Plenty of cozies to read
There’s a lot going on in the cozy mystery market in May!
Lee Hollis returns to her Hayley Powell series in “Death of a Wedding Cake Baker.”
Hayley’s best friend, Liddy, is getting married, and Hayley is going to be the matron of honor. While Hayley is dealing with her frienemy, Sabrina, also being a bridesmaid, and her outlandish ideas for bachelorette parties, Liddy’s quarrelsome cousin is causing problems with the cake, not wanting to make the requested angel food cake, but instead wants to do something with nuts, which Liddy is allergic to. While Hayley is trying to keep her friend from flipping out, the cousin is found dead, poisoned by an angel food cake! Did Liddy really have enough? Will the wedding continue? Did the cake maker actually make someone else mad? Or is there something more sinister going on? It’s up to Hayley to find out!
Readers will love this latest jaunt of their heroine and will love to see Hayley solve the crime in time for a happily ever after…or at least will hope for one!
“Death of a Wedding Cake Baker” is published by Kensington. It is $7.99 and 314 pages long.
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When a librarian ends up dead Addie may be in the hot seat in “Prologue to Murder” by Lauren Elliott.
Addie, living back in her seaside New England hometown after a career at the Boston Public Library, is as shocked as anybody when local librarian June Winslow doesn’t make it home from a book club meeting and instead is found dead at the bottom of some stairs. But Miss Newsy from the local paper, a gossip columnist, suspects Addie may have something to do with it, and suddenly all eyes on her. And when a gorgeous blond reporter from LA shows up, she drives a wedge between Addie and her police chief boyfriend. Will Addie end up in jail for a murder she didn’t commit and minus a boyfriend? She is determined to track down June’s killer before its too late.
With a quirky heroine, a lovely setting and a literary crime, this is a story that will intrigue cozy readers.
“Prologue to Murder” is published by Kensington. It is $7.99 and 318 pages long.
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Readers can take a trip to Ireland with the new series by Carlene O’Connor “Murder in Galway.”
Exclusively from Barnes and Noble, readers can follow as Tara Meehan goes to Ireland to reconnect with her late mother’s family. She has barely reached her mother’s hometown when she is warned by a fortune teller than death is around her, an innkeeper gives her trouble and no one seems particularly friendly. When she goes to find her uncle, she instead finds a man dead. At first believing it’s her uncle, she goes to town upset, and soon learns that it was instead a wealthy client of her uncle’s architectural salvage business – and now her still missing uncle is a suspect. When Tara must step in to the family business, she meets Danny, her uncle’s hot employee and Ben, a local boxer who wants to turn her uncle’s mill into a ring. Who can she really trust? Is her uncle a killer? What really happened and will she be in danger?
With romance, a magical setting and plenty of crazy characters, readers will be swept away in this new series.
“Murder in Galway” is published by Kensington. It is $7.99.
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