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  • Book Recommendations,  Book Review,  Contemporary,  Cozy Mystery,  Literary Fiction,  Mystery

    Book Review: Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies | Catherine Mack

    / April 30, 2024

    Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. Where do I start? I loved this book! Catherine Mack’s new novel, Every Time I…

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  • Death in Nonna's Kitchen is the second book in the Old Forge Cafe mystery series by Alex Coombs
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Blog Tour Review: Death in Nonna’s Kitchen | Alex Coombs | Old Forge Cafe #2

    / April 15, 2024

    In the world of celebrity chefs, everyone is trying to put a knife in your back… About the Book | Death in Nonna’s Kitchen When famous TV chef Matteo McLeish turns up at…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: The Poison Pen | Paige Shelton | Scottish Bookshop Mystery #9

    / April 8, 2024

    I’m always happy when I pop into a cozy mystery in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series. It’s like taking a vacation through a book! The ninth installment in this mystery series by Paige…

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  • Peril in Pink is the first in a debut cozy mystery series by Sydney Leigh, featuring two friends who open a bed and breakfast that is decked out in pink
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: Peril in Pink | Sydney Leigh | Hudson Valley B&B #1

    / March 20, 2024

    Everything is coming up rosé for innkeeper Jess Byrne until a murder on opening weekend gives her B&B’s killer vibe a whole new meaning. Schitt’s Creek meets Only Murders in the Building in…

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  • Speculations in Sin is an historical mystery set in the victorian era that shows a cook and single mother Kat Holloway running up the stairs of a bank where she is investigating embezzlement.
    Book Review,  Historical Fiction,  Mystery

    Historical Mystery Review: Speculations in Sin | Jennifer Ashley

    / March 10, 2024

    To save an innocent man’s life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London in New York Times bestselling author…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller

    Psychological Thriller Review: Dark Corners | Megan Goldin

    / October 16, 2023

    Megan Goldin is an auto-buy author for me since her very first book. While Dark Corners is billed as the second book in a series, I’d say it reads more like a standalone…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: The Chocolate Shark Shenanigans | Joanna Carl

    / May 23, 2020

    Are any of us not tempted by a chocolate lover’s mystery? Joanna Carl’s Chocaholic Mystery series it a whole lot of mouth-watering fun! In Chocolate Shark Shenanigans, what starts as a house flipping…

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  • A Body to Die for is the second mystery in the Kate White Bailey Weggins mystery series about a journalist who solves murders
    Book Review,  Mystery

    Book Review: A Body to Die For | Kate White | Bailey Weggins #2

    / January 14, 2019

    Welcome to my Kate White book review series! I am a huge fan of Kate White, and because I read many of her previous books before I started my blog, I decided to…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Book Review: Manuscript for Murder | Jon Land & Jessica Fletcher | Murder, She Wrote

    / November 2, 2018

    Clever and addictive, this newest installment in the Murder She Wrote mysteries by Jon Land will have you on the edge of your seat, unable to put this book down! I am one…

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Mackenzie Harms is the owner and author of all content of the PhDiva book blog

Hi! I'm Mackenzie, the Ph.D. student behind the book reviews and blog. Reading books has always been my favorite pastime and I love sharing my thoughts about them with the world. Now I should probably get back to writing that dissertation...

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