Had Cece Barton known better, she would never have hired electrician Karl Meier to make repairs on her Northern California Vino y Vida wine bar. She was in dire straits though, and it was too late that she learned of Karl’s abrasive attitude and shoddy practices, not to mention his poor treatment of his nephew assistant.
Nature has always played a role in Craig Johnson’s Absaroka, Wyoming mystery series, but never more so than in this latest novel featuring his Sheriff Walt Longmire. Retelling a tale to his disbelieving and cranky former mentor, Walt shares his terrifying adventures from 1970 working security for an Alaskan oil company.
This week we are doing some more catch-up with some later part of 2024 mysteries--we have reviews and giveaways of The Little Lost Library: A Secret, Book, and Scone Society Book by Ellery Adams, A New Lease on Death: Supernatural Mysteries #1 by Olivia Blacke, Death by Caramel Macchiato by Alex Erickson, The Herringbone Harbor Mystery by Sally Goldenbaum, and Shear Terror: A Sewing Studio Mystery by Dorothy Howell.
After the closing of a struggling newspaper in San Francisco, reporter Maya Wong has to return home to Oahu despite not having been back since she left to attend graduate school in California. Now living in a “condotel” in Waikiki, Maya has taken on a well-paying ghostwriting job for the wealthy developer Parker Hamilton.
This week we have reviews and giveaways of 3 more Christmas mysteries for your holiday reading-Death of a Gingerbread Man: A Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails Mystery by Lee Hollis, Murder at a Scottish Christmas by Traci Hall, and The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict.
Despite Delilah O’Leary’s vow to never again cater an event offsite after a rather traumatizing murder, the money to provide a variety of noshes for Adrian and Daffi Hoffman’s Chrismukkah house party was just too good to resist. So that’s why Delilah & Son pizzeria is at one of the glitziest properties in Geneva Bay’s resort when one of the guests seems to go missing, only to be found later buried in the middle of the town’s snowman building contest.
The day after Thanksgiving heralds the start of the Christmas season for Lighthouse Cove, California, and the entire town kicks into high gear with an abundance of holiday festivals and business events. The historic Cliffs Hotel has built its reputation on over-the-top celebrations, and this year the Garrison family is hosting an old-fashioned carnival with its own antique carousel.
It’s Christmastime in Redwood Grove, California, and the Secret Bookcase mystery bookstore is celebrating with a gingerbread bakeoff/showcase as a friendly competition to lure in new customers. Although partially inspired by the Great British Bakeoff, it really is due to Sweet Room bakery owner Sugar Lester’s connection to influencer Lily Hawthorne.
This week we have 3 food mysteries for your Thanksgiving feast of reading-Guilt and Ginataan: A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery Book Five by Mia P. Manansala, Fondue or Die by Korina Moss, and Pumpkin Spice Puppy by Laurien Berenson.
Too young to be able to retire but forced into early retirement by her university anyway, 60-year-old librarian Jane Hunter found employment for the 30ish eccentric book collector Cameron Clewe. Together they not only continued to inventory his enormous collection of artifacts and ephemera, they also solved the murder of a man killed in Cameron’s 1920s estate home.
