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Doesn’t Seem Worth Continuing the Series

Moving Violation by Melanie Jackson

July 23, 2020 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR12 Bingo: Fresh Start Moving Violation is the first book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mysteries series. Chloe is a 20-something meter maid working for the Hope Falls Police Department. She wants to be a regular officer, preferably a detective, but at 5 feet tall and 98 lbs, she was unable to pass the physical exam. Her father, who was police chief at the time, allowed her to join the Traffic and Parking division anyway. Chloe is disrespected by some of the other officers (possibly […]

If Jessica Fletcher was British and 11 (Bingo – Red)

The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley

July 19, 2020 by cheerbrarian 1 Comment

The tenth in the series, I find Flavia de Luce just as delightful now as I did in the beginning. Still precocious, curious, and clever (the way she talks about her bicycle always makes me smile) she’s grown up a bit and experienced real loss, but she is just as vibrant to me as she ever was. Okay y’all. We are calling this red. It’s not a hard red, more of a pinky/salmon/Ross’s shirt on friends sort of shade, but the powers that be in […]

Not a bad cozy mystery

Still Life by Louise Penny

July 4, 2020 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

CBR12 BINGO: No Money! I’ve noticed two trends during the pandemic that are relevant to this category: first, people seem to be taking time to declutter their homes; second, since many Goodwill stores have been closed, free stuff is often just laying about. On one of my many socially distant walks around my neighborhood, I spotted a box of mystery novels that someone was giving away. Not wanting to be greedy, I helped myself only to the first in the series, as it looked like […]

A cute premise but ultimately a forgettable book

Trouble in Mudbug by Jana Deleon

May 31, 2020 by pixifer Leave a Comment

I love the Miss Fortune series by Jana Deleon. Seriously. Love, love, love it. I’ve recommended it to so many people. A few weeks ago, I got a notice from amazon that the latest book has come out. I quickly got tired of waiting for my library to purchase a copy, so I picked up Trouble in Mudbug, the first in the Ghost-in-Law series by Jana Deleon, in hopes that it would tide me over. Botanist Maryse Robicheaux spends her days in the bayou hunting […]

A Sweet, Cozy Mystery

Seed No Evil by Kate Collins

April 21, 2020 by Debcapsfan Leave a Comment

I’ve read a lot of these cozy flower shop mysteries from Kate Collins from my library (love you, miss you!) and it occurred to me when I was asking for books for the book exchange, I could put one of them on it. So I got this book, Seed No Evil, and read it now when it is the perfect time for a book with a small town with charming, quirky characters. The town is so white. But then, my brother lives in a mid-West […]

A middling Daisy Dalrymple story, but the characters make it worth reading

The Corpse at the Crystal Palace by Carola Dunn

April 5, 2020 by pixifer Leave a Comment

This review is specifically for The Corpse at the Crystal Palace but I’m including my thoughts on the Daisy Dalrymple series as a whole. The series takes place in England in the 1920s. The main character is Mrs. Daisy Fletcher (née the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple). Daisy is the youngest daughter of an English aristocrat and is married to Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of the New Scotland Yard. Daisy keeps accidentally finding dead bodies and feels compelled to help Alec with his investigations. She is often […]

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