cozy mystery

  • “If she’s correct, and her daughter didn’t write this note, then we have a murder case on our hands, don’t we?” Book 1 in the Advice Column Mystery series. Rebecca Butterman is a clinical psychologist and advice column writer. When her neighbour Madeline Stanton is found dead, the official explanation is suicide, but Madeline’s mother…

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  • “You shouldn’t believe what you don’t understand. You should understand what you believe.” Have you ever wondered what sheep think about when they’re peacefully grazing? In Three Bags Full, the answer is both a lot and not very much at all. Sheep, it turns out, are in fact very different. Especially the sheep in George’s…

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  • “Professor Corlon had been murdered, and she was among the suspects.” The Catalogued Corpse is a 1920s cozy mystery featuring amateur sleuth Doro Banyon, an American college librarian, feminist and murder mystery enthusiast. As a young woman working at Michaw College, Doro is used to ignoring the ire of the Fearsome Foursome, four male faculty…

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  • A podcast-style Book Review, Episode 8: For Old Time’s Sake It is another lovely day in Emerald Cove. The water in the Gulf of Mexico is gleaming in the sunlight, and Chicago-based children’s librarian Chloe Jackson is standing behind the bar in the Sea Glass Saloon and wondering why one of the regulars is wearing…

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  • March Wrap-Up

    In Marts I found some great free books on Bookfunnel, from the very logical Saul Sheldon and the Crooked Shelf, to the two cozy 1920shistorical mysteries Murder Beneath the Roses and The Catalogued Corpse and the three contemporary cozy mysteries The Only Way is Larceny, Forecast: A Latte Trouble and A Mallard Point Mystery. I…

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  • “Sunny for now,” I said. But change is definitely in the air.” Autumn Davis, weather girl and coffee enthusiast, steps in as a last-minute replacement emcee at the Sunset Sips Coffee Festival, but has to weather an unexpected storm when several of the contestants’ ingredients and coffees are sabotaged. With the help of her best…

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  • “Fugitives. Missing Kids. COVID looming like a storm.” Book 2 of the Mysteries of a Heart series. Gabby Heart is back, and this time she is going to Scotland with her friend Abe, a children’s author whose books Gabby illustrates. The two are looking forward to exploring the Highlands, but soon find themselves in the…

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  • “Remember, a cozy mystery is where the unexpected becomes the norm, and laughter is the best antidote to life’s little surprises.” Chloe Essex is nearing fifty and the end of her acting career and determined to make her last performance spectacular. But when a priceless tiara loaned by a rich benefactor disappears, Chloe finds herself…

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  • Nobody ever believed that murders “just happened” around Mallory Viridian. Not at first, anyway. Imagine living the life of a murder mystery heroine. It might sound fun at first, but imagine finding dead bodies every time you move, start a new job, go to a party or simply take a walk. Imagine the suspicion and…

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  • “A sinister hooded figure who smells like spring flowers? Oh, Simon, this case is shaping up to be delightfully absurd.” Lady Margot is overseeing the preparations for the annual Midsummer Garden Party at Blackwell Manor when the body of the head gardener, Edwin Thistlewood is found among the rosebushes. Despite the warnings from Inspector Simon…

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