Happy Release Day ~ The Wagtail Murder Club by Krista Davis ~ Book 10 in the Paws and Claws Mystery Series @kristadavis @BerkleyPub @BerkleyMystery

 

Holly Miller gets much more than she bargained for when she rescues an adorable 

stray by the side of the road in this all-new Paws & Claws Mystery from 

New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis.

Holly Miller is on her way home from a visit with the mayor of Wagtail, Virginia who also happens to be her grandma, when she spots something hiding out in the grass not far from her car. It turns out to be an adorable black Labrador in a cage with a note attached to his collar, dubbing him Squishy and asking the finder to care for him. Holly takes Squishy home to the Sugar Maple Inn and soon finds the lovely hotel in chaos and another surprise waiting for her. Holly’s ex-boyfriend Ben is set to check-in with a group of his attorney colleagues who all seem to think he and Holly are still an item.

When one of Ben’s fellow attorneys dies in a fall, it could be chalked up to an unfortunate accident but when a second lawyer is murdered, Holly wonders if it could all be tied to Squishy’s mysterious appearance in Wagtail. Along with her beloved furry friends Trixie and Twinkletoes, Holly has to put the pieces together to find the killer before the fiend causes another fatality.

ASIN: ‎ B0D3C25SGW

Publisher: ‎ Berkley

Publication Date: ‎ February 4, 2025

Print Length: ‎ 320 pages

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Happy Release Day ~ Furever After (Magical Cats, Book 16) by Sofie Kelly ~ #CozyMystery @BerkleyPub

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B0CPDVBV2L
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication date: ‎ September 3, 2024
Print length: ‎ 278 pages

About the Book:

Librarian Kathleen Paulson is in for a spell of trouble when she finds a dead body, and only her reliable magical cats can help her tail a killer in the newest installment of this New York Times bestselling series.

Kathleen is busy running the library and planning her upcoming wedding to detective Marcus Gordon when she suddenly stumbles across a body in the library. She is surprised to learn that the deceased was in the middle of an unlikely heist—it seems he was trying to steal one of the paintings that had been in a box in the library’s workroom. Kathleen never knew any of the library’s rotating artwork was valuable and can’t imagine what the dead man wanted with it.

But then an art history expert called in by the police identifies the almost-purloined painting as a piece that might have been part of a previous high profile art theft. Owen’s and Hercules’s whiskers are already twitching, and events soon make Kathleen realize that whoever killed the wannabe art thief has more than murder on their mind. Kathleen and her clever cats will have to work fast to prevent anyone else from getting hurt.

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Happy Release Day ~ Murder in Rose Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #27) by Victoria Thompson #CozyMystery ~ @gaslightvt @BerkleyMystery @BerkleyPub

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private detective husband Frank discover that the cure is worse than the disease when they investigate the death of a promising young woman in this atmospheric, riveting mystery from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Murder on Bedford Street.

ASIN: ‎ B0CCNCVF23
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication Date: ‎ April 23, 2024
Print Length: ‎ 336 pages

Amazon: https://amzn.to/48T2lmM

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194803815-murder-in-rose-hill

About the Book:

Sarah Malloy has just helped with the delivery of a bouncing baby girl at her women’s clinic, when she receives a visit from an engaging and determined young woman writing an article for New Century Magazine. Louisa Rodgers explains that she is researching the dangers of patent remedies. Sarah is only too happy to tell Louisa exactly what she thinks of the so-called medicines whose ingredients include heavy doses of alcohol and other addictive drugs, and hurt much more than they help.

A few days later, Sarah receives a visit from a bereft Bernard Rodgers, who explains that his daughter, Louisa, has been found strangled in the lobby of the building where New Century has its offices. The police have decided it was a random attack and have made no attempt to investigate, hinting that Louisa got what she deserved for sticking her nose where it didn’t belong. Sarah wants justice for the bright young woman but as she and Frank delve deeper into Louisa’s life, they find that nothing is quite as it seemed and Louisa is not who she claimed to be. The Malloys must first solve the mystery of Louisa’s life before they can figure out who wanted to see her dead…

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Happy Release Day ~ Murder, She Wrote: Murder Backstage by Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran #CozyMystery @BerkleyMystery @BerkleyPub

The newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.

