Category: Mystery

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

Review: Death by Chocolate Lab by Bethany Blake

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. Death by Chocolate Lab (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery #1) by Bethany Blake Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Blurb: Pet sitter Daphne Templeton has a soft […]

Posted March 25, 2017 by Lola in My To-Be Read List, Mystery, Review / 18 Comments

Review: Lost Souls by Kelley Armstrong

Lost Souls (Cainsville #3.5) by Kelley Armstrong Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal Mystery Blurb: The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When author of books on the supernatural Patrick brings Gabriel a case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting a ride from a businessman, Gabriel knows the Cainsville elder is just trying to wheedle into his good graces. But Gabriel is a man in need of a mystery, one […]

Posted March 22, 2017 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 14 Comments

Review: Witch Chocolate Fudge by H.Y. Hanna

Witch Chocolate Fudge (Bewitched by Chocolate #2) by H.Y. Hanna Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Blurb: A witch, a kitty and a wickedly delicious mystery… Since arriving in the tiny Cotswolds village of Tillyhenge, Caitlyn is discovering that there are lots of perks to being a witch (although sadly, magic still can’t make your thighs thinner or stop you acting like an idiot every time you meet handsome “lord of the manor”, James Fitzroy). But when the nasty housekeeper at Huntingdon Manor is murdered and Caitlyn becomes the main suspect, she finds herself surrounded by suspicious villagers. With […]

Posted March 20, 2017 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 14 Comments