Paws to Remember by Sofie Kelly

October 18, 2023

I don’t get excited about very many cozy mysteries. But, Sofie Kelly’s Paws to Remember, the fifteenth in her Magical Cats series, features a librarian, her two magical cats, and a cold case. Cozies don’t get much better than this. It’s just a...

A Wealth of Deception by Trish Esden

April 16, 2023

Although A Wealth of Deception is Trish Esden’s second Scandal Mountain Antique Mystery, you can jump right into this series. If you’re a fan of Jane K. Cleland’s Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries, you’re probably going to like this series...

Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings

February 04, 2023

It seems this is the season for “Agony Aunt” mysteries. Although Mary Winters’ March release, Murder in Postscript is set twenty years earlier than Anastasia Hastings’ Of Manners and Murder, both books feature young women tasked with writing...

Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy

January 14, 2023

Death in Heels is Kitty Murphy’s first Dublin Drag Mystery. I’ll admit right up front that it wasn’t the drag queens I had trouble with; it was the protagonist, Fi McKinnery. Although the drag community at TRASH, a Dublin drag club had a number of...

The Game is A Footnote by Vicki Delany

January 09, 2023

Tricky, tricky. Vicki Delany’s latest Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery takes an unexpected turn two thirds of the way through the book with the arrival of Gemma Doyle’s sister, Pippa. The Game is A Footnote went from a small local mystery of a haunted...