An Incantation of Cats is the second novel in the Witch Cats Of Cambridge Series by Clea Simon, in which Harriet, Laurel, and Clara, three magical cats, must learn to work together to save the person they all love. Becca Colwin has hung out her shingle as a witch detective, to the mixed feelings of…
I can’t believe this is already the eighth book in the Maine Clambake Mystery series! It feels like only yesterday that I started to have adventures with Julia Snowden and her friends and family, enjoying each book as thoroughly as the last. In this installment, Julia is overseeing the imminent reconstruction of her family’s inherited…
Dr. Jessie Teska is determined to start a fresh in San Francisco as the city’s newest medical examiner. Having come from sunnier Los Angeles, the inclement weather is a surprise, but the department where she works will prove even less pleasant in comparison with the modern, well-funded morgue she just left. The technology is out…
Welcome back, loyal readers and new! I thought we’d start the new year with a thematically appropriate mystery that features a perfect seasonal accompaniment for us to cook at home while enjoying a fun, cozy read. When a relative from an estranged branch of their family comes asking our heroines, Bernie and Libby Simmons, for…
1902, Italy. Our heroine, Lady Emily Hargreaves, is visiting the ruins of Pompeii in the company of her husband, Colin, and her dear friend, Ivy Brandon, when Ivy notes that one of the plaster casts of corpses felled in the ancient eruption sports surprisingly modern sideburns. Colin, being no stranger to investigating acts of foul…
Wedding planner and B&B owner Mallory Shepard is in for a December of surprises when her mother, Carole, decides she’s had enough of retirement and wants to move to Port Quincy to be closer to her daughters. However, she’s not the only one interested in coming to live in their small town located two hours…
The debut novel in the Courtney Archer Series, Cobblered to Death follows the host of a popular reality cooking show as she tries to clear her name of a gruesome murder while hiding the secret of her success. Courtney Archer is a fraud. Completely by accident, of course: back when she and her producer, Eric…
This is one of the most delightful paranormal cozy mysteries I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading! Our heroine, New Yorker Eleanor Wilde, is slowly settling into life in a bucolic English village after the events that originally brought her here in the first book in the series. She’s taken up the position of village…
Pamela Paterson is enjoying the lead up to Christmas, especially with her daughter Penny home from college for the holidays. Unfortunately, poor Penny is in for a terrible shock when she goes for a walk one day and stumbles across the dead body of Mildred Farthingale. Mildred had been not only a pillar of their…
The tidings of doom as this novel begins are coming less from actual fact than from a psychic acquaintance of Bryant’s whom he’s only too happy to insult as a cut-rate Cassandra. Still, Bryant can’t help but worry. Theirs is a partnership that relies on the other for balance, though the less generous could claim…
