Another fun book from Deanna Raybourn. The gang is back in this Golden Girls meets Charlie’s Angels novel. Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie may be retired but that doesn’t mean they can’t handle their own still. When they’re recalled to take on an off the books job for organization known as The Museum, they’re…
Tag: Mystery
Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping [on a Dead Man]
Oh how I love a good bossy and chaotic older character, especially in cozy mysteries. I love their banter and their ‘take no prisoners’ attitude. After loving Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers in 2023, I was stoked to get an advanced copy of Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man). With the…
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey
I don’t watch a ton of reality television. I just didn’t grow up watching it and so it’s just not something I think to watch as an adult. The only shows I tend to watch are the Bachelor (when we have girl’s night), Design and Home shows, Big Brother (because my husband’s family are die…
A Killing Cold
I’ve become a big fan of Kate Alice Marshall’s since she’s moved into publishing adult mysteries and thrillers. I was ecstatic to get an early copy of A Killing Cold and there is honestly other season than winter to read or listen to this book. Theodora Scott is set to meet her future in-laws at…
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
Once again, our non-detective, non-fiction author Ernest Cunningham has been asked to investigate a murder. The third in the Ernest Cunningham series is a Christmas novella! I mean who doesn’t love a good Christmas installment, especially when it’s a Christmas murder mystery. I loved the first book in the series, I liked the second book…
Something in the Walls
Mina is a newly minted child psychologist, has never fully recovered from the death of her brother. Neither has Sam been able to overcome his grief with the loss of his daughter years before. When Sam invites Mina to access Alice, who is believed to be haunted by ghosts, both Sam and Alice hold out…
Rock Paper Scissors
Everything seems to be going wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Attempting to save their marriage they’re headed to Scotland for a weekend away. When a snow store leaves them cutoff from the rest of the world, the lies they’ve been telling each other are about to come uncovered. I spent the first few chapters…
Daisy Darker
By the time she was 13, Daisy Darker’s heart has stopped multiple times. With an incurable heart disease, her life has been anything but normal. As Nana’s favorite granddaughter, and who she based her award-winning children’s books on, Daisy is the only who routinely visits. With Nana’s 80th birthday coming up though, the family will…
Beautiful Ugly
Author Grady Green has hit rock bottom. It’s been a year since his wife went missing, his book hit the best seller list, and since he’s been able to write a single word. In an effort to help get him back to life and writing – his agent sends him to a remote island where…
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
Both Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt have been invited to spend Christmas with an unknown reclusive fan in the English countryside. Neither knows what to expect, & Maggie definitely didn’t expect to have to spend Christmas with her worst enemy. Even finding out said reclusive fan, is world renown and her favorite author Eleanor Ashley,…