Category: Mystery

Review: Sewn at the Crime by A.C.F. Bookens

Sewn At The Crime (Stitches In Crime #6) by A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Salvaging old books is one thing. Finding bones is entirely another. Salvager Paisley Sutton has been wanting to go inside the old two-room school for years, but when she finally gains access, just before a local community group begins a full restoration, she finds far more than great old desks and vintage textbooks. Soon, she’s preoccupied with the hunt for a murderer who is trying to hold three decades of crime. How much is […]

Posted January 25, 2022 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong

A Twist of Fate (A Stitch in Time #2) by Kelley Armstrong My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Time Travel Romance/ Paranormal Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Four years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she’s found her way back. The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband. Does he think she abandoned him? Has he remarried? Is he happy in a new life? Rosalind decides to don a disguise in hopes […]

Posted January 19, 2022 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Spell Wielder by Laura Greenwood

Spell Wielder (Paranormal Criminal Investigations #3) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Reverse Harem Blurb: When a body is found with the DNA of a witch on it, it’s up to Cassie and her paranormal forensics team to catch the culprit. As the body count starts to rise, all evidence points to Cassie, and she has to do everything she can to keep from being arrested for the crime. – Spell Wielder is an urban fantasy mystery and book 3 in the Paranormal Criminal Investigations series My Review I […]

Posted January 13, 2022 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: Bound to Execute by A.C.F. Bookens

Bound To Execute (St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery #3) by A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: The things Harvey Beckett doesn’t know about her neighbors could get her killed. In the perfect days of early May, bookshop owner Harvey Beckett is looking forward to evenings of walking Mayhem, reading in the before bed, and maybe even enjoying a snuggle with her favorite mechanic. But a meandering dog walk pushes pause on those plans when she and Mayhem stumble upon the body of the much-detested local bank manager. Harvey and her […]

Posted January 6, 2022 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Stitch X for Murder by A.C.F. Bookens

Stitch X For Murder (Stitches In Crime #5) by A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Blurb: Old Douglas Fir timbers bring good money, but maybe not as much as keeping quiet about the story of a murder. Paisley Sutton hates to see an old barn falling down, so when she has a chance to take in a crew of friends to salvage timbers, she goes in with gusto. But when they find the bones from a decades-old murder, Paisley begins to wonder if maybe some things should just be let go […]

Posted December 15, 2021 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Murder at the Taffy Shop by Maddie Day

Murder at the Taffy Shop (Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery #2) by Maddie Day Narrated by Rachel Dulude My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Cape Cod bicycle shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her mystery book club find a certain accusation of murder quite the stretch . . . When your mother is an astrologist and your dad is a minister, you learn to keep an open mind. Which is just what Mac loves to do—exercise her mind by puzzling out fictional clues in the mystery novels she reads and discusses […]

Posted November 25, 2021 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Witches, Spiders and Schemes by Elizabeth Pantley

Witches, Spiders, and Schemes (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #4) by Elizabeth Pantley My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery/ Portal Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: A magic mirror to an enchanted world. A mysterious ghost. A hilarious, perpetually annoyed witch. A brave, sassy cat. Two unexplained deaths and a mysterious community filled with secrets. Can Hayden and the people of Destiny Falls solve the mystery and return the community to its peaceful, enchanted existence? Hayden’s adventures in Destiny Falls continue in book four of the Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic series. Starting with a […]

Posted November 10, 2021 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 0 Comments