After a delay of three years, I finally got a chance to attend a Kensington CozyClub Mini-Con! In 2019, the pandemic put paid to Kensington Publishing’s usual slate of CozyClub mini-conventions, aimed at lovers of cozy mysteries and held regionally on a regular basis. Now that it’s 2022 however, things have gotten safe enough to…
Baker and lighthouse owner Lindsey Bakewell is looking forward to participating in Beacon Harbor’s annual Blueberry Festival for the very first time. As a recent transplant from Wall Street, she feels like she’s finally settling into the small Michigan town, especially after being asked to join the festival’s organizing committee. In what seems like a…
I think we can all agree that it wouldn’t quite be Christmas without the carols, cocoa, cookies—and crime. Fortunately, Kensington continues to aid and abet our homicidal (reading) habits with a smorgasbord of seasonal stories that meld food, flirtation, and felonies. Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off By Darci Hannah In Darci Hannah’s Michigan-based Murder…
Lindsey Bakewell is settling into life in Beacon Point, Michigan, running her bakery out of the old lighthouse, making friends, and nurturing her romantic relationship with new boyfriend, Rory Campbell. With the Christmas season approaching, she’s especially excited to host her parents and best friend, Kennedy Kapoor, for the holidays. Sure, she’s having a little…
Wall Street whiz Lindsey Bakewell has abandoned her entire life in New York City following the discovery of her now-ex-fiancé, hot-shot restaurateur Jeffrey Plank, cheating on her with his pastry chef, Mia Long. In a moment of drunken self-pity, she decides to buy a dilapidated lighthouse in a Michigan town she has fond memories of…
So you know how sometimes you meet a person and your immediate instinct is, “Oh, wow, this person is too much,” but after 20 minutes or so, you realize that you actually want to be best friends forever? That was essentially me and Whitney Bloom, the aggressively reckless but sincerely delightful heroine and narrator of…
Cherry Pies & Deadly Lies by Darci Hannah is the first book in the new Very Cherry Mystery series. Darci Hannah’s first Very Cherry Mystery does for cherries what Forrest Gump’s Bubba Blue did for shrimp: “You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it.” It’s a rare book that demands reading…
