This Regency-era England mystery opens just a few days before Christmas in 1806. The prologue sets an eerie stage of what’s to come. Benjamin Brooks, a high-profile Barrister is relishing in the fact that he discovered a hideous old Rebel’s Rhyme. He’s going to use...
Quilty As Charged by Maggie Bailey
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Quilty As Charged is the second in this delightful Measure Twice Sewing Mystery series by Maggie Bailey.
The setting: the picturesque town of Peridot, Georgia. Lydia Barnes is the new owner of Measure Twice fabric store. Like a lot of new business owners, she’s in...
Desperation Reef by T. Jefferson Parker
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Desperation Reef is a hard-hitting compelling piece of crime-fiction. But it’s more than that. It’s also a story about unbreakable family bonds and the instinct for survival in this dangerous world we live in.
It was the perfect marriage: Twenty-six year old John...
Death At A Scottish Christmas by Lucy Connelly
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I’ve been following Lucy Connelly’s exceptional Scottish Isle Mystery series since the beginning. Death At A Scottish Wedding, like the first two in the series, is hard to put down. Both the setting and the characters are seriously unique and authentic.
Up until a...
French Quarter Fright Night by Ellen Byron
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Author Ellen Byron gives us a fun cozy ride through New Orleans with her French Quarter Fright Night, a Vintage Cookbook Mystery.
It’s Halloween season in New Orleans. Local business owners are gearing up for the festivities. The Bon Vee Culinary House Museum is no...
Death Scene by Carol J. Perry
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Author Carol J. Perry was born in Salem on Halloween Eve. How appropriate that she brings us her enchanting Witch City Mysteries putting her hometown on the cozy mystery map!
In Death Scene (the newest in this series) Halloween is coming up fast in Salem! In addition...
A Killer Clue by Victoria Gilbert
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Victoria Gilbert gives us the 2nd installment in her Hunter and Clewe Mystery series. The more I read this series the more I love it! The characters are unique: wealthy and eccentric 30ish Cameron (Cam) Clewe hires former librarian, 60ish Jane Hunter to take care of...
Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead
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Fans of locked-room mysteries and superior murder plots will revel in Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead.
Authentically atmospheric and brimming with nostalgia, this mystery opens in 1938. A quite “ordinary” steamer trunk washes up on Rotherhithe beach in the UK containing ...