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Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red by Jacqueline T. Lynch A post-World War II “cozy” mystery about a museum heist, a missing child, a murder, a recent ex-con and an even more recent widow. In Hartford, Connecticut, 1949, Juliet Van Allen, a museum administrator, discovers that her artist husband is having an affair with another woman. Just … Read More
Today I’m excited to share Bathing Beauties, Booze & Bullets with you. This Jazz Age Mystery is a perfect summer read. Check it out below. Bathing Beauties, Booze & Bullets by Ellen Mansoor Collier It’s 1927 in Galveston, Texas—the “Sin City of the Southwest.” Jasmine (“Jazz”) Cross is an ambitious 21-year-old society reporter for the … Read More
I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review. This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting my blog! The Final Arrangement The Flower Shop Mystery Series, #1 Annie Adams The Vulture is dead. The body of Quincy McKay’s … Read More
Red Tape by Michele Lynn Seigfried In this captivating tale of crime, government corruption and mystery, Municipal Clerk Chelsey Alton gets more than she bargained for when she encounters an irate resident and loose cannon, Robert Triggers. He has been harassing the employees in the small, Jersey shore town where she works and becomes the … Read More
Disclosure: I received a copy of Steamed to Death from the author in exchange for my honest review. No compensation was received. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase on Amazon by using these links, thank you so much for supporting this blog! Gourmet health food caterer Gigi Fitzgerald is used to helping dieters … Read More
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book in exchange for posting. No other compensation was received. This post contains affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase, a small amount goes to support this blog (at no cost to you!). Thanks so much for your support! Grannies, Guns and Ghosts by Madison Johns … Read More
Delayed Death by Beate Boeker What do you do when you find your grandfather dead half an hour before your cousin’s wedding? You hide him in his bed and tell everyone he didn’t feel like coming. Delayed Death is an entertaining mystery set in Florence, Italy. When Carlina finds her grandfather dead on the day … Read More
Bowled Over Author: Victoria Hamilton Series: Vintage Kitchen Mysteries #2 Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Pub. Date: March 2013 Vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton has been estranged from her high school best friend Kathy Cooper since they were teenagers, but she never knew what turned Kathy against her. After fireworks at a Fourth of … Read More
Meet Olivia Zack, neuroscientist, pharmaceutical consultant—and murder victim. A humorous mystery from an author whose work has been called “simply riveting” by The New York Times and “sharp and fast-paced” by Publisher’s Weekly—it’s Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones meets Carl Hiaasen’s Nature Girl (with a dash of Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money) as Olivia … Read More