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Sunday, April 30, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - Z

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Since I cannot think of anything for Z---

I am going to post my wrap up here.

Again, I hope you will decide to follow my blog and join my newsletter. Maybe even join in on Six Sentence Saturday and/or the Bones Reading Challenge.

I also hope you will watch for my 2024 A-Z since it will be a Cozy read written for the challenge (I have not determined what to do with it after, maybe a newsletter freebie).

It's been great spending April with you!

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Saturday, April 29, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - Y

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Suzanne Young

Edna Davies Mystery Series

Book 1 can be Found HERE

Being a prime suspect in a murder investigation isn't quite the idyllic retirement anyone would envisioned but when her handyman dies of taxine poisoning, Edna Davies is placed in just such a predicament. As an amateur herbalist, she is certain she didn't concoct a poisonous potion but she is shunned by the townsfolk, questioned by the police and threatened by thieves. As she desperately tries to save herself from arrest ... or worse, she follows a trail that leads her back 40 years in the victim's history.

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Friday, April 28, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - X

Mystee Friday, April 28, 2023 0 Comments

I have nothing for X - open to suggestions!

For now, I will just remind you that I would absolutely be thrilled if you would give me a blog follow and/or join my newsletter to spend more than just April with me :)

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - W

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Noreen Wald and her Kate Kennedy Mystery Series

Book 1 HERE

Nestled between fast track Ft. Lauderdale and nouveau riche Boca Raton, the once sleepy beach town of Palmetto is plagued by progress. The latest news has Ocean Vista condo board president Stella Sajak and other residents in an uproar.

Developers plan to raze the property and put up a glitzy resort. But when Stella says she’ll go to City Hall and fight this to the death, no one thinks to take her statement literally.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - V

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I was drawn to Elaine Viets' Dead End Job Mystery Series as it has been rumored that she worked each job to research it for her characters. I would LOVE to do this. It would be so exciting!

I am getting off path here...

You can find Book 1 HERE

Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life for a shabby one. And now she's on the fun, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past...

After two weeks as the new salesclerk at Juliana's, Fort Lauderdale's ultra-exclusive clothing boutique, Helen still feels out of fashion. And since the only crime likely to be committed around here is being old-or worse, looking old-Helen figures she is safe. Until she discovers the manager has been embezzling money and selling designer drugs along with the designer clothes. Add murder to the mix-and Helen's dead-end job is downright deadly.

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Monday, April 24, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - T

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Meet Shirley Tallman and book 1 (HERE) of......

SARAH WOOLSON MYSTERY

The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home---that it is not only unnatural, but against God's will for them to seek a career.

When Sarah finagles an interview with one of the city's most prestigious law firms, no one thinks she has a prayer of being hired. Except Sarah. Using her brains and a little subterfuge, she not only manages to become the firm's newest (and only female) associate attorney, she also acquires her first client---a lovely young society matron suspected of brutally stabbing to death her wealthy but abusive husband. Sarah is sure of her client's innocence, but the revelation of the woman's secret lover may make that innocence impossible to prove.

When four more victims fall prey to the killer's knife, Sarah fears she has bitten off more than she can chew. Bucking her boorish employer and the judicial system, Sarah finds herself embroiled in shady legal maneuvers, a daring Chinatown raid, and a secret and very scandalous sex club in this irresistible blend of history, romance, and murder.

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Saturday, April 22, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - S

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Today is Aileen Schumacher (who is a civil engineer). Book 1 of her Tory Travers series can be found HERE

Tory Travers is a young, widowed structural engineer, living with her son on the outskirts of a campus town in New Mexico. Her life changes when a scandal erupts regarding the structural problems of the new football stadium. Tory's business is financially threatened if she carries out her duties as inspector.

Things escalate when a person and lab records disappear and someone is found murdered. Enter Detective Alvarez, who discovers Tory's connection to the death. When Tory starts receiving death threats, the two work together to solve the mysteries.

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - Q

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Today is Holly Quinn and the Handcrafted Mystery Series - 3 books are currently available.

Find book 1 HERE

Sammy Kane just moved back to her hometown to run a craft store. But when the owner of a nearby yarn shop is murdered, Sammy will needle little help finding the killer.

