cozy mystery
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“Aunt Ruby! A man has been murdered in my tearoom, and all you can think about is how good-looking the detective is?” Trinity Bishop is a devoted Jane Austen fan. After divorcing her husband at forty-two, she moves back to her hometown of Sidmouth, Devon, and opens a Jane Austen-themed tearoom, complete with Regency dresses…
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Ad/PR/Patrocinado. In September I read cozy mysteries, paranormal mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction, and fantasy. I read about witches, golems, vampires and werevolves, I read about elder and retired sleuths and assassins, about former crusaders and journalists, about deadline dinner parties, police investigations, monster hunters and fish and chips. I read about finding yourself, about second…
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Another case for the Vintage Vanettes! Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Book review of A Wedding Date with Death by Maeve Haran, book 2 in the A Campervan Detective Mystery series. Many thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC releasing today, Sep 30, 2026. There’s nothing as joyous as a wedding. Unless perhaps, when the wedding comes with…
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In recognition of the fact that I have way too many ebooks just sitting around, doing whatever the digital equivalent to gathering dust on the shelf is, I’ve decided to introduce Sunday Shelf Exploration, which is what I plan to call it when I take a look at my ebook collection through a scavenger hunt,…
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I saw this online and thought it could be fun to do my own version. Imagine what a book about your life would be like, and write the blurb for that book. I decided to take it a step further and add book covers as well as blurbs, so here are five completely made-up books…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with #DateWithABook by @hook.me.a.book, with a chat about a bookish date, using book titles to answer these questions: Who was your date with?Where did you meet?What time was the rendezvous?What did you wear?What did you talk about?Will there be a second date? Books used for this challenge:– The Book…
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Till about a year ago, my serene life revolved around my wife, tennis, Kindle and the club. Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Shesh for this ebook. If you’ve ever wondered how a retired Singapore CEO would do as an assassin, this is your chance to find out. And if you’ve never wondered about something so oddly…
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For Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m posting the books I’ve added to my digital library this week, and the blurbs that made me download them in the first place. Murder on the Lamplight Express by Morgan Stang The orders given to Isabeau Agarwal and her partner are simple: ensure the safety of…
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Tonight, Isabeau Agarwal, Huntress, would kill one of ten guests in Spindle Manor. A fabulously weird and wondrous cozy horror novel blending historical fiction, steampunk elements, paranormal mystery and gothic fantasy. Spindle Manor is a remote guesthouse where the huntress Isabeau Agarwal is hoping to apprehend a deadly monster disguising itself as one of a…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the Cluedo challenge by @chapter1.page1, finding book titles to answer the questions Who was the murderer? Where did the crime occur? With what was the murder committed? “Where” in Cluedo refers to a room in a house, but I don’t have any book titles in my collection that…
