cozy mystery

  • Two cozy mystery novellas featuring a group of sleuths. In Memories and Mementos four female amateur sleuths investigate the local retirement home, in An Invitation to Mystery a collection of amateur and professional sleuths take on a decades old cold case. Memories and Mementos Book 1 in the Button Club series. “For a group of…

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  • It was a crazy idea, lacking all business sense and even common sense for that matter. I’d never driven a boat, never been to the swamp or laid eyes on a bayou. But I was ready for a change. Book 1 in the The Lettering Detective Series. When Mila Breaux’s rent check bounces and she…

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  • I didn’t typically force my way through locked doors, and certainly not those belonging to clients. Today, however, was an exception. Book 1 in the Hadley Home Design Cozy Mysteries series. Darlington Hills, Virginia, is interior designer Hadley Sutton’s idea of paradise on earth. Eager to escape New Orleans and her ex-boyfriend, Hadley is in…

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  • Many thanks to Natalie Summers for this ARC, it sounds so fun and I’m looking forward to reading this soon! From Goodreads: A magical island. A mysterious relative. A family she didn’t know existed. Inheriting a house from a dead great-aunt she’s never met should’ve been Sara Rivers’ first clue that things were about to…

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  • June Reading Recap

    Ad/PR. In June I read cozy mysteries, thrillers, horror, fantasy, historical mysteries and romance. I read about magical worlds, the collapse of society, ghosts and curses, reluctant necromancy, gnomes and pixies, deadly reunions, forbidden loves, and amateur sleuths at work and on holidays. And I added an emoji guide to my reads this time to…

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  • Molten Death by Leslie Karst

    Book 1 in the An Orchid Isle Mystery series. So you come to Hawai’i, a place you’ve never even been before and know nothing about, and now you’re going to single-handedly solve the great mystery of some supposed body in the lava. Valerie and Kristen had planned a vacation to Hawaii to celebrate Valerie’s sixtieth…

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  • She could not help but notice things in the world sometimes – patterns and abnormalities. They multiplied and repeated in all directions, like random coordinates on a map, begging somebody – begging her – to make sense of them. Book 1 in the Bangalore Detectives Club series. A deeply atmospheric mystery set in Bangalore in…

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  • “My dear Alec, reading Sherlock Holmes does not count as a study of criminology.” Book 1 in the A Meredith and Alec Thatch Mystery series. In private they are wife and wife, but to the world they are Mr and Mrs Thatch. Meredith “Merry” Thatch, formerly Miss Lancaster, scandalised the town of Fenwood-On-Sea when she…

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  • “If I waited for permission, we’d never solve anything.”“Yes, he said darkly, “but we might live longer.” Ad/PR. Book 4 in The Detection Club series. Many thanks to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for this ARC, publication date Jun 24, 2026. Agatha Christie is getting married. To avoid publicity and scandal, she is having her bans…

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  • Her eyes widened. ” You think the killer is here? One of the group? Surely not.” Book 1 in the Viola Roberts Cozy Mystery series. Viola Roberts is a historical romance writer composing bodice rippers with hunky, shirtless cowboys. She is attending a writer’s conference in Florida with her best friend and fellow writer Cheryl…

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