When a heartbroken Samantha “Sammy” Kane returns to her hometown of Heartsford, WI, for her best friend Kate’s funeral, she learns that Kate’s much-loved craft store is in danger of perishing with its owner. Confounding all her expectations of the life she would live, Sammy moves back home with her golden retriever and takes over Community Craft. A few doors down Main Street, fellow new arrival Ingrid Wilson has just opened the Yarn Barn, a real “purl” of a shop. But when Sammy strolls over to see if Ingrid could use a little help, she finds Ingrid’s dead body—with a green aluminum knitting needle lodged in her throat.

Detective Liam Nash is thrown for a loop as every single citizen of Heartsford seems to have a theory about Ingrid’s murder. And nearly everyone in town seems to be a suspect. But the last time Sammy did any sleuthing was as a little moppet. And this is not fun and games. Sammy is eager to help the handsome Liam—who seems to be endlessly inventive in finding reasons to talk with her—and when Liam arrests affable woodworker Miles Danbury, Sammy puts everything on the line to help clear Miles.

As the case comes dangerously close to unraveling, Sammy must stitch the clues together. But the killer has other plans—and if Sammy’s not careful, she may wind up in a perilous knot in A Crafter Knits a Clue, the first warm and woolly yarn of Holly Quinn’s new Handcrafted mysteries.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - P

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Let's talk about Sharon Pape's series

PORTRAIT OF A CRIME MYSTERY

You can find book 1 - Sketch Me if You Can - HERE

She's a police sketch artist. He's a dead lawman. Together, they put a face on murder.

When her uncle dies, police sketch artist Rory McCain get's a list of clients from his private detective business and a beautiful, old house with a ghostly inhabitant: Federal Marshal Ezekiel Drummond, aka Zeke.

Having a ghost as a housemate is bad enough, but as Rory's drawn into one of her uncle's unsolved cases and faces a cold-blooded killer, she may need the marshal's supernatural help to stay alive.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - O

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Let's talk the Allie Babcock series

I mean dog psychiatrist - they had me right there.

You can find Play Dead (which is book 1) HERE

Meet Allie Babcock – The Audacious Dog Therapist with a Flair for Sleuthing

At her brand new shop in Boulder, Allie’s very first client is a dejected collie whose previous owner allegedly took her own life. But with a natural nose for crime, Allie soon suspects murder—leaving her dejected canine client as possibly the sole witness to the crime.

With the scent fresh, Allie is quickly on the case – but a second murder curtails her investigation. Before taking another step, Allie needs to count her enemies: several suspicious dog owners, a boyfriend with a temper (and a demand for vengeance!), and a mysterious door-to-door salesman with a curious tale to tell…

Bizarre salesman, vicious boyfriend and suspect dog owners – one thing is for sure – Allie’s life may never be safe until one of these characters lands in the pen…

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Monday, April 17, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - N

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Carla Neggers

CARRIAGE HOUSE Series

I will say -- research her other series as well!

Book 1 -

Fun and a little hard work. That's all Tess Haviland has in mind when Ike Grantham pays her for her graphic design work on the run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore.

Then Ike disappears and Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her out of the city. It's not just the rumors that the carriage house is haunted—it's the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly Thorne, her reclusive babysitter, Harley Beckett…and especially Dolly's father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door.

But when Tess discovers a human skeleton in her dirt cellar, she begins to ask questions about the history of the carriage house, the untimely death of Andrew's wife…and Ike's disappearance. Questions a desperate killer wants to silence before the truth reveals that someone got away with murder.

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Saturday, April 15, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - M

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Anna Maclean

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT MYSTERY Series - Book 1 -

In this delightful new "tale of dark secrets, mysterious men, and heiresses in distress,"* Louisa May Alcott, the beloved author of Little Women, is cast in the role of amateur sleuth-investigating crimes more heinous than anything she can imagine in her "blood and thunder" romances.

