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  • About PhDiva
    • About My Reviews
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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery

    Book Review: Fatal Fudge Swirl | Meri Allen

    / October 3, 2024

    It’s approaching Halloween (the best season in my opinion!) and it has been unseasonably warm in the Midwest. I’m talking it is still hitting 90 degrees when it is usually in the 60s…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Book Review: Dead Tired | Kat Ailes

    / June 7, 2024

    Kat Ailes’s debut mystery, The Expectant Detectives, was one of my favorite mysteries I read in the last year. British cozy mysteries hit that sweet spot of light, fun reads that aren’t fluffy…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Historical Fiction,  Mystery

    Book Review: The Last Note of Warning | Katharine Schellman

    / June 3, 2024

    An historical mystery set around a working class Irish woman in New York City during prohibition, Katharine Schellman’s The Last Note of Warning is an engaging and well-crafted story that hooked me until…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Mystery Review: Death of a Master Chef | Jean-Luc Bannalec

    / April 28, 2024

    If you even loosely follow my reviews, you know that I will jump into a series at any point. This time it’s the Kommissar Dupin series by Jean-Luc Bannalec and I started right…

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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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  • Murder Backstage is the 58th book in the Murder, She Wrote series featuring Jessica Fletcher
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: Murder Backstage | Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran | Murder, She Wrote #58

    / April 6, 2024

    Jessica Fletcher knows a thing or two about solving mysteries, and so does her current co-writer Terrie Farley Moran! I never turn down a chance to sink back into Jessica Fletcher’s world in…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Gothic,  Mystery

    Mystery Review: How to Solve Your Own Murder | Kristen Perrin

    / March 28, 2024

    It’s one thing to try to solve someone else’s murder, but do you think you could solve your own murder before it even happens? In Kristen Perrin’s latest mystery, How to Solve Your…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: Rhythm and Clues | Olivia Blacke

    / March 27, 2024

    Grab a frosty, creamy, Bohemian Frapsody (an adorably named drink served at Sip & Spin Records) from your favorite coffee shop and settle in to enjoy Olivia Blacke’s new mystery, Rhythm and Clues.…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Aunties #3

    / March 24, 2024

    A new mystery featuring the meddlesome aunties is headed to bookstores from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos…

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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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