Fictional characters haunt us. Like trusted friends, some speak to us so powerfully that we continue to hear them beyond their stories. That simple idea—the capacity of a character to come alive off the page—lies at the heart of our Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, an amateur sleuth series that my husband and I created in 2003.…
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…
Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle is the 17th book in the Coffeehouse Mystery series A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when a gunshot leaves a dead body behind and the landmark coffeehouse becomes the center of a whole new scene—a crime scene. Shot…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we welcomed spring with great March cozies; this month, April showers bring awesome reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Like this shopping…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we kept warm with great February cozies; this month, welcome spring with killer March reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Like this…
It’s easy to see why Cleo Coyle’s Coffeehouse Mystery series is such a bestseller—16 books in and it's still going strong with terrific plotting and charm! Dead Cold Brew finds our heroine, Clare Cosi, back in New York City running her coffeehouse, Village Blend, for her former mother-in-law, the beloved Madame. When a series of…
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. This week, engagement isn't all celebration and happiness. Take a visual tour of Cleo Coyle's 16th Coffeehouse Mystery, Dead Cold Brew, with GIFnotes!
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, the holidays came early with some great December releases; this month, ring in the new year with January's cozies! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we did our best to beat the heat with August's releases; this month, send the kids back to school and catch up with some great reading! Let us know in the comments how you like…
As the year comes to a close and all the time spent with the weird uncle during family gatherings reminds us to get our lives together, like two old work buddies who awkwardly run into each other in public and make empty promises to keep in touch, we keep up the tradition of making New…
