A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder | Countess of Harleigh Mystery Book One
Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! Join our discussion of A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery Book One) by Dianne Freeman with Angela Maria Hart and Eliza Luce 🔎
ABOUT THE BOOK
Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than she did as a wife. After an obligatory year spent mourning her philandering husband, Reggie, she puts aside her drab black gowns, leaving the countryside and her money-grubbing in-laws behind. With her young daughter in tow, Frances rents a home in Belgravia and prepares to welcome her sister, Lily, arriving from New York—for her first London season.
No sooner has Frances begun her new life than the ghosts of her old one make an unwelcome appearance. The Metropolitan police receive an anonymous letter implicating Frances in her husband’s death. Frances assures Inspector Delaney of her innocence, but she’s also keen to keep him from learning the scandalous circumstances of Reggie’s demise. As fate would have it, her dashing new neighbor, George Hazelton, is one of only two other people aware of the full story.
While busy with social engagements on Lily’s behalf, and worrying if Reggie really was murdered, Frances learns of mysterious burglaries plaguing London’s elite. The investigation brings death to her doorstep, and Frances rallies her wits, a circle of gossips, and the ever-chivalrous Mr. Hazelton to uncover the truth. A killer is in their midst, perhaps even among her sister’s suitors. And Frances must unmask the villain before Lily’s season—and their lives—come to a most unseemly end . . .
GoodReads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36630895-a-lady-s-guide-to-etiquette-and-murder
YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEL0Sqvb1w
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Vinyl Resting Place | Record Shop Mystery Book One
Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club for All Sorts of Sleuthing Fun 🔎 In this episode, Angela and Ben discuss Vinyl Resting Place (Record Shop Mystery Book One) by Olivia Blacke 🎶
ABOUT THE BOOK
When Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie put all their beans in one basket to open Sip & Spin Records, a record-slash-coffee shop in Cedar River, Texas, they knew there could be some scratches on the track, but no one was expecting to find a body deader than disco in the supply closet.
Family is everything to the Jessups, so when their uncle is arrested by Juni’s heartbreaking ex on suspicion of murder, the sisters don’t skip a beat putting Sip & Spin up for bail collateral. But their tune changes abruptly when Uncle Calvin disappears, leaving them in a grind. With their uncle’s freedom and the future of their small business on the line, it’s up to Juni and her sisters to get in the groove and figure out whodunit before the killer’s trail—and the coffee—goes cold.
Music and mocha seem like a blend that should be “Knockin' On Heaven's Door,” but caught up in a murder investigation with her family and their life savings on the line, Juni wonders if she might be on the "Highway to Hell" instead.
Vinyl Resting Place on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60784500-vinyl-resting-place
YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXJBiYX7iI&t=3307s
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Up to No Gouda | Grilled Cheese Mysteries Book One
Join Angela, Paula, and Annie as well as the rest of The Cozy Mystery Book Club for their chat about Up to No Gouda. It's gouda be a lot of fun!
📖 About Up to No Gouda by Linda Reilly 📖
Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream—opening Carly’s Grilled Cheese Eatery. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled cheese concoctions. All but Lyle Bagley, Carly’s one-time high school boyfriend and now town bully who just bought the building that houses her eatery and wants Carly out. After a muenster of a fight, Carly’s forced to put her nose to the rind and find a solution to keep her business afloat. That is…until Lyle is discovered dead behind the dumpster of Carly’s shop, and one of her employees becomes the prime suspect. In order to save her eatery and prove her friend’s innocence, Carly must sleuth out the killer before she’s the one who gets grilled.
YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW78uqAF8pw&t=4258s
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Steeped to Death | Witches Brew Mystery, Book One
Enjoy The Cozy Mystery Book Club's discussion of Steeped to Death (Witches' Brew Mystery One) by Gretchen Rue.
Celebrate paranormal cozy mysteries with Colleen (@ilikeoldbooks1213), Angela (@writerahart), and The Cozy Mystery Book Club (@cozymysteryclub).
📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖
For fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flowers, it’s teatime in Raven Creek—but a murder at the The Earl’s Study sets the stage for an intoxicating brew of small-town chicanery with a hint of the supernatural.
Phoebe Winchester’s beloved aunt Eudora has a taste for adventure—and a knack for making magical tea. It’s even rumored that she just might be a witch. So when Eudora passes away and leaves everything to her niece—her Victorian mansion, her bookshop/tea store, The Earl’s Study, and one very chubby orange cat named Bob—Phoebe gets more than she bargained for. And she knows she’s in deep when a dead man is found on the shop’s back step, apparently killed while trying to break in.
Two suspects immediately emerge among the townspeople of Raven Creek, Washington. There’s village busybody Dierdre Miller, who seems desperate to buy Eudora’s house, and handsome PI Rich, one of Phoebe’s childhood friends—but how well does she really know him after all these years apart?
Phoebe knows she should leave it to the professionals, but as she starts to dig into the underbelly of Raven Creek, she begins to uncover the truth about Eudora. What’s more, her aunt might not have been the only witch in the family, as Phoebe soon discovers she has unique and unexpected gifts of her own.
Now, it’s just a matter of putting her newfound power to the test and cast a spell that could catch a killer.
GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60066681-steeped-to-death
YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-fivcSqi90&t=966s
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Homicide in Hardcover | Bibliophile Mystery Series, Book One
Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Discussion of Homicide in Hardcover! Book one in the hit Bibliophile Mystery series by Kate Carlisle.
📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖
Book expert Brooklyn Wainwright discovers that murder is always a bestseller in the first novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series.
Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can’t be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn’s friend and former employer.
On the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying in a pool of his own blood. With his final breath Abraham leaves Brooklyn with a cryptic message, “Remember the Devil,” and gives her a priceless—and supposedly cursed—copy of Goethe’s Faust for safe-keeping.
Brooklyn suddenly finds herself accused of murder and theft, thanks to Derek Stone, the humorless—and annoyingly attractive—British security officer who found her kneeling over the body. Now she has to read the clues left behind by her mentor if she is going to restore justice…
GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6077869
YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kYw7mq8c1Y&t=5103s
Welcome To YouTube‘s First Cozy Mystery Book Club! Sleuthing as a reading family since January 2018. Each month, we discuss a different cozy mystery live (YouTube Channel: Books Are My Hart). Now you can listen to our monthly YouTube livestream discussions as podcast episodes. Enjoy!
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