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Review & Giveaway – Home to Comfort by Kimberly Fish

  HOME TO COMFORT By Kimberly Fish   Women’s Fiction / Contemporary / Cozy Mystery Publisher: Fish Tales Publishing Pages: 382 Publication Date: October 10, 2024   Synopsis Gloria Bachman has pivoted so many times this year she has whiplash. Now, in the middle of winter and drenched in Mexican sunshine at a five-star resort, […]

Review – Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

  Synopsis A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant an inept mother of the bride attempts to navigate the days before and after her daughter’s wedding. Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie’s wedding. To […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Death at the Scottish Broch by Rose Kerr

    Death at the Scottish Broch: A Mia Reid, Archaeologist, Mystery Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Isle of Skye, Scotland Publisher ‏ : ‎ Level Best Books (November 5, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages Synopsis Dr. Mia Reid arrives on the Isle of Skye for a summer dig. She learns […]

Review & Excerpt – A Dream in the Wilderness by Jean Hackensmith

    Synopsis Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley accepts the position of nanny to Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after the farmer’s wife, parents, and infant son die in the Cholera epidemic of 1834. The twist? The job is in Superior, Wisconsin […]

Short Story New Release – The River Keeper and Other Tales by Nancy Joie Wilkie

    Synopsis This collection of seven short stories takes the reader to the Kingdom of Imlay, a coastal realm still filled with magic and mythical creatures great and small. Characters such as the inquisitive Ya, the precocious Aurora, and an ambitious, future-seeking King face monumental decisions that will affect those they hold dear. Along […]

Review – Beneath the Broken Oak by Lori Altebaumer

  BENEATH THE BROKEN OAK By Lori Altebaumer   Mystery / Romance Publisher: One Thousand Hills Publishing Pages: 400 Publication Date: February 22, 2025   Synopsis Trees don’t heal. They seal. But Forester Jodee Trevaine isn’t a tree. The wounds of abandonment she’s spent years denying will be ripped open the night she witnesses a […]

New Release – The Department by Jacqueline Farber

  Synopsis Some secrets we keep even from ourselves Philosophy professor Neil Weber can’ t think of one good reason to get up in the morning. His wife has left him, his academic research has sputtered, and the prospect of tenure is more remote than ever. Until Lucia Vanotti disappears. A college student at the […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Wheels and Dirty Deals by Trixie Silvertale

    Wheels and Dirty Deals: Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Harper and Moon Investigations) Paranormal Cozy Mystery 6th in Series Setting – Pin Cherry Harbor – also known as “almost-Canada.” Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sittin’ On A Goldmine Productions LLC (February 18, 2025) Number of Pages – 250 Synopsis A cryptic murder. A complete lack of […]

Review – Carousels and Characters by Elizabeth Pantley

  Synopsis This book club is whooshed right into the pages of a cozy mystery. The quirky group of brave members must solve the mystery and reach The End to get out of the book. In each book of the series, they travel to a different world and meet paranormal characters. It could be shifters, […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Crime and Cat-astrophes by DeAnna Drake

    Crime and Cat-astrophes (A Purr-fect Relic Cozy Mystery) Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Setting – California Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tule Publishing (February 12, 2025) Print length ‏ : ‎ 199 pages Synopsis Did the professor get what he deserved, or is murder on the prowl in small-town California? As a late-summer heat […]