Tour_TRIMMED TO DEATH by Nancy J. Cohen

Trimmed to Death (Bad Hair Day Mysteries) by Nancy J Cohen

About the Book

Trimmed to Death (Bad Hair Day Mysteries)

Cozy Mystery

15th in Series

Orange Grove Press (September 25, 2018)

Paperback: 290 pages

ISBN-10: 0998531766

ISBN-13: 978-0998531762

Digital ASIN: B07F2FP55B

Mix together a cocktail for murder, add a few salty suspects, toss in a dollop of sweet humor, and you have the recipe for Trimmed to Death, #15 in the Bad Hair Day cozy mystery series.

Savvy hairstylist and amateur sleuth Marla Vail enters a charity bake-off contest at a fall festival sponsored by a local farm. While she waits to see if her coconut fudge pie is a winner, Marla joins a scavenger hunt where people playing character roles are the targets. Instead of scoring points with a live person, she finds a dead body planted face-down in the strawberry field. Who would want to cut short the life of food magazine publisher and fellow bake-off contestant Francine Dodger? As she investigates, Marla learns there’s no shortage of suspects. A celebrity TV chef, food critic, olive oil importer, food truck owner, pastry chef, and cookbook author may be stirring up more than their next recipe. Can Marla unmask the killer before someone else gets trimmed from life?

Recipes Included!

About the Author

 

Nancy J. Cohen writes the Bad Hair Day Mysteries featuring South Florida hairstylist Marla Vail. Titles in this series have made the IMBA bestseller list and been selected by Suspense Magazine as the best cozy mystery. Nancy has also written the instructional guide, Writing the Cozy Mystery. Her imaginative romances, including the Drift Lords series, have proven popular with fans as well. A featured speaker at libraries, conferences, and community events, Nancy is listed in Contemporary Authors, Poets & Writers, and Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, & Poets. When not busy writing, she enjoys fine dining, cruising, visiting Disney World, and shopping.

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  Trimmed to Death by Nancy J. Cohen

Trimmed to Death by Nancy J. Cohen
Review: TRIMMED TO DEATH by Nancy Cohen
TRIMMED TO DEATH is a low-key cozy mystery featuring amateur sleuth and hairdresser Marla, who lives in South Florida with her homicide detective husband Dalton and his adolescent daughter Brianna. When a harvest festival at a local farm includes a suspicious death, Dalton has jurisdiction and Marla investigates in her own gentle way. There's a number of people with possibly suspicious agendas, but Marla and her family persevere, even though eventually she will be endangered. The author juggles a fair number of characters and plot lines without giving away "the farm." (Intentional pun!)



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Shattered at Sea (A Webb's Glass Shop Mystery) by Cheryl Hollon

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Shattered at Sea (A Webb's Glass Shop Mystery)

Cozy Mystery

5th in Series

Kensington (August 28, 2018)

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

ISBN-10: 1496711777

ISBN-13: 978-1496711779

Digital ASIN: B077WY2SRQ

A Mediterranean cruise gives glass shop owner Savannah Webb a chance to demonstrate her expertise—and fire up her skills when it comes to foul play . . .

When Savannah signs on to perform glassblowing on a ship, part of the appeal is that she’ll get a chance to reconnect with her boyfriend Edward’s family. An added bonus is that Edward’s cousin, Ian, will be joining them on board. But when Ian disappears at the beginning of the cruise, the ship’s authorities initially consider it suicide.

Savannah tries to balance her growing suspicions with work on her shows, but her relationship with the other glass artists begins to crack. And she can’t let love color her judgment when Edward suddenly jumps to the top of the suspect list. His fate is in Savannah’s hands, and she’ll do everything she can—on land and sea—to clear his name . . .

About the Author

  Cheryl Hollon now writes full-time after she left an engineering career of designing and building military flight simulators in amazing countries such as England, Wales, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and India. Fulfilling the dream of a lifetime, she combines her love of writing with a passion for creating glass art. In the small glass studio behind her house in St. Petersburg, Florida, Cheryl and her husband design, create, and produce fused glass, stained glass, and painted glass artworks. Visit her online at http://cherylhollon.com, on Facebook or on Twitter @CherylHollon.