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Friday, April 14, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - L

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Clare Langley-Hawthorne

URSULA MARLOWE MYSTERY Series - 2 books so far

Book 1 -

For fans of Maisie Dobbs, a riveting new Edwardian mystery series featuring detective heiress Ursula Marlow

Ursula Marlow, the star of this richly detailed, beautifully paced, deeply romantic mystery, is a strong female heroine with whom fans of Dorothy Sayers, Sarah Waters, Anne Perry, and Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series will instantly fall in love. An Oxford graduate active in the battle for women's suffrage, Ursula is not your typical Edwardian heiress. Her once-charmed life takes a frightening turn when a fellow suffragette and friend is accused of murder. As Ursula digs deeper to discover the truth and clear her friend's tarnished name, she is drawn into a mystery that raises troubling questions about her own father's connection to the murder victim.

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - K

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Abigail Keam

A beekeeper cozy series! Bees! I love this (can you tell?)! These started in 2010 and last publish was in 2022. There are 17 books (so far) in the series. Here's a bit about book 1 -

Josiah Reynolds is a beekeeper trying to stay financially afloat by selling honey at the Farmers' Market. She finds her world turned upside down when a man is found dead in her beeyard, only to discover the victim is her nemesis.
The police are calling the brutal death murder and Josiah is the number one suspect! Fighting an unknown enemy in the glamorous world of Thoroughbreds, oak-cured bourbon, and antebellum mansions, Josiah struggles to uncover the truth in a land that keeps its secrets well.

Josiah faces the world with sarcastic humor and a number of quirky, oddball friends that can only be found in the Bluegrass town of Lexington, the heart of Kentucky horse country. Some mysteries end with a bang, some are not solved at all and the first one ends with a cliff hanger, but they always entertain in the sassy, humorous, and suspenseful world as Josiah goes about sleuthing. Like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, Josiah observes the world about her and solves even the must troubling cases.

Death By A HoneyBee is the first of an episodic series and as such ends in a cliff-hanger which is crucial to the rest of the series. Attached to HoneyBee is a bonus chapter from Death By Drowning which continues our heroine's story in linear time. I hope you enjoy reading Death By A HoneyBee as much as I have enjoyed writing it. It was a labor of love.

The Josiah Reynolds Mystery Series is just like fried chicken - finger-licking good! Add some sweet tea and a piece of chocolate pecan pie with a scoop of ice-cream and you got yourself some tasty reading.

We are introduced to a cast of characters and a storyline that, like honey, is sweet and delicious. -Linda Hinchcliff, Chevy Chase Magazine

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

#AtoZChallenge - J

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Dolores Johnson

Book 1: When Betty the Bag Lady brings in a Dyer's Cleaners bag stuffed with a bloody suit, it doesn't take long for Mandy Dyer, the owner, to start wondering which of her clients may have been murdered, or worse, which of them may be a murderer. She soon learns it could be both when a high-priced lawyer is found bludgeoned to death in his office at a local law firm that Mandy handles for cleaning. Even though she turns the suit over to the police and finds herself smitten with the handsome (and single) detective in charge of the case, she can't help but start her own search for clues in the enormous catalogue of her customers' clothing.

Someone, however, wants to make sure there are no clues: Dyer's Cleaners is ransacked in the middle of the night, Mandy is suddenly receiving calls from a heavy breather, and someone is trying to track down Betty the Bag Lady. And everything takes a turn for the worse when Mandy finds Betty half dead from stab wounds in front of her store.

Now Many, along with her best stain remover, Mack, are going to scour through every detail to search for a murderer who is much closer to them than they think.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

#A-ZChallenge - I

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You can find Judith K Ivie's Kate Lawrence Mystery Series HERE.

This series was first published in 2009 and the most recent book in 2016.

Waiting on Armando --

Legal secretaries everywhere will be thrilled with Waiting for Armando by Wethersfield author Judith K. Ivie. Instead of casting attorneys in the starring roles, Waiting for Armando celebrates the resilient, resourceful legal assistants who are so often overshadowed by their high-profile bosses in contemporary fiction. When a secretary at one of Hartford's prominent law firms is suspected of murdering her philandering boss, her colleagues band together to exonerate one of their own. Each clue puts them closer to the truth but further into danger when the murderer decides to put an end to their meddling.

