A Review of This House Isn’t Haunted, But We Are: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-this-house-isnt-haunted-but-we-are/
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Four stars:
Home Is Where the Murder Is by Rosalie Spielman and Eleanor McCormick (Narrator) (2023) is the second book in the Hometown mystery series. During the New Oslo Pioneer Days festival, a woman claiming to be Deputy Freddie's cousin is murdered.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/home_is_where_the_murder_is.html
Tracy Hayes, Apprentice P.I., the first P.I. Tracy Hayes mystery, is only 0.99 everywhere until the end of month. This doesn't happen often, so grab it while you can!
AZ: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU10OON
Universal Link: https://books2read.com/u/bw9oOy
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In these times of despair, here is a hopeful story - “A New Faith”.
Available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
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Five stars:
A Poisonous Pour by Maddie Day with Linda Jones (Narrator) (2026) is the third Cece Barton mystery. It's Memorial Day weekend but unpopular Regan Greene, president of the local valley district organization has been murdered after Richard's unflattering article was published.
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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/poisonous_pour.html
I try not to bleat too much about my disability, but I was born with a crippling case of congenital laziness.
That's why when I saw the titles of the five new Sara Woods reissues from Dean Street Press show up for pre-order at Kobo, I smiled at these two:
First, my life's motto. Then, my epitaph - THEY GET ME
😱😁
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(These are books 11-15 of the Woods series reissued by DSP, the whole series is very good for fans of quality #Mystery writing)
Five stars:
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite and Blair Baker (Narrator) (2025) is the first of the Dorothy Gentleman mysteries. Dorothy is a ship's detective who had been shelved in the library for some time off since her last body gave out. Now she's awake in an elevator during a magnetic storm in a body that isn't hers. Besides her own mystery, Dorothy has another murder to solve. There's another body, another murder, and her death seems to be died to Dorothy's incorrect body.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/murder_by_memory.html
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Five stars:
Booking for Trouble by Jenn McKinlay with Allyson Ryan (Narrator) (2026) is the sixteenth and final book in the Library Lover's Mystery series. Among the many small islands near Briar Creek are two that were once connected via a bridge until a feud resulted in the bridge being blown up. Now the most cantankerous resident is dead and it looks like her artist neighbor did it.
Five stars:
Against the Claw by Shari Randall and Tiffany Morgan (Narrator) (2018) is the second book in the Lobster Shack mystery series. The Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack doesn't typically take catering gigs but for this one-per-cent-er they've said yes. The party though seems tied to two recently murdered people: a woman found floating in the water and Lorel's recent ex-boyfriend, found shot in the vicinity of a luxury yacht.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_06/against_the_claw.html
Five stars:
Forever Fudge by Nancy CoCo and Vanessa Johansson (Narrator) (2018) is the sixth book in the Candy-Coated mystery series. A film crew has come to Mackinac island to film a mystery TV series that uses the historic buildings as backdrops. Their arrival though, is marred by a pair of murders and a bunch of mysterious clues related to chess.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_06/forever_fudge.html
When I saw today's #MurderEveryMonday theme is Crime fiction set in France, I first thought of the Bruno series, all of which I've read only once. VERY embarrassed not to have thought first of the one on the right, which *might just* qualify & which Ive read three times 🤦♂️ #Mystery #Reading #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Just one entry for #MurderEveryMonday this week, the nationality itself "burnt up" long ago. Another one from Dean Street Press
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https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
Five stars:
Savvy Summers and the Po'boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku with Karen Chilton (Narrator) (2026) is the second Savvy Summers mystery. As move out day approaches for Savvy she's taken on a catering job at a Southside Chicago firm specializing in tools for left handed people. One of the employees is a woman who can't leave others' food alone. The founder of the company decides a prank involving spicy peppers would be a lesson learned, only to have the woman end up dead!
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/savvy_summers_and_the_poboy_perils.html
Five stars:
Whose Body in the Library by Eva Gates with Elise Arsenault (Narrator) is the thirteenth book in the Lighthouse Library mystery series. Lucy McNeil is now the mother of twins and the new director of the library. She's brought in Nichelle Gilchrest, a fifty something empty nester who has started a second career as a librarian. On her first full day at the library, Nichelle finds the body of a man who resembles her long lost father.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/whose_body_in_the_library.html
A Review of Planeta: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-planeta/
Five stars:
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku with Karen Chilton (Narrator) (2025) is the first of the Savvy Summers mysteries. Savvy is the middle aged owner of Essie's Soul Food Café. After a wedding anniversary celebration which she caters, her oldest regular dies at the cafe while eating her popular sweet potato pie.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/savvy_summers_and_the_sweet_potato_crimes.html
When someone asks, "What is it?" and someone else answers, "It's a mystery!" I sincerly hope this is what they're talking about 😂
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A "Something old, something new" theme for #MurderEveryMonday this week, so I'm pleased I also have something blue. Something DSP too, though that murders any metre. 🤣 #Bookstodon #Mystery #Reading
https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
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Five stars:
Picture Perfect Frame by Lynn Cahoon and Susan Boyce (Narrator) (2021) is the twelfth book in the Tourist Trap mystery series. After attending a sip and paint event at a local gallery one of the attendees, a particularly drunk one, is found dead back at the gallery the next morning. Jill feels compelled to investigate the woman's death while also juggling her store and Amy's upcoming wedding.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/picture_perfect_frame.html
Five stars:
The Great British Bump-Off by John Allison and Max Sarin (Illustrator) (2023) is a delightful comic book parody of the ridiculous numbers of murder mysteries inspired by The Great British Bake-Off and similar cooking competition shows.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/great_british_bump_off.html
Five stars:
Deadly Does It by Abbi Waxman with Patti Murin (Narrator) (2026) is the second book in the Mann & Mason mystery series. Mason's sponsor Alexa receives a series of threatening notes that are now culminating in the murders of her A.A. sponsees. Can Mason and Julia solve the mystery before Mason ends up one of the bodies?
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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/deadly_does_it.html
Edited 89d ago
5/5 @thestorygraph for "Though I Know She Lies", book 8 in Sara Woods Antony Maitland series.
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It was #Mystery done very, very right, for me.
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https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9f89c049-9035-4644-bd91-5b3451d37202
I review The Whitechapel Full Moon Society by Elizabeth DeLozier. I wasn't entirely sold on this Victorian mystery with Jack the Ripper connection.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-whitechapel-full-moon-society-by.html
DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎
I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.
And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.
If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.
I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.
Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.
But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.
I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.
Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.
And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.
And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.
The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.
Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.
None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.
Gratitude.
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Edited 87d ago