Killer Knots

In Nancy Cohen's Killer Knots, the 9th installment in the Bad Hair Day Cozy mystery series, get ready to set sail for adventure on a cruise. When Marla Shore and her fiancé Dalton Vail, and her future daughter-in-law Brianna go on a family vacation on a cruise, it was nothing but a pleasurable ride for her. First someone had sent her a message and had gotten her name wrong, when she was placed at the table with a couple of people who worked in an art museum. As she had gotten to know them, she had learned that everyone had a secret to hide, and the art curator had an art auction with a well-known artist named Eldon Tusk, who mysterious had fallen to his death. And that artist had the same connection to Marla's past as a model. Besides heated tensions amounting on the ride, she had to deal with the tension between her future in-laws and some people missing the cruise or having an accident on the ship. As soon as she had gotten to know more about Tusk's accident and what happened to their shipmates, she grows closer and closer to the truth, until someone had waylaid them at one of the Caribbean ports. When the truth is known, it's a life-and-death battle on the last day of the cruise when she faces the killer spot on.

This was a compelling new installment in the Bad Hair Day Mystery series. I did care for Marla and how she decided to tie the knot with Dalton, while her future mother-in-law had put the pressure on her during the trip. I did care for Dalton and Brianna, who have tried to enjoy that pleasurable cruise.  I did like some of her cruisemates and did feel sorry they were duped into that cruise too. I did love the vast scenic locations along the Caribbean from Mexico to St. Maarten and back to Florida that had mesmerizing settings in every port city. This would take you on adventure with high-stakes drama, non-stop action, bone-chilling suspense and plenty of intrigue to lure you in.

Give Killer Knots a try and go for the ride today.

Emerald Windows

In Terri  Blackstock's Emerald Windows, this inspirational thriller will make you believe in God and to make you believe in yourself. Brooke Martin was a high school student and talented artist. At the night of the graduation, an innocent hug turned scandalous between her and her art teacher, Nick Marcello. Then she left Hayden to work in St. Louis. Seven years later, she's been offered a chance of a lifetime to come home to Hayden and help work on her church's stained glass windows. But it would bring old feelings for her and to work with Nick, while everyone like Abby Hemphill would see to it to ruin them. People doubted and questioned something so innocent in the wrong way. Though while she worked on the stained glass restoration project, she tried to get to know her younger sister Roxy, who's been withdrawn and having issues of her own at age 17. No matter how hard Abby Hemphill tried to ruin them, they managed to finish the project anyway and came close together with God and to fall in love, when an ugly scandal would rear its ugly head for the Hemphills since turnabout is fair play in the end.

This was a pure inspirational thriller about following your heart and letting God build your dreams. I did care about Brooke on how something so friendly and innocent be misinterpreted. I did love how she became her own rising star in the stained glass field. I did feel bad on how she was shunned and mistreated, past and present. But I did care for Nick who never gave up on his dreams to continue his art world and to guide Sonny, his nephew,  to listen to his calling. I did like the scenic locations of Hayden and St. Louis and how mesmerizing the settings could be inside and outside the church. This would make you believe in yourself and not second-guess yourself with inspirational drama, non-stop action, intrigue, and a spark of mystery.

Will you be there to visit the Emerald Windows at the church today?

On the Other Side of the Door

In Nicci French's The Other Side of the Door, this chilling novel of suspense will you leave you breathless in every turned page. It all started for Bonnie Graham, a high school music teacher, who discovered a dead body at the other side of her friend's flat's door. Like Rena Olsen's The Girl Before, it's platformed with scenes of what events happened before the discovery and what happened afterwards. At first, Bonnie and her friend, Sonia, were the ones that discovered the dead body of Hayden Booth, a star musician who happened to join their band for an one-time-only event for her friend Danielle's wedding. When he first appeared on the scene to rehearse with them, tensions were so high, it could be cut with a knife. While Bonnie was seeing Neal, she grew attracted to him. But when Hayden got violent with her, things had come to a head. After Bonnie and Sonia disposed of the body and the evidence with it, they did the best to cover up their tracks. But when he was reported missing to the police, it complicated things and made things ten times worse. Everyone had a reason to hate him for one reason or another as secret and lies unraveled like a ball of yarn. And while the police questioned her, it made her nervous as she suspected one person or another who had killed him with a cold-blooded killer. Later on, she figured it out and came head to head to someone she was close to in an ear-splitting explosive climax at how things ended and how things started when she opened the door.

