Category: mystery

Review – Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

  Synopsis Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So, when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends. Instead, a girl […]

Spotlight & #Giveaway – Sugar on the Bones by Joe Lansdale

  SUGAR ON THE BONES By Joe R. Lansdale   Private Investigator Mystery / Noir Crime / Hard-Boiled Mystery / Lawyers and Criminals Humor Publisher: Mulholland Books Pages: 317 Publication Date: July 16, 2024   Synopsis In this holy mess of a case for the “perpetual bad boy” (New York Times) sleuths in the beloved […]

Review – A Collection of Lies by Connie Berry

  Synopsis As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – A Lethal Lake Effect by Lorraine Bartlett

    A Lethal Lake Effect (A Victoria Square Mystery) Cozy Mystery 9th in Series Setting – Victoria Square, McKinlay Mill, NY Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polaris Press (June 6, 2024) Number of Pages: 306 Synopsis Things go awry for Katie Bonner when her former mother-in-law, Margo, throws a housewarming party at her lakeside rental […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Sorry, Knot Sorry by Lois Winston

    Sorry, Knot Sorry (An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery) Cozy Mystery 13th in Series Setting – New Jersey and New York City Independently Published (June 4, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages Synopsis Magazine crafts editor Anastasia Pollack may finally be able to pay off the remaining debt she found herself saddled […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Clover Covered Corpse by Jackie Layton

    Clover Covered Corpse: A Texas Flower Farmer Cozy Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Texas Publisher: ‎ Level Best Books (May 28, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 308 pages Synopsis Emma Justice never imagines working at the farmers market on a normal Saturday morning will lead to her second murder […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Over the Edge by Kathleen Bryant

    Over the Edge: A Novel Traditional Mystery Setting – Sedona, Arizona Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Lane Books (June 4, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages Synopsis In Sedona’s red rock canyons, a former reporter must piece together her shattered memories in time to stop a killer in this cat-and-mouse thriller, perfect […]

Review – The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman

  Synopsis The Last Note of Warning is the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some small measure of both stability and freedom. […]

Mystery Spotlight & #Giveaway – Kill or Bee Killed by Jennie Marts

    Kill or Bee Killed (A Bee Keeping Mystery) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Colorado Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Lane Books (June 4, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages Synopsis Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flower, this second Bee Keeping mystery takes Bailey Briggs to the brink […]