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LAURIEN BERENSON: PUMPKIN SPICE PUPPY

August 23, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Melanie Travis #30

Laurien Berenson’s thirtieth addition to the Melanie Travis Mysteries is Pumpkin
Spice Puppy. Melanie Travis is enjoying the arrival of the fall season in
Connecticut. The private school she teaches at, Howard Academy, is holding a
treasure hunt to raise donations and engage the children. Pumpkin spice muffin
tokens are hidden all over town, and there are prizes for the kids and their
grades. Everyone really seems to be having fun with it. Shop owners loving
finding different places to hide them, and kids thrilled at their found
treasures. At least that’s how it all seems until local pet store owner calls
with a complaint — an unidentified complaint, which Melanie is tasked with
following up on. Only to find that Mr. Willet has a bigger issue than her
fundraiser, namely the knife sticking out of his back, and his poor Chow Chow,
Cider, locked in a storage room, trying to battering ram his way to his owner.
Luckily the poor doggy is prevented from further trauma because Melanie knows to
warn people to not release or agitate the dog. read more

Categories Reviews Tags Carla Schantz, Chow Chow, Cozy, Dogs, Kensington Cozies,
Laurien Berenson, Melanie Travis, Pumpkin Spice Puppy, School fundraiser


DARCI HANNAH: A FATAL FEAST AT BRAMSFORD MANOR

August 22, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Food & Spirits #1

Paranormal cozies are tricky things because the author has to balance a mystery
that is solvable by the very corporeal detectives, while working in elements of
myth and legend that often provide incorporeal clues. Darci Hannah starts off a
new series with A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor. At first, I wasn’t sure when
the paranormal was going to play in, as the main character Bridget “Bunny”
MacBride is a chef on a cooking show under the main host. She is then offered a
new contract where she will be the primary chef on a series that will be called
Food & Spirits. Now, Bunny made one rather large mistake when accepting this
particular job – she didn’t explore the contract thoroughly before signing. If
she had, she might have seen that the ‘Spirit’ part of the show was not
referring to beverages but to the dearly departed. Her main role is to be
preparing meals to attract sprits to the table. Needless to say, she was far
from pleased with that turn of events, but decides to stick with her contract
and make the best of it. She keeps her fingers crossed that nothing spooky
happens to her. read more

Categories First in Series, Reviews Tags A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor, Carla
Schantz, Cooking, Darci Hannah, First in a series, Ghosts, Kensington Cozies


CATE CONTE: SHOCK AND PAW

August 21, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Cat Cafe #8

In Shock and Paw, Cate Conte’s Cat Café books, Maddie James lives on the New
England coast’s Daybreak Island. She runs a cat café with her cat JJ, Junkyard
Johnny, and has developed quite a reputation as an amateur sleuth. Given that
she lives with her grandfather, who is retired from law enforcement and is now a
PI, it isn’t too shocking that she knows how to investigate properly. But
Maddie’s true passion is pets, especially the cats at her café looking for a
forever home, which can be difficult when designer pets are being advertised all
over the island on fliers. Her friend Katrina isn’t exactly thrilled about them
either, and is ready to sprint into battle against breeders, dragging Maddie
along with her. Luckily Maddie’s own level headedness wins out and she manages
to talk Katrina down from rushing off to do anything too rash – at least for the
moment. read more

Categories Reviews Tags Carla Schantz, Cat Cafe, Cate Conte, Cats, Cozy, Shock
and Paw, St. Martin's


ELLIE ALEXANDER: STICKS AND SCONES

August 20, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Bakeshop #19

Ellie Alexander’s nineteenth Bakeshop Mystery, Sticks and Scones, focuses on the
theater. It’s time once more for Shakespeare in the park and other theatrical
exploits in Ashland, Oregon. Lance, her friend and the artistic director of the
Shakespeare festival, has even started a brand new pet project known as The Fair
Verona Players. Always one for the dramatic, Lance is going all out for opening
night. Their first play will debut on the new vineyard he partners on with
Carlos, Juliet’s husband. There will also be lots of tasty treats provided by
Juliet’s bakery, Torte. With so many projects going on, it’s no wonder that
Juliet is starting to feel a little overwhelmed, so much so that her physical
health is being affected, and strange bouts of dizziness keep throwing her off
balance. Determined to delegate some responsibilities and give herself some more
down time, Juliet isn’t overly concerned about it just yet. read more

Categories Reviews Tags amateur theater, Bakeshop mysteries, Carla Schantz,
Ellie Alexander, Minotaur, Shakespeare, Sticks and Scones


DONNA ANDREWS: BETWEEN A FLOCK AND A HARD PLACE

August 19, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Meg Lanslow#35

Donna Andrews’ 35th book in her Meg Lanslow mystery series, Between a Flock and
a Hard Place, focuses on a local home that is getting renovated by a brand new
home renovation show, as well as a large group of wild feral turkeys. Someone
took a whole flock of the large birds and released them into a neighborhood. For
those that don’t know a lot about turkeys beyond their making a wonderful meal,
turkeys are also territorial, aggressive, and huge in size. They also can, and
will, chase you for as long as they want before they are satisfied that you have
learned your lesson. Meg’s father is more than ready to lend a hand, and is
excited at the prospect of getting his hands on so many turkeys to work with at
the zoo, although he seems to be the only one enthusiastic about them. No one
wants to prepare for combat just to check the mail, and they certainly aren’t
thrilled with what the turkeys are doing to their yards – or anything they find
irritating, such as stealing a windshield wiper blade from a car. read more

