Don’t Go Home by Carolyn Hart

May 04, 2015

By the 25th Death on Demand mystery, fans know what to expect. It’s a traditional mystery set in Broward’s Rock, South Carolina, and, if everything is perfect, there will be the comfort of all those mysteries in Annie Darling’s bookstore. There will...

Dark Chocolate Demise by Jenn McKinlay

May 03, 2015

My sister, Christie, and I talk about characters in cozy mysteries the way some women used to talk about characters in soap operas. These are people we know, and we get upset with them when they do something that makes them TSTL, Too Stupid To Live. And, as much as we...

Ruined Abbey by Anne Emery

May 02, 2015

Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. Anne Emery’s Ruined Abbey is totally over my head, but it’s a  fascinating mystery. Because I haven’t read any of the mysteries about the Irish Troubles, or any of Emery’s previous Collins-Burke...

A Ghostly Undertaking by Tonya Kappes

April 26, 2015

I heard Tonya Kappes at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest last week, and her humor caught my attention. I bought the first in her Ghostly Southern mystery series, A Ghostly Undertaking, and I already have the second one, A Ghostly Grave. I have no regrets that I...

Blood Sweep by Steven F. Havill

April 22, 2015

Every time I read one of Steven F. Havill’s Posadas County mysteries, I lament the fact that not enough people know about these marvelous police procedurals. If you like Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire books, you really should try this series set in a...