Without a Brew by Ellie Alexander

November 09, 2020

I’ve mentioned before, I have no interest in beer or beer-making, but Ellie Alexander’s Sloan Krause mystery series is still interesting and entertaining. Although the fourth in the series,    Without a Brew, has some information about craft beer...

A Batter of Life and Death by Ellie Alexander

June 09, 2020

When I read the first of Ellie Alexander’s Bakeshop mysteries, Meet Your Baker, I commented that the amateur sleuth, Jules Capshaw, was too impulsive, ready to fling herself into danger. It appears that Jules learned her lesson after ending up with a scar after...

Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander

May 30, 2020

One of my librarian friends has been recommending Ellie Alexander’s Bakeshop mysteries to me for a couple years. I finally picked up the first in the series because I was so satisfied with the forthcoming book in Alexander’s Sloan Krause series. I like the...

Beyond a Reasonable Stout by Ellie Alexander

October 06, 2019

Someday, I’m going to go back and read Ellie Alexander’s other series, The Bakeshop Mysteries. A librarian friend who isn’t a big cozy mystery reader raves about those books. Alexander and her characters suck a reader into a series, whether the...

Death on Tap by Ellie Alexander

October 03, 2017

Ellie Alexander, author of the Bakeshop mysteries, capitalizes on the popularity of microbreweries with the first in an entertaining new series, Death on Tap. The pairing of beer and food in an atmospheric setting should prove popular with cozy mystery readers....