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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Crime Fiction,  Mystery

    Mystery Review: The Last Word | Elly Griffiths

    / April 23, 2024

    If you haven’t read any of the novels in Elly Griffiths’ Harbinder Kaur collection, you’ve been missing out. These standalone mysteries have two things in common: detective Harbinder Kaur and a mystery that…

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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,  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

    Mystery Review: Off the Air | Christina Estes

    / March 26, 2024

    I was intrigued by Christina Estes’ debut novel Off the Air because it promises to be a mystery featuring a local news reporter as the lead character. I come from a family with…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery,  Romance

    Cozy Mystery Review: Dial A for Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Aunties #1

    / March 23, 2024

    Jesse Q. Sutano kicks off a new cozy mystery series with a group of chaotic aunties and a murder in Dial A for Aunties. What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: A Midnight Puzzle | Gigi Pandian | Secret Staircase Mystery #3

    / March 19, 2024

    Gigi Pandian’s A Midnight Puzzle is a fun, relatively light mystery centering around a family of magicians. This premise feels fresh—as a frequent mystery reader I don’t think I’ve come across something like…

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  • The Cold Way Home is a book about a private investigator who works a case in west virginia about a psychiatric institute, a dead body, and a missing teenager
    Book Review,  Mystery

    Mystery Book Review: The Cold Way Home | Julia Keller | Bell Elkins #8

    / March 9, 2024

    In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, former West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins investigates the murder of a teenager while continuing to rebuild her life. Bell Elkins and Jake Oakes make…

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  • The Expectant Detectives is a humorous mystery book written by Kat Ailes that is one of the best mysteries of 2024
    Book Recommendations,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Mystery Book Recommendation: The Expectant Detectives | Kat Ailes | The Expectant Detectives #1

    / January 26, 2024

    This week I really needed a pick me up and The Expectant Detectives delivered the mood lift I needed and more! Fresh, funny, heart-warming, and intriguing—this is the perfect mystery. I can’t imagine…

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  • Book Review,  Legal Thriller,  Mystery

    Legal Mystery Review: Betrayal | Phillip Margolin | Robin Lockwood #7

    / December 12, 2023

    After reading Murder at Black Oaks, I was excited and surprised by the next book in the Robin Lockwood series, Betrayal. While Murder at Black Oaks followed a legal spin on a locked…

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  • Book Review,  Gothic,  Mystery

    Book Review: Murder at Black Oaks | Phillip Margolin | Robin Lockwood #6

    / December 5, 2023

    I’ve had the Robin Lockwood series by Phillip Margolin on my radar for a few years now and have been wanting to try out the series. I was particularly interested in Murder at…

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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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