Courtney Kelly believes in fairies, so much so that she’s struck out from under the wing of her disapproving father’s landscaping business in order to open a fairy-garden tea room in their seaside town of Carmel, California. In addition to serving teas, Open Your Imagination sells everything you need to build your own fairy garden…
Let’s just lay it out here: this is one of the best cozy mysteries I’ve ever read. Not only was Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody a smart and suspenseful mystery, it was a funny and moving novel as well. Barbara Ross has long been my favorite culinary cozy author with her terrific Maine Clambake series, but…
Robbie Jordan is leaving South Lick, Indiana, for a week to attend her 10th high school reunion. Traveling back to Santa Barbara is a bittersweet experience. While she’s glad to see most of her friends again and enjoy the balmy winter weather, she’s also reminded of her last visit home, two years ago. Her mother,…
You Can Go Home Now by Michael Elias is a smart, relevant, unputdownable psychological thriller about a woman cop on the hunt for a killer who’s battling violent secrets of her own. Equal parts police procedural and psychological thriller, Michael Elias’s You Can Go Home Now is an intriguing experiment with genre and form. Our…
Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay is compelling, sophisticated, and chilling—a seductive, hypnotic story about the tangled, toxic friendships between women, the dark underbelly of obsession, and what we stand to lose in the name of love. Who hasn’t had the experience of seeing a friend fall deeply in love with someone totally wrong for them?…
Bailey King is thrilled to be the maid of honor for the wedding of her boyfriend’s mother, Juliet Brody, to longtime beau, Reverend Simon Brook. Unfortunately, she can’t help worrying that the marshmallow-frosted cake that she and her team at Swissmen Sweets, her Amish candy shop, have spent so much time and effort working on…
Just when Marygene Brown thinks she’s settling into life on Peach Cove Island, having successfully steadied the ship that is her family’s diner, she winds up swimming into a burned corpse while out skinny-dipping one fine summer morning. No one from the island has been reported missing, so her father, Sheriff Eddie Carter, is ready…
Tom Clancy Firing Point by Mike Maden is the 29th book in the Jack Ryan Universe, where Jack Ryan Jr is out to avenge the murder of an old friend, but the vein of evil he’s tapped into may run too deep for him to handle. I’ve been reading Tom Clancy novels on and off…
Krista Davis adds an entirely new twist to her entertaining series revolving around rival domestic divas in Old Town Alexandria, introducing espionage to the culinary cozy proceedings! Spies are the last thing on our heroine Sophie Winston’s mind when she accepts a ghostwriting gig as a favor for her ex-husband, Mars. Former actress Tilly Stratford…
Matthew Carr has written another historical thriller that is as action-packed as it is thought-provoking! Centered, as with his debut novel The Devils Of Cardona, on his beloved Spain, Black Sun Rising examines the events leading up to and around the riots of the Tragic Week of 1909, deftly weaving a fictional murder mystery involving…