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Monday, April 10, 2023

#A-ZChallenge - H

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Heywood Herbalist Cozy Mysteries

Six in the series and can be found HERE

Herbs and Homicide: A Small Town Contemporary Cozy Mystery (Heywood Herbalist Cozy Mysteries Book 1)

by Carly Winter (Author)

From Hollywood, California, to Heywood, Arizona, trouble follows her...

After her husband’s brutal killing and her fall from the Hollywood elite, the disgraced Samantha Rathbone moves to Heywood hoping to forget her past and live a quiet life of anonymity as Sam Jones.

When she takes a job at the local herbal shop, Sage Advice, and the owner is found murdered, Sam is pushed back into the unwanted spotlight when she becomes the number one suspect. As she wades through ugly family drama, the questionable business practices of others, and the lies embroiled in a small town, she searches for the true killer, hoping to save herself.

Will Samantha be able to find the murderer before she’s put away for a crime she didn’t commit?

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Saturday, April 8, 2023

#A-ZChallenge - G

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Ashley Gardner

The Hanover Square Affair can be found HERE.

Meet Captain Gabriel Lacey-in an extraordinary series of Regency-set mysteries.

Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a missing girl, possibly kidnapped by a prominent member of Parliament. Lacey's search for the girl leads to the discovery of murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld. Lacey faces his own disorientation upon transitioning from a soldier's life to the civilian world, redefining his role with his former commanding officer, and making new friends--from the top of society to the street girls of Covent Garden.

Book 1 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries.

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Friday, April 7, 2023

#A-ZChallenge - F

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Today we are going with Faithful Words (can be found here) - which is the 8th in a Scottish Bookshop Cozy series.

In Fateful Words, the eighth Scottish Bookshop Mystery from beloved author Paige Shelton, bookseller Delaney Nichols stakes her reputation—and her life—when a literary tour turns deadly...

When Edwin, Delaney’s boss at the Cracked Spine bookstore, leaves town on secret business, Delaney is called upon to guide his yearly literary tour around Edinburgh. But on the first night of the tour, at the inn where the tour group is staying, the inn manager falls—or is pushed—off the roof of the inn, and killed. Then, one of the tour members disappears, leaving a trail of puzzles in her wake.

In a race against the clock, Delaney sets out on the expedition of her life, following clues around Edinburgh to get to the bottom of this mystery. Exploring sights from Greyfriars Bobby to the Royal Mile to the Sir Walter Scott Monument, she'll have to put the pieces together quickly, or the bookstore's survival could be on the line...as well as her own.

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Thursday, April 6, 2023

#A-ZChallenge - E

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Anyone have an E for me? I'm stretching this into Dog Eat Dog, which you can find here. This happens to be #23 in the series!

Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, work to free a man who risked it all to help a dog in need in Dog Eat Dog, the twenty-second installment in the beloved series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt.

Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, enjoy walking their dogs, Tara and Sebastian. By this point in their marriage, it’s routine. When out for one of their strolls, their simple ritual isn’t so simple anymore. Across the street, a man is mistreating his dog. Three things happen at once: Andy yells, Laurie runs to stop the abuse, and so does a closer passerby, who so thoroughly beats the owner that both are arrested when the cops arrive.

Andy scoops up the dog and takes him to the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization that’s always been his true passion. Meanwhile, at the police station, the passerby is identified as Matthew Jantzen, and he’s wanted for murder. Andy and Laurie are struck by the fact that Jantzen, a man on the run, would nevertheless intervene to help a dog, and decide to find out more.

Dog Eat Dog features the charming cast of characters—old and new—that David Rosenfelt is known for, and the dogs that accompany them.

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Sunday, April 30, 2023

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Friday, April 28, 2023

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Monday, April 24, 2023

SARAH WOOLSON MYSTERY

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

PORTRAIT OF A CRIME MYSTERY

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Monday, April 17, 2023

Carla Neggers

CARRIAGE HOUSE Series

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Anna Maclean

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT MYSTERY Series - Book 1 -

Friday, April 14, 2023

Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Abigail Keam

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Dolores Johnson

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Monday, April 10, 2023

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Ashley Gardner

Friday, April 7, 2023

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