If I can’t go in person and visit the town of Fern Valley from Heather Weidner’s Jules Keene Glamping Mystery Series, reading another entry into this charming cozy mystery series is the next best thing. Deadlines and Valentines is book four in the series and could easily be read as a standalone.
It’s late in the evening and an eerie quiet has descended upon my home. Yet, I am full of nervous excitement as I sit in my wingback chair staring out at the night sky. Large downy snowflakes are fluttering to the ground in what is the first snowfall of the season, and I find myself too excited to sleep.
Readers opening Live, Local, and Long Dead by Kathleen Marple Kalb (writing as Nikki Knight) are in for a page-turning, clever cozy mystery. This is book two in the Vermont Radio Mystery series and can be read as a stand-alone by readers new to the series.
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This book grabs your attention with snark and honesty within the first few pages. Delores Diane Myer-Johansson has been sentenced to 40 hours of community service for having that second glass of wine before driving home. Better known as DeeLo, she is very recently divorced and has relocated to Pecan Pointe, where her mom is in a memory care facility.
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.
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Welcome to Vermont’s own Sappy Endings maple syrup farm, where the syrup is sweet and the pastries are perfect. Well, at least the tasty treats that Leila’s talented mom, Selma, bakes at the Sappy Hour Café are. This is the 3rd book in the Maple Syrup Mystery series, and it has been perfectly named. In the book, the well-earned reputation of the Sappy Endings farm goes from great to deadly because of a killer pie baking contest.
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.
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The biggest complaint I get when people tell me they read this article is that their TBR (to be read) piles grow or their bookstore purchases are getting too expensive. I know my book dealer loves it when I write this article because she instantly gets an email with all my newest needs. Not wants. NEEDS!!
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Welcome to the most unique cookbook that I have ever perused. It begins with a prologue of general tips noting that if butter is in a recipe, it is salted butter; eggs should always be large sized eggs; nuts are interchangeable but be careful of allergies; and not all types of flour can be substituted for another.
