The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

January 23, 2022

If you love books, physically as well as for the contents, you might want to pick up Sosuke Natsukawa’s The Cat Who Saved Books. If you’re like me, and appreciate all the little tidbits, I’d suggest you skip to the end of the book before reading it....

A Three Book Problem by Vicki Delany

January 10, 2022

Any Sherlock Holmes fan will immediately recognize the reference to him with the title of Vicki Delany’s seventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery. Readers of traditional mysteries will be pleased with the country house setting in A Three Book Problem. This...

The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

December 20, 2021

A gorgeous cover. Descriptions of Edinburgh, Scotland at Christmastime that would make anyone want to be there, even a snow grinch like me. The Christmas Bookshop is another delightful novel by Jenny Colgan, with a little bit of romance, and a great amount of family...

How to Book a Murder by Cynthia Kuhn

December 11, 2021

Cynthia Kuhn launches a new series with How to Book a Murder, the first Starlit Bookshop Mystery. Readers who enjoy cozy mysteries featuring bookstores might want to check this one out. Although Emma Starrs just finished her PhD, she turns down a tenure-tracked...

The Bookshop of Second Chances by jackie Fraser

September 14, 2021

I felt so guilty about The Bookshop of Second Chances that I finally bought my own copy. Because I had so many other books to read, Jackie Fraser’s charming debut novel was sitting on a table with a bookmark stuck at chapter four. I finally picked it up again...