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Christmas Cupcake Murder

Mistletoe and Memory Author: Joanne Fluke In Christmas Cupcake Murder, we’re once again back-in-time at the beginning of Hannah’s sleuth-on-the-side gig. At this point, the Cookie Jar is up and running and quite the success, but Delores and Carrie haven’t bought their antique shop and Hannah’s little love triangle is in its infant stages. But the never-ending crime wave that plagues this seemingly bucolic little Minnesota town is already at full blast. This time, we don’t get the murder the title promises (but hey, this series has long chucked aside that pesky realism.) Instead, as Hannah helps her mom scope out [...]

2022-12-20T08:47:19-07:00November 3rd, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The

First in a New Cozy Mystery Series Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Jim Qwilleran has recently joined The Daily Fluxion, and as their newest reporter, he is immediately out of his depth, stuck in the art critic section. While he enjoys a good juice at the local press club, and a good complaint with coworkers, he realizes that he has fallen into the ominous shadow of the much hated main art critic for the paper – George Bonifield Mountclemens. What the weedy Mountclemens lacks in charisma, he makes up for with a poison pen. Mountclemens has sent many an aspiring artist into [...]

2022-10-01T16:41:15-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Something Borrowed, Someone Dead

Something Borrowed, Someone Murdered Author: M.C. Beaton Agatha is bored, and that is always a dangerous thing. The recession has lessened her caseload to the point that even the bemoaned missing pets and adulterous spouse cases are absent. There is no potential love interest on the horizon, and worst of all, Agatha is trying to give up smoking. At first, a strange and violent murder in the nearby village of Piddlebury seems like something to break up the tedium. But soon, Agatha becomes afraid of her own case as the bodies start to stack up. It began with Gloria French, a [...]

2022-09-25T17:32:16-07:00September 25th, 2022|Tags: , |
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