Miraz Jordan

I bought this at a sale price and enjoyed it reasonably well. I found the couple's arguments rather manufactured. Last Chance Chicago by Diana DiGangi. 📚

Attorney and recovering cocaine addict Sam DiCiccio didn’t think she was ever going to see her ex-wife Amy Igarashi again, much less wind up defending her against felony insider trading charges.

As this series goes on I'm enjoying it even more. Preordering the next book. The Mystery of the Gold Rings (The Antique Shop Mysteries Book 3) by Judith Cutler. 📚

The characters are very endearing, the plots original.

Driving home from an auction on a wet autumn evening, Lina slams on the brakes. She’s alone on a deserted country road — and just yards away, in the middle of a field, lies a body.

But by the time she finds help and returns with the police, the corpse has vanished without a trace.

This was a perfectly good read. May read others by this author. A Lesson in Murder: A DI Kate Medlar novel by Lin Bird 📚:

Who would want to kill Elise Betteridge, the dedicated headteacher of Blaiseforth Manor School for Girls?

Not the most engaging book, but an enjoyable read still. Murder At The Folly (Rina Martin Murder Mystery Book 11) by Jane Adams. 📚

Rina’s seen plenty of drama over the years. But nothing like the chaos she finds on location at Septon Hall. Her costar, the decidedly sour Grace Sweeting, gets a poison pen letter — in what looks like a tasteless prank. Until …

Phil Perry, the show’s charming leading man, is found dead!

This was a very intense read. The oppressive heat and humidity of New Orleans was almost a character in its own right. Interesting and different, but I may not read more from the series. Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery by Margot Douaihy. 📚

When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Unsatisfied with the officials' response, sardonic and headstrong Sister Holiday becomes determined to unveil the mysterious attacker herself

I enjoy this series, but this book didn't feel quite right at the start. Warwick and Bell don't enjoy an easy friendship, but the mystery is solved in the end. Murder on the River (Warwick & Bell Crime Mysteries Book 5) by Janice Frost. 📚

A murdered student. A secret from the past. A killer who’s still watching.

I so much enjoy this series, and this book kept me reading after I should have gone to sleep — once the adventure starts it's hard to stop reading. Urgent Track (The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries Book 11) by D. L. Keur. 📚

It’s high summer when, after a SAR dog trial, Jessie’s pack mascot, Duchess, goes missing, and, in finding Duchess, Jessie’s dogs discover a child lodged in a hole deep below ground. Then Jessie’s dogs find evidence of another …and another.

The lead character and setup suggested I'd enjoy The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A swashbuckling, seafaring romp by Shannon Chakraborty. 📚

when she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse, she jumps at the chance for one final adventure with her old crew that will make her a legend and offers a fortune that will secure her and her family’s future forever.

Unfortunately the many mystical horror aspects just aren't my thing, so I skipped chunks of descriptions of fantastical stuff and ground my way through many chapters.

I mainly enjoyed The Complete Detective Siv Drummond Mysteries: by Gretta Mulrooney. 📚

I'd already read another series by this author, and the first of the books in this series. Book 5 didn't grab me so much for some reason.

With the characters and setting well established from Book 1 this series is settling well. I've preordered the next in series. The Mystery of the Silver Dish (The Antique Shop Mysteries Book 2) by Judith Cutler. 📚

The dish is valuable. Too valuable. No sooner has [Lina] displayed it at a prestigious antique fair than the police swoop in, accusing her of handling stolen goods.

It's hard to believe this series is already up to book 12. I'm still enjoying it. Fakes and Lies (Naomi Blake Mysteries Book 12) by Jane Adams. 📚

the world of art forgery and high-stakes deals hides ruthless collectors — and killers who will do anything to keep their secrets.

I enjoyed a good reading session with The Winter Dead (Detective Shona Oliver Book 6) by Lynne McEwan. 📚 Always happy to read another in this series.

A blood-soaked hammer is discovered in a lorryload of wood delivered to a local pub. DI Shona Oliver appears to have a murder weapon, but where is the victim?

OK, I read Book 1 and now I'm abandoning this as just too silly and annoying. Cadbury & Merrydrew Cozy Mysteries Books 1–5 by Christine McHaines. 📚

There's something about the Sister Agnes books that just enchants me; they're just so "right" somehow. This was yet another excellent read. The Earth Weighs Heavy (Sister Agnes Mysteries Book 9) by Alison Joseph. 📚

‘Guilt. That’s what it is. Terribly bad for all of us. I learned some years ago just not to bother with it, so much better for one’s mental health.’

