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GETAWAY WITH MURDER BY DIANE KELLY

10/26/2021

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Getaway with Murder has the perfect setting for a cozy mystery! Unfortunately, this just might be the only thing I loved about this book.
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: October 26, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Series: The Mountain Lodge Mystery series #1 
Pages: 304 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher (thank you!).
Getaway With Murder is the first in a cozy series from Diane Kelly set in a lodge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where secrets hide behind every hill.

As if hitting the half-century mark wasn’t enough, Misty Murphy celebrated her landmark birthday by amicably ending her marriage and investing her settlement in a dilapidated mountain lodge at the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With the old inn teetering on both a bluff and bankruptcy, she must have lost her ever-loving mind.

Luckily, handyman Rocky Crowder has a knack for rehabbing virtual ruins and for doing it on a dime, and to Misty’s delight, the lodge is fully booked on opening night, every room filled with flexible folks who’d slipped into spandex and ascended the peak for a yoga retreat with plans to namastay for a full week. Misty and her guests are feeling zen—at least until the yoga instructor is found dead.

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MURDER AT THE BEACON BAKESHOP BY DARCI HANNAH

10/1/2021

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I’m so excited about this brand-new culinary cozy mystery series. These are my favorites within the genre, and I have a feeling that this is going to be a series in my top favorite reads for the foreseeable future!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Series: Beacon Bakeshop mystery series #1
Pages: 354 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.
After catching her celebrity chef fiancé sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey Bakewell left big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker—and gets mixed up in someone’s sweet taste of revenge . . .
 
More interested in kneading dough than adding it up, Lindsey’s breakup inspired her to set up the shop she always wanted in a place that always made her happy. She’d spent many childhood summers near this beach community and converting the old run-down lighthouse into a bakery café and home offers a perfect fresh start for Lindsey and her devoted Newfoundland dog, Wellington.
 
But not everyone in town has a sweet tooth. The preservation society won’t have the lighthouse’s history sugar coated by lattes and cakes—and a protest group crashes Lindsey’s Memorial Day opening. Then her ex-fiancé Jeffrey Plank and his girlfriend Mia Long arrive to trash the place. In the ensuing chaos Mia chokes on a donut and dies.

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FARM TO TROUBLE BY AMANDA FLOWER

7/30/2021

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Amanda Flower has outdone herself with Farm to Trouble; the first book in a brand-new series! I love the idea of organic farming and am excited to see where Shiloh and her family take the farm in the next novel!
​Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Series: Farm to Table Mystery series #1
Pages: 263 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased.
First in a new cozy mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower!​

Coming home to a run-down farm, gossipy neighbors, and a shady investor is a lot to handle... but a murderer on the loose is the final straw!

Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation—complete with a farm-to-table café—is no small feat. Especially when her new investor is found dead among the flowers just hours after the contract is signed. Everyone knows her father had a grudge against the investor, and word travels fast in a small town...
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Now, Shiloh must clear her family's name and track down the real killer before her organic farm dreams wilt before her very eyes. But with her father trying to stop any progress on his land, her cousin belittling her every effort, the farmhouse falling down around her, 

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RUNAWAY FATE BY ELIZABETH HUNTER

7/28/2021

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Elizabeth Hunter is a new to me author and I’m so glad I discovered her books! I’ve been in the mood for paranormal books lately and this one satisfied my cravings! I’m excited to read more in the series.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: October 27, 2020
Genre: Paranormal Mystery. Women's Fiction. 

Series: Moonstone Cove series #1
Pages: 344 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Purchased. 
It’s paranormal women’s fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in.)

Katherine wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove.

Okay yes, she worked too much and had fallen out of touch with all her friends, but that happened to everyone, right? And sure, she was feeling a little creaky in the mornings and couldn’t drink coffee after noon, but that was just life in middle age.

Four minutes was all it took for fate to run away with anything that resembled normal.

Now Katherine is trying to place mysterious psychic visions into her previously ordered life. She’s playing referee between a displaced Southern mama and a sarcastic mechanic with a chip on her 

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THE GREAT WITCHES BAKING SHOW BY NANCY WARREN

6/2/2021

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This book has been sitting on my kindle for AGES! I was in the mood and decided to start reading to see if I’d like it and I can happily say I did! Paranormal cozy mysteries are so much fun, and this is a first in a series that I know I’ll be reading through to the end.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: January 15, 2020
Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery | Witches

Series: The Great Witches Baking Show #1
Pages: 212 pages
Format: Purchased. Source: ​eBook
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​Poppy Wilkinson is thrilled to be chosen as a contestant on The Great British Baking Contest. As an American with English roots, winning the crown as Britain’s Best Baker would open doors she’s dreamed of. In more ways than one. Appearing on the reality show is her chance to get into Broomewode Hall and uncover the secrets of her past.

But strange things are happening on the show’s set: accusations of sabotage, a black cat that shadows Poppy, suspiciously unsociable residents at Broomewode Hall—and the judges can be real witches.

There are murmurs that Broomewode is an energy vortex. It certainly makes Poppy see and do things that aren’t exactly

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ONE POISON PIE BY LYNN CAHOON

5/24/2021

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Lynn Cahoon knows what us cozy mystery readers want! This is the PERFECT start to a brand new paranormal cozy mystery series! I can’t wait for the next one!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: January 26, 2021
Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery

Series: Kitchen Witch Mystery series #1
Pages: 274 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
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​In the first in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s Kitchen Witch series, Mia Malone is starting over in Magic Springs, Idaho—where murder is on the menu . . .
 
What’s a kitchen witch to do when her almost-fiancé leaves her suddenly single and unemployed? For Mia Malone, the answer’s simple: move to her grandmother’s quirky Idaho hometown, where magic is an open secret and witches and warlocks are (mostly) welcome. With a new gourmet dinner delivery business—and a touch of magic in her recipes—Mia’s hopes are high. Even when her ex’s little sister, Christina, arrives looking for a place to stay, Mia takes it in stride.
 
But her first catering job takes a distasteful turn when her client’s body is found, stabbed and stuffed under the head table. Mia’s shocked to learn that she’s a suspect—and even more so when she realizes she’s next on a killer’s list. With Christina, along with Mia’s meddling grandma, in the mix, she’ll have to find out which of the town’s eccentric residents has an appetite for murder…before this fresh start comes to a sticky end. . . .

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