ASIN: ‎ B0CHDKVL78

Publisher: ‎ Berkley

Publication Date: ‎ April 2, 2024

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198631550-murder-she-wrote

Amazon: https://amzn.to/43h8Heu

About the Book:

Jessica Fletcher’s British cousin, Emma MacGill, will be traveling to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, to perform with internationally famous star of stage, screen, and television Derek Braverman in an old-fashioned musical review. Emma would love for Jessica to join her there and suggests she bring along some friends. Having just finished her latest book, Jessica is ready for a vacation and is delighted to agree. Dr. Seth Hazlitt and Sheriff Mort Metzger are huge fans of Braverman, so they are eager to tag along, and their fanboy behavior gives Jessica and Mort’s wife, Maureen, more than occasional cause to roll their eyes.

Upon arrival in Edmonton, Jessica is quickly outed as mystery writer J. B. Fletcher, and despite numerous protests, a hotel staffer arranges a book signing for her. This and touristy adventures arranged for the group make for a much busier trip than Jessica was expecting. When a hotel bartender, who also happens to be a stagehand for Emma’s play, turns up dead backstage at the theater, Jessica’s fun and relaxing vacation quickly becomes anything but.

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Happy Book Release Day ~ Murder in Masquerade (A Lady of Letters Mystery, Book 2) by Mary Winters #CozyMystery @BerkleyPub @BerkleyMystery

 

Extra, extra, read all about it! Countess turned advice columnist Amelia Amesbury finds herself playing the role of sleuth when a night at the theatre turns deadly.

About the Book:

Victorian Countess Amelia Amesbury’s secret hobby, writing an advice column for a London penny paper, has gotten her into hot water before. After all, Amelia will do whatever it takes to help a reader in need. But now, handsome marquis Simon Bainbridge desperately requires her assistance. His beloved younger sister, Marielle, has written Amelia's Lady Agony column seeking advice on her plans to elope with a man her family does not approve of. Determined to save his sister from a scoundrel and the family from scandal, Simon asks Amelia to dissuade Marielle from the ill-advised gambit.

But when the scoundrel makes an untimely exit after a performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Amelia realizes there’s much more at stake than saving a young woman’s reputation from ruin. It’s going to take more than her letter-writing skills to help the dashing marquis, mend the familial bond, and find the murderer. Luckily, solving problems is her specialty!

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Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B0C5V8FY7P
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication date: ‎ February 20, 2024
Print length: ‎ 336 pages

Amazon: https://amzn.to/41mGEcE

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Happy Publication Day ~ Fatal First Edition (Library Lover's Mystery #14) by Jenn McKinlay

 

People are dying to get their hands on a rare, valuable book in the newest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot and the Pendulum.

About the Book:

Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble.

But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse—the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully’s room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn’t commit.

Featuring a cameo by a beloved character from the New York Times bestselling author Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile series!

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B0C56S1VDD
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication Date: ‎ February 13, 2024
Print length: ‎ 304 pages

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Happy Release Day ~ Fur Love or Money by Sofie Ryan (Second Chance Cat Mystery, Book #11) #CozyMystery @BerkleyMystery @BerkleyPub

Secondhand shop owner Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, sniff out the suspect in this new, delightful Second Chance Cat Mystery from New York Times bestselling author, Sofie Ryan.

About the Book:

Sarah Grayson is taking a break from her bustling secondhand shop in small-town Maine to spend time with a friend and her dog. But their purr-fect visit comes to an end when the dog leads them to a storm cellar on a nearby property, where they discover a dead body.

The deceased turns out to be a sticky-fingered financial adviser who swindled millions from investors and who has been presumed dead for almost three years. Unfortunately, suspicion falls on the owner of the property where the body was found—and that owner is a good friend of Charlotte’s Angels’, the senior citizen sleuths who work out of Sarah’s shop. It’s all paws on deck, as the Angels are determined to clear his good name. But with a tight-lipped widow, a possibly shifty sister, and a slew of unhappy investors in the mix, the list of murder suspects seems endless. Sarah, Elvis, and the Angels have a lot of webs to untangle before they can catch the culprit.

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B0C4J7WN77

Publisher: ‎ Berkley

Publication Date: ‎ February 6, 2024

Print Length: ‎ 272 pages

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Happy Release Day ~ The Dog Across the Lake (Paws and Claws Mystery, Book #9) by Krista Davis @kristadavis @BerkleyPub @BerkleyMystery #CozyMystery #Berkley

Holly and Trixie meet a strange new dog in Wagtail that leads them right into murder. . . .

