Category: Mystery

Review: Missing by Kelley Armstrong

Missing by Kelley Armstrong Rating: 4 stars Genre: Thriller/ Mystery Blurb: The only thing Winter Crane likes about Reeve’s End is that soon she’ll leave it. Like her best friend did. Like her sister did. Like most of the teens born in town have done. There’s nothing for them there but abandoned mines and empty futures. They’re better off taking a chance elsewhere. The only thing Winter will miss is the woods. Her only refuge. At least it was. Until the day she found Lennon left for dead, bleeding in a tree. But now Lennon is gone too. And he […]

Posted June 19, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 18 Comments

Review: Doughnuts and Deception by Agatha Frost

Doughnuts and Deception (Peridale Cafe Mystery #3) by Agatha Frost Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Blurb: The 3rd book in the BESTSELLING Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery series! Julia never expected to be caught up in another murder investigation, but when she discovers that homeless people are dying suspiciously and the police aren’t investigating, she can’t sit back and do nothing. After promising her young lodger, Jessie, that she will do everything she can to help, Julia finds herself diving headfirst into the case, aided by her new Detective Inspector boyfriend, Barker. Sure there is a serial killer preying on […]

Posted June 12, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 12 Comments

Review: Witch Summer Night’s Cream by H.Y. Hanna

Witch Summer Night’s Cream (Bewitched by Chocolate #3) by H.Y. Hanna Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Blurb: ,em>A witch, a kitty and a chocolate love potion… Celebrating the summer solstice can be fun – especially when your grandmother is a witch with an enchanted chocolate shop! Caitlyn is looking forward to Midsummer’s Eve in the tiny English village of Tillyhenge. But when a teenage girl is murdered and a priceless love potion goes missing, she and her cousins are plunged into a puzzling mystery. Is the girl’s death connected to the midnight bonfires at the ancient stone circle? […]

Posted June 7, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 10 Comments

Review: Bearly Departed by Meg Macy

Bearly Departed (A Teddy Bear Mystery #1) by Meg Macy Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Blurb: The Silver Bear Shop and Factory might be the cutest place around, but there’s nothing warm and fuzzy about murder . . . As manager of the family teddy bear shop and factory, thirty-one-year-old Sasha Silverman leads a charmed life. Well, except for the part about being a single divorcee with a ticking biological clock in small-town Silver Hollow. And that’s just kid’s stuff compared to Will Taylor, the sales rep who’s set on making drastic changes to the business her parents built […]

Posted May 31, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 14 Comments

Review: Four Puddings and a Funeral by H.Y. Hanna

Four Puddings and a Funeral (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #6) by H.Y. Hanna Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Blurb: Business is going well at Gemma Rose’s quaint English teashop and she’s delighted about her first big catering job at a local village funeral… until the day ends with a second body and one of the Old Biddies accused of murder! Now the resourceful tearoom sleuth must find out which delicious pudding contained the deadly arsenic—and who might have wanted the wealthy widow dead… But Gemma has other troubles to contend with, from her naughty cat, Muesli, running loose in her […]

Posted April 24, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 8 Comments

Review: Lemonade and Lies by Agatha Frost

Lemonade and Lies (Peridale Cafe Mystery #2) by Agatha Frost Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Blurb: Book 2 in the Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery Series! When the entire village is invited to a garden party for a mysterious ‘special announcement’, nobody expected that party to end with a man being thrown to his death from a window. The murder is committed at Julia South’s estranged father’s manor, so all eyes in Peridale turn to her to solve the case. In a race against the clock, Julia must juggle her blossoming romance with Detective Inspector Brown, and her young lodger, […]

Posted April 12, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 8 Comments

Review: When the Grits Hit the Fan by Maddie Day

When the Grits Hit the Fan (Country Store Mysteries #3) by Maddie Day Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Blurb: Despite the bitter winter in South Lick, Indiana, business is still hot at Robbie Jordan’s restaurant. But when another murder rattles the small town, can Robbie defrost the motives of a cold-blooded killer? Before she started hosting dinners for Indiana University’s Sociology Department at Pans ‘N Pancakes, Robbie never imagined scholarly meetings could be so hostile. It’s all due to Professor Charles Stilton, who seems to thrive on heated exchanges with his peers and underlings, and tensions flare one night […]

Posted March 28, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 14 Comments