A case as cold as ice cream
September 22 is National Ice Cream Cone Day, and I thought it would be a great day to feature mysteries with cold cases.
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Explore a Highland Mystery in Plaid and Plagiarism
This is a nice little cozy set in the Scottish Highlands. Four friends arrive to set up house and open up a bookstore, teashop, and bed and breakfast, but all of their plans go out the window when a body is discovered in the shed. Fun characters, lots of interesting developments, and beautiful covers make this a series I am sure I will be returning to.
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Sus Manos Estaban Quietas
Contratado para investigar la muerte de un niño autista en un centro de tratamiento, el detective privado Zachary Goldman está preocupado por las terapias que ve allí. Aunque le aseguran que los niños que allí se encuentran no sufren ningún daño, su investigación le lleva a descubrir abusos institucionales aún más profundos.
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New releases: He Drowned in Memory and more
It has been almost a year since the last Zachary Goldman Mystery was released, and it is time for some more!
Today, He Drowned in Memory, book #11 in the series is live. Zachary is out of the hospital and on the trail of his missing brother. Only there are a few surprises along the way, and maybe some things that he didn’t want to dig up from the family’s past.
He Drowned in Memory can be read as a stand alone mystery/suspense or as part of the series.
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Get your coffee fix with Roast Mortem
I am currently reading Roast Mortem, book 9 in Cleo Coyle’s Coffeehouse Mystery series. Cleo Coyle is the pen name of award-winning author Alice Alfonsi, collaborating with her husband, Marc Cerasini. It is obvious from what I have read so far that they did plenty of research to get all of the details of the firefighters and coffee-making business right. Even as a non-coffee-drinker, you might find yourself salivating over the descriptions of the perfect cups of espresso, lattes, and every other variation on coffee that you can think of.
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Celebrate Cozy Mystery Day
We are rapidly approaching Cozy Mystery Day!
Dame Agatha Christie’s birthday is on September 15, so that was selected as the date to celebrate cozy mysteries! Time to catch up your reading on your favourite amateur sleuths. Jessica Fletcher stumbling across another body in Cabot Cove? Miss Marple peering out her window or listening in on the latest village gossip? A baker or knitter who just can’t be held responsible for the rash of murders in her small town?
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Nero Wolfe in The Battered Badge
I have just finished The Battered Badge, a Nero Wolfe Mystery by Robert Goldsborough. This is the first of Goldsborough’s series that I have read, but I am familiar with the original Nero Wolfe Mystery series by Rex Stout (although noting that it is 45 books long, I suspect I have not read all of them!
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Reading for Pain Awareness Month
As well as doing fun posts on peach pie and cherry turnovers or ice cream cones, I also discuss a lot of less-comfortable topics like human trafficking, abuse, mental illness, and so on. This is one of the less pleasant topics — chronic pain.
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YA Books: Identity, Friendship, and Survival
Kick off the school year with a Back to School YA Book Bundle! Gritty, contemporary young adult novels by award-winning author P.D. Workman.
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Come back to Booktown for: Not the Killing Type
I have read several of Lorna Barrett’s Booktown cozy mystery series in the past, so was happy to return to the fictional village full of bookstores (what kind of a dream town would that be?) with Not the Killing Type, book #7 in the series. So nice to get back to Tricia, her employees Mr. Everett and Pixie, and of course her cat, Miss Marple in the Haven’t Got a Clue mystery bookstore.
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