My To-Be Read List is a meme hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life where at the beginning of the month visitors can choose which book I’ll be reading this month. On the first saturday of a month the poll will be up, then on the second saturday of the month I’ll announce the book that won and on the last saturday of the month I’ll post my review of the book.
Okay below are are the 3 books on which you can vote this month, all 3 are cozy mystery books, first book in a series, count for the genre challenge, count for the gettign cozy with a mystery february challenge and are books I own in paperback.
To Helvetica and Back (A Dangerous Type Mystery #1)
by Paige Shelton
Format: paperback
Source: bought it myself
You can find To Helvetica and Back on Goodreads
Blurb:
Star City is known for its slopes and its powder. But nestled in the valley of this ski resort town is a side street full of shops that specialize in the simple charms of earlier eras. One of those shops is the Rescued Word, where Chester Henry and his adult granddaughter Clare lovingly repair old typewriters and restore old books. Who ever thought their quaint store would hold the key to some modern-day trouble?When a stranger to town demands they turn over an antique Underwood typewriter they’re repairing for a customer, Clare fears she may need to be rescued. A call to the police scares the man off, but later Clare finds his dead body in the back alley. What about a dusty old typewriter could possibly be worth killing for?
Meet Your Baker (A Bakeshop Mystery #1)
by Ellie Alexander
Format: Paperback
Source: bought it myself
You can find Meet Your Baker on Goodreads
Blurb:
Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal…After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte’s customers turns up dead, there’s much ado about murder…
The victim is Nancy Hudson, the festival’s newest board member. A modern-day Lady Macbeth, Nancy has given more than a few actors and artists enough reasons to kill her…but still. The silver lining? Jules’s high school sweetheart, Thomas, is the investigator on the case. His flirtations are as delicious as ever, and Jules can’t help but want to have her cake and eat it too. But will she have her just desserts? Murder might be bad for business, but love is the sweetest treat of all…
By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1)
by Eva Gates
Format: paperback
Source: bought it myself
You can find By Book or By Crook on Goodreads
Blurb:
Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery!For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family’s social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father’s law partner. But when her ten-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious rewrite.
Calling on her aunt Ellen, Lucy hopes that a little fun in the Outer Banks sun—and some confections from her cousin Josie’s bakery—will help clear her head. But her retreat quickly turns into an unexpected opportunity when Aunt Ellen gets her involved in the lighthouse library tucked away on Bodie Island.
Lucy is thrilled to land a librarian job in her favorite place in the world. But when a priceless first edition Jane Austen novel is stolen and the chair of the library board is murdered, Lucy suddenly finds herself ensnared in a real-life mystery—and she’s not so sure there’s going to be a happy ending….
Now it’s time to vote!
I voted for Meet Your Baker – it sounds like it will be fun! Can’t wait to see what wins!
It sure sounds like a fun one and as I love baking, I think I will enjoy that part.
I voted for To Helvetica and Back because I want to know what it’s like lol 😛 Meet Your Baker is a fun read though 🙂
I am really curious about To Helvetica and Back and it has soem great reviews already! And I am glad to hear you enjoyed Meet Your Baker, it sounds like a fun series.
That was tough but I bet you know which one I voted for! By Book or By Crook! 🙂
You were the one who recommended that one to me ;). I hope I’ll enjoy it.
Fun sounding Cozies! I went with Helvetica and Back because I love the title and it’s a little bit different theme than the norm. Enjoy whichever is chosen!
I am in a cozy mood and it’s good timing with the mystery challenge I am patricipating in. I also like the title for that one and indeed it sounds a bit different, I like learning about different topics through these books.
I picked Meet your Baker based on the cover, I love the cracked glass in the shape of a skull! I hope you love whichever one wins.
I like that cover too and the bakery looks like a cozy and nice place.
I voted By Book or by Crook cause I want to read those myself! 🙂
It sounds like a fun series for sure and I like the cat on the cover. Stormi recommended it to me.
I voted for To Helvetica and Back because I just got my copy of that too, which I am going to start real soon, I hope you like it!!
Yay I am excited to hear you got a copy of that one too! It sounds really good!
Hi Lola, I voted for Meet Your Baker because it seems to have it all, a mystery and a romance. Thanks for your comment on The Girl in Black on A View to a Book. It’s really not all that scary, but there are a couple of scary moments. Just a teenage girl trying to solve a murder. :o)
Warm regards, Kathy Lauren
Thanks for letting me know! I might check it out, I like murder solving books, but don’t like the too scary ones.
I like how most of those cozy mysteries have a great mystery and a bit of romance too, it makes for a fun combination!
Love the titles names. I went with Meet Your Baker.
I agree those cozies always have fun title names 🙂
I voted for Meet Your Baker. Seems like an interesting story.
I agree it sounds like an interesting story 🙂
I voted for By Book or By Crook, because of the library and lighthouse theme, plus the really cute cat on the cover.
I agree that cat is so cute and the library and lighthouse theme sounds fun too!
These all sound like intriguing mysteries, it’s hard to choose which one to read first! But I’m leaning toward Meet Your Baker because food 😛
I was having the same problem, which one to read first? They all sounds good. And food was partly the reaosn for why I bought that book ;).
I couldn’t help but add a cozy to my poll this week. 🙂 I’ve been reading too many dark reads as of late. All your choices sound good, Lola. I could narrow it down by cat on the cover, but that would leave me with two choices. Maybe I should go for the one without the cat . . . Hmm. I hope you enjoy whichever wins!
Tricky choice this week, I couldn’t decide either which one to read first, so that’s why I let you all vote 😉
I love these titles, Lola. I ended up voting for By Book or by Crook because it’s a library mystery! 😉 I’m going to have to try a cozy sometime. Happy reading, my friend!
Thanks for voting :). I love all those unique titles the cozy mysteries have, I am really enjoying this genre lately. I like the sound of that because of the library 🙂
I was sure I had already voted, Lola, but apparently, that wasn’t the case. I love the title “To Helvetica and Back” so that’s the one I voted for. I hope you’ll love whichever book is picked for you this month!
I really like that title too :).
All these cozy mysteries look and sound really fun 🙂 I picked By Book because welll… cat 😀
I love the cat on that series covers. I hope it will play a big part in the book as well 🙂