Review: Thread The Halls by: Lea Wait

Title: Thread The Halls Author: Lea Wait Publisher: Kensington Series: Mainely Needlepoint #6 Pages: 288 Format: e-book ARC Source: NetGalley Description: Christmas in Haven Harbor, Maine, means family, trouble, and murder . . . This Yuletide season, there's no time for Angie Curtis and Patrick...

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Review: Miracle at Christmas by: Debbie Mason

Title: Miracle At Christmas Author: Debbie Maso Publisher: Forever Yours Series: Christmas, Colorado #7.5 Pages: 94 Format: e-book ARC Source: NetGalley Description: Celebrate the holidays with USA Today bestselling author Debbie Mason's heartwarming novella about a town called Christmas. Charlotte...

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Review: Once and For All by: Sarah Dessen

Title: Once and For All Author: Sarah Dessen Publisher: Viking Books For Young Readers Pages: 358 Format: Hardcover Source: Personal Purchase Description: As bubbly as champagne and delectable as wedding cake, Once and for All, Sarah Dessen's thirteenth novel, is set in the world of wedding planning,...

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Review: Lady Midnight by: Cassandra Clare

Title: Lady Midnight Author: Cassandra Clare Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Series: The Dark Artifices #1 Pages: 720 Format: Paperback Source: Gift Description: The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in this #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest...

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Book Blast & Review Murder She Slopes by: Rachel Stapleton

Murder, She Slopes (A Penning Trouble Mystery)  Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series  Release Date - November 26, 2017  Print Length: 214 pages  ASIN: B075CTKP2B Sirens ring. Are you listening? Near Candy Cane Lane. A Body is glistening. A murderous sight. Trubble's investigating...

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Review: Of Murder and Men by: Lynn Cahoon

Title: Of Murder and Men Author: Lynn Cahoon Publisher: Kensington Series: Cat Latimer Mystery #3 Pages: 320 Format: e-book ARC Source: NetGalley & GEBT Description: Love is in the air in Aspen Hills, and it’s making a terrible mess of Cat Latimer’s writers’ retreat—especially when blood...

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Interview with Laura Childs author of Egg Drop Dead

Interview with Laura Childs, author of the just-released-in-paperback Egg Drop Dead What genre do you write? I’m in what’s called the “cozy” genre – and I write this way for a reason. I think many women are tired of thriller-killer-slasher-type books. These books focus on violence against...

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Reading Challenge Completed 2017

Here's my completed list for the Craving for Cozies book list: 1. The Temple of Indra 2. Telling Tails 3. A Fatal Twist 4. Color Me Dead 5. Fatality by Firelight 6. Bananna Cream Pie Murder 7. The Seven-Course Christmas Killer 8.  Facials Can Be Murder 9. Kneaded to Death 10. A Ghostly Mortality 11. No Way Home 12. Pressed to Death 13. Pekoe Most Poison 14. Murder at The Fortune Teller's Table 15....

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Cover Reveal: Battered Mind by: Sylvia Stein

Hello my name is Sylvia Stein and I am an Indie Author.   I have exciting news.  This week I am doing the cover reveal of my book which I hope will be released in late 2018.    I have been working with this book for awhile.  It is a story I have been doing extensive...

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Review: Honey-Baked Homicide by: Gayle Leeson

Title: Honey-Baked Homicide Author: Gayle Leeson Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Series: Down South Café Mystery #3 Pages: 288 Format: e-book ARC Source: NetGalley & GEBT Description: The owner of a delightful Southern cafe tastes the sharp sting of suspicion in this delectable comfort...

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Review: The Culinary Art of Murder by: Heather Haven

Title: The Culinary Art of Murder Author: Heather Haven Publisher: The Wives of Bath Press Series: The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries #6 Pages: 281 Format: e-book ARC Source: GEBT Description: Lee’s Uncle ‘Tío’ is smitten with a visiting chef at a Silicon Valley culinary arts institute. When...

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Cover Reveal: Hummus and Homicide by: Tina Kashian

When Lucy Berberian quits her Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, she knows what she’s getting—the scent of funnel cake, the sight of the wooden roller coaster, and the tastes of her family’s Mediterranean restaurant. But murder wasn’t on the menu . . .   Things are slow in...

