This holiday season Bayport, Maryland, is a dead ringer for Victorian London. Val and her grandfather are taking part in the Dickens of a Holiday festival. Val is hosting a private tea party serving the festival’s costumed volunteers, who range from Dickens divas like Madame Defarge and Miss Havisham to Ebenezer Scrooge and old St. […]
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Darby Piper is in shock. Samantha Porter—her mentor and business partner at Two Girls Detective Agency—has died in a car crash, and it doesn’t look like an accident. In fact, evidence is pointing toward Darby. Darby had expected to inherit Samantha’s half of the agency, but Samantha had recently changed the will to leave it […]
Read MoreI’m keeping this one super short, because to be honest I don’t have a whole lot to say about A Christmas Wish and a Cranberry Kiss at the Cosy Kettle. Here’s the summary from Goodreads: Running from heartbreak, twenty-five-year-old Becca has moved to the cosy village of Honeyford. Living with her best friend Zac in […]
Read MoreThis week’s Christmassy NetGalley-athon book is It Won’t be Christmas Without You by Beth Reekles. Here’s the synopsis (from Goodreads)… Eloise, a self-confessed Christmas obsessive, can’t wait for the big day. Devoted to her Michael Bublé playlist, she’s organising the school nativity play and even her gorgeous Grinch of a neighbour, James, can’t get her […]
Read MoreI think we can all agree that cosy mysteries have the punniest titles and the absolute best covers. Throw in a Christmas setting and I’m absolutely powerless to resist, which explains how I ended up with a review copy of ‘Twas the Knife Before Christmas – the second book in Jacqueline Frost’s Christmas Tree Farm […]
Read MoreGrowing up on Hope Island, Eden Lancaster always believed that if you wished hard enough for something, dreams really could come true. But Eden’s greatest wish is also her biggest secret: she has been completely in love with her childhood friend, the charming and attractive Dougie Harrison, for as long as she can remember. And he has no idea. […]
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