Secrets, Songbirds, and Succulents (Succulent Sleuth Series #3) by Iris March My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: The annual Buckeye Trail Town Festival. A trail construction site. And one dead naturalist. The charming town of Hawthorn Heights is celebrating its connection to the Buckeye Trail with a weekend-long town festival. When a local naturalist is found dead at the bottom of a ravine off the trail, amateur sleuth and garden center manager Molly Green finds herself tangled in a murder investigation – again. As the Trail Festival concludes, Molly unearths unexpected […]

Classified as Murder (Cat in the Stacks #2) by Miranda James narrated by Erin Bennett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must catalog a killer in this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series. Suspecting that someone is stealing from him, the aging and eccentric James Delacorte wants Charlie to do an inventory on his rare book collection. Soon after they begin, Delacorte is found dead at his desk, leaving Charlie with the bigger task of solving his murder. […]

Ink and Shadows (Secret, Book, & Scone Society #4) by Ellery Adams narrated by Cris Dukehart My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Controversy erupts in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, when the owner of the local bookstore tries to play peacekeeper—but winds up playing detective instead . . . Known for her window displays, Nora Pennington decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Madeline Miller’s Circe for Halloween. But a family-values group disapproves of the magical themes and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. Suddenly, former friends […]

Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1) by Miranda James narrated by Erin Bennett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. He’s returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough he’s entangled in a real-life thriller… A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlie’s, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, […]

The Book of Candlelight (Secret, Book, & Scone Society #3) by Ellery Adams narrated by Cris Dukehart My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: In the new Secret, Book, and Scone Society novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams, the rain in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, has been relentless—and a flood of trouble is about to be unleashed . . . Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds new […]

A Very Woodsy Murder (Golden Motel #1) by Ellen Byron My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: New motel owner Dee Stern has checked out of the familiar comforts in the Studio City and checked in to the quaint village of Foundgold. Running a rustic getaway in the woods sure beats LA traffic—until murder ruins the peace and quiet . . . Down-on-her-luck sitcom writer Dee Stern is flipping the script. Twice divorced and wasting her talents on an obnoxious kids’ show, the lifelong Angeleno embraces the urge to jump in her […]