Daily Archives: August 25, 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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