Courting Can Be Killer by Amanda Flower

December 02, 2020

Fans of Amanda Flower’s Amish Candy Shop mysteries will welcome the second Amish Matchmaker mystery. It’s set in the same community of Harvest, Ohio in Holmes County. Many of the same characters appear in both series. Courting Can Be Killer, the second...

January Treasures in My Closet

December 01, 2020

There are a lot more January book releases than December ones. Are you ready to kick off 2021 with a variety of selections? Let’s check them out. Melanie Benjamin’s novel covers an event most of you have probably never heard of, The Children’s Blizzard of 1888. So...

Death at a Country Mansion by Louise R. Innes

November 30, 2020

I love a mystery series debut. Death at a Country Mansion by Louise R. Innes introduces a socially savvy, intelligent amateur sleuth in Daisy Thorne. As the hair stylist/owner of Ooh La La hair salon in Edgemead, England, she knows all the villagers, and has the right...

Finished Off in Fondant by Rosemarie Ross

November 29, 2020

Honestly? I didn’t even remember I had read the first in the Courtney Archer series, Cobblered to Death, until I started this book. Finished Off in Fondant picks up the amateur sleuth’s storyline with her concerns about her deception and her confusion...

Murder at Veronica’s Diner by J.D. Griffo

November 28, 2020

If you’re a fan of Janet Evanovich’s Grandma Mazur, imagine her times four. The Ferrara family, Italian Americans in New Jersey are “direct, loud, demanding, impatient, and tactless.” The four women love each other, but they yell their love as...

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

November 27, 2020

Olivia Dade’s debut romantic comedy, Spoiler Alert, is based in the world of fanfiction. Although it was sometimes difficult to understand some of the fanfiction, the two main characters and the story itself were delightful. For seven years, Marcus Caster-Rupp has...