The Cozy Mystery Junkie

A bookworm since forever who decided she liked cozy mysteries more and wanted to share her favorite titles.

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2021 Cruisin' Through the Cozies Reading Challenge

2021 Cruisin’ Through the Cozies Reading Challenge

I’m joining a challenge to somehow nudge myself into reading more cozies this year (and reach like 100 reviews too and make this blog more active). This is the 2021 Cruisin’ Through the Cozies Reading Challenge hosted here. You can sign up for the challenge here. Reviews you made for your books can be posted here. I’m starting with Level Two – Investigator and hopefully go up. And…here are the…

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Anna Gerard - Peaches and Schemes

Anna Gerard – Peaches and Schemes

May 11 2021 | Crooked Lane Books Buy @ Amazon | Barnes & Noble Nina Fleet might be new to the innkeeping business, but she’s savvy enough to know that Cymbeline’s tourists aren’t enough to keep her fledgling bed and breakfast going. And so, Nina decides to tap into the destination wedding market by taking a booth at the Veils and Vanities Bridal Expo. The twice-yearly event is sponsored by the…

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Elle Brooke White - Dead on the Vine

Elle Brooke White – Dead on the Vine

April 7 2020 | Crooked Lane Books Buy @ Amazon | Barnes & Noble Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family’s produce farm–much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm’s fallow furrows–but Charlotte’s sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it…

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Laura Jensen Walker - Murder Most Sweet

Laura Jensen Walker – Murder Most Sweet

September 8 2020 | Crooked Lane Books

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Everyone in Lake Potawatomi, Wisconsin, knows Teddie St. John. Tall, curly-haired Teddie is a superb baker, a bohemian bon vivant, and a mystery writer. Teddie is walking her American Eskimo dog, Gracie, when her four-legged friend finds Teddie’s missing silk scarf. Only problem: the scarf is tied tightly around the neck of a…

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Anna Gerard - Peachy Scream

Anna Gerard – Peachy Scream

August 11 2020 | Crooked Lane Books

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It’s nothing short of inevitable that Cymbeline, GA, hosts an annual Shakespeare festival. But stage-struck Nina Fleet is about to learn that putting on an amateur theatrical production can be murder. Nina’s anticipating showbiz glamour and glitz when a community Shakespearean troupe arrives for a two-week stay at her B&B. But the…

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Ellie Alexander - Fudge and Jury

Ellie Alexander – Fudge and Jury

January 3 2017 | St. Martin’s Publishing Group

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It’s almost spring in Ashland, Oregon, and the town is preparing for the Shakespeare and the annual Chocolate Festival. Business is cookin’ at Torte, and the store is expanding as Jules’ team whips up crèpes filled with mascarpone cheese and dark chocolate. Torte stands a chance of being this year’s confectionery belle…

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Tracy Kiely - A Perfect Manhattan Murder

Tracy Kiely – A Perfect Manhattan Murder

Is this the end of the Nic & Nigel Mysteries? There are so many segments of high society (because Nigel is well-connected) that can provide a setting for future stories (such as the art world, the music world, more Hollywood, or high society celebrating the debut of something/someone). I have been waiting for a Book 4, and I’m really tempted to send the author a message. Any updates on this…

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Ellie Alexander - Caught Bread Handed

Ellie Alexander – Caught Bread Handed

June 28 2016 | St. Martin’s Paperbacks

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Jules Capshaw is still chewing over her husband Carlos’s return to Ashland, Oregon. Could there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Whatever is stirring between those two will have to wait. Despite the Oregon Shakespeare Festival being dark for the winter, the bakeshop is bustling, the dough is rolling, and there’s no rest for…

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Tracy Kiely - Killer Cocktail

Tracy Kiely – Killer Cocktail

May 8 2016 | Midnight Ink

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Walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards with a bow-tied Bullmastiff draws Nic and Nigel Martini plenty of attention from the press. But that’s nothing compared to the attention they receive at the A-list after party, when Hollywood royalty learn they’ve discovered behind-the-scenes footage from an acclaimed film that left one of its…

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Shari Randall - Curses, Boiled Again!

Shari Randall – Curses, Boiled Again!

January 30 2018 | St. Martin”s Publishing Group

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Allie Larkin was living her dream as a ballet dancer when a bad fall put her out of business. Now she’s back home in Mystic Bay to heal a broken ankle while also helping her dear Aunt Gully get her Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack off the ground. Nothing would help Gully more than winning the local food festival’s Best…

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Kathy Aarons – Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates

Kathy Aarons – Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates

I featured this on a previous Waiting on Wednesday post because I wanted to read something about chocolate and mysteries. Years after, I find this sitting idly on a TBR list and decided to start this series.

September 2 2014 | Berkley

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Best friends Michelle Serrano and Erica Russell are celebrating the sweet rewards of their combined bookstore and chocolate shop by…

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Julie Hyzy - Hail to the Chef

Julie Hyzy – Hail to the Chef

December 1 2008 | Berkley

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White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Lady’s nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with Ollie. Ollie suspects something fishy is going on. She’ll have to watch her back—and find a killer…

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Cynthia Baxter - Last Licks

Cynthia Baxter – Last Licks

December 31 2019 | Kensington

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Kate receives the shock of a lifetime when she’s blindsided by an offer she can’t refuse. An assistant movie director desperately wants to shoot a key scene at Lickety Splits and she’s willing to pay big bucks to sweeten the last-minute deal. All Kate has to do is tolerate a bustling film crew for a few hours and provide one important…

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Ellie Alexander - On Thin Icing

Ellie Alexander – On Thin Icing

December 29 2015 | St. Martin’s Publishing Group

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It’s the dead of winter in the sleepy town of Ashland, which means no tourists – and fewer customers – for Jules Capshaw and her bakery. But when she’s asked to cater an off-season retreat for the directors of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, business starts heating up…until Jules finds a dead body in the freezer.

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Ellie Alexander - A Batter of Life and Death

Ellie Alexander – A Batter of Life and Death

June 30 2015 | St. Martin’s Publishing Group

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It’s autumn in Ashland, Oregon-’tis the season for a spiced hot apple cider with a serving (or two) of Torte’s famous peach cobbler. It’s also the perfect time for Jules Capshaw to promote her family’s beloved bake shop by competing in The Pastry Channel’s reality show, Take the Cake. The prize is $25,000. But as Jules…

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Ginger Bolton – Survival of the Fritters

January 30 2018 | Kensington Books

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If Emily has learned anything from her past as a 911 operator, it’s to stay calm during stressful situations. But that’s a tall order when one of her regulars, Georgia Treetor, goes missing. Georgia never skips morning cappuccinos with her knitting circle. Her pals fear the worst—especially Lois, a close friend who recently moved…

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Debra Sennefelder - The Uninvited Corpse

Debra Sennefelder – The Uninvited Corpse

March 27 2018 | Kensington

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Hope’s schedule is already jam packed with recipe testing and shameless plugs for her food blog as she rushes off to attend a spring garden tour in the charming town of Jefferson, Connecticut. Unfortunately, it isn’t the perfectly arranged potted plants that grab her attention—it’s the bloody body of reviled real estate agent Peaches McCoy…

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