This week we have reviews and giveaways of another fun trio of food mysteries, together with a magical mystery, for your holiday reading feast-Murder by the Millions by Daryl Wood Gerber, At Death’s Dough: A Deep Dish Mystery by Mindy Quigley, Death and Dinuguan: A Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery by Mia P. Manansala, and Witch and Tell: A Witch Way Librarian Mystery by Angela M. Sanders.
The Black Wolf is book 20 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series by Louise Penny and is a continuation from book 19, The Grey Wolf. To best follow a plot full of twists and turns, this reader recommends picking up The Grey Wolf first.
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A new year always arrives with quiet possibilities. It invites reflection, intention, and the hope of becoming just a little more knowledgeable than the year before. For readers, that possibility lives on our bookshelves. This year, choosing to buy and read queer novels can be both an act of support and an invitation to rediscover the joy of reading itself, especially when we dare to step beyond what feels familiar.
The wind wasted itself in the night, whistling and whipping round the grim black hulk of Brandt’s house and down the silent, empty, sodden-cindered streets to rattle windows and shake the dark houses of the sleeping village.
The Slobaviakinsky Golf Course and Convention Center was located in a small, undeveloped country called Slobaviakinsky, somewhere north of the 23rd Parallel. The golf course was funded by a United States grant as an entrepreneurial endeavor to improve the lives of the 1,673,489 citizens of Slobaviakinsky. The convention center employed 312 individuals, ranging from groundskeepers to bartenders, chefs, and maids.
This week we have another fun group of Christmas mysteries for your holiday reading-O, Deadly Night: A Year-Round Christmas Mystery by Vicky Delany, The Snow Lies Deep by Paula Munier, and Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards.
Death Comes to Jane Austen Town by Rosemary Stevens is a cozy mystery treat for fans of Jane Austen. However, readers do not have to be familiar with Jane Austen's work to enjoy this entertaining mystery.
Acorn TV is always a great source for British Mysteries and one of their newer ones is Murder Before Evensong. It first caught my eye when I saw that the main character, Canon Daniel Clement, was played by Matthew Lewis, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies. It is adapted from the novel of the same name by Richard Coles, which is actually a book series I had wanted to try.
Road Trip With A Vampire is book 3 in Jenna Levine’s My Vampires series, which is apparently also the last book. The first two books were called My Roommate Is A Vampire, and My Vampire Plus-One. This is a delightful vampire rom-com series that I highly recommend and am sad to see be over. While each book has it’s own plot, there are crossovers from some of the characters from the other books in book 1 and 2, so I highly recommend reading these in order.
