Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley

August 22, 2022

Mindy Quigley kicks off a new cozy mystery series set in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin with Six Feet Deep Dish. I’ll admit I wasn’t so sure about the protagonist when I read Delilah (Dee) O’Leary’s description of herself as a micromanaging chef. But,...

A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette

August 09, 2022

Zac Bissonnette’s debut mystery, A Killing in Costumes, is whimsical, nostalgic, and a little bittersweet at times. He introduces a character duo who can take on the world together, a sympathetic pair that the reader wants to see succeed, whether they’re...

Castle Deadly, Castle Deep by Veronica Bond

July 05, 2022

There’s just something about Veronica Bond’s Dinner and a Murder series that appeals to me. I don’t know if it’s the castle setting in a small town near Chicago. It might be that the actors in the Castle Dark theater provide a permanent cast of...

A Fatal Booking by Victoria Gilbert

July 03, 2022

Sometimes, three books in a series are enough. I’m not sure if Victoria Gilbert is going to continue the series after A Fatal Booking,, the third Booklover’s B&B Mystery, but this one was enough for me. I was a little disappointed in the...

Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride by Lorenzo Carcaterra

June 29, 2022

In conversation, I’ve said to a few friends that there haven’t been a lot of mysteries that stood out to me this year. Lorenzo Carcaterra remedied that with his quiet mystery, Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride. He takes readers to Ischia, an...