Arsenic and Adobo
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Lila Macapagal moves back in with her family in the small town of Shady Palms, her dreams of becoming a pastry chef drifting away. Her Tita Rosie’s restaurant is in financial trouble and she’s been tasked with saving it,…
The Box in the Woods
Stevie Bell is all set for a boring summer at home. When an entrepreneur owner of a summer camp contacts her with an unsolved case, and she gets to bring her friends along if she agrees to investigate. In 1978, four teenagers were murdered at…
As Good as Dead
As Good as Dead is the third and final book in the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the the previous books. Pip Fitz-Amobi isn’t sleeping, she can’t stop reliving the shooting, the sound of gunshots,…
Lock Every Door
Jules has lost her job, boyfriend and apartment when she is offered a job that appears too good to be true. The Bartholomew is the most elusive of all Manhattan’s expensive buildings, and she’s going to get paid to house sit. The rules: no visitors,…
Firekeeper’s Daughter
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine lives her life split between two cultures, half Ojibwe, half white, not quite feeling like she belongs in either. When her best friend is murdered, she is approached by the FBI, to go undercover to try and find out who has been…
Dial A for Aunties
1 (accidental) murder 2 thousand wedding guests 3 (maybe) cursed generations 4 meddling Asian aunties to the rescue! Family is important to Meddy Chan. She chose to join their wedding business rather than following her boyfriend across the country. She’s never been able to find…
Truly Devious
In 1936, industrialist and founder of Ellingham Academy, Albert Ellingham received a threatening letter signed Truly Devious. His daughter and wife were kidnapped, never to be seen again and a student went missing. The case was never solved. Stevie wants to solve it, and the…
Eight Detectives
Grant McAllister is an author living in seclusion when Julia Hart approaches him, wanting to republish his book. Thirty years ago he wrote a series of stories exploring the rules of the murder mystery genre, but he doesn’t seem to remember much about it. As…
The two series that broke my lockdown slump
As you might have noticed, 2020 has not been a great reading year for me. I was dusting off my challenge lists to see if I could get started again and was faced with reading a mystery. I mean I like mysteries in crossover genre,…
Sadie
When Sadie’s little sister is murdered and the investigation goes nowhere, she sets off to bring the killer to justice. Some months after, a journalist picks up the story of a missing girl and her murdered sister. Can he piece together what happened and where…
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