Category: mystery

Review & Giveaway – Puzzles and Premieres by Elizabeth Pantley

    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 […]

Review – A Poetic Puzzle by Joanne McLaughlin

  Synopsis Internationally acclaimed poet Mary Irene Jones has vanished—calls and texts unacknowledged, bank accounts emptied, car abandoned. But before she disappeared, she mailed never-published manuscripts to a lesser-known namesake poet, M. Irene “Mimi” Jones. Are the manuscripts clues only Mimi can decipher? And what about the handsome Philadelphia cop assigned to the case? He […]

Review – Death of an Ex by Delia C. Pitts

  Synopsis Delia Pitts expertly writes about family, race, class, and grief in her mysteries. Vandy Myrick captured readers’ and critics’ hearts in Trouble in Queenstown. She returns in Death of an Ex, where Vandy tries to piece together what brought her ex-husband’s life to an end. Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and […]

Review – The Case of the Croaked Coach by Susie Black

  Synopsis There wasn’t an honest bone in Buzz Bixby’s body. The Encino High School’s head football coach was an equal-opportunity scoundrel. Bixby cheated and lied his way to the top and screwed anyone and everyone in his wake. So, the question wasn’t who wanted the bastard dead. The question was, who didn’t? Student reporter […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Murder on the Books by T.C. Lotempio

    Murder on the Books (A Cozy Bookshop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2025 Hardcover Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages Synopsis Newly retired mystery writer Charley James returns to her small hometown only to find […]

Review – Shadow of the Queen by Scott Finley

  Synopsis October, 1929. Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning the ship’s nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire, apparently leaping overboard a day before the […]

Excerpt – Thieving Shadows by Jessica Piro

  Synopsis Surviving in Rookfall depends on rank or thievery, and no one can be trusted. Genevieve is a master thief: one of the renowned Shadows, instilling fear into the elites. One night, an easy job to steal an automaton ends in confusion. Waking three years later in the presence of Matthew Tilcott, a lesser, […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Strike The Death Note by Rebecca McKinnon

    Strike the Death Note (Octavia Fields Mysteries) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Rocky Mountains Independently Published (June 26, 2025) Number of Pages — 250 Synopsis With just two weeks left of the summer at Aerie Pines, music shop owner Octavia Fields should be getting ready to head back to the nomadic […]

Review – The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

  Synopsis A dazzling thriller in which a struggling ghostwriter is hired to finish her legendary father’s last book – a story that will finally force him to tell the truth about the murders that have haunted their family for years. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Funerals and Familiars by Carmen Radtke

      Funerals and Familiars (A Cozy Midlife Witch Mystery) Willowmere Mysteries Paranormal Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Oregon Independently Published (May 23, 2025) Synopsis Midlife can be murder – or magic… Almost fifty and freshly divorced, Bex Merriweather is going through The Change – battling hot flashes and night sweats. Little […]