Holly Miller is looking forward to finally taking a few days to relax. Enjoying an early morning on her terrace, she spots an unfamiliar reddish-gold pooch across the lake. She’s intrigued, but never expects to find the very same dog smiling at her in bed when she wakes up the next morning! Trixie and Twinkletoes appear to accept this cute stranger, but Holly doesn’t know to whom he belongs.

Oma thinks the dog looks familiar, and it turns out the wayward pooch belongs to Holly’s cousin Josh. Holly knew her cousin well as a child, but she hasn’t seen him in over a decade. He’s camping with his girlfriend across the lake. Holly returns the cute dog to Josh’s campsite twice, but the second time, Josh and his girlfriend are nowhere to be found. Instead, a guest of the Sugar Maple Inn is dead in their tent. Now it's up to Holly and Trixie to suss out a sneaky killer.

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B0BV679L5W

Publisher: ‎ Berkley

Publication date: ‎ January 2, 2024

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3NaerQA

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112974875-the-dog-across-the-lake

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Happy Release Day ~ A Questionable Character by Lorna Barrett ~ Booktown Mystery #17 ~ @LornaBarrett @BerkleyMystery @Berkley

The murder of a local contractor may be the final nail in the coffin for Tricia Miles in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series.

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B0BKK2K2SL
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication Date: ‎ July 25, 2023

Amazon: https://amzn.to/45Ymisk
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63106387-a-questionable-character

About the Book:

It's a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he’s overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles's newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It’ll house office space where her marketing staff and the rest of the NR Associates clerical personnel will work.

Tricia Miles and Angelica arrive at the mansion before their workday to see how the construction is going. They find the place unlocked and Stark’s right-hand man, Sanjay Arya, dead—bludgeoned to death. The loss of the contractor’s top man threatens all the projects in the works, which would effectively ruin the expensive marketing plan that the Chamber of Commerce has been working. Is Jim a suspect? (He’d be stupid to kill the person he depends on to keep the projects going.) But Stark also thinks his wife, who was very chummy with Sanjay, might have been cheating on him with the second-in-command, making him a likely suspect.

Once again Tricia finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation, but can she find the killer before he or she has the chance to bring the hammer down?

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Happy Release Day ~ Scaredy Cat by Sofie Ryan ~ Second Chance Cat Mystery #10 ~ #CozyMystery @Berkley @BerkleyMystery

Book Details:

Ebook:
ASIN: ‎ B0B5SQX717
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication Date: ‎ July 4, 2023

Paperback:
ASIN: ‎ B0B5SQX717
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication Date: ‎ July 4, 2023

Amazon: https://amzn.to/42EpHJD

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61407328-scaredy-cat

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Secondhand store owner Sarah Grayson and her affectionate rescue cat, Elvis, will scare up a few leads to find a killer in the newest installment of this captivating New York Times bestselling series.

After a long, cold, and snowy winter, it seems as though spring may be arriving early in Maine. Sarah Grayson is busy at her store, Second Chance, and she’s looking forward to an afternoon break from the hustle and bustle, tagging along to the North Harbor Spring House Tour with her friend Detective Michelle Andrews.

But it turns out one of the houses has a haunted history, and when a ghost hunter is found dead on the premises, Sarah knows the best way to uncover the killer/to solve the mystery is by investigating the not-so-dearly departed. With help from Elvis and Charlotte’s Angels, the crew of senior citizen private detectives who work out of the store, she’ll close the case on this creepy crime.

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The Ghost Goes to the Dogs (Haunted Bookshop Mystery) by Cleo Coyle @CleoCoyle #CozyMystery @BerkleyMystery @BerkleyPub

The Ghost Goes to the Dogs (Haunted Bookshop Mystery) by Cleo Coyle

About The Ghost Goes to the Dogs:

 

The Ghost Goes to the Dogs (Haunted Bookshop Mystery)

Paranormal Cozy Mystery

9th in Series

Setting -‎ Rhode Island

Berkley (May 2, 2023)

Mass Market Paperback: ‎ 320 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 0425255492

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0425255490

Digital ASIN: ‎ B0B8GC8YHT

A stray dog leads bookseller Penelope McClure and her gumshoe ghost on a chase for a cunning criminal in this brand-new entry in the "UTTERLY CHARMING" (Mystery Scene) Haunted Bookshop Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. 

