Hello everyone. I’m Terrie Farley Moran and I write cozy mysteries including the Read ’Em and Eat series. In those cozies, Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield own a café and bookstore in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. At the Read ’Em and Eat book lovers can find such luscious treats such as Old Man and the…
Galway Girl by Ken Bruen is the 14th book in the Jack Taylor series—as sharp and sardonic as it is starkly bleak and violent, it shows the master raconteur at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful. I have long been a fan of Ken Bruen’s writing, particularly his Jack Taylor novels. I will confess…
Earlier this year at the always exciting mystery conference, Malice Domestic, I was fortunate enough to meet author Marty Wingate. Although our conversation was brief, I found her quite engaging. And since Marty writes cozies, which are my all-time favorite reads, I could not understand why it is that I have never read any of her…
I have been lucky enough to co-write the four most recent books in the New Orleans Scrapbooking series by Laura Childs. I started on Parchment and Old Lace which was lucky (for me) number 13 and now the newly released Mumbo Gumbo Murder, which is the most fun ever, is being stacked on bookshelves in…
The Pawful Truth by Miranda James is book number eleven in the Cat in the Stacks cozy series featuring college librarian Charlie Harris and his Main Coon cat Deisel. The Cat in the Stacks books are written by Miranda James, who is also the author of the charming Southern Ladies mysteries. So, naturally, I was…
Scot & Soda by Catriona McPherson is the second book in the Last Ditch Mystery series featuring Lexy Campbell, where the Scottish-born California transplant sails into trouble when her houseboat party ends on a deadly note. I started reading the Dandy Gilver cozies by McPherson years ago. Dandy is a bored, upper-class housewife in 1920s…
No Sunscreen for the Dead is Tim Dorsey’s twenty-second book about Florida life. Once again, wild and wacky Serge Storms rides with his consistently stoned sidekick, Coleman, this time diving into an infamous sex scandal between a retiree and her younger beau in one of the largest retirement villages in the world. If you have never…
Fractured Truth is the second book in the Bone Gap Travellers Mystery series written by Susan Furlong. “Travellers?” you ask. “Travellers,” I reply. As an Irish-American, I have always been fascinated by Irish Travellers, people who have lived in Ireland for centuries and stay by themselves away from all others. They follow their own sets…
In A Gift of Bones, Christmas comes to Zinnia, Mississippi and Sarah Booth Delaney must solve a case as the holiday approaches, in this new cozy mystery Carolyn Haines. Take a visual tour through A Gift of Bones with GIFnotes! I know I’ve reviewed earlier books in the Sarah Booth Delaney series and told you how much fun…
Secrets, Lies, & Crawfish Pies by Abby L. Vandiver is the first book in the Romaine Wilder Mystery series. When I was a teenager, there was a radio DJ named Bruce Morrow who called himself “Cousin Brucie” because, as he explained, “You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your relatives.” But if I could…