This was a phenomenal and bone-chilling suspenseful novel that would keep you at the edge of your seat. I did care for Bonnie and how she had gotten entangled into a deadly mess of secrets and lies and a lot of backstabbing. I did think she was a better match for Neal than for Amos, though Hayden was rough around the edges and a bit troublesome with a violent and shady past. I was suspicious of Sonia in more ways than one, which left me undecided about her true nature throughout the novel. I did love the glorious and vast locations throughout London and the other towns nearby that painted a vivid scene for this gripping novel. This would reel you in and have you hooked on the first page that make you want you to read more with non-stop action, intense drama, explosive suspense, and a lot of suspicious mysteries from start to finish.

Will you find out what happened at the Other Side of the Door today?

Murder in an Irish Village

In Carlene O'Connor's Murder in an Irish Village, the first installment in the Irish Village mystery series, this debut has mesmerizing Irish settings and locales before your eyes.  It all started for twenty-two-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan, the oldest of the O'Sullivan Six siblings, who acted like a guardian to her youngest siblings ever since their parents were killed in a car accident. She also runs the family bistro and brings in local customers to help support them. But when Niall Murphy claims that his brother Billy is innocent for the accident, he wanted money out of them to prove it. After a fight between neighbors, Siobhan discovered Niall's dead body at the back of the bistro, stabbed with a pair of scissors. That's when she rang her family family friend, Garda Macdara Flannery, whom she had  crush on for a long time. When her brother James is a prime suspect of the murder, she would do anything to clear her brother's name, even ask her neighbors if Niall was blackmailing them for secrets. While they didn't want her to interfere into their private lives, she had to know and suspected everyone. Until she was threatened with a note and a neighbor was later found dead, it was up to Siobhan to deal with this matter and place her life--and-heart--on the line to stop the culprit in the tracks with a surprising ending.

This was a surprising and charming Irish mystery debut. I did love the gorgeous scenic settings in Kildare, Cork County, Ireland and the majestic locations built around the small-knit town. It would transport you there, even if you haven't traveled to Ireland for vacation.  I did feel for Siobhan, who had a heavy weight placed on her shoulders to care for her siblings and to help manage the bistro too. I did find her a bit charming and spirited as well to do what she had to do. I could see Macdara be a position love interest for her and protect her and her family in his own way. This would entice you to read this Irish caper with intrigue, suspense, non-stop action and plenty of drama for a small village.

Will you take a trip to Ireland to read Murder in an Irish Village today?

A Cookie Before Dying

In Virginia Lowell's A Cookie Before Dying, the second installment in the Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery series, this would leave you bewildered for a twisted tale. It all started for Olivia Greyson and Maddie Briggs, that someone littered newspapers on their lawn, and had broken into the Vegetable Plate store next door. When Livie wanted to find out what they found out what it was all about, she eavesdropped into the conversation between Charlene Critch and an unknown man arguing out loud. During the storm, that same man had wound up dead by a knife wound of some sort. And Livie's brother, Jason, was the prime suspect, who confessed for the murder. But Livie didn't believe him and did some snooping around to clear his name. It seemed that everyone in Chatterley Heights had a bone to pick with him. Also during the same storm, they saw someone dancing like a ballerina. As Maddie and Olivia tried to pick up the pieces between stolen cookie cutters and what's Charlene's big secret. In attempts to smoke out the killer after hours at her store, things get heated when she connects the dots to solve the mystery on whodunit and why.

