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Category: Mystery

Categories Mystery

The Chocolate Cat Caper

CatherinePosted onMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022 Leave a comment on The Chocolate Cat Caper

Book #24 in our A to Z Mystery Tour Joanna Carl 2002 – Chocoholic Mystery #1 A fan of both chocolate and cats, I pulled this book from the second “C” bay of the Mystery section at my library and was pleasantly surprised to read the acknowledgments thanking members of … Continue ReadingThe Chocolate Cat Caper

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Murphy’s Law

CatherinePosted onApril 28, 2022April 28, 2022 Leave a comment on Murphy’s Law

#23 in the A to Z Mystery Tour Rhys Bowen, 2001 – #1 in the Molly Murphy Mysteries It’s 1901. Molly Murphy has killed a man rather than surrender her virtue; she’ll surely hang for the murder if she doesn’t make her way out of Ireland. Obviously she escapes the … Continue ReadingMurphy’s Law

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The Neon Rain – Dave Robicheaux #1

CatherinePosted onApril 26, 2022April 28, 2022 Leave a comment on The Neon Rain – Dave Robicheaux #1

#22 in our A to Z Mystery Tour James Lee Burke (1987) This book, which is shelved in the Mystery section in my library, would be more precisely categorized as a detective novel, I think. This isn’t my sub-genre of choice; honestly, I grabbed it as part of the A … Continue ReadingThe Neon Rain – Dave Robicheaux #1

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While My Pretty One Knits

CatherinePosted onApril 26, 2022April 26, 2022 Leave a comment on While My Pretty One Knits

Book #21 in our A to Z Mystery Tour Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries* #1 by Anne Canadeo – 2009 Who doesn’t love a good knitting-themed mystery? Maggie Messina is the owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, and she’s wanted for the murder of her competitor. Her friends rally round … Continue ReadingWhile My Pretty One Knits

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Murder in the Museum

CatherinePosted onApril 14, 2022April 14, 2022 Leave a comment on Murder in the Museum

Book #20 in our A to Z Mystery Tour Fethering #4 – 2003 I seem to be working my way through this series in spite of myself; as part of the A to Z Mystery Tour I ran across the fourth book in Simon Brett’s Fethering Mysteries on my local … Continue ReadingMurder in the Museum

Categories Mystery Uncategorized

The Bramble and the Rose

CatherinePosted onMarch 28, 2022March 28, 2022 Leave a comment on The Bramble and the Rose

Book #19 in the A to Z Mystery Tour Tom Bouman 2020 – Henry Farrell #3 Henry Farrell, rural Pennsylvania police officer, has been called to the scene of a grisly murder; at least one more killing takes place, and Henry becomes a suspect – and then a fugitive. I … Continue ReadingThe Bramble and the Rose

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Death at Friar’s Inn

CatherinePosted onMarch 26, 2022March 27, 2022 Leave a comment on Death at Friar’s Inn

Rob Keeley 2022 Tom Barton is hapless. He is without hap. He sneezes his way through his Mooting Competition, he is put in the embarrassing position of asking for permission to go to the bathroom at the dinner following, and he is so deeply in the thrall of the lovely … Continue ReadingDeath at Friar’s Inn

Categories Mystery

The Lemur

CatherinePosted onMarch 21, 2022March 21, 2022 Leave a comment on The Lemur

18th book in the A to Z Mystery Tour Benjamin Black (pen name for John Banville) 2008 Well, I guess you could call this a mystery. A mystery – an unanswered question -does exist, and at the end of this book, which is so short I would call it a … Continue ReadingThe Lemur

Categories Mystery

If Walls Could Talk

CatherinePosted onMarch 17, 2022March 17, 2022 Leave a comment on If Walls Could Talk

#17 in the A to Z Mystery Tour Juliet Blackwell 2010 First book in the Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries Mel Turner specializes in restoring old homes in the San Francisco Bay area – and it should come as no surprise that those homes have ghosts. Some are as old as … Continue ReadingIf Walls Could Talk

Categories Mystery

Death in Paris

CatherinePosted onMarch 14, 2022March 14, 2022 Leave a comment on Death in Paris

Book #16 in the A to Z Mystery Tour Emilia Bernhard 2018 Book 1: Death in Paris Mysteries Rachel Levis, a forty-something American living in Paris with her husband Alan, is summoned to the home of her lover of twenty years ago to hear the reading of his will. Her … Continue ReadingDeath in Paris

