by Victoria Tait (Author) What fun! Dotty and Keya are back in Victoria Tait‘s new cozy mystery, AN AUCTION OF SECRETS, and they both have new jobs! It looks like Dotty is moving into management at the antique house, and Keya now peers minutely at crime scene evidence instead of chasing the bad guys. (Okay, she fudges…
by by Victoria Tait (Author) Victoria Tait’s new travel cozy mystery series is set first in the Azores, an island group that is a part of Portugal, only about 1,000 miles away in the Atlantic Ocean. Here Tait has sent Georgiana Carey, a secondary character from some of her Dottie Sayers mysteries. She was known as George…
by Victoria Tait (Author) The Cotswolds, a picturesque cafe decorated for Christmas and wafting holiday aromas, friends and lovers, and a female police officer with a twisty tragic murder to solve…or maybe two. What more could you ask from a Cozy Festive Mystery? There is a lot of change brewing in book six. Police Sergeant Keya has…
by by Victoria Tait (Author) And so, the life and mysteries of Victoria Tait’s antique-specialist heroine, Dotty Sayers, continue in this merry holiday book, YULETIDE MARKET MURDER. Set in Leicestershire at a castle being refurbished into a boutique hotel, Dotty works her magic by buying just the perfect piece of furniture, decoration, or art for the project…
by Victoria Tait (Author) Although this cozy mystery is listed as a Dotty Sayers Antique mystery, author Victoria Tait has combined two of her series’ characters in this book. Dotty, returning from antique work in other parts of the country, has only recently settled down again in the Cotswolds to open her own shop. Sergeant Keya Varma…
by Victoria Tait (Author) I totally enjoy reading Victoria Tait’s Waterwheel Cafe mysteries with police officer Keya Varma and her cop and cafe friends. And, I have to say, her new MINT TEA AND A MIDSUMMER MURDER is one of the best. Familiar characters and settings, plus a twisty murder mystery to solve, are what I expect…
By Dorothy Gilman (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review Mrs. Pollifax on Safari is a totally fun, cozy mystery. It’s true, Mrs. Pollifax is a woman of a certain age, but a livelier character you couldn’t find. In this book she leaves her geraniums and volunteer hospital work to find an assassin in the dark…
By Victoria Tait (Author) After Dotty Sayers’ Christmas decor accomplishment and murder-solving adventure in Yorkshire, her “friend” Zach invites her to Northumberland to help him continue his family treasure hunt. Dotty has nothing better to do and is still not sure she wants to return to her home in the Cotswold yet, so she…
by Audrey Alden (Author) I love cruising, so I read all the books I can that are set on cruise ships. DEAD MAN’S DISH is the first in a series by Audrey Alden, set in the present day. (Note the play-on-words with the main character’s last name, “Cruz.” Clever!) Rose Dela Cruz is a…
Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review I love Benedict Brown‘s Lord Edgington Investigates books, and have read (listened to) all of them to date. They are whodunnits, investigated by the 75-year-old, eccentric Marques of Edgington and his 18-year-old grandson. So fun! THE SNOWS OF WESTON MOOR (book 8) didn’t disappoint. There is an Agatha Christie-like…
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