Category: Mystery

Review: Bikinis and Murder by H.Y. Hanna

Bikinis and Murder (Barefoot Sleuth #4) by H.Y. Hanna My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Join barefoot sleuth Ellie on her fourth adventure as she finds mystery and murder lurking among the swaying palm trees and white sand beaches of Gulf Coast Florida. When death strikes a bikini contest at her luxury beach resort, Ellie must use all her wits to find the killer. Help comes from Hemingway the parrot and Mojito the resort cat – not to mention her eccentric Aunt Olive – but Ellie also has other things on […]

Posted March 26, 2021 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 3 Comments

Review: The Disappearance of Emily by Elizabeth Pantley

The Disappearance of Emily (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #2) by Elizabeth Pantley My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Portal Fantasy/ Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Hayden fell through a mirror and was thrust into an alternate, magical place. Destiny Falls is home to a family she never knew she had. The town is enchanted and charming, but something is amiss. Then someone turns up dead, and there are too many other suspicious episodes to call them coincidences. All signs point to the mysterious disappearance of her mother – way back when Hayden was just […]

Posted March 12, 2021 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Crossed by Death by A.C.F. Bookens

Crossed By Death (Stitches In Crime #1) by A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Salvaging from historic buildings isn’t supposed to require reporting a murder. When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton crawls into an abandoned store with a house attached, she certainly isn’t expecting to find a body on site. But soon, her discovery sends Paisley on an expedition through history that links this murder to the one that led the previous owners to abandon the building in the first place. And someone doesn’t want her to salvage […]

Posted February 23, 2021 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 3 Comments

Review: A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

A Stitch in Time (Thorne Manor #1) by Kelley Armstrong My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Time Travel Romance/ Paranormal Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Thorne Manor has always been haunted…and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination. Now, twenty years later Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor. And when she returns, […]

Posted February 8, 2021 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Reaper of Souls by Jordan L. Hawk

Reaper of Souls (SPECTR #3) by Jordan L. Hawk My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: When an incubus murders the powerful ally of an anti-paranormal senator, it’s up to hotshot Federal exorcist John Starkweather to catch the demon before it can kill again. Fortunately, he has backup, in the form of his boyfriend Caleb, a telekinetic possessed by the vampire spirit Gray. As the political pressure mounts and bodies pile up, John discovers an old enemy protecting the incubus: the Fist of God, a group that believes all paranormals are […]

Posted January 13, 2021 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: Mystic Pieces by Ada Bell

Mystic Pieces (A Shady Grove Mystery #1) by Ada Bell My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: New Adult/ Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Aly doesn’t believe in psychics. Too bad she just had a vision. Future scientists don’t have visions. Aly’s got enough on her plate, with finishing her degree and taking care of her nephew and starting her new job at the antique store while drooling over the owner’s gorgeous son. No visions. Alas, the universe doesn’t care what Aly believes. When she turns 21, she starts to feel psychic impressions left on objects. […]

Posted January 11, 2021 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Murder in the Wine Country by Janet Finsilver

Murder in the Wine Country (A Kelly Jackson Mystery #6) by Janet Finsilver My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Curl up with a glass of merlot and travel to California wine country, where a sweet, unsuspecting town becomes the site of mischief and murder… This is a cozy mystery that will check all your boxes: a charming bed and breakfast, a clever heroine and a lovable cattle dog named Rex…you are sure to fall for this series! Weeding out killers wasn’t part of the job description . . . Kelly Jackson, […]

Posted December 21, 2020 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments