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Cleo Coyle

Book Review: The Ghost and the Stolen Tears by Cleo Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

October 18, 2022

The latest terrific installment of the Haunted Bookshop mystery series finds our heroine Penelope Thornton-McClure ready to be the bearer of good news. Ever since her latest part-time employee, Norma Stanton, started working at her bookstore, sales have gone up. Penny and her co-owner, her Aunt Sadie, had been considering closing on Sundays in order…

Cooking the Books: Honey Roasted by Cleo Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

February 2, 2022

In the 19th installment of the consistently terrific Coffeehouse Mystery series, an unexpected swarm of bees leads to coffee master roaster Clare Cosi rescuing a good friend of her beloved mother-in-law’s and foiling a drug ring in the process. When bees invade the Village Blend one chilly fall evening, the last thing Clare expects is…

Book Review: The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

May 4, 2021

The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle is the seventh book in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series, where bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her gumshoe ghost team up to solve the stunning mystery at the heart of a madwoman’s self-portrait. Penelope Thornton-McClure is thrilled to be picking up a shipment of original cover…

Cooking the Books: Brewed Awakening by Cleo Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

January 29, 2020

Clare Cosi wakes up on a New York City park bench one morning believing that she’s still a recently divorced single mom angry at her cheating ex-husband, Matt, for leaving her to raise their 11-year-old daughter virtually alone as she struggles to put food on the table. Instinct leads her back to the Village Blend,…

Making Our Ghost Reappear: Why We Revived Our Haunted Bookshop Mysteries after Nearly 10 Years

By Cleo Coyle

October 2, 2018

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.…

Cooking the Books: Shot In the Dark by Cleo Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

May 16, 2018

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…

Review: Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle

By Rachel Kramer Bussel

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…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: April 2018

By Crime HQ

March 15, 2018

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…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: March 2018

By Crime HQ

February 15, 2018

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…

Cooking the Books: Dead Cold Brew by Cleo Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

February 8, 2017

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…

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