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Cruisin' Through the Cozies 2018 Challenge

Cruisin' Through the Cozies 2018 Challenge #WrapUp #Complete @I_am_Indeed #Mysteries

Sponsored by Socrates’ Book Reviews – this is my first venture into cozy mystery challenges.

This year’s cozy mystery reading challenge has two ways to participate and you can choose whichever suits you the best:

A) Read only cozy mysteries of your choice.

Or

B) Read one book from these sub-genres:

– One from culinary (anything dealing with food: restaurants, baked goods, etc.) – One from animal…

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Then There Were Nun: Nun of Your Business Mysteries #1 by Dakota Cassidy

Then There Were Nun: Nun of Your Business Mysteries #1 by Dakota Cassidy #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio @DakotaCassidy

Dakota Cassidy comes to the blog today with the first in her Nun of Your Business Mysteries, a spin-off from the Witchless in Seattle series and narrated by Hollie Jackson.

Then There Were Nun

You can’t beat a series from Dakota Cassidy for the twists, turns, outrageous fun all with her imaginative world-building and clever dialogue. So, it was no hardship at all to start with this spin-off…

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Lord of the Pies: Kensington Palace Chef Mystery #2 by Nell Hampton

Lord of the Pies: A Kensington Palace Chef Mystery #2 by Nell Hampton @TantorAudio @CrookedLaneBks @nancyjparra

Nell Hampton comes to the blog today with the second in her Kensington Palace Chef Mysteries, this one narrated by Romy Nordinger.

Lord of the Pies

My first introduction to this author and series, and I’ll be honest and say I grabbed it because of the title and setting – I can’t resist a clever title. Ex-pat Carrie is a private chef for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, fictionalized, but clever…

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Thread Herrings: Mainely Needlepoint #7 by Lea Wait

Thread Herrings: Mainely Needlepoint #7 by Lea Wait @KensingtonBooks #KLover #Cozy #Maine

Lea Wait comes to the blog today with the seventh book in her Mainely Needlepoint series, and this time all of the action centers on an unusual piece of needlework in

Thread Herrings

It’s February and everyone is quietly performing their winter tasks, which means Sarah is visiting several auctions and restocking her shop. Never having been to an auction, Angie goes along – and here we are treated…

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Good Witch Hunting: Witchless In Seattle #7 by Dakota Cassidy

Good Witch Hunting: Witchless In Seattle #7 by Dakota Cassidy #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio #Fave @DakotaCassidy

Dakota Cassidy returns to the blog today with the seventh installment in the Witchless in Seattle series, this one again narrated by Hollie Jackson and bringing us yet another encounter with the otherworldly in

Witchless in Seattle

Probably my favorite so far in this ‘must read in order as to not be hopelessly lost’ series, Stevie’s been rather bored and at loose ends since the last case. But,…

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Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection Box Set: Books 1 – 3 by Barbara Venkataraman

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection Box Set: Books 1 – 3 by Barbara Venkataraman #Anthology #Cozy

Barbara Venkataraman comes to the blog today with the first three titles in her Jamie Quinn Mystery series, a box-set anthology. Please read on for my review of

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection

Comprised of three titles, Death by Didgeridoo, The Case of the Killer Divorce and Peril in the Park, these three stories follow lawyer turned investigator Jamie Quinn in these character-driven stories that…

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Plaster Sinners: Flaxborough Chronicles #11 by Colin Watson

Plaster Sinners: Flaxborough Chronicles #11 by Colin Watson #ClassicReRelease @FarragoBooks #Flaxborough

Another re-release in the Flaxborough Chronicles series from Colin Watson, this one first published in 1981. Please read on for my review of

Plaster Sinners

Forty years have passed from the first release of this story, yet it holds a timeless quality that harkens back to simpler days and times, fitting quite nicely into the mysteries favored by fans of classic British authors. Colin Watson’s…

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Blue Murder: Flaxborough Chronicles #10 by Colin Watson

Blue Murder: Flaxborough Chronicles #10 by Colin Watson #ClassicReRelease @FarragoBooks #Flaxborough

Another in the re-release of Colin Watson’s Flaxborough Chronicles cozy mystery series, featuring the ever-present Inspector Purbright as yet another mystery comes to the forefront. Please read on for my review of

Blue Murder

Originally written in 1979, this installment in the Flaxborough Chronicles takes a more salacious turn as London journalist Clive Grail is determined to ferret out and…

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Secrets, Lies, & Crawfish Pies: A Romaine Wilder Mystery #1 by Abby L. Vandiver

