Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ghost Hunt Turns Into Murder Investigation

Death At the Manor by Katherine Schellman

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After seeing Captain Hartley off to his ship, Lily heads off to the country to stay with her aunt, traveling with Ofelia and her husband.  They quickly get pulled into the mystery of a local haunting with Ofelia wanting to see if they can prove if a ghost actually exists.  However, they’ve barely arrived at the manor experiencing the haunting when the matriarch of the family is found dead in her room, seemingly scared to death.  The family is convinced it’s the ghost while Lily […]

A Great Second Outing to the Series

Silence In the Library by Katherine Schellman

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Lily returns home from an outing to find her father has arrived to stay with her while he visits a London doctor.  She’s not best please by this as the man has always found fault with her.  However, his presence does cause her to visit old family friends only for her to be drawn into another murder when the patriarch of the family is found dead.  While most of the family want to sweep things under a rug, Lily knows that an innocent young man […]

I really liked a cozy mystery!

The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency (The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency, #1) by Lydia Travers

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Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. This was fun! I will read the next one! I have a really hard time with most cozy mysteries. I really don’t want to come across as a genre snob here, because I love genre. LOVE IT. But in my experience, most cozy mysteries are just not that well-written. And by that I don’t just mean I don’t like them, which is what most people say when they […]

Regency Widow and Merry Band of Misfits Solve Crime

The Body in the Garden by Katherine Schellman

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Lily Adler has returned to London for the first time since her husband’s death.  While not completely out of mourning, she has at last rejoined Society.  She knows what most people expect of her, to find a new husband and remarry, but she’s not ready to do that yet.  At her first event out, a ball thrown by a close friend, Lily overhears an attempt at blackmail.  Moments later a you man is murdered.  Not an auspicious start.  This is followed by Lily’s friend’s husband […]

Cozy mystery set in the 1920s with an agoraphobic heroine and a tiny dog named Presley.

The Socialite's Guide to Murder (Pinnacle Hotel Mysteries, #1) by S.K. Golden

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I liked this, but not enough to buy the second book. I will be librarying it, thank you, mostly because there are a couple of elements I’m curious to see how they play out. It’s really a classic case of had a good time while reading it, but wouldn’t be upset if I couldn’t ever read another in the series. This takes place in 1958 in NYC at the fictional Pinnacle Hotel, where our main character Evelyn has lived since the age of six, when […]

“You are telling me that before you can be sure of your affections, you must be sure of yourself.”

The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock, #4) by Sherry Thomas

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This isn’t my favorite series of all time or anything, but it is so consistent, and I really think that’s a trait we don’t talk about enough in books and authors. There is nothing worse than loving a book to pieces, and then it becomes a series and each book goes down the hill of quality and fun a little further until you just wish it would just die, and your love maybe curdles into hate. That has not happened here! Sherry Thomas knows what […]



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