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Review & Giveaway – Puzzles and Premieres by Elizabeth Pantley

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Puzzles and Premieres: Magical Mystery Book Club
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
10th in Series
Setting – In a ski town at a film festival
Better Beginnings, Inc. (July 15, 2025)
Number of Pages: 290

Synopsis

When this club selects a book, magic happens!

This book club does more than read their books – they are absorbed right into the story to become the amateur sleuths! To exit the book and get back home, they need to solve the mystery and reach The End.

In this journey, they travel to a mountaintop ski town to experience the enchanting setting of a famous film festival. They’ll meet movie stars, producers, and directors. They’ll watch a film premiere, go skiing, and eat at fancy restaurants. It’s all very glamorous and exciting – until a famous actress disappears.

The book club is on the case! They discover clues in the most unusual way – by putting together enchanted jigsaw puzzles.

As usual, the club finds plenty of time to enjoy the unique setting of their journey, as they put together the mystery – one puzzle piece at a time.

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Review

I think I say this in every review for this series, but I love these books! To me, it is a unique concept for a paranormal cozy, yet it is fun and lighthearted.

The gang from Snapdragon Inn has chosen their next book to enter on the advice of Bob the Olm. I appreciate that the author occasionally crosses over her two series. Nothing big, just mentions of Destiny Falls in this series.

In this adventure, they are in a small snowy town for a film festival. One of the first characters they meet is another ghost. How fun for Mollie to have someone like her to interact with. It does take some time before the mystery is revealed, but until then, this band of friends solves puzzles to lead them to the next clue. And by puzzles, I mean literal puzzles! After all, this mountain town is located in Jigsaw Valley.

I love following along and trying to decipher the clues to solve the mystery before the book club. Sometimes I am successful, most of the time not. I chuckle a lot throughout these books, from Frank’s antics to the copious amounts of food they consume in each novel.

If you haven’t read any of this series, I highly recommend starting with the first book. While each book can be read on its own, it makes more sense to follow the lives of the book club characters to gain a deeper understanding of them.

We give this book 5 paws up.

 

 

About the Author

Elizabeth writes well-loved cozy mysteries in two series: The Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic book series and the Magical Mystery Book Club series.

Elizabeth lives in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona, two very different places. Both are rich, gorgeous, natural places, and inspire the settings in many of her books.

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1 Comment

  1. Elizabeth Pantley

    Thank for the amazing review and spotlight! I’m so happy you enjoy the magical book club’s journeys. I have an absolute blast writing their stories!

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