Review: The Afternoon Tea Murders
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
Review: How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay
Review: Murder with a Side of Shrimp and Grits
Culinary cozy mysteries are a huge part of the category that is already a sub-category. Some pad their plots with incredibly meh recipes (repurposing Pillsbury cinnamon rolls to make them bigger is not a recipe) while others only include a few key recipes that enhance the story and characters
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Review: Murder in a Cornish Teashop
Murder in a Cornish Teashop by Fliss Chester is the first book in the new Maddie Penrose series. Set in a small rural teashop that is frequented by locals and visiting hikers alike, the story begins soon after a burnt out Maddie leaves her job as a chef in London
Review: Never Mind the Happy
Marc Shaiman's memoir Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner is a wonderfully light and breezy autobiography. How so? I inhaled this book in an afternoon. If you have consumed any Broadway musicals in recent decades, you have probably experienced some of Shaiman's
Page Paralysis
I hate February so much. It's the month after my birthday so I don't have that to look forward to for another year. I was single for over thirty years so Valentines Day was always depressing then and even though Tom and I have been together
Review: The Starseekers
Sometimes, it pays to pick out a book that seems outside your usual reading list. For me, that was how I discovered the joy that is The Starseekers: A Historical Fantasy of Magic, Murder, and the Race to the Moon. It may be my favorite book since I started reviewing
Recipe: Bourbon Bacon Green Bean Casserole
Spotlight: Love And Death
This is the first spotlight post of Cozying Up. These posts will feature a newly published book that may be of interest to readers of this blog. In some cases, a review of the featured book may appear later. Love and Death is the sixth book in the Meg Sheppard
Review: Maiden Voyage
Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse (aka the Fake History Hunter) posted just a few days ago about what she calls "The Titanic Complex." She defines it as "when extra drama is added to a historical event because it is (wrongly) assumed that the truth is not exciting enough."