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Review: The Professional by: Robert B. Parker

Title: The Professional Author: Robert B. Parker Publisher: Putnam Adult Series: Spenser #37 Pages: 304 Format: kindle e-book Source: Personal Purchase Description: A knock on Spenser's office door can mean only one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting...

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Review: Fool Me Twice by: Michael Brandman & Robert B. Parker

Title: Fool Me Twice Author: Michael Brandman & Robert B. Parker Publisher: G. P. Putnam's & Sons Series: Jesse Stone #11 Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover Source: Personal Purchase Description: Summer in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic season?—but not this time. A Hollywood movie...

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Review: Death of An Honest Man by: M.C. Beaton

Title: Death of An Honest Man Author: M.C. Beaton Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Series: Hamish MacBeth #33 Pages: 256 Format: Paperback ARC Source: NetGalley Description: Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery...

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Review: Anna & Elsa Memory and Magic by: Erica David

Title: Anna & Else Memory and Magic Author: Erica David Publisher: Random House Kids Series: Anna & Elsa Pages: 64 Format: Hardcover Source: Purchase Description: Princess Anna, Queen Elsa, Olaf the snowman, and all the stars from Disney Frozen are back in an all-new magical chapter book...

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Review: Etched in Tears by: Cheryl Hollan

Title: Etched in Tears Author: Cheryl Hollan Publisher: Kensington Series: The Webb's Glass Shop Mystery #4 Pages: 320 Format: e-book ARC Source: GEBT & NetGalley Description: When a famous glass artist is murdered at his own exhibit, deadly secrets are put on display, and it's up to glass...

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Review: Death at the Midnight Dragonfly by: Susan Boles

Title: Death at the Midnight Dragonfly Author: Susan Boles Publisher: Argent Ocean Publishing Series: Lily Gayle Lambert #3 Pages: 216 Format: e-book ARC Source: GEBT Description: On the fourth day of Christmas, In Mercy, Mississippi…. Four suspects lying, Three sleuths a sleuthing Two...

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Review: The Specter of Seduction by: Carolyn Haines

Title: The Specter of Seduction Author: Carolyn Haines Publisher: KaliOka Press Series: Pluto's Snitch #3 Pages: 338 Format: Paperback Source: Author Request Description: Waverly Mansion, a unique and lovely antebellum home in northeast Mississippi, offers the most dangerous challenge yet to Raissa...

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Review: Lethal in Old Lace by: Duffy Brown

Title: Lethal in Old Lace Author: Duffy Brown Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Series: Consignment Shop Mystery #5 Pages: 298 Format: e-book ARC Source: NetGalley Description: Reagan Summerside returns in national bestselling author Duffy Brown’s fifth Consignment Shop mystery, now for the first...

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Review: A Fatal Collection by: Mary Ellen Hughes

Title: A Fatal Collection Author: Mary Ellen Hughes Publication: Midnight Ink Series: Keepsake Cove Mystery #1 Pages: 264 Format: e-book ARC Source: NetGalley Description: Callie Reed makes a long overdue visit to her aunt Melodie, who lives in a fairy-tale cottage in quaint Keepsake Cove, home...

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Interview: Mary Ellen Hughes author of A Fatal Collection

Interview with Mary Ellen Hughes author of A Fatal Collection What genre do you write? I write mysteries. The sub-genre is traditional or cozy. How did you come to write mysteries? First of all, I’ve always loved mysteries, so that was an automatic choice. But I’ve never been a cop, or a P.I.,...

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Cookie Recipe: Vicki Delany

Vicki recently gave me a recipe of hers to share which I thought was so sweet of her hopefully everyone will enjoy trying out this recipe: Christmas in Christmas Town It wouldn’t be Christmas without cookies. The town of Rudolph,  New York is the setting for Vicki Delany’s Year Round Christmas...

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Interview: Vicki Delany author of Hark The Herald Angels Slay & The Cat of The Baskervilles

Interview with Vicki Delany author of Hark The Herald Angels Slay & The Cat of The Baskervilles What genre do you write? I write crime novels. In the past I have written historical mysteries, standalone psychological suspense, and police procedurals, but these days I’m pretty much just writing...

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Cover Reveal: Lethal and Old Lace by: Duffy Brown

Well my friends, and authors alike Duffy Brown is showing her cover of Lethal and Old Lace which is being published through Crooked Lane Books.  I think we are all missing Reagan and Walker Boone. After watching Reagan solve the crime that Walker Boone in hiding.  Can't wait to see what is...

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