Tag: cozy mystery
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A Christmas Candy Killing by Christina Romeril
Why do cozy mystery sleuths always end up with the best jobs? Take Alex: along with her identical twin sister, Hannah, she acts as co-proprietor of Murder and Mayhem, a mystery bookshop that serves up poison-themed chocolates. On the flipside, after her friend and fellow true crime enthusiast Jane is found murdered, the sheriff has…
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Once Upon a Seaside Murder by Maggie Blackburn
Summer Merriweather finds herself dealing with many of the same issues she faced the last time I checked in with her. She’s slowly coming to turn with her mother Hildy’s death. She’s debating her future, and whether it involves returning to academia or staying in Brigid’s Island and running her newly inherited store, Beach Reads…
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On Borrowed Crime by Kate Young
The cozy mystery is a continually evolving genre, but in author Kate Young’s series debut, she proves exactly why that’s so important. It seems lately whenever I’m writing about cozies, I’m always talking about the idea of “freshness”—and really, what I mean is whether a book feels like every other one on the shelf ……
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Meet Isabel Puddles by M.V. Byrne
Isabel Puddles would like to tell you some things. She’d like to tell you about being a widow and retired and living in a small Michigan town. She’d like to tell you how she became an octogenarian who avoids cell phones and just how she makes her famous pot roast. She’d especially like to tell…
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The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole by JoAnna Carl
Review: The wrong suspect, a raccoon problem, and chocolate galore? Of course it’s a cozy!
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The Rocky Road to Ruin by Meri Allen
Review: This is one book that’s better than an ice cream sundae on a hot summer’s day.
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For Whom the Book Tolls by Laura Gail Black
Laura Gail Black delivers a perfect first book in a new cozy series.
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The Christmas Menagerie by Minna Howard
I struggle taking care of a couple of cats and Minna Howard has her heroine tackling an entire menagerie in this charming release.
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Hot to Trot by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green
At the tail end of 2019 longtime mystery and romance author M.C. Beaton passed away. The outpouring from fans was immense, and the realization that her two most famous detectives, Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth, had nabbed their last murderers hit me particularly hard—I was actually holding one of her books when I heard the…
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Peachy Scream by Anna Gerard
Nina Fleet is happy to welcome a troupe of Shakespearean performers into her bed and breakfast—mostly because she didn’t realize Harry Westcott, her sometimes enemy, serves as their director. As the campy group settles in, though, Harry quickly becomes the least of her worries. Backstage drama, personal squabbles, and a series of pranks regularly derail…
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