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Cooking the Books: Muddled Through by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

July 6, 2022

Oh wow, I can’t believe it’s been 10 books (and several novellas!) in this series already! Muddled Through fast forwards almost a year from the end of the last book, with Julia Snowden still picking up the pieces after the end of her relationship with Chris Durand. They’d both agreed that it would be too…

Book Review: Jane Darrowfield and the Madwoman Next Door by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

January 18, 2022

With this latest cozy novel, Barbara Ross cements her status as my favorite living mystery writer. In less than three hundred pages, she delivers yet another taut, intelligent tale full of empathy and sensitivity, written with both economy and verve. Her style hearkens back to the Golden Age detective novels that presented real intellectual puzzles…

Cooking the Books: Halloween Party Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis and Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

September 15, 2021

I usually find mystery novellas to be fairly hit or miss, but I have very much enjoyed the holiday-themed collections Kensington puts out showcasing some of their finest cozy authors. This latest collection is frankly one of their best yet! Revolving around a murder at a Halloween party, each story here has the meat of…

Cooking the Books: Shucked Apart by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

March 17, 2021

I honestly don’t know how Barbara Ross does it, writing such a terrific cozy culinary mystery series filled with consistently intriguing puzzles and fresh social dynamics for our heroine, Julia Snowden, to navigate as she solves crimes while trying to run her businesses. Tourist season in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, is about to get underway, so…

Book Review: Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

July 3, 2020

Let’s just lay it out here: this is one of the best cozy mysteries I’ve ever read. Not only was Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody a smart and suspenseful mystery, it was a funny and moving novel as well. Barbara Ross has long been my favorite culinary cozy author with her terrific Maine Clambake series, but…

Cooking the Books: Sealed Off by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

January 15, 2020

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…

Cooking the Books: Haunted House Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis & Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

October 16, 2019

This was my first of the seasonally themed collections these three talented writers have been putting together for a while, and I’m so glad I finally got around to reading it. Barbara Ross is my favorite culinary cozy author, so it’s a bit ridiculous that I’ve barely even glanced at this series before this. I…

The Cozy Covenant

By Barbara Ross

December 26, 2018

When I began writing the first book in my Maine Clambake Mystery series back in 2012, I sat down to think about what attracted me to cozy mysteries. Like traditional mysteries—a genre of which cozies are a part—cozy mysteries make the unknown known, supply satisfying answers to all the vexing questions, and see that justice…

Cooking the Books: Steamed Open by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

December 19, 2018

In the seventh book of the excellent Maine Clambake mystery series, the summer tourist season is in full swing. Our heroine, Julia Snowden, has her hands full running the Snowden Family Clambake and is not thrilled to discover that access to one of the local beaches used by her clam suppliers has been cut off…

Cooking the Books: Stowed Away by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

December 12, 2018

Honestly, this is the best culinary cozy series on the market today, and I’m just so thrilled that I’m finally able to catch up with this, the sixth book in the series. Our heroine, Julia Snowden, is hard at work getting Morrow Island ready for the start of clambake season. She’s a little worried that…

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