It’s a season of changes for Daisy Swanson, as her elder daughter, Vi, is preparing for a wedding and a baby on the way. Her younger daughter, Jazzi, is also continuing to try to improve her own relationship with her birth mother, Portia, despite the obvious discomfort of Portia’s husband, Colton. Daisy herself is navigating…
This first book in the Cider Shop Mystery series is an absolute delight! Set in the fictional small town of Blossom Valley, West Virginia, it features plucky heroine Winnie Mae Montgomery. As the novel opens, Winnie is worrying about the best way to save her family’s beloved apple orchard. She and her Granny Smythe live…
The 17th Chocoholic Mystery finds our series heroine, Lee Woodyard, feeling extremely grumpy. When the Bailey house near where she lives with her husband, Joe, goes up for sale, she’s happy enough to cheerlead his plans to purchase the house with her uncle by marriage, Police Chief Hogan Jones, with the intent of flipping it…
Food blogger Hope Early loves her job, but she has to admit that heading back into a magazine’s test kitchen feels a lot like coming home. Not that she wants her old, high-pressure career of magazine editor back, but it is nice to be a guest contributor for a change—in this case for the popular…
Allie McMurphy is looking forward to becoming an official year-round resident of Michigan’s charming Mackinac Island. With the tourist season drawing to a close, she’s planning on building a roof deck for the Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop that she runs in anticipation of an even busier season in the year to come. But…
Sarah Blair is in a good place, literally and figuratively. Happily settled in a cozy carriage house with her Siamese cat, RahRah, she’s gotten into the groove of working as a law firm receptionist/secretary for Harlan Endicott and volunteering for the local animal shelter. She even has the time and funds to consider going back…
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…
I’ve read quite a few books from Jenn McKinlay’s Cupcake Bakery mystery series for this column, but this has been my first of her Library Lover’s, and I have to say that I was completely blown away. Perhaps it’s just the subject matter, or perhaps it’s the slightly more serious tone of this series, but…
The third Deputy Donut Mystery finds us back in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, as the town gears up to celebrate the Fourth of July. Donut shop owner Emily Westhill is pleased that both her store and vintage donut-mobile will be featured in the festivities, with the latter set to carry the Fallingbrook King and Queen during the…
I’ve read several books each from Laura Childs’s Tea Shop and Cackleberry Club mystery series, but Mumbo Gumbo Murder, written with Terrie Farley Moran, is my first exposure to her New Orleans Scrapbooking mysteries. Set in the Big Easy, this 16th book in the series follows our heroine, craft store owner Carmela Bertrand, and her…
