cozy mystery
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Ad/PR. 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…
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Connor Lawton made an abysmal first impression on his initial visit to the Athena Public Library. Charlie Harris is thrilled to hear that his adult daughter Laura will be staying with him in Athena for the fall semester. But when the thoroughly unpleasant playwright Connor Lawton is murdered, Laura becomes both a suspect and a…
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“Thank God!” said Hugo on a loud sighing exhalation of breath. “Thank me, if you please,” replied Lady Amanda, already pulling a suitcase from the top of the wardrobe. Strangeways to Oldham is the name of a cocktail, and the title of this cozy mystery featuring the strong-willed Lady Amanda, who is not what one…
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“Will… Messages from beyond the grave?” Kitty tried to keep her voice light, but a prickle of fear ran up her spine. What would you do if you thought your new home was haunted? Kitty and William Grantchester have inherited their Aunt Grace’s house, her Historical Weaponry and Maritime Museum, her Pomeranian dog Maximus and…
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“Wine blogger turned best-selling author! And a staunch, proud feminist no less.” Ad/PR. Many thanks to Steve Exeter for this ebook. Book 3 in the A Francine Witt Mystery series. Fran is back, and this time she is in New York with Rosalind, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous. But the glamour of high…
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“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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Ad/PR. 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.…
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