Category: mystery

Review – Genies and Gibberish by Elizabeth Pantley

  Synopsis This club gets whooshed into a book. They become characters! To get out, they must find the killer. ~ ~ ~ Whenever this group chooses a book, magic happens. The mystery comes to life, and they find themselves part of the story. To exit the book and get back home, they need to […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Framed for Murder by Marla A. White

    Framed For Murder (A Pine Cove Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – California Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Wild Rose Press, Inc. (June 17, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 284 pages Synopsis After a life-changing injury, Mel O’Rourke trades in her badge for bed sheets, running a B & B […]

Review & #Giveaway – A Chocolate is Announced by Amber Royer

  A Chocolate is Announced Bean to Bar Mystery, #7 by Amber Royer   Cozy Mystery / Culinary Mystery / Women Sleuths Publisher: Golden Tip Press Date of Publication: June 25, 2024 Number of Pages: 277 pages   Scroll down for Giveaway!   Synopsis Felicity Koerber is finally getting her life together.  She has a […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – What Grows From the Dead by Dave Dobson

    What Grows From the Dead Mystery Stand-Alone Setting – North Carolina Independently Published (March 9, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 367 pages Synopsis Morris Drummond is not at his best. Well, he hasn’t been at his best for a while now. But having just suffered two crushing losses, he’s almost at rock bottom, […]

Review – Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell

  Synopsis Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that’s on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It’s the perfect outlet for […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – The Honeymoon Homicides by Jeannette De Beauvoir

    The Honeymoon Homicides: A Provincetown Mystery (Sydney Riley Series) Cozy Mystery 10th in Series Setting – Provincetown, Massachusetts, is a resort town on the tip of Cape Cod. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Homeport Press (June 15, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 290 pages Synopsis Despite an unforeseen disaster ruining her carefully planned wedding […]

Excerpt – Sly as a Fox by Wendy L. Koenig

    Synopsis Sylvia Wilson’s brother, Aaron, is working with a joint bank robbery task force. When he goes missing, she joins forces with the FBI to search for him. But nothing is what it seems. With very little time left, Sylvia will burn Heaven to the ground to find her missing brother and bring […]

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 […]