Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Just ok, but with plenty of familiar cozy beats

Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn

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CBR Bingo: Self-care (favorite genre to read for comfort, plus I read it while on a self-care vacation) Daisy Dalrymple, like so many cozy mystery heroines before her, lives in post-WWI England, comes from a wealthy family but it somewhat impoverished due to her insistence on making her own way, and is bright, pretty, and assertive. If you’ve read cozy mysteries, you’ve read about women like Daisy, but that doesn’t make her any less likable–just not very memorable. Death at Wentwater Court is the first Daisy […]

A Cozy Mystery in a Luxury Retirement Community

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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I have been on a long streak of not very good books.  Which is why I have not posted a review in ages.  Well, the streak is broken. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is a wonderful cozy mystery set in a luxury retirement community.  If his name sounds familiar, that is because Osman is a mainstay on many of the British Comedy Game Shows like Taskmaster and Would I Lie To You.  Lucky for us, it turns out he can write along with […]

Braveheart

Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton

February's Son by Alan Parks

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By coincidence, I just finished two different mysteries set in Scotland. Both were okay, both should have been better, both merit three stars, and I have more to say about one than the other…   Death of a Gossip It’s fine for what it is: a Scottish cozy mystery Agatha Christie rip off. But it spends way too much time on the boring, awful side characters and not nearly enough time on the wonderfully cantankerous Hamish MacBeth.   February’s Son Cn. Abuse, horrible depictions of […]

Come for the murder, stay for the food.

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen, #1) by Mia P. Manansala

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I had a good time with this! For a first novel and for a cozy, it was very good. I really only have two complaints, and Manansala can definitely improve upon both in future books, and I hope she does, because I’d like to keep reading this series. It has some things I really like going for it. Like a lot of culinary cozies, this book follows a young woman (Lila Macapagal) fresh off a break-up, who has recently moved home to help in her […]

“Beware of the clever ones. The dumb ones are safer.

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun

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This book came into my life serendipitously. I took my first out-of-state vaccinated soiree back home to the sweaty state of Louisiana to see family a few weeks back (Yay!). I’m a big fan of an outdoor walk so I took my mom along for a jaunt and we walked around the neighborhood outside of my aunt’s house and happened upon a little free library. I’m more of the reader and she is more of the shopper, but together that means that neither of us […]

And As We Age

Killer Content by Olivia Blacke

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I recently discovered the term “geriatric millennial.” That’s apparently a catch all for millennials who were born between the years 1980-1985. Damn whoever invented in. I know I’m far out of the target audience for BRANDZ these days but I’m far from geriatric. Yeah I got a bad back and student loans and can’t afford a house and don’t have the energy to stuff… BUT! Anyway, I was thinking about that term recently because this is one of the first cozy mysteries I’ve read. I […]



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