cozy mystery
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A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review Alex loves her cozy quilt shop and her comfortable, peaceful existence, but when she finds an ancient box with a mysterious quilt square, she and her friends are swept up in an adventure of suspense, drama, missing persons and conspiracies right in the heart of the Istanbul markets and…
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A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review Radhi Zaveri takes a deep breath, trying to steel herself. Temple Hill demands perfection, polish and poise, and Radhi is not about to give anyone the satisfaction of her appearing as if she doesn’t belong here anymore. After a decade abroad in the US, Radhi has returned to Mumbai,…
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February was a month of great ARCs, from Belle Époque Paris glamour and bohemian vibes in Secrets of the Maison Fournier to contemporary best friend sleuths in Dying to Live Here and Golden Age murder mystery in A Pretender’s Murder. For the A-Z Cozy Mystery Challenge on Instagram I revisited the lovely sleuth duo Edwina…
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A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review Karston, Ohio, 1900. Jenny Jenkins is surprised by the sound of an automobile. She hurries out on the porch, and sees her husband, Constable Richard Jenkins in the passenger seat with his right arm in a sling. Welcome to Mostlymurders, the bookstagram account where we look at fictional murders…
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Whoever killed Clayton Davenport did the world a favor. When the rich, flashy, and thoroughly unpleasant investor Clayton Davenport arrives in New Bison days before the annual spring festival, he manages to antagonise almost everyone in town, including infuriating Maddy Montgomery and her friend April to the point where both of them become prime suspects…
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“Did you ever threaten Rose Martin?” “Yes,” Laura whispered. Sam swore. Emma Stewart and her best friend Laura couldn’t be more different. Emma is an introverted, single, no-nonsense sports fan, dog lover, while Laura is an outgoing, married, frills-and-flowers, prim-and-neat HOA president living in a very attractive neighbourhood in Harbor Shores, Florida. When a house…
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“Even the prettiest villages have their dark side, Maya. Let’s not forget that.” When her husband Rajiv gets a job at a university, Maya and Rajiv and their daughter Anya move from New Delhi to the small British village of Merrywick. Rajiv loves his new job, but Maya is struggling to settle in. She misses…
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The first sign of trouble came disguised as gossip. Like a curl of smoke, it slipped through my bookshop’s half-open windows with meandering confidence, snaking its way through the Latin Quarter. When the rich and prominent Fournier, owner of the glamorous Maison Fournier department store in Paris, dies under very public circumstances right after having…
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Book 1 in the River Cruise Cozies series. Adelle is retired and bored, so when her friend asks her for help, she agrees to cover for her as a tour host for a small group of women going on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam. She is looking forward to meeting new people, but…
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My January reading was dominated by great debut novels, from Tudor-era action in A Bastard’s Bosworth to delicious Japanese food in The Kamogawa Food Detectives, gothic Holmesian mystery in the early 1900s with Strange Beasts, a character-driven crime drama in Blood Between Us, colonialism and identity in A Memory Called Empire, strong women, representation and…
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