Category: Cozy Mystery

ARSENIC AND ADOBO BY MIA P. MANANSALA

7/21/2022

A loved this cultural culinary cozy! I'm already excited to start he next one based on this book. What great characters!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 4, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery.
Series: None.
Pages: 330 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box

The first book in a new culinary cozy series!

When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case.

With the cops treating her like she's the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila's left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block…

0 Comments

THE ROCKY ROAD TO RUIN BY MERI ALLEN

7/14/2022

0 Comments

The Rocky Road to Ruin is the first delicious book in the Ice Cream Shop mystery series! Culinary cozies are my favorite type to read and this one delivered!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 27, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: The Ice Cream Shop Mystery series #1
Pages: 330 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Justice will be swirled by amateur sleuth Riley Rhodes in the first in Meri Allen's brand-new mystery series, The Rocky Road to Ruin!

Riley Rhodes, travel food blogger and librarian at the CIA, makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut – land of dairy farms and covered bridges - for a funeral. Despite the circumstances, Riley’s trip home is sprinkled with reunions with old friends, visits to her father’s cozy bookshop on the town green, and joyful hours behind the counter at the beloved Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. It feels like a time to help her friend Caroline rebuild after her mother’s death, and for Riley to do a bit of her own reflecting after a botched undercover mission in Italy. After all, it’s always good to be home.

But Caroline and her brother Mike have to decide what to do with the assets they’ve inherited – the ice cream shop as well as the farm they grew up on – and they’ve never seen eye to eye. Trouble begins to swirl as Riley is spooked by reports of a stranger camping behind the farm and by the odd behavior of the shop’s

0 Comments

IT TAKES TWO TO MANGO BY CARRIE DOYLE

6/30/2022

0 Comments

It Takes Two to Mango is book one in the Trouble in Paradise cozy mystery series. While it was a rough start for me I ended up really enjoying this tropical mystery.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: Trouble in Paradise #1
Pages: 290 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

It's all fun in the sun until there's a murder in paradise

After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps—what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island.

However, paradise isn't as perfect as it seems: the slow pace of island life, the language barrier, and a cutthroat office rival make Plum question leaving her old life behind. But when a client is found dead in the jacuzzi of Casa Mango—a property Plum manages—she knows she's really in a jam. With a killer loose on the island Plum will have to deal with a stonewalling police chief, a string of baffling clues, and a handsome Director of Security to solve this deadly case!

0 Comments

BAYOU BOOK THIEF BY ELLEN BYRON

6/8/2022

0 Comments

Bayou Book Thief is a great start to this brand new cozy mystery series! I'm already excited for the next book to release!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: June 7, 2022
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: Vintage Cookbook Mystery #1
Pages: 301 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher (Berkley)

A fantastic new cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Ellen Byron.

Twenty-eight-year-old widow Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans after her showboating actor husband perishes doing a stupid internet stunt. The Big Easy is where she was born and adopted by the NICU nurse who cared for her after Ricki’s teen mother disappeared from the hospital.

Ricki’s dream comes true when she joins the quirky staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum, the spectacular former Garden District home of late bon vivant Genevieve “Vee” Charbonnet, the city’s legendary restauranteur. Ricki is excited about turning her avocation – collecting vintage cookbooks – into a vocation by launching the museum’s gift shop, Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware. Then she discovers that a box of donated vintage cookbooks contains the body of a cantankerous Bon Vee employee who was fired after being exposed as a book thief.

0 Comments

BURIED IN A GOOD BOOK BY TAMARA BERRY

5/25/2022

0 Comments

Buried in a Good book is an excellent cozy mystery series and I read it in one sitting! I already cannot wait for the next book to be released! That's how much I loved it!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: May 24, 2022
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: By the Book mysteries #1
Pages: 291 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Publisher (Poisoned Press)

Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather's rustic cabin in the woods. She hopes this will be a time for them to heal and bond after Tess's recent divorce, but they've barely made it through the door when an explosion shakes the cabin. Suddenly it's raining fish guts and...is that a human arm?

Tess was hardly convincing Gertie that a summer without Wi-Fi and running water would be an adventure. Now she's thrust into a murder investigation, neighbors are saying they've spotted Bigfoot in the woods near her cabin, and the local sheriff is the spitting image of her character Detective Gabriel Gonzales—something he's less than thrilled about. With so much more than her daughter's summer plans at stake, it's up to Tess to solve this case before anyone else gets hurt.

0 Comments

PINT OF NO RETURN BY DANA MENTINK

3/19/2022

0 Comments

If you’re a fan of culinary cozies, then look no further because this Shake Shop mystery is a must read! This is a delicious cozy with sweets galore! I wouldn’t mind trying one of these shakes!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 25, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: Ice Cream Shop Mystery #1
Pages: 290 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

The first in new dessert cozy mystery series! A murder in town is bound to shake things up...

After her divorce from her thrice-married embezzler husband, Trinidad Jones is finally ready for a fresh start. So when she's left one of ex's businesses in Upper Sprocket, Oregon, she decides to pack up her dog, cash in her settlement, and open her dream business: the Shimmy and Shake Shop, introducing the world to her monster milkshakes. And even with a couple sticky situations underway, namely that the other two ex-wives also call Sprocket home, Trinidad's life seems to be churning along smoothly.

That is, until she discovers her neighbor, the Popcorn King, head down in his giant popcorn kettle. When one of Trinidad's fellow ex-wives is accused of the murder and Upper Sprocket descends into mayhem, it's going to take a supersized scoop of courage to flush out the killer.

0 Comments

UP TO NO GOUDA BY LINDA REILLY

2/26/2022

0 Comments

Linda Reilly dishes up a scrumptious read with Up to No Gouda, book 1 in her brand-new cozy mystery series! If you enjoy culinary cozies and grilled cheese, then you don’t want to miss this one!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 25, 2022
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: A Grilled Cheese Mystery #1
Pages: 327 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

The first in a delicious new culinary cozy series featuring a grilled cheese eatery owner who must solve murders in her small town before she is put under lock and brie

Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream—opening Carly's Grilled Cheese Eatery. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled cheese concoctions. All but Lyle Bagley, Carly's one-time high school boyfriend and now town bully who just bought the building that houses her eatery and wants Carly out. After a muenster of a fight, Carly's forced to put her nose to the rind and find a solution to keep her business afloat.

That is...until Lyle is discovered dead behind the dumpster of Carly's shop, and one of her employees becomes the prime suspect. In

0 Comments

ARSENIC AND ADOBO BY MIA P. MANANSALA

THE ROCKY ROAD TO RUIN BY MERI ALLEN

IT TAKES TWO TO MANGO BY CARRIE DOYLE

BAYOU BOOK THIEF BY ELLEN BYRON

BURIED IN A GOOD BOOK BY TAMARA BERRY

PINT OF NO RETURN BY DANA MENTINK

UP TO NO GOUDA BY LINDA REILLY

LET'S CONNECT

Looking for something?

REVIEW ARCHIVES

CATEGORIES

Copyright © 2015-2023 · ELLE'S BOOK BLOG