This was a great new edition to the Cookie Cutter cozy mystery. I adore that small-town of Chatterley Heights, Maryland, which was close to the D.C. border. I did care about Olivia and how she took it Spunky and how she worked so well with Maddie on baking cookies to sell to others. I also did feel a bit sorry for Charlene and Valentina, who ended up seriously hurt by a madman. I did like Maddie and feel like some issues she needed to clear up on her relationship with Lucas. I did like those cookies they made, so delectable to make at home. This would make you salivate and take a bite out  of a crime with non-stop action, suspense, sprinkles of intrigue, and a dash of mystery.

Will you be there to take a taste of A Cookie Before Dying today?

Red Delicious Death

In Sheila Connolly's Red Delicious Death, the third installment in the Orchard culinary cozy series, get ready to sink your teeth into a juicy mystery and take a bite out of crime too. It all started for Meg Corey, who was still new to Granford and the orchard harvesting business, when her best friend Lauren had asked her for help. The Czarneckis, Brian and Nicole, were fresh out of culinary school and newly married to start a local food restaurant of their own in their small-town community. Of course, when they first discovered the Stebbins old family home, they had some bumpy obstacles along the way. They needed to go through the proper paperwork to get everything approved and they needed Mrs. Goldwaithe's approval on the Select Board meeting. But when their sous chef Sam Anderson wound up dead in a pigsty, it shocked that small town on who could do such a thing. It made Meg wonder if it anything to do with his sexual orientation or something else entirely different. As she helped the Czarneckis anyway she could with their restaurant business, things are getting cozy between her and Seth Chapin, her neighbor among other things around the town. As soon as she figured it on whodunit, it had a shocking ending with a twist in the end.

This was another compelling culinary cozy in the Orchard culinary mystery series. This held my attention from the first page to the end. I did care for Meg and how she managed to run an orchard and how she helped the Czarneckis out as a new friend. As she learned about apple orchards, I've learned a great deal too. I also cared for Seth who's pretty smitten with Meg and is always there for her in a pinch. I did love how the small-town community came together for the cooperative restaurant idea when everyone would benefit each other. This would entice you and lure you in with non-stop drama, suspense, hint of mystery, and plenty of action.

Will you take a bite out of Red Delicious Death today?

Love in Catalina Cove

In Brenda Jackson's Love in Catalina Cove, the first installment in the Catalina Cove contemporary romance series, this love story would sweep you off your feet and carry out away with the store. At age sixteen,Vashti Alcindor had gotten pregnant and kept the secrecy of who fathered her baby. She was told she had lost her son after birth. Now as a grown divorced woman who works in New York City, she received the call from her best friend Bryce that her aunt's inn was in disrepair and it needs to be sold. She flew to Catalina Cove in New Orleans and sped away in a Corvette to her former hometown. SThat's when she ran into Sheriff Sawyer Grisham, a widower with a teenage daughter, who pulled her off and gave her a ticket. At that first meeting, sparks fly across the sky between them, and they later had a casual relationship with each other. Vashti had plans to sell her aunt's inn and return to New York, but for Sawyer, he had convinced her otherwise before she left at the airport. It took her awhile for her to agree to it. And when she returned, she visited Ms. Gertie, a woman with dementia, and a midwife in her community, who knew a secret about her past: her parents lied to her about everything, when they had outright denied it. It began to question her more as she hired a PI to get to the truth, while she made plans to restore her aunt's inn in good shape and to stay in Catalina Cove. The relationship between Vashti and Sawyer had became exclusive, when she later discovered the truth about the baby that she unknowingly gave up for adoption had a surprising twist or two in the end.

This was a passionate and sensual contemporary romance. I did like the seaswept locations of New Orleans, New York City, Sacramento, and even in Waco, Texas. I did love the small-town community of Catalina Cove came together and supported Vashti now, unlike how they did it in the past. I did care for Vashti and what she went through in the beginning, and how she made a name of herself in Catalina Cove.  I did find Sawyer attractive for a hot molten piece of dark chocolate for eye-candy. This would make you want to fan yourself and drink a tall glass of water or two to cool you down with sizzling romance, non-stop action, suspense, and sparks of mystery.

Will you find Love in Catalina Cove today?