Frozen Detective by Amanda Flower

January 23, 2023

I wonder where Amanda Flower would have taken the characters of the Piper and Porter cozy mystery series if Hallmark Publishing hadn’t closed down. Frozen Detective follows Dead-End Detective, the mystery that introduced private detective Darby Piper and her...

On Spine of Death by Tamara Berry

November 26, 2022

If you enjoyed the humor of Tamara Berry’s Buried in a Good Book, you might want to catch up with the adventures of that quirky cast in On Spine of Death. Thriller writer Tess Harrow and her fifteen-year-old daughter Gretchen are digging themselves into the life...

Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala

October 02, 2022

Agatha Award-winning author Mia P. Manansala takes readers back to Shady Palms, Illinois for a third mystery filled will family crisis and drama in Blackmail and Bibingka. As in Manansala’s previous mysteries, it’s also filled with Filipino foods, customs,...

Steeped to Death by Gretchen Rue

September 03, 2022

Sometimes, the cover art is better than the mystery itself. That’s not the case with the first book in Gretchen Rue’s Witches’ Brew Mystery series, Steeped to Death. Rue gives us one of the best amateur sleuths I’ve read in a cozy mystery...

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,...