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 get away? You can armchair…
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 #3 8/7 Week of August…
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 Mystery #2 7/3 Killer Green…
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…
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 Just Clause Lorna Barrett Booktown…
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 enjoying Sarah Booth’s favorite movie,…
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, Angie is running around Scottsdale,…
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 have small parts in a…
One of my favorite things about reading is traveling to the various locations that authors have created as their setting. To me, there is no better adventure than looking through the eyes of the author and characters as they take you through a place and time they’ve grown up in or experienced in some way,…
Down the Aisle with Murder by Auralee Wallace is the fifth book in the Otter Lake Mystery series. “Some wedding stories are so bizarre that you can’t even make them up.” What a perfect summation of Down the Aisle with Murder. Auralee Wallace deftly juggles many interrelated storylines that circle back to Erica Bloom and…
