One of my favorite culinary cozies of 2018 was Cornelia Kidd’s Death and a Pot of Chowder. I eagerly awaited the next installment in the series and was surprised not to hear any news of the author in 2019. When I finally got around to looking up why, I discovered that it was because Cornelia…
I can’t believe this is already the eighth book in the Maine Clambake Mystery series! It feels like only yesterday that I started to have adventures with Julia Snowden and her friends and family, enjoying each book as thoroughly as the last. In this installment, Julia is overseeing the imminent reconstruction of her family’s inherited…
Welcome back, loyal readers and new! I thought we’d start the new year with a thematically appropriate mystery that features a perfect seasonal accompaniment for us to cook at home while enjoying a fun, cozy read. When a relative from an estranged branch of their family comes asking our heroines, Bernie and Libby Simmons, for…
Wedding planner and B&B owner Mallory Shepard is in for a December of surprises when her mother, Carole, decides she’s had enough of retirement and wants to move to Port Quincy to be closer to her daughters. However, she’s not the only one interested in coming to live in their small town located two hours…
Pamela Paterson is enjoying the lead up to Christmas, especially with her daughter Penny home from college for the holidays. Unfortunately, poor Penny is in for a terrible shock when she goes for a walk one day and stumbles across the dead body of Mildred Farthingale. Mildred had been not only a pillar of their…
The Ferrara Family Detective Agency is going on vacation! Their youngest member, Jinx, has been assigned a plum reporting gig by her boss at The Upper Sussex Herald. She’s been given rooms at Icicle Lodge, a luxury resort in the snow-capped hills of northeastern Pennsylvania, just a few hours’ drive from where she lives in…
It’s a season of changes for Daisy Swanson, as her elder daughter, Vi, is preparing for a wedding and a baby on the way. Her younger daughter, Jazzi, is also continuing to try to improve her own relationship with her birth mother, Portia, despite the obvious discomfort of Portia’s husband, Colton. Daisy herself is navigating…
This first book in the Cider Shop Mystery series is an absolute delight! Set in the fictional small town of Blossom Valley, West Virginia, it features plucky heroine Winnie Mae Montgomery. As the novel opens, Winnie is worrying about the best way to save her family’s beloved apple orchard. She and her Granny Smythe live…
The 17th Chocoholic Mystery finds our series heroine, Lee Woodyard, feeling extremely grumpy. When the Bailey house near where she lives with her husband, Joe, goes up for sale, she’s happy enough to cheerlead his plans to purchase the house with her uncle by marriage, Police Chief Hogan Jones, with the intent of flipping it…
Food blogger Hope Early loves her job, but she has to admit that heading back into a magazine’s test kitchen feels a lot like coming home. Not that she wants her old, high-pressure career of magazine editor back, but it is nice to be a guest contributor for a change—in this case for the popular…