I'd already read Book 2 and this was a similarly lightweight, easy to read mystery that I got free. A Santa Stabbing (Shop 'Round the World Book 1) by Geri Krotow. 📚

[Angel] finds a dead body in the shop murdered with one of her specialty Santa figurines. Even worse, Angel’s fingerprints are on the “weapon” and she’s a prime suspect.

I really enjoyed After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian. 📚

when [Patrick] takes in a drifter who seems to be hiding something, and his best friend and her newborn move into the apartment upstairs, his life gets turned on its head.

Thanks to @KimberlyHirsh for the recommendation.

In this rather picaresque novel Blue takes a couple of decades to find herself — Finding the Grain by Wynn Malone. 📚

The tornado that ripped through Blue Riley’s family farm tore her teenage life apart, killing her parents in her last month of high school, forcing her to abandon her home in Alabama and face an uncertain future.

Not my usual genre, I found it a bit long but enjoyed it well enough.

Kimberly Hirsh wrote:

After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian 📚

Cat Sebastian’s work unfailingly delights me …

I found the book on Amazon.com on my iPad where I'm not logged in. OK, $6.99 …

I switched to my Mac, where I am logged in, and now it costs $8.11. What the heck!

The paperback is the same cost in both cases. If it was an exchange rate thing between US$ and NZ$ the higher price would be around $12.

Update: Ohhh, wait a minute — Amazon collect 15% GST (Goods and Services Tax). That would bring it to $8.04. Close to $8.11. So maybe that's it! 💡

It's been a while since the last Jana DeLeon book but Coeds and Cattails didn't disappoint. 📚

The team have to track down who killed a very unpopular snitch before the daughter of a friend is unjustly accused.

Some gripping and funny scenes, as always in these books, but less OTT than recently.

Cat Caliban delves into the events and culture of the 60s in this cold case — Eleven Hours to Murder (The Cat Caliban Mysteries Book 11): by D.B. Borton. 📚

Back in the summer of ’69, rebellious teen Leila Perle secretly boarded a bus to Woodstock, and never came home.

What really happened at the legendary music festival — if the missing girl even made it there at all?

Another good read.

I've enjoyed this author's murder mysteries, but this time there's no murder. The hunt is on for a book and a family member. An unusual read, with a tinge of My Fair Lady about it in the friendship between Griff and Lina. The Mystery of the Missing Book (The Antique Shop Mysteries Book 1) by Judith Cutler. 📚

Lina is finding her feet in the antiques trade, working alongside her eccentric mentor Griff. Attending a bustling local fair, Lina makes a thrilling discovery: a single page from a rare medieval manuscript.

I found Sappho Farms by Alex Washoe interesting and a positive read, with a view into aspects of life (trans and ADHD) I'm not very familiar with. 📚

MC Molina is a rising star in PR, living in a sleek Seattle townhouse with her brilliant, comic-obsessed wife, Elsa. But when MC’s career crashes and she inherits her grandfather’s crumbling farm … she’s ready to trade deadlines for dirt.

Another good read in a series I enjoy — Murder at Miners Bluff (An Elk Ridge Murder Mystery Book 6) by Anne Shillolo. 📚

The remote location has no road access and the terrain is so extreme that a helicopter can’t land. … Can they apprehend a killer and escape the confines of the canyon before rains and flash floods threaten the bluff, destroying precious evidence and trapping the team?

Another from a series I quite like: 4th Silence (Schock Sisters Mystery Series) by Misty Evans and Adrienne Giordano. 📚

Thirty years ago, eight-year-old Tiffany was found murdered … Now, as the anniversary of her death looms, sisters Charlie and Meg Schock are pulled into their most chilling investigation yet. When their mother launches a campaign to reopen the case, it ignites a media storm and political backlash.

I really enjoyed the lesbian romance, Under the Witness Tree by Marianne K. Martin. 📚

After inheriting an old plantation house, Dhari Weston heads south to settle the estate and meets intriguing Dr. Erin Hughes, a local history professor with in interest in old houses and the new girl in town.

It didn't follow the usual pattern, the characters were interesting, and the author taught us some new (to me) historical truths.

I'd read more by this author.