Jo Carter is middle-aged and resigned to a life of mediocrity in public relations for a small New York City museum, after a once promising career as a journalist. That all changes after an unusual letter arrives that turns everything upside down for her. Back in high school, her best friend Sam Kennedy had abruptly…
Kensington Books’ latest seasonal collection of culinary cozy novellas is perfect for curling up with a hot beverage and taking a much-needed holiday break! Carlene O’Connor’s Ireland-set tale opens the book and gives the collection its name. Fans of her Irish Village Mystery series will be thrilled to see familiar characters here. Our heroine, Siobhan…
Alice Lee is eighteen years-old when she takes off from her small Wisconsin town, drawn like a moth to the bright lights of New York City. With only six hundred dollars and a vintage Leica camera to her name, she has no idea what she wants to do with her life, only that she wants…
After a delay of three years, I finally got a chance to attend a Kensington CozyClub Mini-Con! In 2019, the pandemic put paid to Kensington Publishing’s usual slate of CozyClub mini-conventions, aimed at lovers of cozy mysteries and held regionally on a regular basis. Now that it’s 2022 however, things have gotten safe enough to…
This almost Dickensian thriller starts with a young woman who’s just been kidnapped by persons unknown and is being kept in the dark, both figuratively and literally. After losing her parents at a young age, Amelie Lamont lived on the streets until she was more or less rescued by Carolyn Blakely, the woman who would…
Our heroine, Mac Almeida, and her fiancé, Tim, are getting married! In the lead-up to their New Year’s nuptials, they’re renovating the house that they’ll be living in as a married couple. The old Cape Cod cottage is comfortable but could use a little extra modernization. Mac is most excited at the prospect of installing…
Bailey King has been roped into helping with Harvest, Ohio’s first annual village-wide Thanksgiving celebration, with dinner seating both in the town square and in the church just beyond it. The formidable organizer, Margot Rawlings, has put Bailey in charge of desserts, a natural fit given the fact that she runs the now-famous Swissmen Sweets…
Wild Ffion Morgan was no one’s idea of the kind of girl who’d grow up to be a police officer, but here she is at 30, Cwm Coed’s own Detective Constable, with a fairly wide remit from the North Wales Police. Like nearly everyone else in her small Welsh town, she opposed the building of…
When Leila Khoury left her Vermont hometown to take a teaching job all the way down in Florida, the last thing she expected was to come home for the very worst of reasons: her own father’s funeral. Victor Khoury had been universally beloved in Sugar Ridge, or so Leila believed. Someone had certainly cared a…
When floodwaters sweep through Minnesota’s Red River Valley, Cash Blackbear is mostly worried about how they’ll affect her ability to pick up work on the now-waterlogged local farmsteads. The college classes that her mentor, County Sheriff Wheaton, insists she take don’t fill up enough of her time. Neither do her ace pool-shooting abilities, nor her…
