I love food – I love cooking – but I hate following recipes and despise measuring ingredients even more! Then I discovered how easy it is to make what I call “free-style” soups. By “free-style” I mean adding together a bunch of ingredients without measuring or...
Interview With Carlene O’Connor, Irish Village Mysteries
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Irish eyes are, indeed, smiling this month — no better time to interview the author of the popular Irish Village Mysteries, Carlene O’Connor. Pick up any of her positively stellar mysteries and take an armchair trip to beautiful and enchanting Ireland. Every...
Today’s Word: Resilience
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Definition of Resilience: The capability to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness, springing back into shape.
In today’s world with all the challenges we have faced and will face, resilience has become not only a critical, but necessary part of our lives. It...
The Rat Began To Gnaw The Rope – C.W. Grafton
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It’s another step back in time and crime to the early 40’s, with a superb tale by C. W. Grafton. For those fans of the late Sue Grafton (i.e., her Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mystery Series), Sue was one of the daughters of C.W. Grafton – and it’s more than obvious, the...
Murder In An Irish Cottage by Carlene O’Connor
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With St. Patrick’s day on the horizon, now is the perfect time for cozy fans to get themselves “a wee bit of Ireland” – and nobody does it better when it comes to cozy Irish mysteries than Carlene O’Connor and her stellar Irish Village Mysteries.
Ellen Delaney and...
New February Kensington Cozies
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Check out the latest cozy mysteries this February from Kensington Cozies!
MURDER IN AN IRISH BOOKSHOP by Carlene O’Connor, An Irish Village Mystery #7
On Sale January 25th, 2022 / ISBN 9781496730824
“Queen of the cozy police procedural (Publishers Weekly),” USA Today...
How To Book A Murder by Cynthia Kuhn
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The pandemic may have stopped or delayed a lot of things in our daily lives – but it sure didn’t stop a lot of great authors and publishers from giving us some really sensational cozy mysteries!
Crooked Lane Books brings us How to Book a Murder, A Starlit Bookshop...
God Is Our Rock: This Is How We Roll
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God has always been our rock. We don’t see Him floating about– in fact, we don’t see Him at all. But He is always there – and whether we realize it or not, He is always within our grasp – we just need to reach out especially when things get tough.
Life can be...