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ARC Review: Murder at Blackwood Inn by Penny Warner

Murder at Blackwood Inn is the first book in the new cozy mystery series, Haunted Dead and Breakfast, by Penny Warner. Carissa Blackwood has come to Pelican Point to help her aunts start a new business, Blackwood Bed and Breakfast Inn, in the old family home. From the moment she arrives it’s apparent to theContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Murder at Blackwood Inn by Penny Warner”

ARC Review: A Very Merry Murder by Kate Wells

A Very Merry Murder by Kate Wells takes the reader back to Malvern Farm, and the chaos of a visiting television show in book 6 of the Malvern Mysteries series. Jude Gray, owner of Malvern Farm has allowed a television series to be a base for filming in the weeks leading up to Christmas whileContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: A Very Merry Murder by Kate Wells”

ARC Review: Just Like Starting Over by Deborah Cooke

In Deborah Cooke’s second entry in The Carpe Diem Café series, Just Like Starting Over brings us back to the small town of Empire where Sylvia Kincaid must deal with the lingering feelings for Mike, her 15 year old daughter’s father. Written in first person in alternating points of view between Sylvia and Mike forContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Just Like Starting Over by Deborah Cooke”

ARC Review: Mince Pies and Murder by J.R. Leigh

Mince Pies and Murder is book 3 in J. R. Leigh’s Morwenna Mutton Mysteries series set in the Cornish town of Seal Bay, and although it’s part of a series it’s easily read as a standalone. The story is written from the point of view of Morwenna Mutton, a grandmother who  balances her job atContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Mince Pies and Murder by J.R. Leigh”

ARC Review: Death and the Librarian by Victoria Gilbert

Death and the Librarian is book 9 in Victoria Gilbert’s Blue Ridge Library Mystery series. I’ve only read one previous book in the series, book 8, Murder Checks Out, and I found it to be a good mystery, so I was happy to be approved for an advanced copy of this book. I love cozyContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Death and the Librarian by Victoria Gilbert”