August Online Book Club: Poodle Versus the Assassin by Anne Shillolo
Poodle Versus the Assassin opens in a men’s bathroom, of all places.
cozy mystery
July Online Book Club: Welcome to Spicetown by Sheri Richey
Not every mystery needs a body count. Cora Mae Bingham is the super-organized senior citizen mayor of Spicetown, Ohio. (One of those Women Who Gets Stuff Done!)
May Online Book Club: Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries by Tonya Kappes
Beaches, Bungalows, and Burglaries pushes the traditional cozy mystery way over to the comedy side of the meter.
February Online Book Club: Murder at the Village Fete by Catherine Coles
This series has the grandeur and inner workings of a large hall like Downton Abbey mixed with the small town country life of Murder, She Wrote or Father Brown.
January Online Book Club: Downward Death by Stella Bixby
This book has unique ingredients for a mystery setup: a pet pig, yoga, and magic.
December Online Book Club: The Hotel by Pamela Kelley
I’d heard of Pamela Kelley’s several mystery series set on Nantucket and have always wanted to try one of her books. The Hotel did not disappoint!
October Online Book Club: Maids of Misfortune by M. Louisa Locke
Imagine an Agatha Christie-Sherlock Holmes style mystery set in 1880’s San Francisco instead of England. Throw in daring undercover sleuthing and a dash of romance. What you’d get is Maids of Misfortune.
June Online Book Club: The Tulip Shirt Murders by Heather Weidner
If you mixed Kinsey Millhone and Stephanie Plum with the latest in stakeout technology you’d end up with Delanie Fitzgerald.
March Online Book Club: A Damsel for Santa by Terry Ambrose
I’m new to this author and series, but love anything set in Hawai’i. A Damsel for Santa did not disappoint.