It’s St. Patrick’s Day in Beacon Harbor, and Beacon Bakeshop owner Lindsey Bakewell is baking up a storm of green-tinted Guinness and Baileys infused treats. She’s also thrilled that her boyfriend Rory O’Connor’s uncle and cousin are arriving from Ireland to open their Blarney Stone Irish gift shop and will even be leading the town’s annual Leprechaun Parade.
Former professional chef Tiffany Austin only recently assumed full-time status as food writer for Southern Style magazine, so she didn’t expect that her proposal for a home cooked pizza contest would come to fruition. But Branson, Georgia’s first Bon-Appetempting Pizza Bake-Off is about to take off, with a $10,000 prize as an incentive for the competing home cooks.
This week we are reviewing 2 mystery novels, and a book with 3 mystery novellas that all have an Irish twist in honor of St. Patrick's Day--Murder at an Irish Chipper by Carlene O’Connor, Death by Irish Whiskey by Catie Murphy, and Irish Milkshake Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart, and Liz Ireland.
Mystery writer and host of the Agatha Christie focused podcast, All About Agatha, Kemper Donovan presents readers with a true whodunit treat in his new novel, The Busy Body.
Readers are invited to charming Sea Isle for a head-scratching whodunnit set against the backdrop of a glorious Scottish wedding at Morrigan’s Castle. Dr. Emilia McRoy, along with a group of friends we’d all be lucky to have, puts her life on the line to discover who killed an unwanted wedding crasher.
I have been an Agatha Christie fan since I was a teenager, but until recently had never read one of her most famous books, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. When I was asked to review a new release of the book I thought it would be a good push to finally read it. I must say though, it feels a bit odd to be reviewing something by the Queen of Crime, and a book that has been voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the Best Crime Novel of all Time.
Maizie Albright may no longer be the teen actress star of Julia Pinkerton Teen Detective, nor a celebrity who spiraled her way into a scandal, but her acting skills still come in handy. A private investigator working as a honey trap for Albright Security Solutions (the acronym is regrettable but often appropriate), Maizie is testing out her client’s fears that her husband is a cheater.
Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir is book two in Heather Weidner’s cozy mystery series Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe, and is equally as charming as book one, Sticks and Stones and a Bag of Bones. This reads easily as a standalone if readers are new to the series.
Dream Town is book 5 in Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin series. I am a big fan of Lee’s writing and this is definitely my favorite series of his (to be fair I haven’t tried Malibu Burning and Calico yet—they are on my tbr).
When people ask where I get the plot for a new book, I generally say, quite honestly, that I don’t know. As far as I can tell, stand-alones like Aunt Marge come out of the air. Series books are different, because as I write an entry, e.g., Raining Cats and Cats, the second of my (Maggie Pill’s) current cozy mystery series, additional stories are suggested by events or character traits.
