today’s 2nd book: Spoon to Be Dead We are continuing this year’s blog series spotlighting (over 70 this year) new and recently-released Christmas reads! This is the 7th year for the Christmas Reads Giveaway series, and I think I get more excited about it every year 🙂 Christmas is only […]
Happy Tuesday! For today’s Top Ten Tuesday ‘book setting’ prompt, I decided to look at a bunch of series that are set in Georgia… and a handful of standalone titles I’ve enjoyed that are set here too. And by ‘bunch’, I mean ‘however many I can think of’ – sticking […]
MURDER ON TOUR by V. M. Burns SERIES: Mystery Bookshop #9 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: November 28, 2023 PAGES: 252 Bookstore owner and Michigander Samantha Washington is thrilled to see her debut historical mystery finally on the shelves, but a killer seems determined to steal away […]
CRIME AND PARCHMENT by Daphne Silver SERIES: A Rare Books Cozy Mystery #1 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Level Best Books RELEASE DATE: November 21, 2023 PAGES: 226 Rare books librarian Juniper Blume knows this much… an ancient Celtic manuscript shouldn’t be in a Maryland cemetery. But that’s exactly what […]
today’s 3rd book: Christmas Mittens Murder Last week, we kicked off this year’s blog series spotlighting (over 70 this year) new and recently-released Christmas reads! This is the 7th year for the Christmas Reads Giveaway series, and I think I get more excited about it every year 🙂 Christmas is […]
BUTTERFLY BETRAYAL by Ruth J. Hartman SERIES: A Seneca James Mystery #1 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Level Best Books RELEASE DATE: November 21, 2023 PAGES: 289 Raising butterflies is peaceful and calm, until someone dies. Majestic Monarch Butterfly Farm might flitter away forever. That is, unless Seneca James acquires […]
Please join me in welcoming author Heather Weidner to the blog to share about her new cozy mystery Christmas Lights and Cat Fights – and she pays homage to the original girl sleuth! CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND CAT FIGHTS by Heather Weidner SERIES: Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries #3 GENRE: Cozy Mystery […]
UNDER THE COCOON MOON by Kathleen Bailey SERIES: Olivia Penn Mysteries #3 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Rhino Publishing LLC RELEASE DATE: November 7, 2023 PAGES: 394 A dead body in the woods … A rare sapphire is missing … The connection changes her life forever. Olivia Penn is looking […]
A PARFAIT CRIME by Maya Corrigan SERIES: A Five-Ingredient Mystery #9 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Kensington Cozies RELEASE DATE: October 24, 2023 PAGES: 253 A granddaughter-grandfather sleuthing duo take on a perplexing new case in the latest culinary cozy mystery, sure to appeal to fans of Diane Mott, Joanne […]
JANE AND THE FINAL MYSTERY by Stephanie Barron SERIES: Being a Jane Austen Mystery #15 GENRE: Historical Mystery/Austenesque (Clean) PUBLISHER: Soho Books RELEASE DATE: October 24, 2023 PAGES: 312 The final volume of the critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Jane Austen as amateur sleuth March 1817: As winter turns to […]
TURKEY TROT TROUBLE by C.K. Fyfe GENRE: Romantic Cozy Mystery Short Story (Clean) RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2023 PAGES: 44 Nothing good happens in the morning. Case in point: the Turkey Trot 5K Race. For a night owl like Kenzie, the idea of dragging her bones out of bed to […]
A NUTCRACKER NIGHTMARE by Christina Romeril SERIES: Killer Chocolate Mysteries #2 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Crooked Lane Books RELEASE DATE: October 17, 2023 PAGES: 302 Perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke and Laura Childs, when twin sisters Hanna and Alex help out at the local high school reunion, volunteering takes a […]
Please join me in welcoming author Victoria Tait back to the blog to talk about Christmas decorations and her new British cozy mystery Holly, Baubles and Murder! HOLLY, BAUBLES AND MURDER by Victoria Tai SERIES: A Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery #8 GENRE: British Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Kanga Press RELEASE […]
Happy Tuesday, reading friends! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday (organized by That Artsy Reader Girl) is “Books with Weather Events in the Title/Cover”. I went back and forth a bit on how I wanted to tackle this topic but ultimately I decided to go with Stormy Book Titles from […]
Happy Saturday! Today is National Dessert Day, so I thought it would be fun to do a post of books with dessert words in the title or desserts on the cover. This is a day I can definitely get behind as I love pie… and cake … and ice cream […]
OVERDUE OR DIE by Allison Brook SERIES: Haunted Library Mysteries #7 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean with mild language) PUBLISHER: Crooked Lane Books RELEASE DATE: October 10, 2023 PAGES: 304 Carrie Singleton has a wedding to plan, a killer to catch, and a conspiracy to uncover in this charming seventh novel […]
THE SOCIALITE’S GUIDE TO DEATH & DATING by S.K. Golden SERIES: A Pinnacle Hotel Mystery #2 GENRE: Historical Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Crooked Lane Books RELEASE DATE: October 10, 2023 PAGES: 325 Perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Ashley Weaver, the second Pinnacle Hotel mystery finds another murder that […]
THE FOG LADIES: DATE WITH DEATH by Liz Johnson SERIES: A San Francisco Cozy Murder Mystery #4 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: The Wild Rose Press, Inc. RELEASE DATE: October 2, 2023 PAGES: 338 The Fog Ladies are at it again, spunky senior sleuths and an overstressed young medical resident […]
Please join me in welcoming author Susan Kimmel Wright back to the blog to talk about writing cozy mysteries and how her process differed in her newest cozy, Mabel and the Little Green Men! MABEL AND THE LITTLE GREEN MEN by Susan Kimmel Wright SERIES: Mysteries of Medicine Spring #3 […]
Please join me in welcoming author Joyce Proell to the blog today to talk about her new cozy mystery Reading, Writing, and Murder which she co-authored with Brenda Whiteside! READING, WRITING AND MURDER by Joyce Proell & Brenda Whiteside SERIES: Chocolate Martini Sisters #2 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) RELEASE DATE: […]