cozy mystery

  • Every nation has secrets, myths, and legends attached to its founders. Book 1 in the Indie Retirement Mystery series. A history focused mystery centered around the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, or the Meck Dec for short. To believers, the Meck Dec is proof that patriots in North Carolina declared independence from Great Britain in May…

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  • Goodreads Monday/ TBR Monday

    Goodreads Monday/TBR Monday hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog invites you to post about what books are on your Goodreads “to read” lists or TBR lists, the progress you have made on your current books and reading challenges, and any other bookish news! For this Goodreads Monday/TBR Monday I have five new additions to my…

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  • Stacking The Shelves

    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.  I’ve read The Retirees by Leah Orr and really enjoyed it, my review is posted here on my blog. The rest of these I…

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  • One thing was crystal clear: the dull and sleepy smalltown had just become a whole lot more interesting. Book 1 in the A Sri Lankan Mystery series. When Kiyama Fernando discovers that her husband is cheating on her, she leaves her modern, westernised big city life in Colombo behind and seeks refuge with her friend…

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  • Ad/PR. Are you a fan of cozy fantasy? If you are, I recommend Grimoires Gone Wild by Cleo Frost and Tides Wait for No Witch by Natalie Summers, two cozy fantasy novels I’ve had the pleasure of reading recently. If you’re not sure if cozy fantasy is for you, both of these have prequel novellas…

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  • July Reading Recap

    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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  • I can’t say I like the idea of you being involved in a murder, but you do have a knack for ferreting out the deepest and darkest secrets. Book 1 in the Mrs. Lillywhite Investigates series. Rosemary Lillywhite is mourning the loss of her husband Andrew, a former police inspector who worked as a private…

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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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  • You would be well advised not to write Theo Harvey’s biography Book 1 in the Chiltern Hills Mysteries series. Rona Parish is a journalist and biographer who is working on a biography of the famous writer Theo Harvey who died under suspicious circumstances. As Rona begins to dig into Theo Harvey’s life and death, it…

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