Criminal Element’s October 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of October 1 through October 7 Title Author Series Date The Dead Ringer M. C. Beaton Agatha Raisin Mystery #29 10/2 The Pint of No Return Ellie Alexander Sloan Krause Mystery #2 10/2 Glitter Bomb Laura Childs w/ Terrie Farley Moran… Read more
Criminal Element’s September 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of September 1 through September 7 Title Author Series Date The Cats Came Back Sofie Kelly Magical Cats Mystery #10 9/4 Wuthering Kites Clover Tate Kite Shop Mystery #3 9/4 Mrs. Jeffries and the Three Wise Women Emily Brightwell Victorian Mystery… Read more
As they say in the real estate business: location, location, location. New England is a perfect place to vacation—think of walking on the windswept Cape Cod, dining at a waterfront lobster shack, hiking the Green Mountains of Vermont, or touring a grand Newport mansion. What to do if you can’t… Read more
Criminal Element’s August 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of August 1 through August 7 Title Author Series Date Toucan Keep a Secret Donna Andrews Meg Langslow Mystery #23 8/7 A Tale of Two Kitties Sofie Kelly Magical Cats Mystery #9 8/7 Shady Shenanigans Wendy Byrne Izzy Lewis Mystery… Read more
Criminal Element’s July 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of July 1 through July 7 Title Author Series Date The Corpse at the Crystal Palace Carola Dunn Daisy Dalrymple Mystery #23 7/3 Dyeing Up Loose Ends Maggie Sefton Knitting Mystery #16 7/3 Scandal Above Stairs Jennifer Ashley Below Stairs… Read more
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… Read more
Criminal Element’s June 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of June 1 through June 7 Title Author Series Date Bought the Farm Peg Cochran Farmer’s Daughter Mystery #3 6/5 Buried in Books Kate Carlisle Bibliophile Mystery #12 6/5 Once Upon a Spine Kate Carlisle Bibliophile Mystery #11 6/5 A… Read more
Charmed Bones by Carolyn Haines is the 18th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series. We meet Sarah Booth in her home, the very grand Dalia House in Zinnia, Mississippi. She is cuddled up on the couch with her dog, Sweetie Pie, and her black cat, Pluto. All three are… Read more
Tate Harper and Angie DeLaura are getting married! After the bridezilla nonsense of the previous book, Caramel Crush, it’s refreshing to see the wedding draw close with minimal romantic drama. Alas, there is more than enough murderous drama to make up for it. With the wedding only a week away,… Read more
A Howl of Wolves by New York Times bestselling author Judith Flanders once again brilliantly fuses mystery with humor in this fourth installment of her critically acclaimed Sam Clair series. Sam Clair figures she’ll be a good sport and spend a night out at the theater in support of her upstairs neighbors, who… Read more
