Genre: Cozy Mystery

🎧 Sleep Like a Baby by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Parenthood at last! Roe and Robin have a beautiful baby daughter and are settling into a new marriage, burping baby, and changing diapers while keeping up with the rest of life. Something’s gotta give when Robin has to go away for an author award’s banquet and Roe is coming down with something. Only, things get […]

Posted October 18, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 8 Comments

Tis the Season to be Scary by Vicki Delany @vickidelany.bsky.social @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social @sophiarose1816

When one lives in a town called Rudolph, Christmas-themed celebrations and life are unsurprisingly the thing, but this time the ho-ho-hos are mixed with the nasty trick of murder when a caterer’s treats for a Halloween charity gala poison an obnoxious guest. Vicki Delany’s cozy mysteries are not new territory for me, but this particular […]

Posted September 30, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review / 12 Comments

🎧 Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley @lucyfoleytweets @hayleyatwell.bsky.social #LucyBoynton @marawilson.bsky.social #HughKermode @letsmakeadeel.bsky.social @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social @HarperAudio #LoveAudiobooks

I’ve always enjoyed Agatha Christie and Miss Marple is a favorite. There was an book a couple years ago with a whole batch of new Miss Marple mysteries by a number of mystery writers, including Lucy Foley, which I really enjoyed. So I was delighted to have a new one. Murder at the Grand Alpine […]

Posted September 22, 2026 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 12 Comments

🎧 All the Little Liars by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Its nearly Christmas and Aurora has recently celebrated a new marriage, a little future bundle of joy is on the way, but all the cheer fizzles out when her teenage brother who has been staying with her vanishes along with several other kids from the school. Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden mysteries have been […]

Posted September 20, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

🎧 Believer by Ruthie Knox, Annie Mare @ruthieknox.bsky.social @anniemare.bsky.social #MiaHutchinson-Shaw #BrillianceAudio #7thFloorBooks #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited🎧

The Prairie Nightingale series is a collaboration between two of my favorite authors. It’s a new mystery series about a professional homemaker turning into a private investigator. I absolutely LOVE it. Prairie is a divorced mother of two girls. She co-parents with her ex Greg. He is successful and not a bad guy, just […]

Posted September 1, 2026 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 10 Comments

🎧 Poppy Done to Death by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

In the small town of Lawrenceton, GA, the club that all the ladies aspire to join is about to induct Aurora’s step-brother’s wife, Poppy. Only when its time to accept, Poppy is missing. Aurora and her other sister-in-law are appalled and rush to confront Poppy only to discover a grisly murder has taken […]

Posted August 16, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

🎧 Last Scene Alive by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Hollywood has come to Lawrenceton, GA, and the widowed Roe Teagarden must now face down her past and a fresh murder. Charlaine Harris makes small town, mystery, and romance drama high entertainment and I delved into this latest with anticipation. Last Scene Alive is the seventh in a very connected Aurora Teagarden series […]

Posted July 19, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

🎧 A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Some time has passed since Aurora has faced a murder, but the calm around Lawrenceville is disrupted by several disturbing incidents- a someone is slipping drugs to unsuspecting innocents, Angel’s overdue to have her baby even while Roe is trying to come to grips that she can’t have a baby, her step-dad […]

Posted June 21, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

🎧 Dead Over Heels by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Dead Over Heels begins a after a gap of a year or two since the events of The Julius House and has a settled tone. Roe and Martin are adjusting to married life, not always easily, but getting on well. Then a body falls from the sky and a new murder mystery […]

Posted May 17, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

🎧 The Julius House by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Settling in as newlyweds in a home with a dark, mysterious past is the not the only unsettling matter Aurora Teagarden faces. Charlaine Harris’ Aurora Teagarden series continues to pull me in to the drama as much as the mystery in Roe’s life. The Julius House is fourth in the strongly connected […]

Posted April 19, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 16 Comments