This week we have reviews and giveaways of 4 food mysteries for your Valentine's Day feast-A Good Day to Pie: A Pies Before Guys Mystery by Misha Popp, A Half-Baked Murder: A Cannabis Café Mystery by Emily George, Cheddar Late than Dead: A Grilled Cheese Mystery by Linda Reilly, & The Girl With the Dragonfruit Tattoo: Trouble in Paradise! by Carrie Doyle.
It's that time of year again, a time to look back at the books we reviewed here at KRL over the past year and share with you some of our favorites! We reviewed a LOT of books here on KRL and KRL News and Reviews. All but one of our main reviewers shares in this post their top 5-10ish favorite books they reviewed in 2022. Katherine Costa wanted to include favorite authors and TV shows that she has reviewed, so hers went up in a separate post over on KRL News and Reviews this week-you can find it here!
They call it Tumbleweed Tuesday in the Hamptons. The day after Labor Day, when all of the summer people finally leave town and the locals can have the place to themselves. Streets stretching from Montauk to Southampton empty out and traffic thins. The only activity on the sandy beaches is the buzzing of the bees that usher in September and escort the vacationers back to their cities. Dogs are finally allowed back on the beach during the day.
Once a high-powered travel magazine editor, Plum Lockhart has re-emerged as a villa broker on the Caribbean paradise aptly called Paraiso. In Carrie Doyle’s second Trouble in Paradise mystery, Something’s Guava Give, she is talked into trying to get Arielle, a publishing heiress, out of trouble with resort security; the girl has a habit of picking up things that don’t belong to her. The next morning, Arielle is dead, and Gerald, one of Plum’s former magazine employees, wants her to investigate, which puts the broker in close proximity with the security chief, the yummy Juan Kevin Munoz.
Another year has ended and once again we take a look back at just a few of the many books that were reviewed in KRL and KRL News and Reviews in 2021. While 2021 was another difficult year, a lot of wonderful books came out! All but one of our main reviewers share in this post their top 5-10ish favorite books they reviewed in 2021. Katherine Costa wanted to include favorite authors and TV shows that she has reviewed, so hers is going up in a separate post next week!
While the Labor Day tourist season is slowing down in East Hampton, New York, Windmill Inn owner Antonia Bingham still has a lot on her plate. After fleeing an abusive marriage in California, she is starting over as an innkeeper pursuing her love of cooking and catering to her wealthy guests. That’s what makes the discovery of two Wall Street bad boys murdered so troubling, as Shane Boskin and Gary DiAngelo had recently been drinking at her bar the night before.
This week we have another great group of mysteries for your August reading-Death on Windmill Way: A Hamptons Murder Mystery by Carrie Doyle, Knot of This World: A Quilting Mystery by Mary Marks, Mums and Mayhem: A Magic Garden Mystery by Amanda Flower, Murder in a Scottish Shire: A Scottish Shire Mystery by Traci Hall, and The Fate of a Flapper: The Speakeasy Murders by Susanna Calkins.
