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Monthly Archives: August 2020
Halloween is approaching for Pie Town
Gourd to Death (A Pie Town Mystery Book 5)
By: Kirsten Weiss
Rating: 5 of 5
This is one of my favorite cozy mystery series. It has a great plot, funny characters and crazy funny and outlandish happenings.
It’s coming up on Halloween in San Nicholas and what else could make the holiday sing than a pumpkin festival?
Val Harris, the owner of Pie Town (everyone’s favorite pie shop in town – not to mention the only one), has been tasked with being one of the judges of the pumpkin pie contest. She can’t compete because she is a professional but it seems like all sorts of other people are jumping in.
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Lots of Halloween donuts and murder
Boston Scream Murder (A Deputy Donut Mystery Book 4)
By: Ginger Bolton
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a great series about an owner of a donut shop, widow Emily Westhill. She is having great fun, along with her business partner and her employees coming up with Halloween themed donuts.
One of her regulars is starting to date and brings one to her shop. He is loud and obnoxious but he doesn’t deserve to be murdered for it.
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Great start to a new mystery series
Dead-End Detective: A Piper and Porter Mystery
By: Amanda Flower
Rating: 5 of 5
I’ve read many of Amanda Flower’s books and enjoy her style of writing. This is a new book, in what I hope, is a possible new series.
Darby Piper is a partner in the Two Girls Detective Agency. When her partner is found dead, she suspects murder. So does her ex-boyfriend who is a police officer.
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A funny cozy mystery with murder and donuts
Goodbye Cruller World (A Deputy Donut Mystery Book 2)
By: Ginger Bolton
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a cute cozy mystery with donuts and murder. The donuts sound delicious and the murder sounds sinister.
I recently read the first book in this series and I recommend you read it before you read this one. It gives context to the relationships and the characters. This could be read stand-alone but for maximum enjoyment, I would read from the beginning.
Emily Westhill owns Deputy Donut, a donut shop along with her father-in-law. She is a widow of four years at this point. She misses her husband and is not looking to date or get involved at this point or, looking forward, anytime in the future. That doesn’t stop her from trying to fix up her good friends together.
Deputy Donut is catering the donut wall at an the wedding of a friend. Not a close friend but more than an acquaintance. Emily meets the groom, who is a more than slightly unlikeable fellow.
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Fiddling and Magical Gardens can be deadly
Mums and Mayhem: A Magic Garden Mystery
By: Amanda Flower
Rating: 4 of 5
This is a story by one of my favorite mystery writers. I always know to expect a good time reading one of her books and I wasn’t disappointed in this one.
It is the first book I have read in this series and, I believe, it would be better to read the first two books before reading this one. There was a lot of history that took some time to get up to speed on.
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Another funny and interesting whodunnit
The Black Cat Murders: A Cotswolds Country House Murder (Heathcliff Lennox Book 2)
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
Rating: 5 of 5
This is the second book in the Heathcliff Lennox series. It can be read stand-alone, but I highly suggest reading the first book before reading this. The characters are funny and knowing what went before makes it even better.
Major Lennox (never Heathcliff!) is summoned to the home of his childhood friend when an opera singer dies and the doctor involved believes there has been foul play.
It just so happens that said friend has become engaged to a very rich oil man from Texas and wants Lennox to meet him.
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