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Review: SHATTERED AT SEA by Cheryl Hollon (A Webb's Glass Shop Mystery) An aspect of cozy mysteries that I really enjoy is Craft Cozies which educate me about craft activities. Cheryl Hollon's Webb's Glass Shop Mysteries contain a plethora of education about a craft activity I'll surely never experience but can certainly admire: the craft of Stained Glassmaking.  Protagonist Savannah Webb of St. Petersburg, FL, is a gifted glassmaker who inherited her late father's glass Shop. She is offered an opportunity to fill in as a glassmaking demonstrator on a Mediterranean cruise. Synchronistically, her pub-owner British boyfriend Edward is also taking the cruise with his cousin Ian. Of course, wherever is Savannah Webb, there will be mysteries, and the disappearances, wrongful confinement, and unexpected revelations of secrets--both long-hidden and recent--begin.

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A Stewed Observation (A Dinner Club Murder Mysteries) by Karen C. Whalen

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A Stewed Observation (A Dinner Club Murder Mysteries)

Cozy Mystery

4th in Series

The Wild Rose Press, Inc (August 6, 2018)

Print Length: 214 pages

Digital ASIN: B07DYVWHFY

The Gourmet Dinner Club travels to Ireland to enjoy Irish cuisine while staying at a medieval, ivy-covered castle. Jane Marsh hopes Dale Capricorn will ask her to marry him at this romantic dream destination. But her plans are put on hold when the elderly castle owner becomes violent, a club member restrains him, and he collapses and dies. The police believe the mysterious death is murder and begin to suspect one of the club’s members. Dale leaves for home on a business emergency, and as the lone single gal in the club full of couples, Jane is thrown into the company of Griffin O’Doherty, the handsome Irishman who stands to inherit the castle. Jane must prove her friend’s innocence by solving the crime. Which of the sweet-tempered Irish could be a callous killer?

About the Author

Karen C. Whalen is the author of a culinary cozy series, the “dinner club murder mysteries.” The first four in the series are: Everything Bundt the Truth, Not According to Flan, No Grater Evil, and A Stewed Observation. The first book in the series tied for First Place in the Suspense Novel category of the 2017 IDA Contest sponsored by Oklahoma Romance Writers of America. Her books are similar to those written by cozy authors Jessica Beck and Joanne Fluke. She worked for many years as a paralegal at a law firm in Denver, Colorado and has been a columnist and regular contributor to The National Paralegal Reporter magazine. She believes that it's never too late to try something new. She loves to host dinner clubs, entertain friends, ride bicycles, hike in the mountains, and read cozy murder mysteries.

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A Stewed Observation by Karen C. Whalen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Review: A STEWED OBSERVATION by Karen C. Whalen
(The Dinner Club Mysteries)

A vacation to Ireland ought to bring a plethora of pleasurable experiences: sightseeing, reunion with old friends, making new friends, exploring the culture. But the six Dinner Club friends find this trip surprisingly unpleasant when, first the owner of the Castle hotel where they're staying in Limerick unexpectedly dies after a strange episode, then one of their party, Bruce, a former police detective, comes under suspicion. Feckless protagonist Jane, twice-widowed under odd circumstances, and hoping for a proposal during this trip from long-term beau Dale, determines to uncover the truth, while simultaneously reeling emotionally and being apparently courted by a handsome, flirtatious, Irishman.

 

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Finders, Not Keepers (The Not So Reluctant Detectives) by D.E. Haggerty

About the Book

Finders, Not Keepers (The Not So Reluctant Detectives)
Cozy Mystery/Romantic Suspense
1st in Series
Self Published (August 20, 2018)
Print Length: 244 pages
Digital ASIN: B07DSWRXMM

What do you do with a diamond no one wants? You can’t keep it. Or can you?

While cleaning her ex-husband’s effects out of the attic, Terri finds an exquisite diamond pendant necklace. She’s determined to return the necklace to its proper owner, but the owner was brutally killed, a murder which remains unsolved, and her heirs want nothing to do with the diamond. Terri embarks upon a journey researching charities to which she can donate the diamond. When her research becomes dangerous, Terri contemplates solving the murder herself. Her best friend, Melanie, jumps feet first into investigating the murder, but her neighbor, Ryder, doesn’t want Terri exposed to any danger. Ryder, to Terri’s surprise, also wants to be more than neighbors with Terri. Luckily, he’s prepared to take any measure necessary to keep her safe because someone is determined to stop her inquiries.

