Contemporary
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February was a month of great ARCs, from Belle Époque Paris glamour and bohemian vibes in Secrets of the Maison Fournier to contemporary best friend sleuths in Dying to Live Here and Golden Age murder mystery in A Pretender’s Murder. For the A-Z Cozy Mystery Challenge on Instagram I revisited the lovely sleuth duo Edwina…
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“We both know one of these days I’ll blow my career up. Might as well be for a good reason.” If you know the DI Ryan Hale series already, you know that DI Ryan Hale and DS Fiona Bennett have a longstanding friendship going back many years as colleagues and confidants. In the free short…
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A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review A widowed father takes up cooking, and in the process learns more about himself and his marriage than he expected. A surgeon makes a chilling discovery after his patients tell him things that completely change his beliefs. A journalist becomes a part of the story she’s writing after discovering…
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When someone loves you properly, dear, they don’t try to improve you. They just try to see you. Emma Winters loves her job as a physical therapist at Boston Memorial, treating her patients with kindness, humour and empathy. She is spirited, easy-going and vivacious, traits that are appreciated by her friends, family and colleagues, but…
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Whoever killed Clayton Davenport did the world a favor. When the rich, flashy, and thoroughly unpleasant investor Clayton Davenport arrives in New Bison days before the annual spring festival, he manages to antagonise almost everyone in town, including infuriating Maddy Montgomery and her friend April to the point where both of them become prime suspects…
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“Romance is overrated,” Brooke declared. “Give me a couch, snacks, and women who know my trauma.” Hannah is single and happy to spend Valentine’s Day with friends, but as the drinks flow and the ladies begin to exchange stories about their ex-boyfriends, the idea that someone else’s ex might have been wrong for them but…
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“Did you ever threaten Rose Martin?” “Yes,” Laura whispered. Sam swore. Emma Stewart and her best friend Laura couldn’t be more different. Emma is an introverted, single, no-nonsense sports fan, dog lover, while Laura is an outgoing, married, frills-and-flowers, prim-and-neat HOA president living in a very attractive neighbourhood in Harbor Shores, Florida. When a house…
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“Even the prettiest villages have their dark side, Maya. Let’s not forget that.” When her husband Rajiv gets a job at a university, Maya and Rajiv and their daughter Anya move from New Delhi to the small British village of Merrywick. Rajiv loves his new job, but Maya is struggling to settle in. She misses…
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Book 1 in the River Cruise Cozies series. Adelle is retired and bored, so when her friend asks her for help, she agrees to cover for her as a tour host for a small group of women going on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam. She is looking forward to meeting new people, but…
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My January reading was dominated by great debut novels, from Tudor-era action in A Bastard’s Bosworth to delicious Japanese food in The Kamogawa Food Detectives, gothic Holmesian mystery in the early 1900s with Strange Beasts, a character-driven crime drama in Blood Between Us, colonialism and identity in A Memory Called Empire, strong women, representation and…
Mostly Murders 