craving cozy Christmas reads. (Okay – I […]
DEATH ON THE DANUBE: A New Year’s Murder in Budapest SERIES: Travel Can Be Murder #1 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Traveling Life Press RELEASE DATE: November 28, 2019 PAGES: 158 Who knew a New Year’s trip to Budapest could be so deadly? The tour must go on – even with […]
A BAD HAIR DAY COOKBOOK Recipes from Nancy J. Cohen’s Cozy Mystery Series GENRE: Cozy Mystery / Cookbook PUBLISHER: Orange Grove Press RELEASE DATE: November 19, 2019 PAGES: 324 Are you having a bad hair day? Whip out your whisk, snatch up your spoon, and prepare your palate. Inside the […]
SCARLET FEVER SERIES: “Sister” Jane #12 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books RELEASE DATE: November 26, 2019 PAGES: 304 Winter blizzards bring a flurry of cases to solve in this riveting new foxhunting mystery featuring “Sister” Jane Arnold and her incorrigible hounds from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae […]
COZY FOOD: 128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes GENRE: Cozy Cookbook PUBLISHER: Good Read Mysteries RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2014 PAGES: 241 (167 of recipes, 70 of contributor bios and books) What happens when 128 cozy mystery writers get together to do a cookbook? You get more than […]