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Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien

A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette

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Sometimes you need a cozy mystery (or two) to relax your mind. If you’re looking for low-stakes mysteries featuring female amateur sleuths, give the Noodle Shop or Ice Cream Parlor books a whirl. Coincidently, these are both set in Ohio. A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette is a newer series with only two books released. In book one, we meet Bronwyn, Win for short, as she re-opens the family’s ice cream shop in the middle of winter. Not the best time, but her home-made […]

Light and fluffy cozy mystery about a senior citizen CIA agent saving hippies from the Bulgarian secret police in 1971

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

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The Mrs. Pollifax series has become one of my reading comforts. When I’m tired or world-weary, it’s nice to pick up something familiar with a little mystery and adventure, but no real threat of danger, while some nice people make the world a safer place.  The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax is the third in the series, published in 1971. Life is back to normal for Mrs. Pollifax; she’s hosting her garden club for a rare blooming of her night-blooming cereus. Just as she’s thinking her short-lived […]

Baby’s first cozy mystery. I guess I’m Baby in this metaphor.

Death By Dumpling (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #1) by Vivien Chien

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I have slightly mixed feelings on this one, but overall I enjoyed it! I think this might actually be my first true cozy mystery, although I’ve read books that you might stretch to fit into that genre, like the Inspector Gamache books, but the cozy part is only a small part of that series. As far as I understand it, a true “cozy mystery” involves very little stress on the part of the reader, usually takes place in a small town with eccentric villagers, heavily […]

Cozy mystery a la mode

A Deadly Inside Scoop (Ice Cream Parlor Mystery Series, Book 1) by Abby Collette

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I really wanted to love this book. I love ice cream! I love cozy mysteries! I especially love cozy mysteries with a cast that isn’t all white women! But alas, I found this book to be more low-fat frozen yogurt than homemade ice cream – close, but not what I was craving. The story follows Bronwyn “Win” Crewse as she takes over her family’s ice cream parlor in the dead of winter in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The town, a suburb of Cleveland, is built around […]

The coziest of crime scenes

Yarned and Dangerous (Tangled Web Mystery Book 1) by Sadie Hartwell

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My CBR 13 cozy crime (reading) spree continues with Sadie Hartwell’s Yarned and Dangerous, the first book in the Tangled Web Mystery series. Fashion designer Josie Blair temporarily relocates from Brooklyn to Dorset Falls, Connecticut, to care for her great uncle Eb who is recovering from a fatal car crash that killed his wife Cora. Dorset Falls was Josie’s high school home, but it was never her scene, and the reader is introduced to the tiny town through her now-urban eyes: No Starbucks. No nail […]



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