Cozy Mystery Archives

GUEST BLOG: by A Sheepish Investigation by Joy Ann Ribar Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 5 October 2021

When I wrote my first mystery, Deep Dark Secrets in 2019, I decided on a whim to make my main character’s business partner, Carmen, one half of a sheep-farm-owning husband and wife...

GUEST BLOG: An Ode to Renting by Susan McCormick Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 5 October 2021

My husband and I moved around a lot in our early days. Because of the military, we were separated for years, living in apartments on either end of California. Then we moved...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE MISSING PROFESSOR by Andrea Instone, Translated by Rachel Reynolds

Cozy Mystery JoAnne - 4 October 2021

Fraülein Schumacher Investigates: Book 1 Publication Date: July 19, 2021 In 1926, young Emma finds herself leading a sheltered life with her grandmother in England, where her aunt’s dramatic squabbling is the greatest excitement...

GUEST BLOG: Welcome to Cypress, South Carolina by Dorothy St. James Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 28 September 2021

The small town of Cypress is a fictional town that lives in the pages of the Beloved Bookroom Mystery series. But it’s like many of the very real and quite charming small...

GUEST BLOG: A World of Words by Dane McCaslin Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 27 September 2021

I’ve always had an interest in how language works. When I was old enough to discover that languages were derivatives of a root language, I was hooked. Latin was amazing. And I found...

GUEST BLOG: The Benefit to Me of National Novel Writing Month by Debra Sennefelder Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 21 September 2021

One of the aspects of being an author who writes on spec is that it plays to one of my weaknesses, perhaps to my greatest weakness—self-discipline. I can set writing goals, and...

GUEST BLOG: Why ‘Vintage Kitchen Mysteries’? by Victoria Hamilton Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 17 September 2021

In A Calculated Whisk, my tenth Vintage Kitchen Mystery, I have my heroine looking over a collection of vintage kitchen whisks, preparing to mount an exhibit. Jaymie Leighton Müller not only...

4-STAR REVIEW: SWIMMING WITH THE FISHES by Marc Jedel

Cozy Mystery JoAnne - 16 September 2021

An Ozarks Lake Mystery: Book 2 Publication Date: August 27, 2021 She’s settling into a new life. But when a fishing trip totally capsizes, can she get a friend off the hook for murder? Elizabeth...

GUEST BLOG: A Little Bit About My Career by Heather Haven Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 15 September 2021

Hi Everyone. I wanted to tell you a little bit about my career as a writer and the Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries. In my twenties and thirties, I spent my time in...

GUEST BLOG: My Writing Journey by Lorie Lewis Ham Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 15 September 2021

I think the question that writers get the most is, “How did you become a writer?” That and “Will you take a look at my manuscript?” It may sound cliché, but I feel...

GUEST BLOG: Make Time to Write – 5 Tips for Time by Julie Anne Lindsey Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 15 September 2021

So you want to be a writer. It’ll be fun, they say. You can write in your spare time, they say. Write after work or school. Or on weekends. You have time. That...

COVER REVEAL: AN EGGNOG TO DIE FOR by Amy Pershing

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 13 September 2021

Christmas is coming to Cape Cod but when Sam Barnes finds a very dead Santa in a very hip restaurant . . . it’s up to her to sift out suspects who have been...