Sugar and Spite by Carol J. Perry

November 22, 2025

Rhys Bowen, author of Her Royal Spyness series, recently said one of the biggest mistakes an author can make is to add a baby to an amateur sleuth’s life. I wonder if Carol J. Perry decided to end her Witch City mystery series by giving Lee and Pete Mondello a...

The Spirit Moves by Carol J. Perry

May 31, 2025

Carol J. Perry’s Haunted Haven mysteries are some of my favorite cozies. I like the setting of Haven, Florida, the Haven House Inn, the ghosts, and the characters. There were a few too many characters in The Spirit Moves, and I had a hard time remembering which...

Death Scene by Carol J. Perry

August 19, 2024

I love Carol J. Perry’s Witch City cozy mysteries. I will admit I guessed the killer in the first third of the book, but there are a few cozy series I read for the characters and setting rather than the mystery itself. So, it didn’t really matter to me...

Haunting License by Carol J. Perry

July 28, 2024

Carol J. Perry is the author of the Witch City Mysteries, but she’s also written three cozies in the Haunted Haven series set in Florida. After living in Florida for eighteen years, I have a fondness for the quirky mysteries set there. Haunting License, the...

Halloween Cupcake Murder

August 23, 2023

Don’t touch that cupcake! Or, I should say, don’t touch that cupcake if it gets close to Halloween. Three authors , Carlene O’Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry offer their amateur sleuths the chance to celebrate Halloween, despite a cupcake of...