Join Terri on her quest to find a home for the diamond, which may result in the unveiling of a murderer – if she survives long enough.

About the Author

I grew up reading everything I could get my grubby hands on, from my mom's Harlequin romances to Nancy Drew, to Little Women. When I wasn't flipping pages in a library book, I was penning horrendous poems, writing songs no one should ever sing, or drafting stories which have thankfully been destroyed. College and a stint in the U.S. Army came along, robbing me of free time to write and read, although on the odd occasion I did manage to sneak a book into my rucksack between rolled up socks, MRIs, t-shirts, and cold weather gear. After surviving the army experience, I went back to school and got my law degree. I jumped ship and joined the hubby in the Netherlands before the graduation ceremony could even begin. A few years into my legal career, I was exhausted, fed up, and just plain done. I quit my job and sat down to write a manuscript, which I promptly hid in the attic after returning to the law. But practicing law really wasn’t my thing, so I quit (again!) and went off to Germany to start a B&B. Turns out running a B&B wasn’t my thing either. I polished off that manuscript languishing in the attic before following the husband to Istanbul where I decided to give the whole writer-thing a go. But ten years was too many to stay away from my adopted home. I packed up again and moved to The Hague where I’m currently working on my next book. I hope I’ll always be working on my next book.

Finders, Not Keepers is my thirteenth novel.

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Finders, Not Keepers by D.E. Haggerty
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: FINDERS, NOT KEEPERS by D. E. Haggerty
(The Not-so-Reluctant Detectives #1)

This delightful and adorable cozy mystery contains all I hope to encounter whenever I start a new cozy: warmth, good feelings, characters who readily elicit all my empathy, an involving plot with suspense, and of course, amateur sleuths. In this novel, we also have a Librarian, an amateur sleuth who is wonderfully kind-hearted and good-intentioned individual, and a feckless heroine. All those facets combine in one lovely person, almost-divorced high school Librarian Terri, who while digging in ex-husband's storage in her attic, inadvertently discovers an expensive diamond and gold pendant. So the mystery begins--delightfully and engagingly.

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Finders, Not Keepers

Hi! I’m Teresa Patterson, but you can call me Terri. It’s cool you want me to write about myself, but I’m actually pretty boring. I’m a middle-aged high school librarian who has a slight obsession with books. I find books and being a librarian fascinating but as my best friend Melanie would say ‘Snoozeville!’ So, I’m not sure what to write about myself that other people may find interesting. I’ve settled on five things you don’t know about me. Hope I don’t bore you!

1. Although I read a lot, all the time actually, I have a ‘to-be-read’ list that somehow never gets smaller. I think it’s some type of book magic. And, yes, I believe in magic. Reading is a type of magic, don’t you think?

2. I have a problem. It’s called tsundoku. I have absolutely no idea how to pronounce that Japanese word, but it certainly applies to me. I am a book hoarder. I buy more books than I can ever read. Although this problem is sure to be resolved soon as I now have less disposable income.

3. I can’t not finish a book. Seriously, it’s a big problem. I read several books at a time, but I try to only read one fictional paperback at a time. When I get stuck on the book (because not every book is my cup of tea), I refuse to start a new paperback. Sometimes I’ll have a paperback sitting on my bedside table for a year!

4. I recommend books to complete strangers. When I’m in a bookstore and see someone browsing with a confused look on her face, I’ll start spouting off good books to read. Mostly, people are grateful, but there have been a few who’ve rushed out of the bookstore like I was a serial killer or something. Are serial killers big readers?

5. This is probably not a surprise to anyone, but I would rather sit at home on Friday night reading a book than go out. Although now that I’m kinda sorta dating the hot neighbor, I may be up for more exciting adventures on Friday night. Oh, who am I kidding? Can’t he just watch a ball game while I read or something?

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About the Book

In Cold Chocolate: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery

Cozy Mystery

3rd in Series

Crooked Lane Books (September 11, 2018)

Hardcover: 350 Pages

ISBN-10: 1683317432

ISBN-13: 978-1683317432

Digital ASIN: B078M3N9TC

In Dorothy St. James’s third delectable Southern Chocolate Shop mystery, a new batch of chocolate and troubles of the heart cause a string of disasters for the Chocolate Box’s new owner, Charity Penn.

