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Book Review: Killer Content by Olivia Blacke

By Doreen Sheridan

February 9, 2021

Odessa Dean is still getting used to life in New York City after spending her first quarter-century or so in the sleepy Louisiana town of Piney Island. Her aunt needed a cat-sitter while jaunting off to Europe for three months, so Odessa happily took the opportunity to see the big city, rent-free. Aunt Melanie tried…

Book Review: Bait and Witch by Angela M. Sanders

By Doreen Sheridan

January 12, 2021

Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilities—and a killer on the loose—she’s leapt out of the frying pan and into a cauldron of trouble… Josie Way thought she had found her dream job working for the Library of Congress until an overheard conversation at work plunges…

Ellie Alexander’s 12 Days of Cozy Bakes: Lime Mint Cupcakes

By Ellie Alexander

December 11, 2020

With the many challenges we have faced this year, I wanted to share something special this holiday season. After much thought and consideration as well as a fortuitous email from a reader requesting a recipe that never made it into a book, I came up with a plan to share 12 Days of Cozy Bakes.…

Book Review: Puzzling Ink by Becky Clark

By Janet Webb

November 20, 2020

Quinn Carr is one of the most authentic and unusual crime solvers it’s been my pleasure to meet. Puzzling Ink is set in the fictional town of Chestnut Station near Denver. A small community where everyone knows your name is so appealing and Clark brings it to life beautifully.  The town of Chestnut Station was…

Book Review: A Page Marked for Murder by Lauren Elliott

By Janet Webb

November 9, 2020

Cozy mystery series often have a pleasing formula and the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series is no exception. The key elements are murder paired with a missing and/or stolen literary artifact that would interest antiquarians. In A Page Marked for Murder a first edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s perennially popular children’s book, The Secret…

The Lost Manuscript: It Could Happen to You!

By Susan Cox

November 4, 2020

We all resent Julius Caesar for “accidentally” burning the Library at Alexandria, and we’re still pretty peeved at Robespierre and his compadres for burning millions of manuscripts, volumes, and scrolls during the French revolution. But in more recent decades manuscripts have been lost in a startling variety of ways from theft, to house fires, to…

Book Review: Curses Are for Cads by Tamara Berry

By Doreen Sheridan

October 27, 2020

In the third installment in Tamara Berry’s cozy mystery series, Eleanor Wilde is summoned to a remote Scottish castle for an unusual assignment to locate a haunted trove of treasure that will threaten Eleanor’s budding romance, her livelihood…and her life! Tamara Berry continues to go from strength to strength in this third installment of her…

Without a Brew by Ellie Alexander: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 8, 2020

Chapter 1   A BITING JANUARY WIND BLEW into the taproom as the front door to Nitro opened and a group of skiers traipsed inside. They were loaded down with gear—expensive puffy parkas in an array of bright colors, ski goggles, boots, and poles. A slightly overweight guy with a pinched face and an entitled…

Book Review: Deadly Drama by Jody Holford

By Janet Webb

August 19, 2020

A popular trope in cozy mysteries is “Let’s put on a show.” The spring community theater production of The Wizard of Oz is, surprisingly, Britton Bay’s inaugural play. All the parts are being filled by local thespians, but the out-of-town director’s reputation precedes her.  It turns out former soap opera actress Magnolia Sweet is anything…

Book Review: Handbook for Homicide by Lorna Barrett

By Janet Webb

July 23, 2020

After an Irish vacation, Tricia Miles and her quasi-boyfriend Marshall Cambridge are back in Stoneham, New Hampshire. The trip was a dud. It was a working vacation for Marshall, who was leading a tour of elderly travelers, and he was never off the clock.  Back at the Haven’t Got a Clue Bookstore, Pixie Poe, the…

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