Showing posts with label Penguin Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Penguin Group. Show all posts

Monday, June 5, 2017

Review ~ OCCULT AND BATTERY by Lena Gregory

Occult and Battery (Bay Island Psychic Mystery, #2)
by: Lena Gregory
Series: Bay Island Psychic Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Publisher: Penguin ~ Berkley Prime Crime

A murder mystery weekend becomes a little too real in the latest Bay Island Psychic Mystery from the author of Death at First Sight—

Cass Donovan uses her skills as a former psychiatrist to get away with pretending to be psychic, but she’s not about to let anyone get away with murder...

Monday, October 17, 2016

Cozy Mystery Paperback Giveaway ~ MALICE AT THE PALACE by Rhys Bowen

Malice at the Palace (Her Royal Spyness #9)
by: Rhys Bowen
Series: A Royal Spyness Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime


Lady Georgiana Rannoch won’t deny that being thirty-fifth in line for the British throne has its advantages. Unfortunately, money isn’t one of them. And sometimes making ends meet requires her to investigate a little royal wrongdoing.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

🍫5 Stars for BEHIND CHOCOLATE BARS by Kathy Aarons 🍫


Review ~ BY FAMILIAR MEANS by Delia James

By Familiar Means (Witch’s Cat Mystery, #2)
by: Delia James
Series: Witch’s Cat Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Publisher : Penguin: Berkley Prime Crime


In the latest from the author of A Familiar Tail, a witch and her familiar find trouble brewing at a coffee house.

After discovering her mystical heritage—and being adopted by furry feline familiar Alistair—artist Annabelle Britton has decided to make picturesque Portsmouth, New Hampshire, her new home. Now, she can take the time to figure out her new abilities and welcome her grandmother, who is visiting Portsmouth, and her old coven, for the first time in thirty years.
But being a witch doesn’t magically put money in the bank. When she’s hired to paint the murals for a new coffee house, it seems like a wish come true. But then a series of spooky sounds and strange happenings convince the owners that their new shop is haunted. They want Anna and her coven to evict the restless spirit before the grand opening.
Annabelle is certain the haunted happenings at the shop are just hocus pocus. But when her search reveals hidden smugglers’ tunnels beneath the shop—and a dead body—Annabelle, Alastair, and the coven suddenly find themselves in a cat and mouse game with a killer...

Friday, September 9, 2016

Cozy Mystery Review ~ THE READAHOLICS AND THE GOTHIC GALA by Laura DiSilverio


Review ~ PAINT THE TOWN DEAD by Nancy Haddock

Paint the Town Dead (Silver Six Crafting Mystery, #2)
by: Nancy Haddock
Series: Silver Six Crafting Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Source: Publisher ~ Berkley Prime Crime


From the national bestselling author of Basket Case comes the second mystery starring the crafty and cantankerous Silver Six.

Leslee Stanton Nix—aka “Nixy”—thought moving to small-town Lilyvale, Arkansas, would be about as thrilling as watching paint dry. But keeping up with her retired Aunt Sherry and her troublemaking housemates—collectively known as the Silver Six—has proven to be as exciting as it is exasperating.
To kick off the grand opening of their craft shop, the Handcraft Emporium, Nixy and the Silver Six invite Doralee Gordon to teach a gourd painting class. Doralee’s spirit gets squashed when her ex crashes the class with his new fiancée, but things really get messy when the bride-to-be later turns up dead. Now it’s up to Nixy and the Silver Six to use their melons to find the killer—before someone else gets painted out of the picture...

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Review ~ A DARK AND STORMY MURDER by Julia Buckley

A Dark and Stormy Murder (Writer’s Apprentice Mystery, #1)
by: Julia Buckley
Series: Writer’s Apprentice Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Source: Penguin Berkley Prime Crime


An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime, in the first in a captivating new series by the author of the Undercover Dish Mysteries.

Lena London's literary dreams are coming true—as long as she can avoid any real-life villains...
Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla’s new assistant, she can’t believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she’ll get to live rent-free in Camilla’s gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana.
But Lena’s fortune soon changes for the worse. First, she lands in the center of small town gossip for befriending the local recluse. Then, she stumbles across one thing that a Camilla Graham novel is never without—a dead body, found on her new boss’s lakefront property.
Now Lena must take a page out of one of Camilla’s books to hunt down clues in a real crime that seems to be connected to the novelist’s mysterious estate—before the killer writes them both out of the story for good...