The vintage seaside town of Camellia Beach, South Carolina seems like the perfect place for romance with its quiet beach and its decadent chocolate shop that serves the world’s richest dark chocolates. The Chocolate Box’s owner, Charity Penn, falls even further under the island’s moonlit spell as she joins Althea Bays and the rest of the turtle watch team to witness a new generation of baby sea turtles hatch and make their way into the wide ocean.

Before the babies arrive, gunshots ring out in the night. Cassidy Jones, the local Casanova, is found dead in the sand with his lover Jody Dalton—the same woman who has vowed to destroy the Chocolate Box—holding the gun. It’s an obvious crime of passion, or so everyone believes. But when Jody’s young son pleads with Penn to bring his mother back to him, she can’t say no. She dives headfirst into a chocolate swirl of truth and lies, and must pick through an assortment of likely (and sometimes unsavory) suspects before it’s too late for Penn and for those she loves in Dorothy St. James’s third rich installment of the Southern Chocolate Shop mysteries, In Cold Chocolate.

About the Author

Mystery author Dorothy St. James was raised in South Carolina. She makes her home on the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, a neurotic dog, and a fluffy cat. Though writing has always been a passion for her, she pursued an undergraduate degree in Wildlife Biology and a graduate degree in Public Administration and Urban Planning. She put her educational experience to use, having worked in all branches and all levels of government including local, regional, state, and federal. She even spent time during college working for a non-profit environmental watchdog organization.

Switching from government service and community planning to fiction writing wasn't as big of a change as some might think. Her government work was all about the stories of the people and the places where they live. As an urban planner, Dorothy loved telling the stories of the people she met. And from that, her desire to tell the tales that were so alive in her heart grew until she could not ignore it any longer. In 2001, she took a leap of faith and pursued her dream of writing fiction full-time.

* Dorothy St. James is the alter-ego of award-winning multi-published author, Dorothy McFalls. She enjoys writing in several different genres. Her works have been nominated for many awards including Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Reviewers International Organization Award, National Reader's Choice Award, CataRomance Reviewers' Choice Award, and The Romance Reviews Today Perfect 10! Award. Reviewers have called her work: "amazing", "perfect", "filled with emotion", and "lined with danger."

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In Cold Chocolate: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery by Dorothy St. James
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: IN COLD CHOCOLATE by Dorothy St. James

Author Dorothy St. James really tugs the heartstrings of readers in this very special South Carolina Lowcountry cozy mystery. Charity Penn's Chocolate Box shop is extraordinarily popular, and she's settled in well in the paradisical Camellia Island--or so she believes. But the heirs of the former owner are determined to snatch the property to sell to a high-dollar resort developer. Penn thinks she holds the high ground, until she discovers betrayal.

I so enjoyed learning the ongoing revelations of Penn's backstory, and empathizing as her efforts seem blocked at every turn, and despite her moral integrity, she just can't seem to win. This is the third in A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery Series, and I'm very eager to read more.

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Read and Gone: A Haunted Library Mystery by Allison Brook

 

About the Book

Read and Gone: A Haunted Library Mystery

Cozy Mystery

2nd in Series

Crooked Lane Books (September 11, 2018)

Hardcover: 320 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1683317340

Digital ASIN: B078M7MXGR

Twenty million dollars’ worth of missing gems bring Carrie Singleton’s long-lost and larcenous dad back into her life and it’s up to Carrie to clear his name.

A devoted dad is as precious as diamonds, but Carrie Singleton wouldn’t know since her dad Jim’s been on the lam most of her life. In an unusual family reunion, she finds Jim breaking into her cottage in the middle of the night. The fun really starts when he begs her to help him recover his half of a twenty-million-dollar gem heist he pulled off with the local jeweler, Benton Parr. When she refuses, Jim takes off again.

Carrie finds her father again behind bars for the recent murder of Benton Parr. Who made the connection? Unbeknownst to her, Carrie’s boyfriend Dylan, an insurance investigator, has been searching for the gems. Determined to find the jewels herself, she starts examining every facet of Parr’s life. She turns up a treasure trove of suspects, one of whom bashes her on the head as she’s searching the victim’s country cabin.

Retreating to the quiet confines of the library where she works, Carrie watches as Smokey Joe, the resident cat, paws at a hole in the wall. Is he after the library’s ghost Evelyn, or something shinier?

