cozy mystery
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Many thanks to Kensington Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC. people have been trashing the Holbrook name for generations, and I’ve never once cared. But now that the Holbrook family chowder recipe has been dragged into it, well, that’s sacred. Book 1 in the Downeast Maine Mystery series, introducing Halibut Cove, a small fishing village…
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Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for this ARC. Neeti stood back and looked around at her neighbors, realizing that she just might be looking at a murderer. Forced into early retirement from her job as a librarian, Neeti Shah is wondering what to do with her life, when one of her neighbours,…
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“Four men, three with guitars and one behind them on the drums were singing That’ll Be The Day. They sounded, and felt, as good as melted butter tastes on warm sweetbread.” In Bonnie writes The Beatles, the year is 1962, and the American Bonnie Bell is accompanying her journalist father on a trip to Hamburg.…
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Sherry Pinkwhistle woke up to the deep silence of snowfall, cozily ensconced in the warmth of her bed and the knowledge that she had just solved another murder. Sherry Pinkwhistle works as a librarian in Winesap, New York. A quaint little village with a surprisingly high murder rate, and a local sheriff who hates interference…
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Many thanks to Penguin Random House Christian Publishing and WaterBrook for this ARC via Netgalley. The Inklings were a group of writers, including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who met on an informal basis to discuss and read their literary works. In The Inklings Detective Agency, the author asks what might have happened if the…
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“No, no, no. You’re wrong, Rishard. The lawyer left that note with the bartender as a clue,” says April. A single mother in her 40s. A four-time divorcee who always wears Hawaiian shirts and crocs. A beautician who loves gossiping. A retired school principal and a cantankerous Vietnam War vet. These are the members of…
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Book 1 in the Florida Keys Bed & Breakfast Cozy Mystery series Eva Stuart runs the Keys Bed and Breakfast in Florida Keys and hosts a book club called the Murder Mystery Book Club or MMBC for short. As most mystery book lovers, she sometimes dreams about how it would be to solve a real-life…
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April was a month filled with great reads. From cozy mysteries to horror, from sci fi to historical fiction, from ebooks to physical copies to audiobooks, from ARCs and review copies to Read Christie 2026 and the A-Z Cozy Mystery Challenge, I read my way through murders and mysteries, celebrated Terry Pratchett Day and joined…
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I had been assured that our new life in Gloucestershire would be peaceful and uneventful. Lady Emily Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong have left London for the quiet life in the English countryside. But on one of their very first peaceful walks, they come across a dead body in a clearing, and their plans…
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Many thanks to Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op and Highland Quill Publishing for this ARC via Netgalley. ‘Let’s photograph crumbling castles at foggy dawn,’ you said. ‘It’ll be atmospheric,’ you said. You left out the part where it might get us killed. Travel writer Joana and her friend and photographer Brian are working on a Scotland travel…
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