Spiked Punch kicks off a new cozy mystery series by Lesley A. Diehl with a wonderful bang!
A bit over seventy years young, Maddie Sparks is a retired librarian and now cozy mystery author who decides she needs to change things up in her life. She begins writing a romance, and with that feisty change, she gets a new haircut and more fashionable clothes. Things are looking up.
The Red-Hot Blues Chanteuse by Ana Brazil is the first book in the new Viola Vermillion Vaudeville Mystery series and takes readers directly into the heart of vaudeville in 1919 San Francisco.
Cozy historical mystery readers are in for a treat with Clara McKenna’s Murder on Mistletoe Lane, book five in the Stella and Lyndy Mystery series. While this title could easily be read as a standalone, readers who haven’t yet met Stella and Lyndy will enjoy going back to books one through four. I listened to books one to four and found the performances spectacular.
In Duffy Brown’s newest cozy mystery, Murder, Mayhem and 4 of a Kind (the first in a new series called High Cotton Mysteries), readers are in for a hilarious treat. Think about the antics of Janet Evanonvich’s Stephanie Plum and Grandma Mazur characters, combined with the southern charm of Miranda James’ Southern Ladies Mystery series, and you have Duffy’s latest.
In Murder in Fourth Position, Lori Robbins’ newest entry into her On Pointe mystery series, ballerina Leah Siderova has the opportunity to make her Broadway debut in the year’s hottest musical, Mad Music, while also serving as undercover protection for the show’s main star.
