"'You're a blasted idiot, is what you are,' the old man growled in a voice too loud for the middle of the popular downtown diner." I've got a real liking for a 'palate cleanse' of a cosy mystery in between more serious reads, and finding a new series to try is always exciting. I've got … Continue reading Digging Up Trouble – Kitt Crowe
"'Watch out for the top of the door!'" We first met Delta Douglas back in Last Pen Standing, when she moved to a sleepy former Gold Rush town to open a craft supplies shop with her best friend. We rejoin them, two murders later (!), as the tourist town of Tundish hits the slow autumn/winter season. … Continue reading The Glitter End – Vivian Conroy
"When your neighbor is a retired spy, it's easy to imagine innumerable dangers haunting the house next door." We first met Charlotte Reid, owner of the book-themed Chapters Bed and Breakfast, in Booked for Death. Now she's back, hosting a famous author on her new book tour. But when the president of her fan club is found … Continue reading Reserved for Murder – Victoria Gilbert
"A ship may bob, safe at harbor, but that doesn't mean it hasn't experienced the wide world - or won't again." Escaping personal tragedy, former school teacher Charlotte Reed takes over her great-aunt's book-themed Bed and Breakfast, Chapters, in the historic seaside town of Beaufort, North Carolina. Business is going well, especially due to the literary-themed … Continue reading Booked for Death – Victoria Gilbert
"'I was promised chocolate." Marvella - Marvey - moved to the small Georgian town of Peach Coast to be a bigger fish in the pool of librarians than she could manage in her native New York. She's settling in well enough, armed with a notebook to scribble down all of those Southern-isms like 'hissy fit' … Continue reading Murder By Page One – Olivia Matthews
"Shelby Cox woke with a start." We first met Shelby back in Trouble on the Books, and in my review of that I said it wasn't my favourite, bookshop/library-based cosy mystery. Still, the series is charming and well written, so I do keep seeming to come back to it... The main plot of this one is … Continue reading A Deadly Chapter – Essie Lang
"'Attention.' I clinked my knife against my glass." This is the sixth book in the Mystery Bookshop series, following bookshop owner and wannabe mystery writer, Sam Washington, as she repeatedly stumbles across murders - and reasons to investigate! This time, and to shake the series up a little, I imagine, she's off to London and … Continue reading A Tourist’s Guide to Murder – VM Burns
"Sometimes chocolate is the only thing standing between me and murder." What a fab opening quote! 🙂 Librarian Amy Webber is in the final stages of wedding planning when a guest turns up dead at the party thrown for the couple by the enigmatic Kurt Kendrick. His shady past isn't quite a secret and yet … Continue reading A Deadly Edition – Victoria Gilbert
"'Ahwawawawawa.'" That's... some way to open a book o.O Things do improve significantly 😉 LOL! We're back in the small, ex-mining town of Tundish, where Delta Douglas moved at the start of Last Pen Standing to follow her dream of running a craft store and designing her own stationary. It's a sleepy kind of place … Continue reading For Letter or Worse – Vivian Conroy
"Summer Merriweather slipped off her flip-flops, allowing the sand's warmth to comfort the bottom of her feet like it had thousands of times before." I'm a sucker for stories about books and bookshops, and there's something lovely about a good cosy mystery when you need some non-mentally-taxing reading. Alas, while not dreadful by any means, … Continue reading Little Bookshop of Murder – Maggie Blackburn
