Category: Monday

Mystery Monday: Brownies and Broomsticks by Bailey Cates

It has been a mystical cozy type of month!  This week’s mystery highlight is Brownies and Broomsticks by Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae) Synopsis: Katie Lightfoot’s tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. So when her aunt Lucy and uncle Ben open a bakery in Savannah’s quaint downtown district and […]

Mystery Monday: Pies and Prejudice by Ellery Adams

This week’s highlight is Pies and Prejudice by Ellery Adams and is the first in a new series.  I am nearly done with it and definitely enjoying the story because it has two of my favorite things….pies and dogs (well just 1 dog)!! Synopsis: When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So […]

Mystery Monday: Cut, Crop and Die by Joanna Campbell Slan

Mystery Monday is back!  it’s been a crazy July but I’m getting one in under the wire for the month. This week’s book is Cut, Crop and Die by Joanna Campbell Slan and it is the 2nd in the Kiki Lowenstein series. Synopsis: All it took was one scone. — Tainted icing triggers a rare […]

Mystery Monday: A Deadly Grind by Victoria Hamilton

Mystery Monday is back!  It has been crazy around here the last few weeks and I’ve gotten behind in several things. But hopefully things have sorted themselves out! This week’s selection is A Deadly Grind by Victoria Hamilton (aka Donna Lea Simpson)   Synopsis: When vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton spies an original 1920s […]

Mystery Monday: Little Shop of Homicide by Denise Swanson

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 […]

Mystery Monday – May 7th

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

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

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

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

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 […]