Lavender Lies Bleeding by Leslie Budewitz

July 23, 2025

I saw a question on Facebook yesterday. “What is your favorite cozy mystery series?” While there are several I read faithfully, Leslie Budewitz’ Spice Shop Mysteries definitely rank up there. She always takes us, along with her protagonist Pepper...

Kate & Frida by Kim Fay

March 11, 2025

Kim Fay’s novel, Love & Saffron, was published in 2022, one of my favorite novels that year. It was subtitled “A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love”. I picked it up at the time because it was an epistolary novel, told in letters, and I’ll...

Between a Wok and a Dead Place by Leslie Budewitz

July 17, 2023

Leslie Budewitz takes us back to Seattle’s Pike Place Market for the latest Spice Shop mystery, Between a Wok and a Dead Place. Although the spice shop setting, and all the discussion of food puts these mysteries in the cozy category, there’s a depth to...

Flight Risk By Cherie Priest

November 15, 2022

Did you catch Cherie Priest’s first Booking Agents mystery, Grave Reservations, when it came out last year? Leda Foley, a Seattle travel agent and sometimes psychic returns with Homicide Detective Grady Merritt in another off-beat story, Flight Risk.ed ab...

The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie by Rachel Linden

July 27, 2022

If you’re one of those readers who added your name to a list when I reviewed The Dead Romantics, you might want to watch for The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie. Kaye Wilkinson Barley is seldom wrong when she tells me I’ll love a book, and she was right about...