About the Author

Allison Brook is the pseudonym for Marilyn Levinson, who writes mysteries, romantic suspense, and novels for kids. She lives on Long Island and enjoys traveling, reading, watching foreign films, doing Sudoku and dining out. She especially loves to visit with her grandchildren on FaceTime.

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Read and Gone by Allison Brook
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: READ AND GONE by Allison Brook
(The Haunted Library Mysteries #2)

READ AND GONE is the second entry in a new series, The Haunted Library Mysteries. Enterprisingly plotted, the mystery certainly had me guessing throughout. There's a couple of really wonderful older characters: one is a former library aide who lovingly haunts the expansive Clover Ridge Library, who is/was about 60 (she's a delightful ghost) and the other is a ninety-year-old man, her former neighbor, just as sweet as can be.

However, a few of the other characters really got on my bad side, and unfortunately, their roles are pretty prominent. Granted my reaction is probably a matter of personal viewpoint, but I thought that protagonist Carrie could have developed more spine and eased off on the doormat tendencies.

READ AND GONE was definitely a mystery I couldn't puzzle out ahead of time. With several possible suspects, and a number of characters with unpleasant personalities and behavior, I couldn't latch on to just one to identify the culprit.

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Fatal Flip: A Home Renovator Mystery

by M. E. Bakos

About the Book

Fatal Flip: A Home Renovator Mystery

Cozy Mystery

1st in Series

Cozy Cat Press (October 27, 2017)

Paperback: 220 pages

ISBN-10: 194606341X

ISBN-13: 978-1946063410

Digital ASIN: B077WRRMH6< p>

Flipping houses can be fatal! When Katelyn finds a dead body in her first home renovation project, she seriously doubts her decision to “follow her bliss.” After getting fired from her steady job, her plan to flip houses takes a hit when she becomes a suspect. After all, possession is nine points of the law, isn’t it? Especially, when it’s a dead body.

To keep herself in pizza, peanut butter, good coffee, and her stray cat, Boots, in kitty chow she takes survival jobs as a wine sample hostess and market researcher. Meanwhile, Sheriff Don is kind of hunky, and her ex-husband, Eddy (it’s complicated) is back in her life sleeping on her sofa. How’s a girl supposed to solve dead body mysteries, make a living, and find love?

About the Author

M.E. Bakos has published several short stories in national women’s magazines. Her love of mysteries has led to writing cozies. Her first mystery short story, “Carpe Diem or Murder at the Carp Fest” appeared in the Festival of Crime, a SINC Anthology. Her second, “Perfect Storm . . . Perfect Murder” will be in Dark Side of the Loon, May 2018 also a SINC Anthology.

Her first cozy, FATAL FLIP, A Home Renovator Mystery has several home improvement tips for the reader.

Mary is a member of Twin Cities Sisters in Crime, the SINC Guppies Group, and an alumna of the University of Minnesota. She is a lifelong resident of Minnesota and resides in Minneapolis with her husband, Joe Sebesta, and their spoiled Morkie.

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Review by Mallory Heart's Cozies:

FATAL FLIP: A Home Renovator Mystery by M.E. Bakos
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: FATAL FLIP by M. E. Bakos

A fast-paced, intriguing yet character-endearing, cozy mystery, with a delightful frisson of clever humour and realistic ups and downs, FATAL FLIP is a Home Renovation Mystery. Our kindhearted yet feisty and self-respecting first-person protagonist has taken up "flipping" homes after losing out on her employment at a mega-hospital [Read, greed and ineffectual administration]. Katelyn "follows her bliss" into residence rehab and loves it--but meanwhile, she's got to endure the downtime waiting for that first rehabbed house to sell, and to feed herself and her beloved tuxedo cat Boots. Surely house sales would be speedier, if corpses stopped turning up, stashed inside abandoned or foreclosed homes.

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Hitting the Books by Jenn McKinlay
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review: HITTING THE BOOKS by Jenn McKinlay
(A Library Lover's Mystery #9)

What a great cozy mystery, with some surprising and truly unexpected plot twists! The endearing (and in several instances ongoing) cast of characters readily elicited my attention and empathy. What reader doesn't love reading, books, and libraries? Lindsey is the Librarian of the delectable Briar Creek, Connecticut, library, and a dedicated amateur sleuth. Not much crime ever occurs in this tiny seaside community on Long Island Sound, but when it does Police Chief Emma Plewicki and Librarian Lindsey will track it down.

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