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Devoured: Cobblered to Death

February 22, 2022 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

One of the books I read this week was Cobblered to Death by Rosemarie Ross. It is a culinary cozy mystery, the first in the Courtney Archer series. Host of a television show about rural cooking, Courtney is helping to cohost a cooking competition, and wouldn’t you know it—somebody dies. There are plenty of twists and turns as Courtney (and the local security guy and the sheriff) try to figure out which of the other contestants might have done the dirty deed.

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A Complex Web in A Slow Fire Burning

February 15, 2022 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Hawkins introduces you to a number of widely varying characters in the wake of a murder of a young man on a longboat. Then she slowly starts to weave the connections between each of these characters, their relationships and their pasts. Even when the murderer confesses, you don’t yet know everything and are in for a few more plot twists before it all comes together.

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Chew on this: Thirty-Three Teeth

February 1, 2022 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill is the second book that I have read in the Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery series. (And though it is the second book in the series, the other one that I have read is actually #4, Anarchy and Old Dogs.) This mystery series is very different from any I have read before. It is steeped in the Lao setting and culture, with lots of fascinating plant names (like dog fart flowers and bull testicle trees), political red tape, and history.

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Reading about People Like Her

January 4, 2022 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I’ve picked up a few interesting books lately, but this one is the first one in a little while that is really remarkable. It will, hopefully, do very well and I will be looking for other books by this author.

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In suspense with Mother May I

December 28, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

Looking over what I have read recently, I have picked out Mother May I, by Joshilyn Jackson. This book will require you to suspend disbelief to a certain degree. I had a hard time believing that someone would behave the way that the protagonist mother did in this book, but if you can get past that, there are plenty of chills and thrills in this one.

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Reading Verses for the Dead

November 30, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Verses for the Dead is book #18 in the Pendergast series by Preston & Child. If you have read any of the rest of the series, you know that Agent Pendergast (FBI) prefers to work on his own, but in this case he is paired up with a junior agent to “assist” him (ie. spy on him and report any rogue behaviour to their boss.) A serial killer is on the loose, and Pendergast is the only one who seems to have any idea how to pursue the investigation.

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Investigating A Most Curious Murder

November 23, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

This is a new cozy mystery series and author for me. Book #1 in the Little Library Mystery series, A Most Curious Murder features protagonist Jenny returning to her hometown after a nasty divorce. She is confronted by first, the destruction of her mother’s little library, and then by something even worse…

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Learn about The Facts of Life and Death

November 2, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

Devon setting and the people who inhabit it. Most psychological thrillers are written from the viewpoint of an adult, so this one definitely breaks the mold by employing the POV of ten-year-old Ruby Trick for most of the book.

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Curl Up With The Cat Who Blew the Whistle

October 19, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

It has been a long time since I read any of Lilian Jackson Braun’s “The Cat Who…” series, so I am enjoying a return to the series with The Cat Who Blew the Whistle. I haven’t read all of the books in this series, but I couldn’t tell you which ones I have or haven’t read. Enough that I know the main characters, and that coming back to the series is a bit like returning home.

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Fun in Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries

October 12, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Many cozy mystery series begin with the sleuth inheriting a store or home, sometimes from a previously unknown relative, so that she is able to fulfill her dream of opening a book store, bakery, bed and breakfast, etc. In Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries, the opposite happens. Protagonist Mae West’s husband has defrauded people out of millions of dollars. He is in prison and the FBI have ceased all of his assets, so that all Mae is left with is a little RV park that she never knew he owned. And… spoiler alert… it is not in the kind of shape it was back in its heyday.

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