Pint of No Return by Dana Mentink

May 23, 2021

With the temperatures climbing, it’s the perfect time to dive into the new Shake Shop Mystery series. While readers will sample Dana Mentink’s Pint of No Return, we’ll probably return for the residents of Upper Sprocket, Oregon. Trinidad (Trina)...

The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle

May 11, 2021

Jack Shepard is back! Let’s face it. While the blurb says “Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her gumshoe ghost team up”, many of us who read Cleo Coyle’s Haunted Bookshop mysteries love Jack, the ghost of a private investigator...

The Sign of Death by Callie Hutton

April 12, 2021

Callie Hutton’s The Sign of Death picks up exactly where A Study in Murder leaves off. If you haven’t read the first one, I definitely recommend it before picking up the second Victorian Book Club mystery. The characters in the humorous historical mystery...

Cover Reveal – Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

April 05, 2021

Oh, I’ve been waiting to share this cover of a forthcoming book published by Polis/Agora. It’s not every day that you find a book describes as a “macabre cozy mystery”. Here’s the cover of Amitra Murry’s Arya Winters and the...

A Curious Incident by Vicki Delany

January 11, 2021

While I never had the chance to read about Gemma Doyle’s adventures in England in There’s a Murder Afoot, I didn’t really miss anything by moving straight to the sixth book in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series. A Curious Incident just might be my...