Categories Mystery

Pride, Prejudice, and Poison

CatherinePosted onMarch 11, 2022March 12, 2022 Leave a comment on Pride, Prejudice, and Poison

Book #15 in the A to Z Mystery Tour Elizabeth Blake 2019 Book 1 of the Jane Austen Society Mystery Series* – yes, the second JA mystery series I’ve run into on this tour, and I’m only in the B’s. The town of Kirkbymoorside has a lot of sweaty people. … Continue ReadingPride, Prejudice, and Poison

Categories Mystery

Deadly Dog Days

CatherinePosted onMarch 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Leave a comment on Deadly Dog Days

Fourteeenth book in the A to Z Mystery Tour Dog Days Mysteries #1 Jamie M. Blair 2016 Cameron (Cam) Cripps-Hayman, separated from Sheriff Ben Hayman, is finding the small town of Metamora, Indiana to be less than cozy – especially its most irritating citizen (and Cam’s mother-in-law) Irene Hayman, president … Continue ReadingDeadly Dog Days

Categories Mystery

The Windsor Knot

CatherinePosted onMarch 6, 2022March 6, 2022 Leave a comment on The Windsor Knot

A to Z Mystery Tour – Book 13 Book 1: Her Majesty the Queen Investigates – SJ Bennett 2021 **This is not the same as the “Her Majesty Investigates” series by a different author who didn’t have any books in my library. ** A talented young pianist has a night … Continue ReadingThe Windsor Knot

Categories Mystery

Track of the Cat

CatherinePosted onMarch 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Leave a comment on Track of the Cat

Book #12 in the A to Z Mystery Tour. Book #1 of the Anna Pigeon Mysteries – 1993 OK, so I’m a little late to the party on this author; I can’t speak to Nevada Barr’s entire body of work, but Track of the Cat is quite the mystery debut. … Continue ReadingTrack of the Cat

Categories Mystery

Pride and Prescience

CatherinePosted onFebruary 27, 2022February 27, 2022 Leave a comment on Pride and Prescience

Book #11 in our A to Z Mystery Tour. Carrie Bebris, Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries, Book 1 Mr. and Mrs. Darcy are newly married, as is Elizabeth Bennet Darcy’s sister Jane, to her Mr. Bingley. Various logistical problems prevent the Darcys from going to Pemberly after the double wedding, … Continue ReadingPride and Prescience

Categories Mystery Uncategorized

Murder 101

CatherinePosted onFebruary 24, 2022February 24, 2022 Leave a comment on Murder 101

Book 10 in our A to Z Mystery Tour Maggie Barbieri’s Murder 101 Series – Book 1 Forty-something Dr. Alison Bergeron, professor at a small private university in New York, may have been framed for the murder of one of her students. Murder 101 is a fast, entertaining read with … Continue ReadingMurder 101

Categories Mystery

Wild Indigo

CatherinePosted onFebruary 22, 2022February 22, 2022 Leave a comment on Wild Indigo

Book #9 in our A to Z Mystery Tour A Wild Mystery #1 – 2007 This mystery, set in the pueblos of New Mexico and filled with magical realism and Native American mysticism, is a departure from the cozy mysteries reviewed so far in the A to Z Mystery Tour … Continue ReadingWild Indigo

Categories Mystery

Murder With Puffins

CatherinePosted onFebruary 20, 2022February 20, 2022 Leave a comment on Murder With Puffins

Donna Andrews – Meg Langslow #2 2000 Because most, if not all, of this series is available in audio format on Scribd, I may be reviewing more of the series. Murder With Puffins finds Meg Langslow and her boyfriend Michael on a ferry off the coast of Maine, headed toward … Continue ReadingMurder With Puffins

Categories Mystery

Uncommon Grounds

CatherinePosted onFebruary 12, 2022February 12, 2022 Leave a comment on Uncommon Grounds

This is the eighth book of our A to Z Mystery Tour. I will be choosing the first book of a mystery series on each shelf in this section and reviewing it here. I have added the series title list for each book to the website under Series in Order … Continue ReadingUncommon Grounds

Categories Mystery

Aunt Dimity’s Death

CatherinePosted onFebruary 10, 2022February 10, 2022 Leave a comment on Aunt Dimity’s Death

This is the seventh book of our A to Z Mystery Tour, taken from the fourth shelf of the second bay in the Mystery section of my local library. I will be choosing one book (hopefully the first book of a mystery series) on each shelf in this section, in … Continue ReadingAunt Dimity’s Death

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