Cat Latimer has her hands full preparing for the latest slate of authors to attend her Aspen Hills Warm Springs Resort monthly writers’ retreat. This bunch, a group of cozy mystery writers from Chicago, comes with their own set of interpersonal dramas, but Cat is used to handling such things with aplomb—especially with the help…
In this fifth book of the Pancake House mystery series, our heroine, Marley McKinney, is fully enjoying the life she’s building on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. Her pancake house, The Flip Side, is thriving, and her domestic life is going even better than expected since her landscaper boyfriend, Brett, moved in. Her cat and his…
Marygene Brown is done with her life in Atlanta and especially with her abusive soon-to-be-ex-husband, Peter. Now, after an absence of several years, she’s returning home to Peach Cove Island to take up her role in the family business, helping to run the island’s beloved Peach Diner. Her family relations are still a bit fraught:…
In the ninth book of the Key West Food Critic mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, is getting ready for her impending wedding to the man of her dreams, Detective Nathan Bransford. While this should be one of the most exciting times of their lives, very little is going to plan. For a start, though…
In this very first book of the Key West Food Critic Mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, hasn’t yet acquired her dream job as a food critic but is very much enamored of her new home at the southern tip of Florida. She moved down to the island just a few months earlier to live…
Pamela Paterson’s weekly Knit & Nibble group—a collection of knitters who gather in the home of one of their own to knit for two hours a week while enjoying a tasty snack—has a new if somewhat disruptive member. Caralee Lorimer is an actress who’s just moved back to the town of Arborville, New Jersey, after…
It is so weird but great to go straight from the first book to the latest in the Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery series. Hopefully, I’ll be able to cover everything in between sometime in the near future, but it’s honestly pretty awesome to see how well Hayley and her friends and family have…
Hayley Powell is a 35-year-old single mom of two teenagers who works as the office manager at the Island Times, the smaller of two newspapers based in Bar Harbour, Maine. Her deadbeat ex-husband’s alimony checks don’t come as often as they’re supposed to, so when her boss, Sal, offers her a weekly cooking column for…
Imagine the Golden Girls starting a detective agency and you’ll get the general idea of J. D. Griffo’s charming Ferrara Family mystery series. Our main character, 64-year-old Alberta Scaglione nee Ferrara, enjoys living a life of unexpected ease surrounded by family in Tranquility, New Jersey. There’s her irascible sister, Helen, who recently left the convent…
It’s been eight months since Sally Solari inherited Gauguin, the upscale restaurant founded by her Aunt Letta. Business is brisk! Better still, she’s about to finalize her partnership agreement with Javier, her head chef, making him co-owner. Things are still a little weird with her ex-boyfriend-turned-best-friend, Eric, especially since it looks like he’s starting to…
