Genre: Cozy Mystery

🎧 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

🎧 Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Quitting her job at the library, inheriting a small fortune from a friend, dating a nice minister, and now considering working at her mom’s real estate office, Roe Teagarden, is in a funk. From the outside, her life is enviable, but she wants what all her marrying or married friends have and she […]

Posted March 15, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

🎧 A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

After the dramatic and dark finish to Real Murders, a few months later life in Lawrenceton, Georgia seems to be settling down. Then Aurora gets a surprising inheritance, complete with the mystery of a creepy skull and the new neighbors across the street are her ex and his new- very pregnant- wife. A […]

Posted February 1, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 8 Comments

🎧 Trailbreaker by Ruthie Knox, Annie Mare @ruthieknox.bsky.social @anniemare.bsky.social #MiaHutchinson-Shaw #Thomas&Mercer #BrillianceAudio #JIAM #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 very successful and not a bad guy, […]

Posted January 29, 2026 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 18 Comments

🎧 Real Murders by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries #KindleUnlimited

A small-town Real Murders club in Georgia gets a shake-up when suddenly their murder club is seeing someone is staging contemporary murders to mimic the more grisly and infamous murders of the past. Aurora Teagarden leads a quiet, though slightly lonely life as a librarian in her town. She is comfortable in […]

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

Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies by Jenny Elder Moke @jennyelder @minotaurbooks.bsky.social @MinotaurBooks @RobinBridgeFour

Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies is the witty, comical, cozy mystery, standalone follow-up to She Doesn’t Have A Clue. Set in the same world and with characters from the same publishing house, Juliette Winters is trying to save the failing publishing house from going under and she will with the new book she […]

Posted January 12, 2026 by Robin in Book Review / 8 Comments

🎧 A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death by Maxie Dara @MaxieDara @jaimebee ‪@berkleypub.bsky.social‬ ‪@penguinaudio.bsky.social‬ #LoveAudiobooks @BerkleyPub @PRHAudio

I was happy to read more SCYTHE Mysteries since I enjoyed the debut last year with Kathy and her ex, and her pregnancy. I liked Kathy and her personal growth. So I was surprised to find she wasn’t in A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death. This could be read as a stand-along, other than the […]

Posted December 2, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 14 Comments