Tag: cozy mystery

• Book Review-The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder: A Novel by C.L. Miller

  To use a term often used in antique appraisals, this debut novel comes with quite a provenance, as it was written by the daughter of the late Judith Miller (1951-2023), a regular specialist on the wildly popular BBC Antiques Roadshow. Antiques Roadshow, both the UK version and the American version, is a favorite of mine.…

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  May 8, 2026

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• My March 2026 Reads!

  Only four books but they were ALL 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 EACH!!!

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  April 4, 2026

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  Alexander McCall Smith, book-review, books, Change the Recipe, cookbook, cozy mystery, essays, fiction, food, Goodreads, José Andrés, Kindle, literature, marcelle bienvenue, march reads, memoir, NetGalley, nonfiction, novel, reading, Richard Wolffe, Robert Thorogood, The Lost Language of Oysters, The Marlow Murder Club, The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts, writer, writing

• Book Review: The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood

  This is book #5 in the Marlow Murder Club Mystery series by Robert Thorogood. I really enjoy this series a lot, and my enjoyment was increased when PBS Masterpiece Theater ran the Marlow Murder Club series (Seasons 1 and 2) inspired by books #1 and #2. I was thrilled when I read that Season 3…

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  March 7, 2026

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• Book Review: All My Bones by P. J. Nelson

  This is my second book by P. J. Nelson, also the second in the Old Juniper Bookshop mystery series. The first one, Booked for Murder (Minotaur Books, December 2024, 325 pages), was an enjoyable read, although I noted in my review a few things that I found odd, namely that it is a book about…

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  January 2, 2026

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• Book Review: The Star from Calcutta by Sujata Massey

  The fifth installment in the Perveen Mistry series, The Star from Calcutta by Sujata Massey, is to be published March 3, 2026. I started this series in 2019, when I was recuperating from surgery to repair a a broken ankle, and read the first two books in quick succession. I really enjoyed the third and…

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  December 26, 2025

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• Book Review — Revenge, Served Royal: A Mystery (Lady Petra Inquires #3) by Celeste Connally

  

  First of all, I am a devoted fan of the Great British Bake Off show and have watched each season many times. I love a good cooking show, and I’ve watched the cooking shows made by previous winners of the GBBO, like Nadiya Hussain, the 2015 winner. I also love all things British, all things…

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  August 22, 2025

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• Book Review: Sugar and Spite, An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. Beaton with R. W. Green

  Mystery is by far my favorite genre, and within that genre I tend to gravitate toward cozy mysteries. Add to that a Scottish author and, well, I’m all in. Everyone has a guilty pleasure when it comes to their reading life, and for me, the Agatha Raisin mystery series falls squarely in that court. With…

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  August 1, 2025

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• Book Review: Death on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood

  In Death on the Marlow Belle (Poisoned Pen Press, September, 2025) this fourth installment of The Marlow Murder Club, a cozy murder mystery series, author Robert Thorogood has returned us to Marlow, a very real town located on the Thames River thirty miles from London. This is brilliant news for all of Thorogood’s fans, as…

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  June 16, 2025

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• Book Review: The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict

  Those of you who know me, I mean really know me, know how much I love to read! Growing up, I would read just about anything; of course, the back of the cereal box, but also, the back of the shampoo bottle in the bathroom. But, my favorite all time thing to read is a…

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  February 17, 2025

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• Book Review: Murder by the Book by Lauren Elliott

  Murder by the Book (the novel, Kensington Cozies, 2018) by Lauren Elliott is the first in the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series. I checked this book out to read on my Kindle via Libby through my local MCPL mostly because of the title and the cover. Many years ago, I directed a play by…

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  January 29, 2025

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