Sometimes you run into books that should be right in your wheelhouse, but somehow aren’t. The Primrose Murder Academy by Stacy Hackney is one of those books for me. The main character of the mystery is Lila Shaw, a recently divorced mother with a recently created investigation agency. In
A question that comes up when potentially choosing a book that's not the first book in a series is will I be able to follow along or will I be lost? For me, the author who was the best at this was Sue Grafton. In just a paragraph
The Colloquial Cat by Philippa Sandall is short, easy to read book that covers fifty-five phrases involving our favorite felines. Most of them were familiar to me and the new-to-me ones were most likely due to the fact that Sandall is from Australia. As staff to many,
Back in the late 80s, my mom and I made a trip to take my Gramma Walker to visit my Uncle Francis and Aunt Donna in South Carolina. It wasn't our first three generation trip, but it would turn out to be our last. I have several fond
I've mentioned before that most of the cozy mysteries I read are set in Great Britain in the years before World War I and World War II. That is partly because the queen of cozy mysteries began writing then and set many of her books in that time
This is a new series for Cozying Up that focuses on various resources available for writers. Some will be focused on cozy mysteries and some of them will cover more general topics related to writing. Two of the cozy mystery series I've read are from the imagination of
I've been a fan of Victoria Thompson books for a very long time. I had finished reading (or re-reading) all of Agatha Christie's novels and I remember being thrilled to find out there were more than twenty books in the Gaslight Mystery series. As I
If you read my reviews all the way to the end, you may have noticed a disclaimer that frequently goes, “This ARC was provided by [publisher or author] via NetGalley.” NetGalley is a website that connects authors and their publishers with potential readers and reviewers. This summer, they ran a
Back in April, I wrote about the first book in the Maddie Penrose series Murder at a Cornish Teashop. The second book featuring Maddie and her grandmother Nor has been released and it gets a bit meta as it revolves around a death within Nor's book club group.
If you watch hardly any British television (excuse me... telly), you have probably encountered the work of Richard Osman. He has created many programs and appeared on even more shows like Pointless, QI, Would I Lie to You, and the second season/series of Taskmaster. After writing several non-fiction
In most history classes (at least when I was in school), there seems to be too much emphasis on wars. While I do enjoy learning about the war years of various civilizations (mainly the home front aspects), the times in between the wars are often neglected. Tinker by Jennifer M.
I have mentioned before how much I love Miss Jane Treen and The Secret Detective Agency series. I'm happy to tell you that there is a fourth book out in this wonderful series. The Afternoon Tea Murders takes Jane from London to Deven where Arthur Cilento has been