There’s a new food truck in town, much to the delight of our food columnist heroine, Hayley Powell, and the chagrin of Cloris Fennow, owner of the only other food truck in Bar Harbor, Maine. While the burgers Cloris serves out of Burger She Wrote are of varying quality, her attitude towards her customers leaves…
Hayley Powell is finally married to fellow reporter Bruce Linney, but the impromptu nature of their wedding means that they haven’t actually planned for what comes next. Even as they’re adjusting to living together in Hayley’s house and dealing with Bruce’s on-going allergic reaction to her cat Blueberry, they’re budgeting money and time off for…
This was my first of the seasonally themed collections these three talented writers have been putting together for a while, and I’m so glad I finally got around to reading it. Barbara Ross is my favorite culinary cozy author, so it’s a bit ridiculous that I’ve barely even glanced at this series before this. I…
Rick Copp is a veteran television writer/producer and mystery scribe. Holly Simason is an award-winning food and cocktails columnist. Together, this brother/sister duo are known as “Lee Hollis,” beloved author of the 11-book (and growing) Hayley Powell cozy series. Their newest collaboration, Murder at the PTA, is the first entry in the Maya and Sandra…
It is so weird but great to go straight from the first book to the latest in the Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery series. Hopefully, I’ll be able to cover everything in between sometime in the near future, but it’s honestly pretty awesome to see how well Hayley and her friends and family have…
Hayley Powell is a 35-year-old single mom of two teenagers who works as the office manager at the Island Times, the smaller of two newspapers based in Bar Harbour, Maine. Her deadbeat ex-husband’s alimony checks don’t come as often as they’re supposed to, so when her boss, Sal, offers her a weekly cooking column for…
Tis the season … for Christmas cozies! Perennial bestseller Leslie Meier, author of the venerable Lucy Stone mysteries, once again joins forces with fellow Kensington scribes Lee Hollis (the Hayley Powell mysteries) and Barbara Ross (the Maine Clambake mysteries) to deliver a trio of thematic tales in Yule Log Murder—a collection of novellas that share…
Criminal Element’s July 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of July 1 through July 7 Title Author Series Date The Corpse at the Crystal Palace Carola Dunn Daisy Dalrymple Mystery #23 7/3 Dyeing Up Loose Ends Maggie Sefton Knitting Mystery #16 7/3 Scandal Above Stairs Jennifer Ashley Below Stairs Mystery #2 7/3 Killer Green…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we welcomed spring with great March cozies; this month, April showers bring awesome reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Like this shopping…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we got some Valentine's treats with February's releases; this month—spring is in the air with some hot new books! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to…