Pet Mystery Week brings brisk business to Penelope's Rhode Island bookshop, but a real mystery comes barking at her door when a lost dog turns up in a panic. Pen and her son Spencer follow the furry fugitive to a wooded area where the dog's owner lies unconscious. Mrs. Cunningham is a warm-hearted widow who volunteers at the animal shelter and runs Buy the Book's pet lovers book club. Why would anyone shoot such a sweet soul? 

The police believe it's an accident, a shot by a careless deer hunter, but Pen remains skeptical. To straighten out this doggone mess, she whistles for the ghost of PI Jack Shepard, an expert in hounding as well as haunting. Jack has a dog story of his own, a case from the 1940s that may help Pen sniff out clues to her present predicament. Yet even with Jack's hard-boiled help, Pen may not be able to stop the killer from striking again or letting this whole case go to the dogs...

About the Author:

CLEO COYLE is a pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. Both are New York Times-bestselling authors of the long-running Coffeehouse Mysteries and Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, now celebrating nearly 20 years in print. With more than one million books sold, their work has been honored with starred reviews and multiple best-of-year list selections by reviewers. Alice and Marc are also bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, Toho, and MGM. They live and work in New York City, where they write independently and together.

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New Book Release ~ Soul of a Killer (Books & Biscuits Mystery #2) by Abby Collette #CozyMystery @AbbyVandiver @BerkleyMystery

Publisher: ‎ Berkley 

Publish Date: October 4, 2022

Mass Market Paperback: ‎ 320 pages

ISBN-10 : ‎ 0593336208

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0593336205

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BRRb50

About the Book:

In this mouthwatering cozy mystery series, fraternal twins Keaton and Koby are trying to run their combined soul food café and bookstore, but they find themselves searching for a cold-hearted killer.

Keaton and Koby are fraternal twins who were separated as children, but now they’ve found each other and opened Books & Biscuits in the pleasant Pacific Northwest town of Timber Lake. Business is booming, but even so, trouble always seems to find them.

Mama Zola, Koby’s devoted foster mom, has taken up residence in Timber Lake. She and Pete, one of the bookstore’s quirky employees, bring a peach cobbler over to her church’s potluck, and then someone who sampled the cobbler is found dead. Mama Zola and Pete find themselves suspects in the murder, but luckily Koby and Keaton are ready to sling out a side of justice.

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New August #CozyMystery Book from @BerkleyMystery ~ The Secret of Bow Lane (Kat Holloway Mysteries #6) by Jennifer Ashley @JennAllyson @BerkleyMystery

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B09KX8WP86
Publisher: ‎ Berkley
Publication Date: ‎ August 2, 2022
Print length ‏ : ‎ 332 pages

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3SCCjNX

About the Book:

A stranger who appears on Kat's doorstep turns out to be one Charlotte Bristow, legal wife of Joe Bristow, the man Kat once believed herself married to—who she thought died at sea twelve years ago. Kat is jolted by Charlotte’s claims that not only was Joe murdered, but he had amassed a small fortune before he died. Charlotte makes the cook an offer she cannot refuse—if Kat can discover the identity of Joe's murderer, Charlotte will give her a share of the fortune Joe left behind.

With the help of Daniel McAdam, her attractive and charismatic confidante, Kat plunges into her own past to investigate. When it becomes apparent that the case of Joe’s death goes far deeper than simple, opportunistic theft, Kat and Daniel's relationship is put to the test, and Kat herself comes under scrutiny as her connection to Joe is uncovered. She must race to catch the real killer before she loses her job and possibly her life.

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@BerkleyMystery July Cozy Mystery Release ~ A Cold Nose for Murder (A Chatty Corgi Mystery #3) by Jennifer Hawkins ~ @BerkleyPub

Trouble is brewing for a tea room owner with a penchant for investigation and her talking corgi in this delightful cozy mystery.

When Emma Reed moved to the Cornish village of Trevena, she was looking forward to making new friends, opening up a small tea shop, and taking plenty of brisk walks with her talking dog, Oliver. But when a valuable motorcycle and an old skeleton are found together under the local pub, Emma's antique dealing friends David and Charles become prime suspects in a forty year old mystery. The local gossip is soon flowing faster than tea in Emma's shop, and old secrets are being unearthed right along with the old bones.

Although David and Charles insist they have nothing to do with the skeleton, they quickly come under police suspicion. To save their friends, Emma and Oliver will need to dig deep...

