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‘Death By Politics’: Cozy, Cool

Death by Politics

By Kent Ostby (Indie author, 2021)

Genre: Fiction/Cozy Mystery

“Politics turning to violence is the mark of an unstable society. Death by politics was generally confined to third world countries and was definitely supposed to end at the US border.”

Simmering tensions threaten to boil over into murder and mayhem following an acrimonious ballot initiative that split Cobb County, Georgia into two in this cozy mystery by indie author Kent Ostby.

When the mayor is critically injured and a county supervisor is murdered, Shea Carlin suddenly finds himself up to his proverbial eyeballs in a murder mystery. Are ReUnite protestors to blame, or is something else in play? What? As dead bodies pile up, so does the danger. Can Carlin solve the Whodunit before he’s next on the hit list? And what about Carlin’s main squeeze, Kim?

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Sneak Peek at ‘The Missing Peke’

The Case of the Missing Peke

By Kate Darroch

Publisher: Ad Astra Press (March 2023)

Genre: Fiction: Cozy Mystery/Thriller

Pages: 30

Via: Bittersweet Book Tours

Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Okay. First off. Who can resist a cover like this? I mean, c’mon. Talk about “Too Cute!” Even the neighbor’s cat is gonna want to snuggle up with this sweet little fella. You will too after a few pages. Like this:

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Cozy Up With ‘Death at the Abbey’

Death at the Abbey

A Kipper Cottage Mystery

By Jan Durham

Published by: Inkubator Books, 2022

Genre: General Fiction/Murder Mystery & Thrillers

Via: Book Blog Tour

Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A medieval religious artifact. A budding romance.  A middled-age widow and amateur sleuth who wonders if there’s a connection between two murders, and why? And who might benefit from a religious relic with healing properties?

Liz McLuckie’s husband died five years ago. Working through her grief, she’s neck-deep in renovating two dilapidated old cottages in Whitby on the North Yorkshire Coast. Out walking her faithful bull terrier, Nelson, at a cliffside Benedictine Abbey one morning, Liz stumbles upon a dead body. She later discovers that a break-in occurred at the church the same night as the body showed up. Coincidence or not?

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‘Songbird’ Hits High Notes

Songbird

By Gail Meath

 

Via: Reedsy/Discovery

Genre: Historical Romance/Cozy Mystery

Summary: A gung-ho gumshoe and his canine partner team up with a beautiful Broadway star to track a serial killer. But people connected to the theater keep winding up dead. Is Laura next? Can Jax and Ace crack the case before the killer strikes again?

Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

“Hey Mom!” says I, Kimber the Magnificent. You gotta get a load of this “cozy mystery” thingy. (No idea what that means. But it sounds yummy!)

“What’s up, Kim?” says Mom.

“This Songbird book? It stars Ace the German shepherd. His human sidekick is Private Detective Jax Diamond. I’m goin’ with the dog, okay? Whaddya think?”

Here’s our review:

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Why ‘Falling Into Magic’ Is Like a Denver Omelet

 

Falling Into Magic (Better Beginnings, November 2020)

By Elizabeth Pantley

Mystery/Romance/Humor

Ever been up to your eyebrows in a dense-as-a-pea-soup-fog read? You come up for air, ravenous. Wipe the sweat off your brow. And look around for something light. Fluffy. Fun and delish. The literary version of a Denver omelet.

Falling Into Magic is that kind of a book.

Hayden is an editor/writer for Seattle-based Natural Living Magazine. She likes to write, read, and hike. Hayden also owns a Himalayan cat (nobody’s perfect.) The cat thinks she’s queen of the world. Cuz she really is. (Kimber: You think I’ve got attitude? Wait till you get a load of miss feline sassy pants, Toots.)

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