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Book Series Binge: Q&A with S.C. Perkins on Ancestry Detective Series

By Crime HQ

March 30, 2020

Describe the first time you pictured Lucy Lancaster in your head. Lucy first popped into my head when I was at a writers’ conference in Austin, Texas. I was listening to a panel about writing characters with interesting day jobs and this idea for an amateur sleuth who was a professional genealogist kept going around…

Book Review: Mimi Lee Gets A Clue by Jennifer J. Chow

By Doreen Sheridan

March 16, 2020

Our title heroine, Mimi Lee, has just opened the business of her dreams, a pet grooming salon in Los Angeles, with the help of rich investor Pixie St James, whose dog she saved from drowning. Sure, business is a little slow to start, but she’s sure that once word spreads of how good she is…

Book Review: Christmas Cocoa Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Maddie Day, and Alex Erickson

By John Valeri

October 14, 2019

Fall may only have just begun, but the crisp autumn air and ever-darkening sky are but a precursor to the next change: Winter, inevitably, drawing near. And, just as one season transitions to the next, soon pumpkin spice and apple cider will recede into the background as peppermint and hot chocolate reclaim their transient glory.…

Terns of Endearment by Donna Andrews

Terns of Endearment: New Excerpt

By Donna Andrews

A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Toucan Keep a Secret.

Book Review: Bitter Brew by G.A. McKevett

By John Valeri

May 15, 2019

Bitter Brew by G.A. McKevett is the 24th cozy mystery in the P.I. Savannah Reid series where Savanna must drop everything from her full plate for a friend in trouble.  The prolific G.A. McKevett—real name: Sonja Massie—has been thrilling readers for decades with her cozy mysteries featuring PI Savannah Reid, a Georgia native now living…

Book Review: The Pomeranian Always Barks Twice by Alex Erickson

By John Valeri

March 24, 2019

Alex Erickson’s The Pomeranian Always Barks Twice is the first of the new Furever Pets Mystery series where helping animals is a family business for the Dentons—but after a shocking murder, it’s Liz Denton’s son who might end up in a cage… Alex Erickson—real name: Eric S. Moore—is the author of the popular six-book (and growing) Bookshop Café Mystery…

Seven Fun Genealogy Facts

By SC Perkins

March 18, 2019

Join S.C. Perkins, author of Murder Once Removed—the first in a new cozy mystery series starring Lucy Lancaster, a Texas genealogist who uses her skills to solve murders in both the past and present—as she shares a list of genealogical facts guaranteed to impress at your next dinner party! Somewhere, years ago, I heard the term…

Murder in an Irish Pub by Carlene O'Connor

Book Review: Murder in an Irish Pub by Carlene O’Connor

By Amber Keller

March 13, 2019

In Carlene O’Connor’s Murder in an Irish Pub, the cozy village of Kilbane seems like the perfect place for a poker tournament, until the star player is found hanging in the local pub’s broom closet.  Siobhan O’Sullivan is a Garda in the small village of Kilbane. She’s still pretty new to the job, but she’s a…

Book Review: Murder on Cape Cod by Maddie Day

By John Valeri

January 3, 2019

Murder on Cape Cod by Maddie Day is the first book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Agatha Award-nominated, pseudonymous author Maddie Day—aka Edith Maxwell, acclaimed writer of short crime fiction and historical mysteries—is no stranger to the commission of felonies. The President of Sisters in Crime New England, she has written five…

A Very Cozy Christmas Mystery Round-Up

By John Valeri

December 7, 2018

Christmas comes but once a year—and with it, a bookish bounty of murder, mayhem, and merriment! Seasonal cozies are as much tradition as cookies, cakes, and pies, and pair equally well with a hot cup of tea (or something stronger) and a roaring fire. If you’re looking for something delightfully decadent to sink your teeth…

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