The Cozy Mystery Book Club

Join Angela, Marta, and Jae for a cozy discussion of Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns (Book One of the Baker Street Mystery Series) 🐾 ABOUT THE BOOK In a brand-new culinary cozy series with a fresh edge and a delightful small-town setting, the acclaimed author introduces Maddy Montgomery, a social media expert who’s #StartingOver in small town Michigan after inheriting her great-aunt’s bakery…and a 200-pound English Mastiff named Baby. When Maddy Montgomery’s groom is a no-show to their livestream wedding, it’s a disaster that no amount of filtering can fix. But a surprise inheritance offers a chance to regroup and rebrand—as long as Maddy is willing to live in her late, great-aunt Octavia’s house in New Bison, Michigan, for a year, running her bakery and caring for a 250-pound English mastiff named Baby. Maddy doesn’t bake, and her Louboutins aren’t made for walking giant dogs around Lake Michigan, but the locals are friendly and the scenery is beautiful. With help from her aunt’s loyal friends, aka the Baker Street Irregulars, Maddy feels ready to tackle any challenge, including Octavia’s award-winning cake recipes. That is, until New Bison’s mayor is fatally stabbed, and Maddy’s fingerprints are found on the knife . . . Something strange is going on in New Bison. It seems Aunt Octavia had her suspicions, too. But Maddy’s going to need a whole lot more than a trending hashtag to save her reputation—and her life. YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXBiFMAqqZc&t=7s  GoodReads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59769895-two-parts-sugar-one-part-murder   Email Newsletter Link:  https://mailchi.mp/12736139528e/angelamariahart 

Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club's YouTube livestream discussion of Secondhand Spirits (Witchcraft Mystery Book One) by Juliet Blackwell 💫🔎 Celebrate some paranormal coziness with the sleuthing family 🔮 ABOUT THE BOOK Lily Ivory is not your average witch. Her spell-casting powers tend to draw mischievous spirits while keeping normal humans at a distance. But now her vintage clothing store could give her a chance to make friends in San Francisco.... Lily hopes for a normal life when she opens Aunt Cora's Closet. With her magical knack for vintage fashion -she can sense vibrations of the past from clothing and jewelry—her store becomes a big hit. But when a client is murdered and children start disappearing from the Bay Area, Lily may be the only one who can unravel the crime. She tries to keep her identity a secret while investigating, but it's not easy—especially under the spells of sexy "mythbuster" Max Carmichael and powerful witch Aidan Rhodes. Will Lily's witchy ways be forced out of the closet?   GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6456016-secondhand-spirit YouTube Livestream Link: https://youtube.com/live/Y75MkP-nX1M    GUEST HOSTESS: ANGELA COX Instagram: wheel.and.wool https://www.instagram.com/wheel.and.wool/ ANGELA MARIA HART: https://linktr.ee/angelamariahart THE COZY MYSTERY BOOK CLUB: https://linktr.ee/cozymysteryclub  SIGN UP FOR THE EMAIL NEWSLETTER: https://mailchi.mp/12736139528e/angelamariahart 

Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club YouTube! Join myself (Angela Maria here!) and special guest, Dana (aka @readingfortheseasons on Instagram) for our discussion of Killer Jam by Karen MacInerney 📖 Killer Jam | Book One of the Dewberry Farm Mystery Series 🔎 When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother’s farm in Buttercup, Texas, she’s looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to the farm and announces plans to replace her broccoli patch with an oil derrick. Two days later, Nettie Kocurek, the woman who ordered the drilling, turns up dead at the Founders’ Day Festival with a bratwurst skewer through her heart and one of Lucy’s jam jars beside her…and the sheriff fingers Lucy as the prime suspect. Horrified, Lucy begins to talk to Nettie’s neighbors, but the more she gets to know the townspeople, the more she realizes she’s not the only one who had a beef with Nettie. Can she clear her name, or will her dream life turn into a nightmare? GoodReads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25244453-killer-jam DANA Instagram: @ReadingfortheSeasons https://www.instagram.com/readingfortheseasons/   JOIN THE EMAIL NEWSLETTER FAMILY! https://mailchi.mp/9e1787486d8b/thecozymysterybookclub   If you have any questions about The Cozy Mystery Book Club, please feel free to email writerahart@gmail.com and or visit TheCozyMysteryBookClub.com    2026 Voting Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSej8upNpRoPg13z9LIIC9Ih-p3j57DCwaUtln-56bgfTSyQwg/viewform 

Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Discussion of A Wicked Yarn by Emmie Caldwell 🔎 ABOUT THE BOOK A killer may craft the perfect crime, but as every knitter worth her yarn knows--murder wool out. Mother's Day should be a cinch for the good folks of the Crandalsburg Craft Fair, and knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger has a good feeling about this year's yield. But things quickly get knotty when Lia's daughter announces she's quit her job and Lia finds herself tangled up in the murder of her best friend's ex-husband. While Belinda's alibi quickly gets her off the hook, nasty rumors spread throughout Crandalsburg that shroud the entire fair in suspicion. Could the vendors be responsible for the murder of a man hell-bent on unraveling the fair just days before his death? Lia and her crafty group of Ninth Street Knitters must put down their needles to gather clues and save the crafting community they've grown to love. GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52832543-a-wicked-yarn  YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtX9tC_WYFE&t=6s  Special Guest: BEN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/botanyandbooks/ @botanyandbooks Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/botanyandbooks @botanyandbooks Creator & Hostess, Angela Maria Hart: https://linktr.ee/angelamariahart Instagram, TikTok, BlueSky, & Threads: @writerahart YouTube: Books Are My Hart  writerahart@gmail.com  The Cozy Mystery Book Club: https://linktr.ee/cozymysteryclub  Join the Email Newsletter Family: https://mailchi.mp/12736139528e/angelamariahart 

Join the Sleuthing Fun! The Cozy Mystery Book Club discusses Take the Honey and Run (A Bee Keeping Mystery Book One) by Jennie Marts 🐝 ABOUT THE BOOK As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster and Marigold—which is why she drops everything to come home and help Granny Bee after a bad fall. A broken foot doesn’t stop her grandmother from ruling The Hive, her granny’s book club, or continuing to prepare and package her bee-inspired products. But when Bailey's grandmother’s infamous "Honey I'm Home" hot spiced honey turns out to “bee” the murder weapon and her granny is now the prime suspect, Bailey has no choice but to use her fictional detective skills to help solve the murder and ‘smoke-out’ the real culprit. With the help of Bailey’s witty bestie, a pair of meddling aunts, the feisty members of The Hive, and her computer-savvy daughter, this amateur sleuth is determined to solve the case. A malicious attack and an ominous threat reveal that someone wants Bailey to butt out of the investigation, but there’s no way she’s backing down. She must use her skills to uncover the truth and catch the clever culprit before her grandmother ends up bee-hind bars. GoodReads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63177330-take-the-honey-and-run  YouTube Livestram Link: https://youtube.com/live/DYCeYBI9xrY  GUEST HOSTS: Lori Leaf: @readingwithmrsleaf https://www.instagram.com/readingwithmrsleaf/ https://linktr.ee/Readingwithmrsleaf Angela Mosteller Cox: @wheel.and.wool https://www.instagram.com/wheel.and.wool/    Angela Maria Hart: @writerahart https://linktr.ee/angelamariahart  The Cozy Mystery Book Club: @cozymysteryclub https://linktr.ee/cozymysteryclub  SIGN UP FOR THE EMAIL NEWSLETTER: https://mailchi.mp/12736139528e/angelamariahart

The May 2025 Cozy Mystery Book Club title was Mimi Lee Gets a Clue (A Sassy Cat Mystery Book One) by Jennifer J. Chow 🐾 ABOUT THE BOOK Mimi Lee is in over her head. There's her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, her matchmaking mother to thwart, her talking cat Marshmallow to tend to—oh, and the murder of a local breeder to solve...now if only Mimi hadn't landed herself on top of the suspect list. Mimi Lee hoped to give Los Angeles animal lovers something to talk about with her pet grooming shop, Hollywoof. She never imagined that the first cat she said hello to would talk back or be quite so, well, catty—especially about those disastrous dates Mimi's mother keeps setting up. When Marshmallow exposes local breeder Russ Nolan for mistreating Chihuahuas, Mimi steals some of her cat's attitude to tell Russ off. The next day the police show up at Hollywoof. Russ has been found dead, and Mimi's shouting match with him has secured her top billing as the main suspect. Hoping to clear her name and save the pups Russ left behind, Mimi enlists help from her dreamy lawyer neighbor Josh. But even with Josh on board, it'll take Mimi and Marshmallow a lot of sleuthing and more than a little sass to get back to the pet-grooming life—and off the murder scene. GoodReads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48652969-mimi-lee-gets-a-clue  YouTube Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/dzVACVi5xa4  Special Guest: Victoria (Eliza) Luce Instagram: @lucewriter Website: www.lucewriter.com Angela Maria Hart: https://linktr.ee/angelamariahart The Cozy Mystery Book Club: https://linktr.ee/cozymysteryclub  Sign up for the Email Newsletter:  https://mailchi.mp/12736139528e/angelamariahart

