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The Great Turkey Caper by Madison Johns My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read as part of #Book1CoziesClub Synopsis (from Goodreads): As Thanksgiving approaches, the holiday is not the only thing on everyone’s mind in Tawas. Bagging the huge, yet elusive, tom turkey is—with a prize of five thousand dollars. That is, until the body of a meter reader turns up on Bernice’s property shot with an arrow! Agnes is flabbergasted. Not at the murder, but at Bernice trying to drag the body off her property. When Bernice’s reputation as the cat lady is finally unveiled, she joins forces with Agnes and Eleanor to solve The Great Turkey Caper. ☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆ ☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆ This book was just ok for me. I probably should've read the original series before picking this up, but because it was a holiday themed book, I really wanted to pick it up during the season. This did not have a character summary or any back story at all. It just jumped int...

The Titanic Murders by Max Allan Collins My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have always enjoyed things about Titanic, whether it be documentaries, TV shows/movies, or fictional stories though I haven't read too many. This was just the right amount of mystery interwoven with the feel of what it was like to be a passenger on this ship. This book does take a while to get to the mystery aspect of the story, but I didn't mind that. All the figures I was familiar with were present in the story, as well as some that were new to me. The Epilogue and Author's Notes at the end were very interesting and enlightening. I really enjoyed this book and though the following installments in this series have nothing to do with Titanic, I am interested to learn about the different settings the author has chosen for the following stories. View all my reviews

A Deadly Grind by Victoria Hamilton My rating: 4 of 5 stars More like a 3.5 - read as part of #Book1CoziesClub Synopsis (from Goodreads):  A Hoosier to die for? When vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton spies an original 1920s Hoosier brand kitchen cabinet at an estate auction, it’s love at first sight. Despite the protests of her sister that the 19th-century yellow-brick house they share in Michigan is already too cluttered with Jaymie’s “junk,” she successfully outbids the other buyers and triumphantly takes home her Hoosier. But that night on the summer porch where they’ve left the Hoosier to be cleaned up, a man is murdered, struck on the head with  the steel meat grinder that is part of the cabinet. Who is this stranger—and what was he doing on their porch? Does his death have anything to do with the Hoosier? As the police struggle to determine the man’s identity, Jaymie can’t help doing a little digging on her own, acco...

Announcing December's Selections for the First in a Series Cozy Mystery Book Club. One was a suggestion from Elizabeth at LizzyFayeLovesBooks, and the other was pulled from the jar. Mistletoe Murder (Lucy Stone Mysteries) by Leslie Meier High Rhymes and Misdemeanors (Poetic Death Mysteries) by Diana Killian - as of the time I posted this, it's 99 cents for a Kindle copy and free for Nook & Kobo copies! Elizabeth's Channel Mystery Madness Goodreads Group

Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read as part of #Book1CoziesClub. Synopsis (from Goodreads):  Catering the wake of her son's favorite teacher is not Goldy's idea of fun. Particularly when her former father-in-law passes out, nearly felled by a dose of rat poison. Investigating officer Tom Schultz, though smitten with Goldy and her food, is forced to shut down her business. That's the last straw. Goldy can't cater without a kitchen, so she'll just have to find the rat who poisoned the coffee. Everyone - from Goldy's ex-husband's other ex-wife to her eleven-year-old son Arch - seems to know more than Goldy does. But as she begins following the recipe to its logical conclusion, Goldy discovers that some very unsavory ingredients are flavoring the neighborhood and poisoning her own family with the bitter taste of deceit and revenge. ☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆ ☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。....

The final part of my October Wrap Up. This includes the 5 volumes of manga I read in October. Goodreads links to the series mentioned below: Fairy Tail  by Hiro Mashima Noragami  by Adachitoka Blood+ by Asuka Katsura

The Haunting Season by Michelle Muto My rating: 5 of 5 stars Such a great read! I was looking for a book to fit the Haunted House challenge for Read Your EReader Readathon and came across this in Kindle Unlimited. It sounded really interesting and I was still in the mood for a creepy read, even though Halloween was over, so I thought I'd give this a shot. It was also a very nice surprise to find out that the audiobook was narrated by one of my favorite narrators! I don't think that my tolerance for creepy things is very high, but this had me jump a few times. Though I was sufficiently scared at certain parts of this book, especially heading to the end, I could not stop reading! This definitely has a similar feeling to the movie The Haunting, as well as Stephen King's mini-series Rose Red - at least for me. Both of those are favorites of mine, so that just made this even more enjoyable. I'll definitely be checking out more of this author's work ...

This part contains the other three novels that I read in October. Goodreads links to books metioned can be found after the break.

I actually read 12 things in October! Quite a change of pace, since the last couple months have been rather slow in the reading department. The number of novels actually surpassed the number of manga volumes I read ^-^ The wrap up ended up being really long this month. Guess I had a lot of things to say! I cut it into three videos this month. This part includes the first four novels. Links to the books mentioned can be found after the break.