Secrets, Lies, & Crawfish Pies: A Romaine Wilder Mystery #1 by Abby L. Vandiver #Cozy @AbbyVandiver @HeneryPress

Abby L. Vandiver comes to the blog today with the first in her “east Texas Cajun-flavored series, Romaine Wilder Mysteries. A delightful story set in a small town with a ‘dead squatter’ in the funeral parlor / family home. Please read on for my review of

Secrets, Lies & Crawfish Pies

Almost the moment Romaine Wilder arrived in Roble, she wanted O U T. A few years, plenty of education and a good…

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Witch Spells Trouble: Nightshade Paranormal Cozy #2 by Lori Woods

Witch Spells Trouble: Nightshade Paranormal Cozy #2 by Lori Woods #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio

Lori Woods comes to the blog today with the second in the Nightshade Paranormal Cozy mystery series, this one narrated by Rebecca Mitchell. Please read on for my review of

Witch Spells Trouble

I found the premise cute as Suzy seems to be a witch seriously in need of schooling in all things witchy, yet when she arrives, things are all confused. And yes – that is the best part of this story, one…

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A Murder for the Books: Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #1 by Victoria Gilbert

A Murder for the Books by @VGilbertauthor #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio @crookedlanebks #Debut

Debut author Victoria Gilbert comes to the blog today with the first in her Blue Ridge Library Mystery series, narrated by Amy Melissa Bentley. Please read on for my review of

A Murder for the Books

Amy is back in the small town where she grew up after a disloyal boyfriend and a major scene in the University library where she worked forced her to make some changes. Now back in Taylorsford…

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Witch Slapped: Witchless In Seattle #1 by Dakota Cassidy

Witch Slapped: Witchless In Seattle #1 by Dakota Cassidy #LoveAudioBooks @TantorAudio @AudioBook_Comm #Fave @DakotaCassidy

Dakota Cassidy comes back to the blog today with the first in her Witchless in Seattle series- this one narrated by Holly Jackson. Please read on for my review of

Witch Slapped

Quirky, funny and utterly madcap as the rush to solve the mystery of who murdered the fake psychic Madam Zoltar, and just how Stevie managed to arrive home minus her powers, fall under her familiar, Belfry’s influence, and…

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Murder's a Witch: Beechwood Harbor Magic Mystery #1 by Danielle Garrett

Murder's a Witch: Beechwood Harbor Magic Mystery #1 by Danielle Garrett #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio @authordgarrett

Danielle Garrett comes to the blog today with the first in her cozy, witchy-centric Beechwood Harbor Magic Mystery series, narrated by Amanda Ronconi. Please read on for my review of

Murder’s a Witch

Holly Bolt is a witch, a potions witch with a ton of secrets, and a huge scandal that’s resulted in her being placed in the halfway house for paranormals. The small town of Beechwood Harbor is rife…

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Lending a Paw: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery #1 by Laurie Cass

Lending a Paw: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery #1 by Laurie Cass #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio @BerkleyPub

Laurie Cass comes to the blog today with the first in the Bookmobile Cat Mystery series, this one narrated by Erin Bennett. What reader can resist a story about a bookmobile and the clever rescue kitty that leads them into adventures? Please read on for my review of

Lending a Paw

New to me author and series that starts a bit slowly, as we have to establish place, people and the initial obstacles…

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Murder in the Locked Library: Book Retreat Mysteries #4 by Ellery Adams

Murder in the Locked Library by Ellery Adams #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio @KensingtonBooks #KLover @ElleryAdams

Ellery Adams appears on the blog today with the fourth installment of the Book Retreat Mysteries, this one narrated by Johanna Parker, both series and narrators are firsts for me in this review of

Murder in a Locked Library

Storyton Hall is a retreat space / great house in Virginia for those who love books, and Jane Steward is both the owner and guardian of the space and its secrets. Her twin…

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The Skeletons of Scarborough House: The Chapelwick Mysteries #1 by Kitty French

The Skeletons of Scarborough House by Kitty French #LoveAudioBooks @AudioBook_Comm @TantorAudio @Bookouture @kfrenchbooks

Kitty French comes to the blog today with the first in The Chapelwick Mysteries series, a lovely romp through a ghostbusting mystery in a small English village, narrated by Cat Gould. Please read on for my review of

The Skeletons of Scarborough House

First introduction to this author and I adore her voice and quirky sense of humor. Melody Bittersweet, like her mother and grandmother before her,…