ASIN: ‎ B098PXFFWP
Publisher: ‎ Berkley 
Publication date: ‎ July 5, 2022
Print length: ‎ 350 pages

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3zjKsPs

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58509392-a-cold-nose-for-murder

@BerkleyMystery July Cozy Mystery Release ~ A Perilous Pal (Friend for Hire Mystery #2) by Laura Bradford @bradfordauthor ~ @BerkleyPub

Entrepreneur Emma Westlake has found that starting a business can be murder in this new Friend for Hire Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Laura Bradford.

About the Book:

Emma Westlake, proprietor of A Friend for Hire, finds a heart-wrenching email from a prospective client in her inbox. The email is from Kim Felder, a woman struggling with empty-nest syndrome and an out of left field divorce. Emma is determined to help get this woman in a better headspace. She suggests that Kim draft a bucket list of things she has always wanted to do in life but has not because of the time she has devoted to being the best mom and wife she could be.

Together, they fill that list (baking classes, traveling, dancing in the middle of the street for no reason) with Kim adding in some hilarious items about getting even with her ex. All laughter ends though, when Kim's ex winds up dead via one of the “funny” ideas Kim proposed. Now, Kim is the lone suspect in the murder with Emma the only person who can prove otherwise.

ASIN: ‎ B09HTFGL17

Publisher: ‎ Berkley

Publication Date: ‎ July 5, 2022

Print Length: ‎ 284 pages

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ITdHf7

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59361475-a-perilous-pal

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@BerkleyMystery July Cozy Mystery Release ~ Castle Deadly, Castle Deep (A Dinner and a Murder Mystery #2) by Veronica Bond ~ @BerkleyPub

After a man dies during a performance at Castle Dark, Nora Blake learns just how hard it is to catch a killer, especially if every suspect is a trained actor, in this exciting new Dinner and a Murder Mystery. 

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B09FPJKDF5
Publisher: ‎ Berkley (July 5, 2022)
Publication Date: ‎ July 5, 2022
Print Length: ‎ 284 pages

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Ok4EFb

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58959317-castle-deadly-castle-deep

About the Book:

Autumn has arrived at Castle Dark, and Nora Blake has settled into her role as an actor in Derek Corby's castle murder-mystery troupe. She is troubled, however, by the setting of Derek's fall mystery: the catacombs in the depths of the castle. Yes, these catacombs are part of a set, the skeletons and cobwebs mere props, but Nora feels uneasy in the shadowy passages beneath Castle Dark. When a man is killed during one of their first shows, the eerie catacombs become a place of terror.

Joined by her castle companions, Nora attempts to find the motive for killing a seemingly innocent victim. Some of those answers appear to lie with the local community theater, the members of which Nora has come to know because she has joined Derek's latest town production. As Nora practices her lines at Wood Glen's Blue Curtain Theater, she realizes that everyone around her is an actor, and all of her suspects are perfectly capable of convincing others of their innocence. Nora soon discovers that someone else is in danger and that she may also be in the sights of the killer. With the help of her handsome boyfriend, Detective John Dashiell, Nora will have to go off-script to prevent a murderous encore. . . .

@BerkleyMystery July Cozy Mystery Release ~ Death by Bubble Tea (LA Night Market #1) by Jennifer J. Chow @JenJChow ~ @BerkleyPub

 

Book Details:

ASIN: ‎ B09HT9WMXV

Publisher: ‎ Berkley (July 5, 2022)

Publication Date: ‎ July 5, 2022

Print Length: ‎ 300 pages

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59420553-death-by-bubble-tea

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3PrgZIY

About the Book:

Two cousins who start a food stall at their local night market get a serving of murder in this first novel of a delicious new cozy mystery series by Jennifer J. Chow, author of Mimi Lee Gets a Clue.

When Yale Yee discovers her cousin Celine is visiting from Hong Kong, she is obliged to play tour guide to a relative she hasn't seen in twenty years. Not only that, but her father thinks it's a wonderful idea for them to bond by running a food stall together at the Eastwood Village Night Market. Yale hasn't cooked in years, and she hardly considers Celine's career as a social media influencer as adequate experience, but because she's just lost her job at her local bookstore, she feels she has no choice.

Yale and Celine serve small dishes and refreshing drinks, and while business is slow, it eventually picks up thanks to Celine's surprisingly useful marketing ideas. They're quite shocked that their bubble tea, in particular, is a hit--literally--when one of their customers turns up dead. Yale and Celine are prime suspects due to the gold flakes that Celine added to the sweet drink as a garnish. Though the two cousins are polar opposites in every way, they must work together to find out what really happened to the victim or the only thing they'll be serving is time.

