Ellen Bryon’s new series is set in the Bon Vee Culinary House Museum, the “former Garden District home of late bon vivant Genevieve ‘Vee’ Charbonnet,” legendary New Orleans restauranteur. BAYOU BOOK THIEF blends the rich ambiance Read more...
In THE PAPER CAPER, the 16th Bibliophile Mystery, Brooklyn Wainwright plans to rebind a first edition of The Prince and the Pauper over four days as part of a working exhibit during the Covington Library's first annual Mark Twain Read more...
The first chapter of ABANDONED IN DEATH is a gruesome introduction to J. D. Robb’s 54thIn Death book. Then, there’s the fact that the dead woman is found on a playground bench with Read more...
In THE CARTOGRAPHERS, Peng Shepherd writes a compelling story that almost reads as an homage to the craft of cartography. Upon her father's death, legendary cartographer Dr. Daniel Young, Nell Young discovers the map that destroyed her career in his portfolio Read more...
THE PROOF IS IN THE POISON finds Hattie Hayes and her Moonshine Shack on the verge of disaster when a model train conventioneer dies after drinking her moonshine brew.
During the Choo-Choo Model Train Convention, Hattie plans a Monday Read more...
SMILE BEACH MURDER kicks off a new cozy series by Alicia Bessette featuring laid-off reporter Callie Padget who moves home from Charlotte to Cattail Island. The island is only accessible by ferry. A barrier Read more...
In CLAWS FOR SUSPICION, Kari Stuart finds herself the primary suspect in the murder of her ex-husband, Charlie Smith. Deborah Blake builds an intriguing mystery around lost paperwork and a greedy ex-husband.
After four years, Kari’s ex-husband turns up in Lakeview, eager Read more...
In this 10th Magical Bakery Mystery, SPIRITS AND SOURDOUGH, Baker Katie Lightfoot deals with two supernatural challenges: recovering her husband’s missing guardian spirit and solving the murder of Read more...
In MIMI LEE CRACKS THE CODE, the third book in Jennifer J. Chow’s third Sassy Cat Mystery, Mimi Lee deals with murder, her mother and sister’s matchmaking antics, and figuring out her relationship with Read more...
THE BECOMING gets a fast start--Bree is grabbed by her best friend Marco just as she and Keegan are entering the portal to Talamh, the distant world of her late father. But, as Marco explains, he would not let Read more...
When library colleague Ms. Cole finds a dead body hidden by political yard signs in her car’s trunk, Library Director Lindsey Norris begins searching for clues in Jenn McKinlay’s KILLER RESEARCH, the latest Library Lover’s Mystery.Read more...
Kari Stuart returns in the second Catskills Pet Rescue Mystery, DOGGONE DEADLY, and embarks on finding who is committing murder at the Tri-County Kennel Club Show.
Suz (short for Suzanne) Holden, coordinator for the show, bribes Kari Read more...
In the Beloved Bookroom Mystery series debut, librarian Tru Beckett pulls a fast one when she rescues the discarded library books and sets up a secret bookroom, hidden in the building’s basement, for trustworthy patrons who want to Read more...
Two murder victims, only a few blocks apart yet separated by almost 40 years, confront Detective Eve Dallas on the same day. One case involves Dallas’ husband Roarke as the construction site owner where the crew discovers the long ago buried body. Police recognize the second victim Read more...
As the title suggests, it’s easy to get hooked on the two sleuthing felines featured in Sofie Kelly’s Magical Cats Mysteries. Owen and Hercules may be two of the friskiest characters appearing in the cozy Read more...
An unexpected inheritance surprises Charlie Harris and introduces him to new information about his family along with a couple of new relatives. In WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN by Miranda James, the 14th Read more...
Lorna Barrett stirs things up quite a bit in this 15thBooktown Mystery. The story opens as Tricia Miles and Police Chief Grant Baker witness a big white pickup truck run down Marshall Cambridge after both men propose to Read more...
Diane Kelly’s new series introduces Hattie Hayes, a legal Moonshiner, as she opens her new venture, Moonshine Shack, where she offers various Moonshine flavors for sale.
At her shop’s successful private opening, Hattie hands out mason jars of her Firefly Brand Moonshine, and Read more...
In the 11th entry of Juliet Blackwell’s Witchcraft Mysteries, SYNCHRONIZED SORCERY, Lily and Sailor return home from their European honeymoon and search for Oscar’s mother. Oscar is Lily’s familiar, a shape Read more...
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