Today’s Mystery is Little Shop of Homicide by Denise Swanson. Denise also writes the Scumble River series, which is also a great series to pick up if you haven’t tried them yet. Synopsis: Devereaux Sinclair is the happy new owner of the adorable old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But when a revenge-crazed cop […]
Category: Cozy
Mystery Monday – May 7th
April 30, 2012
This week’s feature is an older book…circa 1997. Ok, so older but not that old! And doing research on the author realized she died in 2006. Guess that means no more books in this series, but there are 6 to enjoy. Anywho…the book is Delilah Doolittle and the Purloined Pooch and the author is Patricia […]
Mystery Monday – April 16th
April 16, 2012
Today’s Mystery Monday book is another cozy…what can I say, I love cozy books! Clobbered in Camembert is the 3rd in the Cheese Shop Mysteries by Avery Aames. Synopsis: When Kaitlyn is found dead in the cottage of Charlotte’s assistant Rebecca, suspicion falls on Rebecca’s boyfriend, a honeybee farmer himself. Charlotte knows this beekeeper […]
Mystery Monday – April 9th
April 9, 2012
This week it is a new series with a male lead (fairly unusual) and set in the Dallas area (love books set in Texas!). This series is the Stay at Home Dad series by Jeffrey Allen who is also known as Jeff Shelby, mystery writer. The first book is called Stay at Home Dead. Synopsis: […]
Mystery Monday – April 2nd
April 2, 2012
This week’s edition of Mystery Monday brings the second book in the Library Lover’s Mystery series, Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay. And according to her website this hit #24 on the NYT bestseller’s list for March 25th. WOW! Synopsis: What is the original meaning of the word clue?* — Answering tricky reference […]
Mystery Monday: Buried in a Book by Lucy Arlington
March 19, 2012
I don’t know if any other blog started this but I’m going to have a weekly mystery featured on Monday…hence the title Mystery Monday! The first book to be features is the first in a new cozy series by Lucy Arlington. It is called Buried in a Book and is a Novel Idea Mystery. The […]
Spying in High Heels by Gemma Halliday – free on your Nook!
October 24, 2011
SPYING IN HIGH HEELS is free for a limited time on BN Nook! If you don’t have a Nook reader, you can download a free Nook app to read it for your mac, pc, ipad, ipod, iphone, or many smartphones. Get it here!
On loan from the library
August 31, 2011
Once I finish Lost and Fondue I will be starting on Murder by Mocha by Cleo Coyle. Murder by Mocha is the 10th in the Coffee House series. From the dust jacket: Clare Cosi, manager and head barista of the landmark Village Blend coffeehouse, can brew a beverage to die for. But can she stir […]
To Have and To Kill – Mary Jane Clark
November 23, 2010
Author Mary Jane Clark is probably best known for her suspense series featuring Eliza Blake, co-anchor for KEY news. She has branched out and created a pseudo cozy series called the Wedding Cake Mysteries. It might be more of a cozy than I think, but compared to others it didn’t see as “light” as other […]
Sherri Travis mystery series
November 10, 2010
A few months ago I reviewed the first book in the Sherri Travis series called Margarita Nights by author Phyllis Smallman. The book showed promise for a new series set in Florida so I decided to check out the next two books in the series, Sex in a Sidecar and A Brewski for the Old Man. […]