Cozy Mystery Archives

GUEST BLOG: Creating an Enchanted Library in Destiny Falls by Elizabeth Pantley Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 18 March 2021

I’ve always loved libraries. There’s just something about the hushed magic they emit that makes me want to lose hours wandering the aisles. My main character in the Destiny Falls Magic and Mystery...

4 STAR REVIEW: HAUNTED HIBISCUS by Laura Childs

Cozy Mystery JoAnne - 12 March 2021

A Tea Shop Mystery: Book 22 Publication Date: March 2, 2021 Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is the...

BOOK BLAST: HAUNTED HIBISCUS by Laura Childs Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 12 March 2021

A Tea Shop Mystery: Book 22 Publication Date: March 2, 2021 Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is the...

GUEST BLOG: Cozy Mysteries by Abby Collette Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 10 March 2021

When I tell people I write cozy mysteries, I often get asked what is that? Readers of mystery are used to the darker side of it, the suspense, the violence, and the grittiness...

4 STAR REVIEW: LONG ISLAND ICED TINA by Maria DiRico

Cozy Mystery JoAnne - 9 March 2021

A Catering Hall Mystery: Book 2 February 23, 2021 Mia Carina is back in the borough of Queens—in charge of the family catering hall, Belle View Banquet Manor, and keeping her nonna company. But...

GUEST BLOG: Why I Write Cozy Mysteries by D.E. Haggerty Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 9 March 2021

The reason I write cozy mysteries is actually part of this huge mix-up. When I wrote Murder, Mystery & Dating Mayhem (Book 1 of the Gray-Haired Knitting Detectives), I thought I was...

GUEST BLOG: Merry Wynter, Fashionista – or – Clothes Make the Woman by Victoria Hamilton Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 8 March 2021

I’ve always loved clothes, but as a little larger woman, I’ve had a love-not-so-love relationship with my body. It’s a struggle many women can relate to. When I envisioned the Merry Muffin...

GUEST BLOG: Writing Mystery – Where Have You Been All My Life? by S.C. Merritt Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 5 March 2021

In early 2019, I was bored. Now, don’t get me wrong. I had a wonderful life and was immensely blessed. So why did I feel so dissatisfied? I chided myself for feeling...

5 STAR REVIEW: A GAME OF CONES by Abby Collette

Cozy Mystery Lori Van Buren - 4 March 2021

An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery: Book 2 Publication Date: March 2, 2021 In this charming mystery series set in an ice cream shop, no case is too cold to crack! Bronwyn Crewse is delighted that...

GUEST BLOG: Make-do and Mend by Kate Parker Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 3 March 2021

Make-do and Mend became the slogan of nearly every country after World War II began. Restrictions on fabric, leather, and metal, needed for the war effort, influenced clothing design and availability. Where nylon...

GUEST BLOG: Amy Pershing on Food as Memory Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 2 March 2021

The nineteenth-century French journalist and epicure Charles Pierre Monselet once famously wrote: “The pleasant hours of our life are all connected by a more or less tangible link with some memory of...

4 STAR REVIEW: A SIDE OF MURDER by Amy Pershing

Cozy Mystery Jen K - 2 March 2021

Beautiful Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is known for seafood, sand, surf, and, now…murder. Samantha Barnes was always a foodie. And when the CIA (that’s the Culinary Institute of America) came calling, she happily traded...