One of my favorite things about the Booktown Mystery series is the character development. Main characters grow and learn and never lose their capacity to surprise, even as the supporting cast rotates in and out of their lives in good ways and bad. Poisoned Pages is an especially strong entry in the series, showing how…
It’s been 13 years, and Maggie Sefton is wrapping up her Knitting Mystery series with one last murder and a whole lot of reminiscing. If you haven’t read the earlier books, you might want to wait to start this one until you have, as our heroine, Kelly Flynn, gathers with friends to rehash the previous…
I don’t know what it is about the Maine air, but I’ve definitely found my second favorite culinary cozy mystery series after Barbara Ross’s superlative Maine Clambake books, also set in the same state. Death and a Pot of Chowder is the first in Cornelia Kidd’s new Maine Murder Mystery series, and it’s a really…
The third book in the Farmer’s Daughter Mystery series finds our immensely likable narrator, Shelby McDonald, busy with last-minute preparations for the wedding of her good friends Kelly Thacker and Seth Gregson. She’s loaned them the barn at Love Blossom Farm for the nuptials and is helping set up not only for a terrific barbeque…
I’ve enjoyed several of Krista Davis’s books while writing for Criminal Element, and I have to say that the Domestic Divas series is far and away my favorite of her works. Part of this is likely due to its setting; I’ve enjoyed many an evening in Old Town Alexandria myself, and both the sights and…
I have such a weakness for places that serve tea as a meal, so the restaurant featured in this second Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery is just the kind of delightful place I wistfully imagine visiting, murders notwithstanding. Daisy Swanson is part-owner of her namesake tea garden with her beloved Aunt Iris, and business is thriving.…
This first novel in the Southern Cake Baker Mystery series takes a slightly different road towards placing our heroine where everyone knows she’s meant to be. Usually, culinary cozies open with the heroine fresh off of a heartbreak and ready to start a new life in new circumstances. Sophia Cummings is just recovering from her…
Sherry Frazelle is licking her wounds as she finalizes her divorce from her husband of five years and the loss of her job as his legal assistant. Now, she works part-time at her dad’s rug store and spends her free time whipping up entries for the cooking competitions she’s becoming quite famous for winning—at least…
Welcome back to the Village Blend cafe for the 17th installment in the bestselling Coffeehouse Mystery series! Clare Cosi—Village Blend manager and our heroine—is worrying about setting a date for her wedding to one of NYPD’s finest, Detective Lieutenant Mike Quinn. But it’s another sort of date that soon absorbs all her attention, as the…
Tate Harper and Angie DeLaura are getting married! After the bridezilla nonsense of the previous book, Caramel Crush, it’s refreshing to see the wedding draw close with minimal romantic drama. Alas, there is more than enough murderous drama to make up for it. With the wedding only a week away, Angie is running around Scottsdale,…
