Off to London goes the Agatha Christie household for town living and a staging of one of Agatha’s plays, if a fiendish murderer doesn’t kill the play before it even gets started. Colleen Cambridge has built a sparkling keen historical cozy mystery series with a fascinating amateur sleuth in the skilled and clever housekeeper, Phyllida […]
The Detective Harriet Foster series is set in Chicago. Harri who has been on the force 17 years is adjusting to her new partner and team. She still struggles with the recent death of her partner, and her son five years ago. She has been getting phone calls from a man taunting her about them. […]
The purpose of Thrifty Thursday is to read a book which was free (at some point). This is a collection of freebies I have read which are in the romance genre . Kindle freebie on June 6, 2022 (currently $3.99 and in Kindle Unlimited as of writing this post) Overall rating 4.02 with 2,088 ratings […]
After the danger of their most recent detecting adventure and disappointment not to be providing the aristocratic heir, Stella and Lyndy head to the Highlands of Scotland to visit one of her relations and see a friend compete in the prestigious golf tournament on the course of St. Andrews. Clara McKenna has captivated me with […]
I love the Molly the Maid series. Molly is unique and so hard-working and positive. Her practical attitude and hard work, along with honesty have seen her promoted to head maid. She has developed personal relationships with staff, her boss, Mr. Preston (her grandfather and her boyfriend, Juan Manuel. In The Mistletoe Mystery, we are […]
The Christies are away, the new vacuum cleaner is in route, the maids are love crazy over the new valet, and a mysterious invitation to a murder is delivered to Mallowan Hall. Phyllida soon discovers that someone is not playing games when the corpse at the party turns out to be truly dead. Colleen Cambridge’s […]
A return to the tropical island wonder of her birth was never going to be paradise, but a dead body in the pool during her first day of work is the start of a deadly mystery that a journalist must solve before she’s the next victim. Jennifer K Morita is a debut author and I […]
My two favorite Charlie Cochrane historical cozy mysteries combined for this all new series that begins with a cold case from Jonty’s past. I was eager for this coziest of cozy mysteries in the authentic historical setting of post WWII England with two pairs of amateur detecting teams working together to solve the case. As […]
In fall of 2023, I first read this book out of order as a new release for the New Hercule Poirot Mysteries series. I vowed then and there I was going back for the whole series and chose to borrow them as audios from the library. I made good on this series reading binge […]
I never know what I’ll get when reading a fantasy book. The Teller of Small Fortunes was described as cozy and that seems right. There isn’t a big war. The setting seemed rather historical as much fantasy does. Our heroine, Tao, has a wagon with her treasured mule, as she travels around Eshtera. She is […]