Contemporary
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Ad/PR. In July I read cozy mysteries, historical fiction, fantasy, thrillers and cozy fantasy. I read about amateur sleuths in houseboats and campervans, city guards trying to deal with dragons and secret societies, cute talking animals and quirky supernatural creatures, Jacobean witchhunts, the Tudors, fantasy beef and a Romeo and Juliet tragedy, fish and chips,…
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC, book 1 of A Campervan Detective Mystery. This book releases today, July 28, 2026. It had all started with a chance remark, the kind that men make to women all the time and then accuse them of having no sense of humour when they don’t…
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Everything about Maggie suggested that she had missed her calling. She’d have made a great detective. Book 1 in The Fish and Chip Shop Detective Agency series. Maggie Tyson loves puzzles and mysteries. Ryan Stepney has just been abandoned by his girlfriend. The two of them meet in the only fish and chip shop in…
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“A clown climbs up the skeleton tree; A curse on you, a plague on me.” Ad/PR. Many thanks to Christopher Seto for this ebook. Theo Chan is a Ph.D. student in criminology and Agatha Christie fan who takes a summer job as an assistant in a private investigator’s office and gets his first taste of…
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Micah Castle for sending me this ebook. How do we decide as mortals to take the life of another? What criteria constitutes a life worth living, and who created the criteria? Dana Cauldwell has just transferred to a new job closer to her mom, leaving behind a messy work situation involving…
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Two cozy mystery novellas featuring a group of sleuths. In Memories and Mementos four female amateur sleuths investigate the local retirement home, in An Invitation to Mystery a collection of amateur and professional sleuths take on a decades old cold case. Memories and Mementos Book 1 in the Button Club series. “For a group of…
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It was a crazy idea, lacking all business sense and even common sense for that matter. I’d never driven a boat, never been to the swamp or laid eyes on a bayou. But I was ready for a change. Book 1 in the The Lettering Detective Series. When Mila Breaux’s rent check bounces and she…
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I didn’t typically force my way through locked doors, and certainly not those belonging to clients. Today, however, was an exception. Book 1 in the Hadley Home Design Cozy Mysteries series. Darlington Hills, Virginia, is interior designer Hadley Sutton’s idea of paradise on earth. Eager to escape New Orleans and her ex-boyfriend, Hadley is in…
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Many thanks to Natalie Summers for this ARC, it sounds so fun and I’m looking forward to reading this soon! From Goodreads: A magical island. A mysterious relative. A family she didn’t know existed. Inheriting a house from a dead great-aunt she’s never met should’ve been Sara Rivers’ first clue that things were about to…
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A story of beautiful genius, a family’s love, a remarkable woman, and your father’s amazing journey. A story of the darkness cast upon them and the theft of all they hold dear. A story of deceit and murder. Ad/PR. Many thanks to Booksta Influencers for this ebook. Have you ever wondered what paintings would say…
