Cynthia Chow

Nov 2025 8

All’s Faire in Love and Murder By Cindy Sample: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2025 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow,
& Cindy Sample


Professional actress and former cruise director Sierra Sullivan was most recently seen in Port Townsend Theater’s production of Chicago, but as she approaches 50, roles are hard to come by. That is why she has been booked by her agent as a lady-in-waiting for Spindrift Cove’s Renaissance Faire, which honestly is preferable to a former gig as a knock-off Elsa at a children’s birthday party.

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Nov 2025 1

Halloween & Spooky Cozies

2025 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Cynthia Chow
& Sandra Murphy


This week we have reviews of more wonderful cozies, some with a Halloween or supernatural touch since many are still celebrating Halloween, and a touch of Christmas-The Tattered Cover: A Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams, Death at the Door: A Ruby and Cordelia Mystery by Olivia Blacke, Sugar and Spite: A Witch City Mystery by Carol J. Perry, and Death on Dickens Island by Allison Brook.

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Oct 2025 18

Flamed Out By Valona Bones: Review/Giveaway/Paranormal Guest Post

2025 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow,
& Valona Jones


It’s been less than a year since Tabby Quigsly and her twin sister Sage Winslow began exploring their psychic abilities as energetics, as their mother had protected her daughters from Savannah, Georgia’s Paranormal Council and its oppressive rules. One of its most prominent members has just taken a fatal fall down the appropriately named Stone Stairs of Death though, and while the police initially label it an accident, Dr. Willim Rosemont’s niece believes it to have been murder.

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Sep 2025 27

Two Halloween Cozy Mysteries To Start Off the Spooky Season

2025 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Cynthia Chow,
& Sandra Murphy


Halloween should be a night of kids, candy, and fun but it doesn’t always turn out that way. Lucy Stone and friends put on a big party as a fundraiser but she misses having kids come to the door, all dressed up. This year, she has more candy than kids. To make sure there’s not tempting leftover candy she’d eat herself, she empties the bowl for the last kid. Besides, he looked like he needed it.

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Sep 2025 27

Murder at Blackwood Inn By Penny Warner: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow,
& Penny Warner


After a rough year ending her marriage to a scamming and cheating Sergio, Carissa Blackwood is moving to Pelican Point, California to help her aunts run the inn they just inherited from their father. Having expected to find the historical building in a state of disrepair, Carissa is shocked to discover that her Aunt Hazel and Aunt Runa have redecorated and renovated Blackwood Inn into a gothic, black and purple-painted Haunted House themed bed-and-breakfast.

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Sep 2025 13

The Mango Murders By Lucy Burdette: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2025 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow
& Lucy Burdette


It is the middle of Key West, Florida’s summer mango season, which is why food columnist Hayley Snow Bransford is helping to host her magazine’s cocktail party on a Hemmingway-inspired yacht. The Pilar Too being wooden and not constructed out of the more modern fiberglass material means that it’s also highly flammable, something that comes into play when an explosion has Hayley and the rest of the guests diving into the ocean to escape death.

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