The Cozy Mystery Book Club discussed By Book or by Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery Book One) by Eva Gates 🔎  Join Angela, Tammy, and Tara for a cozy conversation!  ABOUT THE BOOK For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family's social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father's law partner. But when her ten-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious rewrite. Calling on her Aunt Ellen, Lucy hopes that a little fun in the Outer Banks sun and some confections from her cousin Josie's bakery will help clear her head. But her retreat quickly turns into an unexpected opportunity when Aunt Ellen gets her involved in the lighthouse library tucked away on Bodie Island. Lucy is thrilled to land a librarian job in her favorite place in the world. But when a priceless first edition Jane Austen novel is stolen and the chair of the library board is murdered, Lucy suddenly finds herself ensnared in a real-life mystery and she's not so sure there's going to be a happy ending . . ." ABOUT OUR GUEST HOSTS: TAMMY 📚 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamsterdam_reads/  @tamsterdam_reads 📚 LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/tamsterdam_reads?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYNtnjvkDifAbXoHmOgyD4cBP9Q4Q4hq4dJW_AM6T5AYj-nG4BMYuKZ9hU_aem_pwni8_F3KJlwNoVPXBGyHw TARA 📖 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystalteascozymysteries/  @crystalteascozymysteries 📖 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystalteaknits/  @crystalteaknits 📖 LinkTree: https://lnk.bio/crystalteascozymysteries?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY8lhHF1KBHMpYnvFBjVMFY9cZcYgMDo4-h17oEhNsitkDqMis3FAQwsYk_aem_hkOmVjH-8uxMoegE2_D12w  THE COZY MYSTERY BOOK CLUB https://linktr.ee/cozymysteryclub 🔎 Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/ 🔎 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cozymysteryclub/?hl=en (@cozymysteryclub) 🔎 Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cozymysteryclub (@cozymysteryclub) SIGN UP FOR THE EMAIL NEWSLETTER HERE: https://mailchi.mp/12736139528e/angelamariahart

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  Special Guest: Victoria (Eliza) Luce Instagram: @lucewriter Eliza's Website: www.lucewriter.com  Angela's Website: https://angelamariahart.com/  The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/ 

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  ----more---- WHERE TO FIND BEN: 🍃 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/botanyandbooks/ (@botanyandbooks) 🍃 Twitter/X: https://x.com/botanyandbooks (@botanyandbooks) 🍃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@botanyandbooks (@botanyandbooks)   WHERE TO FIND ANGELA: ♡ Website: https://angelamariahart.com/ ♡ Twitter: https://twitter.com/writerahart (@writerahart) ♡ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writerahart/ (@writerahart) ♡ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@writerahart(@writerahart) ♡ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/booksaremyhart (@booksaremyhart) ♡ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@writerahart (@writerahart) ♡ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/writerahart.bsky.social (@writerahart)   WHERE TO FIND THE COZY MYSTERY BOOK CLUB:  🔎 Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/ 🔎 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cozymysteryclub (@cozymysteryclub) 🔎 Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/cozymysteryclub (@cozymysteryclub) 🔎 Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cozymysteryclub (@cozymysteryclub) 🔎 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ywVWROGcKu0hZmA6jGUK6kR8kGAhBb- 🔎 BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/cozymysteryclub.bsky.social (@cozymysteryclub)   Newsletter Sign Up: https://mailchi.mp/12736139528e/angelamariahart

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  GoodReads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57599035-up-to-no-gouda  WHERE TO FIND ANGELA: https://angelamariahart.com/  WHERE TO FIND PAULA: https://www.paulacharles.com/ WHERE TO FIND ANNIE: https://linktr.ee/anniemcewen THE COZY MYSTERY BOOK CLUB: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/ 

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 

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 

Join Angela Maria Hart and Christina Romeril for their discussion of Jenn McKinlay's Sprinkle with Murder, Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series Book One 🧁 📖 BOOK BLURB 📖 Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she becomes the prime suspect. To save themselves and their business, the ladies need to find the real murderer, before the cupcake killer ices someone else.   YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0kw9wUxm3U&t=19s  Sprinkle With Murder on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6633516  Christina's Website: https://christinaromeril.com/  Angela's Website: https://angelamariahart.com/  The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/ 

Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club, Kelly Reynolds, and Angela Maria Hart for their discussion of Dead and Gondola (Christie Bookshop Book One) by Ann Claire.  When a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, the Christie sisters and their cat Agatha call on all they’ve learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist in this new series debut. Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She’s recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family’s historic bookshop with her elder sister, Meg, and their friendly bookshop cat, Agatha. Perched in a Swiss-style hamlet accessible by ski gondola and a twisty mountain road, the Book Chalet is a famed bibliophile destination known for its maze of shelves and relaxing reading lounge with cozy fireside seats and panoramic views. At least, until trouble blows in with a wintery whiteout. A man is found dead on the gondola, and a rockslide throws the town into lockdown—no one in, no one out. He was a mysterious stranger who visited the bookshop. At the time, his only blunders were disrupting a book club and leaving behind a first-edition Agatha Christie novel, written under a pseudonym. However, once revealed, the man’s identity shocks the town. Many residents knew of him. Quite a few had reason to want him dead. Others hide secrets. The police gather suspects, but when they narrow in on the sisters’ close friends, the Christies have to act. Although the only Agatha in their family tree is their cat, Ellie and Meg know a lot about mysteries, and they’re not about to let the situation snowball out of control. The Christie sisters must summon their inner Miss Marples and trek through a blizzard of clues before the killer turns the page to their final chapter. GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60372420  YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3fOCGmRxdI&t=7s    WHERE TO FIND KELLY Website: https://boobiesandnoobies.com/ WHERE TO FIND ANGELA Website: https://angelamariahart.com/ 

The Cozy Mystery Book Club had lots of sleuthing fun discussing Death in Castle Dark (A Dinner and a Murder Mystery Book One) by Veronica Bond! Join Angela Maria Hart and, cozy mystery authors, Paula Charles and Christina Romeril, for all sorts of coziness.  📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Actor Nora Blake finds her dream job when she is cast in a murder-mystery troupe that performs in an imposing but captivating old castle. When she stumbles upon a real murder, things take a nightmarish turn in this first book in an exciting new series. Maybe it was too good to be true, but when Nora Blake accepted the job from Derek Corby, proprietor of Castle Dark, she could not see any downsides. She would sink her acting chops into the troupe's intricately staged murder-mystery shows, earn free room and board in the fairy tale-like castle, and make friends with her new roommates, which include some seriously adorable kittens. But something sinister lurks behind the walls of Castle Dark. During Nora's second performance, one of her castmates plays the part of the victim a little too well. So well, in fact, that no one can revive him. He has been murdered. Not ready to give up her dream gig--or to be the next victim--Nora sets out to see which one of her fellow actors has taken the role of a murderous real-life villain.   YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzDqnwxtm0&t=6s  GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57246968  Angela's Website: https://angelamariahart.com/  Paula's Website: https://www.paulacharles.com/  Christina's Website: https://christinaromeril.com/  The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/ 

Get Cozy and Chat About the Murder at the Lakeside Library with The Cozy Mystery Book Club! 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Rain Wilmont has just returned to her family's waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to Rain's corporate job and comes with an informal library that Rain's mother, Willow, used to run. But as Rain prepares for the re-opening of the library, all hopes for a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers the body of Thornton Hughes, a real estate buyer, on the premise. The community of Lofty Pines starts pointing fingers at Willow, since she has been unusually absent from the library this summer. A fishy rumor surfaces when Rain learns that Willow had been spending a lot of time with Thornton. The town even thought they were having an affair. While theories swirl about Thornton's death, Rain takes it upon herself to solve the case to exonerate her mother. As more clues surface, Rain will have to piece together the mystery. But if she isn't careful, she may be the next to end up dead in the water in Murder at Lakeside Library the first in Holly Danvers' new Lakeside Library mysteries.   GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55717124-murder-at-the-lakeside-library  YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZgnX0lqtqg&t=8s  The Cozy Mystery Book Club Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/  Angela's Website: https://angelamariahart.com/  Ben's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/botanyandbooks/ 

Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! Manon, aka the viral mystery reader sensation, joins Angela live for a fun discussion of Agatha Christie's first Hercule Poirot tale. 📖 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot Book One) 📖 A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village. All of them have secrets they are desperate to keep, but none can outwit Poirot as he navigates the ingenious red herrings and plot twists that contribute to Agatha Christie's well-deserved reputation as the queen of mystery.   Manon: https://beacons.ai/mysterymanon Angela: https://linktr.ee/angelamariahart The Cozy Mystery Book Club: https://linktr.ee/cozymysteryclub 

Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! Join Angela Maria Hart and Kate Lansing for their discussion of Buried in a Good Book (By the Book Mysteries 1) by Tamara Berry. 📖ABOUT THE BOOK📖 A thriller writer who knows way more than anyone should about death and dismemberment Her young daughter who's more intrigued by dead bodies than she probably should be An isolated cabin in the woods that's probably―definitely―hiding something The tiny mountain town that seems less than troubled by a sudden abundance of murders Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather's rustic cabin in the woods. She hopes this will be a time for them to heal and bond after Tess's recent divorce, but they've barely made it through the door when an explosion shakes the cabin. Suddenly it's raining fish guts and...is that a human arm? Tess was hardly convincing Gertie that a summer without Wi-Fi and running water would be an adventure. Now she's thrust into a murder investigation, neighbors are saying they've spotted Bigfoot in the woods near her cabin, and the local sheriff is the spitting image of her character Detective Gabriel Gonzales―something he's less than thrilled about. With so much more than her daughter's summer plans at stake, it's up to Tess to solve this case before anyone else gets hurt. Shout out to special sleuthing guest hostess, Kate Lansing! You can learn all about Kate over on her website: https://katelansing.com/ YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJV6ynyOO0&t=1s  The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/  Newsletter Sign Up: https://mailchi.mp/9e1787486d8b/thecozymysterybookclub  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cozymysteryclub/?hl=en  Twitter: https://twitter.com/cozymysteryclub 

Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club and fellow sleuthers Angela & The Knitting Librarian (aka Amanda) for their discussion of Murder, She Knit (A Knit & Nibble Mystery 1) by Peggy Ehrhart.  📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she’s trying out a new hobby—solving murders! Pamela is hosting the next Knit and Nibble meeting and can’t wait to liven up her otherwise empty home with colorful yarn, baking, and a little harmless gossip. She even recruits Amy Morgan, an old friend who recently moved to town, as the group’s newest member. But on the night of the gathering, Amy doesn’t show. Not until Pamela finds the woman dead outside—a knitting needle stabbed through the front of her handmade sweater . . . Someone committed murder before taking off with Amy’s knitting bag, and Pamela realizes that only she can spot the deadly details hidden in mysterious skeins. But when another murder occurs, naming the culprit—and living to spin the tale—will be more difficult than Pamela ever imagined . . . GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35601689-murder-she-knit  YouTube Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UGYwzrxXfg 

Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club's discussion of Death by Bubble Tea (LA Night Market Book One) by Jennifer J. Chow 🔎 Angela Maria Hart and special guest, cozy mystery author, Kate Lansing, chat about this cozy mystery and sleuthing fun 📚   📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Two cousins who start a food stall at their local night market get a serving of murder in this first novel of a delicious new cozy mystery series by Jennifer J. Chow, author of Mimi Lee Gets a Clue. When Yale Yee discovers her cousin Celine is visiting from Hong Kong, she is obliged to play tour guide to a relative she hasn't seen in twenty years. Not only that, but her father thinks it's a wonderful idea for them to bond by running a food stall together at the Eastwood Village Night Market. Yale hasn't cooked in years, and she hardly considers Celine's career as a social media influencer as adequate experience, but because she's just lost her job at her local bookstore, she feels she has no choice. Yale and Celine serve small dishes and refreshing drinks, and while business is slow, it eventually picks up thanks to Celine's surprisingly useful marketing ideas. They're quite shocked that their bubble tea, in particular, is a hit--literally--when one of their customers turns up dead. Yale and Celine are prime suspects due to the gold flakes that Celine added to the sweet drink as a garnish. Though the two cousins are polar opposites in every way, they must work together to find out what really happened to the victim or the only thing they'll be serving is time.    GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59420553-death-by-bubble-tea    YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XxAhghVBA&t=2124s    Shout out to special sleuthing guest hostess, Kate Lansing! You can learn all about Kate over on her website: https://katelansing.com/    Angela Maria Hart's Website: https://angelamariahart.com/  The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Website: https://thecozymysterybookclub.com/