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Mystery Spotlight & #Giveaway – The Family Man by Lyn Farrell

            The Family Man (Rosedale Investigations) Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Setting – Tennessee Camel Press (January 9, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages   Synopsis   A woman approaches Rosedale Investigations to report her husband missing. Then another woman arrives to report her husband is missing. When the […]

Excerpt – Something Better by Jim Bates

    Synopsis   For Quinn and his young family, life in 2220 in the aftermath of global warming was a depressing dead-end existence with no future past the mandatory forty-year life span at which point you were unceremoniously put to death and turned into compost. But only if you lived that long. One day […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – A Crust to Die For by T.C. LoTempio

        A Crust to Die For (A Tiffany Austin Food Blogger Mystery) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Georgia Severn House (January 2, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages   Synopsis   The Bon-Appetempting Pizza Bake-Off has the small town of Branson, Georgia buzzing. Not least its organizer, Southern Style’s […]

Review – The Magic All Around by Jennifer Moorman

    Synopsis   The Russell family members all seem to have–gifts. Eldest sister Penelope naturally infuses strength or joy or love into the fabric of the dresses she designs as a seamstress. Her younger sister, Lilith, is never without whatever she needs—there’s always a person nearby who just happens to have an apartment available […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – Keeping Pepper by Scott Brody

      Synopsis   Beneath the weight of four long years in confinement, a story of liberation unfolds, igniting a whirlwind of love, fear, and even hope. When Ed and Stacey go to Las Vegas to visit their friend Pepper, they realize his dementia has gotten worse. They decide to take him with them […]

Excerpt – The Powell Expeditions by Tim Piper

    Synopsis   After his mother’s death, seventeen-year-old Jubilee Walker asks to join a scientific expedition led by Major John Wesley Powell, a family friend. Powell initially refuses, but Jubil’s persistence and resourcefulness eventually win him a place on Powell’s crew. However, Jubil’s plans for a life of adventure are complicated by his deepening […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Vanilla Chai and A Vanishing Victim by Victoria Tait

        Vanilla Chai and A Vanishing Victim: A British Cozy Murder Mystery with a Female Sleuth (A Waterwheel Cafe Mystery) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Setting – Cotswold, England Kanga Press (January 5, 2024)   Synopsis   A missing child. A half-baked ransom demand. Can a community cop sift through clues and […]

Interview & #Giveaway – Rivers and Creaks by Marc Jedel

        Rivers and Creaks: A Redwoods Country Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – California BGM Press (November 30, 2023) Print length ‏ : ‎ 227 pages   Synopsis   A grumpy innkeeper. A dead guest. Can he solve the locked-room mystery before his business crumbles into chaos? In the heart […]

Review – Portrait of Deception by Kathryn Dodson

    Synopsis   A photographer on the brink of fame. A dictator with a dangerous agenda. Used to hiding behind her camera, can this skilled artist capture the truth and still escape with her life? Margo McAllister is mere hours from her dream. In Italy, to compete for a prestigious award, the young photographer […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Shade Grown by Heather Day Gilbert

        Shade Grown (Barks & Beans Cafe Cozy Mystery) Cozy Mystery 8th in Series Setting – West Virginia WoodHaven Press (December 11, 2023) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 190 pages   Synopsis   BOOK EIGHT in the Award-winning BARKS & BEANS CAFE cozy mystery series!! Welcome to the Barks & Beans Cafe, a […]