(Be sure to check out the discussion of the Hot Fun in the Summertime romance selections: Georgie, All Along; Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute; and Never Been Kissed.) Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries, Book 1: Arsenic and Adobo Whether you’re a returning CannonBookClub participant or a newbie, welcome! This is the place to discuss Mia P. Manansala’s Arsenic and Adobo. You don’t have to be registered for CBR15 to comment below, but there are a few ground rules: The topics are numbered, so please refer to […]
Just Regular Height Spirits
High Spirits by Carol J Perry
I recently read and reviewed Be My Ghost and thought it to be a cute little palate cleanser, not a perfect book but cute enough. It was a cozy murder mystery in the vein of the Aurora Teagarden books except with a little bit of a supernatural element. In the first one, our main character Maureen inherits an inn in Haven, Florida from a complete stranger; a stranger who had a picture of her catching a fish when she was a child visiting Haven years […]
There Are Some Weird Deeds Here
Dangerous Deeds;The Westport Mysteries. Lizzie Book 1 by Beth Prentice
I am an avid fan of Book Bub because it allows me to try and read some things that I probably wouldn’t spend full price on. Sometimes that’s a great thing, others not so much. At present, I’m still trying to process how the book cover (which I’m guessing first enticed me) goes with the actual book. It doesn’t, so I should stop trying to figure it out. This book series will probably be chosen by Hallmark Movies and Mysteries to replace all the […]
Death (and other Nonsense) on the Nile
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
My mom and I shared a love of Ancient Egypt, mythology and archaeology. She was a big fan of Elizabeth Peters mysteries, and I have had a few of the paperbacks from her mystery novel collection buried in my to-read piles for years. I finally decided to dig them out and give Peters a try. The first novel in the series, Crocodile on the Sandbank, introduces readers to her Victorian-era heroine, Amelia Peabody. Amelia is a no-nonsense, feisty woman who has also inherited an interest […]
Cozy Botswanan Mystery
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
This is the first novel in the eponymous long-running series (22 books over 20+ years) by Alexander McCall Smith. It introduces us to Mma Precious Ramotswe, a canny and capable Botswanan woman who takes her inheritance from her father to start a detective agency in Botswana’s capital city of Gaborone. Rather than a single mystery, the novel is structured more like short stories with overlapping characters, albeit progressing in time- each chapter is a new small mystery for Mma Ramotswe to solve. This first installment […]
A Cozy (Almost) Christie
A Village Murder by Frances Evesham
Author Frances Evesham is an unabashed fan of Agatha Christie, Murder She Wrote and the like. A Village Murder is the start of a new series featuring retired copper (and new pub owner) Adam Hennesey, a stray dog named Harley and possible multiple murders in a quiet Somerset country village. Landscape gardener Imogen Bishop has inherited her father’s hotel after his death. As she is debating whether or not she wants to take on the challenge of running the hotel her husband turns up dead […]