Category: Culinary Cozy

GOURD TO DEATH BY KRISTEN WEISS

11/4/2020

The Pie Town Mystery series is one of my favorite within the cozy genre and Gourd to Death did not disappoint! This is the perfect fall read as well.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: August 25, 2020
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: Pie Town Mystery series #5
Pages: 302 pages
Format: eBook. I received an ARC from the publisher.

This Halloween, pie shop proprietor Val Harris must patch together clues to solve a murder by pumpkin . . .

As the owner of Pie Town, Val’s been tapped to judge the pie making contest at the annual pumpkin festival in the coastal California town of San Nicholas. Things could get sticky though—her boyfriend, cop Gordon Carmichael, is entering the competition with his “special” family pumpkin pie recipe. But Val’s got bigger problems than a conflict of interest when she and her flaky piecrust-maker Charlene discover another contestant crushed under an enormous pumpkin.

When grudge-holding Chief Shaw comes up with a half-baked reason to toss Carmichael off the case and onto the suspect list, it's up to Val and Charlene to find the tricky killer. But as they dodge lethal pumpkin cannons and follow the clues into a figurative and literal maze, the pie pals are in for the scariest Halloween of their lives—and it may be their last . . .

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DEEP FRIED REVENGE BY LYNN CAHOON

5/24/2020

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The Farm-to-Fork mystery series is one of my favorites! Lynn Cahoon not only delivers on the mystery but she makes these characters relatable and realistic! I loved this one.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Genre: Cozy Mystery (Culinary Cozy)
Series: Farm-to-Fork mystery series #4
Pages: 186 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

Angie Turner is all prepped to face Boise’s culinary best when she enters her restaurant, The County Seat, into a big State Fair challenge. Instead, she gets dunked into a new murder investigation after a killer starts scrapping her competition . . .

The Idaho State Fair is in full swing and chefs are lining up to enter Boise’s Best Restaurant contest, including Angie and her County Seat crew. They might be the hometown favorite, but the competition is steeper than a funhouse floor. And when a top contender is felled following a heated confrontation over a corn dog recipe, winning suddenly becomes a matter of life or death. With a foul foodie on the prowl, it’s up to Angie to dig into the case and put a murderer on ice.

“Lynn Cahoon has created an absorbing, good fun mystery in Mission to Murder.”
--Fresh Fiction

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EGG DROP DEAD BY VIVIEN CHIEN

3/1/2020

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Egg Drop dead is the 5th book in the Noodle Shop mystery series by Vivien Chien. This is one of my favorite culinary cozy series because it's so unique!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 25, 2020
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: The Noodle Shop Mystery series #5
Pages: 298 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

The Ho-Lee Noodle House takes its business to the next level―only to end up in hot water.

It was supposed to be a fancy, intimate dinner party by the pool. Instead, Lana Lee’s first-ever catering event turns into full-course madness when a domestic worker is found dead. Is the party’s host Donna Feng, the sweet-and-sour owner of the Asia Village shopping plaza where Ho-Lee is situated, somehow to blame? That’s what Lana―whose plate is already plenty full with running the restaurant, pleasing her often-disapproving mother, and fretting over her occasionally-serious boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau―must find out.

Before the police arrived at the crime scene, Donna had entrusted an odd piece of evidence to Lana: a thumb drive shaped like a terra-cotta soldier. Now it’s up to Lana to lead her own investigation, digitally and in real life, into a world of secrets involving Donna’s earlier life in China, whether the victim had a dark agenda, and if the killer is still out there. . .and plans to strike again

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APPLE CIDER SLAYING BY JULIE ANNE LINDSEY

11/20/2019

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Apple Cider Slaying is the first book in a brand new cozy mystery series! I absolutely LOVED this book! I cannot wait for the next release which is titled Pulp Friction.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: The Apple Cider Mystery series #1
Pages: 320 pages
Format: Paperback. ARC.

Apples are at the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year's crop is unseasonably ripe with murder . . .

ONE ROTTEN APPLE

Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny's beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family business. But any way you slice it, it's struggling. That's why they're trying to drum up business with the "First Annual Christmas at the Orchard," a good old-fashioned holiday festival with enough delicious draw to satisfy apple-picking locals and cider-loving tourists alike--until the whole endeavor takes a sour turn when the body of Nadine Cooper, Granny's long-time, grudge-holding nemesis, is found lodged in the apple press. Now, with Granny the number one suspect, Winnie is hard-pressed to prove her innocence before the real killer delivers another murder . . .

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MURDER LO MEIN BY VIVIEN CHIEN

4/2/2019

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I absolutely ADORE this series. First, I am a fan of Chinese food like no other. Second, the author adds an amazing amount of cultural knowledge and makes you feel like you are a part of the overall story. Third, the characters are delightful! I highly recommend this book and the series as a whole.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: The Noodle Shop Mystery series #3 (series link)
Pages: 304 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

The third in a tasty series, Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien is a delight!

Everyone agrees that the food at Ho-Lee Noodle House is delicious—unless it happens to be deadly.

Lana Lee’s stake in her family’s Chinese restaurant is higher than ever now that she’s been made manager. So when she enters Ho-Lee into Cleveland’s Best Noodle Contest, Lana makes it her business to win—at all costs. But when a local food critic receives a threatening note in a fortune cookie and is later found dead, face-down in a bowl of lo mein, all bets are off. . .

Now, along with her sweet-and-sour boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana decides to take matters into her own hands and dig into the lives of everyone involved in the contest. But when she receives an ill-fated fortune, Lana realizes that in order to save the reputation of her restaurant, she needs to save herself first.

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GOURD TO DEATH BY KRISTEN WEISS

DEEP FRIED REVENGE BY LYNN CAHOON

EGG DROP DEAD BY VIVIEN CHIEN

APPLE CIDER SLAYING BY JULIE ANNE LINDSEY

MURDER LO MEIN BY VIVIEN CHIEN

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