The third book in Linda Reilly's Grilled Cheese Mysteries serves up another tasty mystery as Carly Hale gets roped into catering a wedding shower at the last minute. Carly is serving up an unusual pairing of grilled cheese on doughnuts. The food is a hit, but Read more...
Ricki James-Diaz loves running Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbook and Kitchenware Shop at the Bon Vee Culinary House Museum in the Garden District of New Orleans. A transplant from California, Ricki’s getting used to her quirky coworkers and the weather, but what Ricki didn Read more...
EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE is a fun, inventive, highly addictive whodunnit that gives us a reliable narrator who plays fair with the clues. Referencing the Golden Age of mysteries and Ronald Knox’s 10 Commandments of Read more...
Jessica Fletcher is traveling to Belfast, Ireland to take over her friend's speaker and panelist duties at the Book Festival. When her neighbor, Maeve O’Bannon, hears about her upcoming trip, she asks Jessica to take her grandfather’s paintings back to her family in Read more...
When a murder mystery weekend at the Laurel Springs Inn takes an unexpected turn, Professor Phaedra Brighton finds herself in the middle of a real-life murder investigation in a house full of quarreling suspects. Can Phaedra uncover the cunning killer in the second book in the Jane Read more...
The seventh installment in Laura Joh Rowland’s Victorian mystery series finds Daily World crime reporter/photographer Sarah Barrett at the scene of a gruesome discovery when a torso washes ashore on the River Thames in RIVER OF FALLEN ANGELSRead more...
The third installment in the Riverbank Knitting Mysteryseries is pure holiday fun with a sharp whodunit. IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT SHEAR opens with Y.A.R.N. shop owner Libby Beckett looking forward Read more...
The cousins have all been summoned to Endgame House to participate in the annual Christmas Game. Aunt Liliana, the poetic hostess, died an unfortunate death, but she made sure all the game pieces were in place before her demise. Lily Armitage has not been back to the Read more...
Originally published in 1937, THESE NAMES MAKES CLUES is a highly entertaining traditional Golden Age detective novel. Eight writers have been invited to participate in a treasure hunt at a book publisher’s home and the night ends with the death of a well-known detective novelist Read more...
Dr. Crowe and his apprentice, Scuff, tend to the poor in their free clinic on the banks of the Thames River. Christmas is approaching, but there are many wounds to mend and Dr. Crowe’s heart may be one of them. He is appalled when he Read more...
It’s an early spring day in the small Michigan town of Chilson. The weather is still a little blustery and Assistant Library Director, Minnie Hamilton, is packing up her outreach bookmobile to make the rounds with her partner, Hunter Morales. Minnie is planning on catching Read more...
Abby Frost is having a bad week. First, she’s attacked leaving her job at Pacific Northwest Savings and Loan, and later she learns from a DNA test that the father who raised her is not her biological father. What Abby doesn’t know is Read more...
In the second Cheese Shop mystery, GONE FOR GOUDA, Willa Bauer is happy to be hosting a vegan event in her cheese shop with cooking reality star and influencer, Phoebe Winston. It will be great publicity for Read more...
A DEATH IN DOOR COUNTY is the first installment in the new Monster Hunter Mysteries featuring oddity bookstore owner and cryptozoologist, Morgan Carter. There have been two deaths in the turbulent waters connecting Green Bay to Lake Michigan, but these are no ordinary drownings. The Read more...
This new spin-off from the Melanie Travis Canine Mysteries puts Melanie’s aunt Peg in the spotlight. Peg has never particularly liked her sister-in-law Rose, but Rose needs a new bridge partner and Peg’s calendar is quite empty since Melanie Read more...
Set in the Australian outback, in the Central New South Wales farming town of Nannine, WAKE is a cleverly plotted character-driven novel that shows the struggles one family encounters amidst the grief and suspicion of the disappearance of their beloved child.
Ph.D. candidate Phoebe Walsh is writing her dissertation on true crime. Obsessed with learning about serial killers, Phoebe cannot help but see potential murderers everywhere, including the barefoot scruffy man who offers his assistance in the dark hours of the night. Read more...
In Megan Goldin's newest thriller, STAY AWAKE, Liv Reese wakes up disoriented in the back of a cab with a T-Shirt and a bloody knife. She's dropped off at her apartment Read more...
It's been a busy spring season at the Indigo Tea Shop. Theodosia is at the Heritage Society finalizing plans to cater their Maritime History Seminar when the dark and fog roll in. As Theodosia heads back to her tea shop down the desolate streets past St Read more...
In ARE YOU SARA?, two women with the same name leave a bar late at night. Each order a rideshare. On the way home, Sara Bhaduri realizes she took the wrong rideshare when she is dropped off in the wealthy Read more...
My fave event was a vacation to Maui. Rainbows, sunshine, and so much beauty everywhere. The I Love Dogs Jewelry - what a great way to help abused and orphaned animals.
I read the coffee house mysteries for awhile and really enjoyed them. I've missed the last few and have to get back in the swing. I love mysteries with entrepreneurs and Clare's coffee shop is so unique.