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Cozy Mystery Week Day Six: The Coffeehouse Mysteries by Cleo Coyle
You may recognize the author of today’s featured series, the Coffeehouse Mysteries, from a series I featured earlier this week. In addition to today’s series, she writes the Haunted Bookshop series under her pen name, Alice Kimberly. It’s really no … Continue reading
Cozy Mystery Week Day Five: Key West Food Critic Mysteries by Lucy Burdette
How can one not love a cozy mystery series set in a warm, tropical setting like Key West, Florida? I discovered this series last winter, reading it as from my cold, gray Northern Virginia home. The descriptions of the lively, … Continue reading
Cozy Mystery Week Day Four: Wishcraft Mysteries by Heather Blake
Set in Salem, Massachusetts (of course!) the Wishcraft Mysteries feature Darcy Merriweather, a young woman who has just discovered that she, too, holds the Wishcrafting power. Witches with this power have the ability to grant wishes, with restrictions of course. … Continue reading
Cozy Mystery Week Day Three: Bibliophile Mysteries by Kate Carlisle
Set in San Francisco, the main character in the Bibliophile Mystery series is Brooklyn Wainwright. She has a very skilled trade, requiring a steady hand and a great deal of focus and concentration. She’s a surgeon of sorts, except … Continue reading
Cozy Mystery Week Day Two: The Haunted Bookshop Mysteries by Alice Kimberly (Cleo Coyle)
After her husband commits suicide, young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure returns to her hometown of Quindicott, Rhode Island with her son. There, she finds her aunt Sadie in financial trouble, about to lose the family’s old bookshop. Refusing to allow … Continue reading
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Kicking off Cozy Mystery Week: Julie Hyzy’s White House Chef Series
Cozy Mystery Week is finally here! My intent for hosting this blog event is two-fold: to spotlight my favorite cozy-mystery series as well as discover series I am not familiar with. Therefore, I thought it would be appropriate to start … Continue reading
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Frightful Friday: V Wars, edited by Jonathan Maberry
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week.This week’s featured book is the audio book production of V Wars: A Chronicle of Vampire Wars edited by Jonathan … Continue reading
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Tagged biological virus, vampires, werewolves
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A Month in Review: November 2012
Books Reviewed V Wars, edited by Jonathan Maberry I Am Lucky Bird by Fleur Philips The Dark Hour by Robin Burcell The Good Woman by Jane Porter Never Coming Back by Hans Koppel The Books They Gave Me: True Stories … Continue reading
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Review: I Am Lucky Bird by Fleur Philips
Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: New Dawn Publishers Ltd (May 27, 2012) ISBN-10: 1908462043 Source: BookSparks PR Twelve-year-old Lucky Bird’s young life comes to a screeching halt when her mother, AnnMarie, disappears. Now forced to live alone with her abusive grandmother, … Continue reading
Review: The Dark Hour by Robin Burcell
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Harper (November 27, 2012) ISBN-10: 0062133470 Source: Publisher FBI special agent Sydney Fitzpatrick, a skilled forensic artist, has been asked to sketch the composite of an individual involved in a murder. Yet when the … Continue reading