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Book Spotlight ~ Murder Is No Picnic (A Cape Cod Foodie Mystery) by Amy Pershing #CozyMystery

Murder Is No Picnic (A Cape Cod Foodie Mystery) by Amy Pershing

Book Details:

Murder Is No Picnic (A Cape Cod Foodie Mystery)

Cozy Mystery

3rd in Series

Setting – Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Publisher: ‎ Berkley (June 7, 2022)

Mass Market Paperback: ‎ 336 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 0593199189

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0593199183

Digital ASIN: ‎ B09K66BGZF

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QtJBm5

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About the Book:

The Fourth of July is coming, and for professional food lover Samantha Barnes, it’s all about the picnic. Okay, and the fireworks. And the parade. But mostly the picnic. What could be better than a DIY clambake followed by the best blueberry buckle in the world? Sam has finally found the perfect recipe in the kitchen of Clara Foster, famed cookbook author and retired restaurateur, and she’s thrilled when Clara agrees to a buckle baking lesson. 

But when Clara dies in a house fire blamed on carelessness in the kitchen, Sam doesn’t believe it. Unfortunately, her doubts set in motion an investigation pointing to the new owner of Clara’s legendary restaurant—and a cousin of Sam’s harbormaster boyfriend. So, in between researching the Cape’s best lobster rolls and planning her clambake, Sam needs to find Clara's killer before the fireworks really start....

Meet the Author:

Amy Pershing, who spent every summer of her childhood on Cape Cod, was an editor, a restaurant reviewer and a journalist before leading employee communications at a global bank. A few years ago she waved goodbye to Wall Street to write full time. Murder Is No Picnic is the third of the Cape Cod Foodie mysteries featuring Samantha Barnes, a disgraced but resilient ex-chef who retreats home to Cape Cod where she finds herself juggling a new job as the local paper’s “Cape Cod Foodie,” a complicated love life, a posse of just-slightly-odd friends, a falling-down house, a ginormous dog and a propensity for falling over dead bodies. Elizabeth Gilbert called the first book in the series, A Side of Murder, “the freshest, funniest mystery I have ever read,” and Kirkus Reviews gave the second book, An Eggnog to Die For, a starred review, saying, “A delightful sleuth, a complex mystery, and lovingly described cuisine: a winner for both foodies and mystery mavens.”

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June @BerkleyMystery New Book Release ~ Bayou Book Thief (A Vintage Cookbook Mystery) by Ellen Byron #CozyMystery

Bayou Book Thief (A Vintage Cookbook Mystery) 

by Ellen Byron

Book Details:

Bayou Book Thief (A Vintage Cookbook Mystery)

Cozy Mystery

1st in Series

Setting - New Orleans, Louisiana

Publisher: ‎ Berkley (June 7, 2022)

Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 0593437616

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0593437612

Digital ASIN: ‎ B09FPJHVGK

About the Book:

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.

The skills Ricki has developed ferreting out hidden vintage treasures come in handy for investigations. But both her business and Bon Vee could wind up as deadstock when Ricki’s past as curator of a billionaire’s first edition collection comes back to haunt her.

Will Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware be a success … or a recipe for disaster?

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New June Book Release by @BerkleyMystery ~ The Proof Is in the Poison (Southern Homebrew Mystery #2) by Diane Kelly @DianeKellyBooks #CozyMystery

 

Moonshine shop owner Hattie Hayes is ready to lend a hand when a mystery starts brewing at a train convention in Chattanooga, TN, in this charming cozy mystery series.

Now that her moonshine shop is up and running, Hattie Hayes can focus her efforts on expanding her fledgling business to events in the area, like the Chattanooga Choo Choo Model Train Convention, which is running full steam ahead at the convention center down the block. Hattie is all aboard, seizing this perfect opportunity to promote her Southern homebrew to the folks who have come to the city for the annual event.

But when an attendee dies after drinking some of Hattie's moonshine, she'll need to prove her innocence. Between tight-lipped train hobbyists and competitors for a coveted convention prize, Hattie has a wide array of suspects to choose from, and she'll need to use all the tricks up her sleeve to make sure her moonshine business can survive a murderer and stay on track.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/39AIVui

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58959315-the-proof-is-in-the-poison

ASIN: ‎ B09FNYS517

Publisher: ‎ Berkley (June 7, 2022)

Publication Date: ‎ June 7, 2022

Print Length: ‎ 284 pages

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