Categories Reviews Tags Carla Schantz, Cozy, Donna Andrews, house reno, Humor,
Meg Lanslow, Minotaur Books, turkeys


AUTHOR INTERVIEW: LESLIE BUDEWITZ

August 18, 2024August 18, 2024 by aunt_agatha
Leslie Budewitz

Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Food Lovers’ Village series, set in
Montana, and the Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.  Both
are “foodie” cozies. As Alicia Beckman, she has written two suspense novels, and
she has an historical short story collection coming out later this year.  Her
most recent book, To Err is Cumin, the eighth book in her Spice Shop series, was
published in July.  She is a triple Agatha Award winner and a Macavity nominee. 
Welcome, Leslie! read more

Categories Interviews Tags Crooked Lane Books, foodie cozies, Leslie Budewitz,
Montana, Seattle, Seventh Street Books, Spice Shop, To Err is Cumin


LESLIE BUDEWITZ: TO ERR IS CUMIN

August 17, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Spice Shop #8

I’m a real fan of this series, two of the biggest reasons being the setting and
the complexity of the characters.  Set in Seattle’s vivid Pike Place Market
area, heroine Pepper Reece owns a spice shop.  Pepper is in her 40’s, divorced,
and dating a fisherman who is away much of the time (fishing).  At the moment
she’s helping to redecorate the house her parents have bought in the area and
she spies the perfect wingback chair on the curb.  Being a big city dweller she
claims this piece of street treasure and gets an SUV owning buddy to come pick
her, and the chair, up.  When she takes a closer look at the lumpy seat she
finds it’s stuffed with cash. read more

Categories Reviews Tags antique chair, Leslie Budewitz, Pepper Reece, Pike Place
Market, Robin Agnew, Seattle, Seventh Street Books, Spice Shop, To Err is Cumin


WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER: SPIRIT CROSSING

August 16, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Cork O’Connor #20

I have read every Cork O’Connor book to date, and it’s a series that’s managed
to stay fresh and entertaining through it’s now long (and classic) run.  The
books follow Cork as sheriff in Aurora, Minnesota, as he raises his family,
loses his wife, remarries, and leaves law enforcement and becomes a private
investigator. However, I don’t think of these books as P.I. novels.  I think of
them primarily as family novels.  I think the combination of Cork’s family story
and the action and mystery Krueger brings to the table make these appealing to
both male and female readers, something not always true in mystery novels, which
tend to skew toward one gender or another in terms of readership. read more

Categories Reviews Tags Atria Books, Cork O'Connor, family, Minnesota, missing
indigenous women, Private eye, Spirit Crossing, spiritual gift, William Kent
Krueger


FRANK ANTHONY POLITO: HAUNTED TO DEATH

August 15, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Domestic Partners in Crime #3

If you’re from southeast Michigan, these books really should be a must read. 
This zippy cozy series is set in Pleasant Ridge and features Michigan details
like Shinola watches and Sanders bumpy cake, but even if you aren’t from the
mitten, these are still fun reads.  Main characters and life partners PJ and JP
are, among other things, hosts of an “HDTV” home renovation series, where they
take old houses and restore them to their former glory.  This charming gay
couple reminds me strongly of my favorite couple on HGTV’s Detroit based Bargain
Block, and like it or not, their faces have attached themselves to my reading of
the books. read more

Categories Reviews Tags Cozy, Domestic Partners in Crime, Frank Anthony Polito,
Ghosts, Halloween, Haunted to Death, Kensington Books, old house restoration,
quozy, Robin Agnew


ALYSSA MAXWELL: MURDER AT VINLAND

August 13, 2024 by aunt_agatha

Gilded Newport #12

Murder at Vinland is the twelfth book in Alyssa Maxwell’s Gilded Newport series
set among the social elite in Newport in the late 1890s-early 1900s.  The first
book, Murder at the Breakers, was recently made into a TV movie by Hallmark.  I
enjoyed the movie, which was better than some of the reviews would indicate, but
the books are even better.  Maxwell’s heroine is Emma Cross Andrews, a
journalist and poor relation of the Vanderbilts.  Emma grew up in reduced
circumstances, which gave her a great sympathy with the poor, but, because of
her illustrious relatives, she also is familiar with the world of the Four
Hundred, the elite who lived in New York and spent their summers in Newport. 
Supposedly, they were called the Four Hundred because that was the number of
people who could fit inside Mrs. Astor’s ballroom. read more

Categories Reviews Tags Alyssa Maxwell, Edith Roosevelt, Emma Cross Andrews,
Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, Gilded Newport, Murder at Vinland, Newport 1901,
poisoned petit fours, Vicki Kondelik
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