Chet and Bernie are up in the mountains at Christmastime. Fresh air, reindeer, and over-the-top Christmas. What more could you ask for?
Larch Haven, Vermont is made for winter. It’s like an Italian city was transplanted into frigid temperatures. There are frozen canals to skate your way around town, the restaurant is called The Gondolier, the chocolate shop features chocolate gondolas filled with truffles. When Christmas is just around the corner, trees and windows are twinkling with lights, and a baking competition is underway. It seems everything is perfect.
We have reviews of 2 food related mysteries this week, and one of them is set at Christmas time-Case of the Bleus by Korina Moss and Death by Peppermint Cappuccino by Alex Erickson. Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win a copy of both books and links to purchase them from Amazon at the end of each review--you may not see those links if you have adblocker.
We have a pair of animal related mysteries this week and one of them even involves Christmas-Paws to Remember by Sofie Kelly & Trotting Into Trouble by Amber Camp. Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win a copy of both books and links to purchase them from Amazon at the end of each review--you may not see those links if you have adblocker.
Carrie Singleton has come a long way from the Goth girl who arrived in town to live with her aunt and uncle. She’s now in charge of events held at the newly expanded public library. This has led to caretaking its popular cat, Smokey Joe, and solving crimes with the help of Evelyn, the library’s resident ghost. Oh, and she is getting married to Dylan Avery so there’s a wedding to plan too.
Mercy Carr and her new husband are house hunting. It has to be big enough for the two of them, their search and rescue dogs, a cat, and a teenage mom with a baby whose daddy stays over more often than not (it’s a long story). There was one ideal house, but infighting with the sellers caused the deal to fall through. Now Mercy’s got her eye on a place no one else would want—Grackle Tree Farm.
Chef Sally Solari inherited the French-Polynesian restaurant, Gauguin, after the death of her aunt. Her father was none too pleased that she left the family's Italian seafood restaurant located on the historic Fisherman's Wharf. He’s got another gripe now—customers don’t like stepping over homeless people who are sleeping in the doorways and hurting business.
This week we have a pair of Halloween mystery books for your enjoyment (one is actually a book with 3 novellas in it)-Halloween Cupcake Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry and Catch Me If You Candy: A Bakeshop Mystery by Ellie Alexander.
This week we have another catch-up group of fun mysteries including some with Halloween and supernatural settings-A Clue in the Crumbs: A Key West Food Critic Mystery by Lucy Burdette, A Shimmer of Red: An Odessa Jones Mystery by Valerie Wilson Wesley, Mischief Nights Are Murder by Libby Klein, and Murder at the Elms by Alyssa Maxwell.
Kate Ludlow was a part-time wedding planner in California—until she dumped her cheating husband, that is. With her teenage daughter, she moves to the East Coast and becomes a full-time wedding planner to support them. It’s not easy starting over but if she can land the bride of the year, Marcy, she’ll be set.
