Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

    Thanks to Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours for the chance to read and review Terri Karsten's  A Necessary Death.    A Necessary Death Historical Cozy Mystery Setting – A tavern in Colonial Pennsylvania (1764) Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wagonbridge Publishing Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages Paperback ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1953444202 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1953444202 Digital ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1953444219 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FLDWVCJW With Penelope Corbitt in the kitchen, the tavern will never be the same. Penelope Corbitt can turn a lump of meat and a bit of flour into a mouth-watering pie or make a tasty meal of cabbage and vinegar. But all her skill can’t save her family in the spring of 1763, when she loses everything to pay off her missing husband’s debts. Walking a tightrope between the freedom of poverty and the confines of propriety, she must accept her stingy brother-in-law’s reluctant charity to keep her fam...

Another review via Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours. Thanks to Lori at GEVBT, the author, and the publisher for the chance to read this new release.   A Lethal Lake Effect (A Victoria Square Mystery) by   Lorraine Bartlett About A Lethal Lake Effect A Lethal Lake Effect (A Victoria Square Mystery) Cozy Mystery 9th in Series Setting – Victoria Square, McKinlay Mill, NY Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polaris Press (June 6, 2024) Number of Pages: 306 Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CYYDN1GH Things go awry for Katie Bonner when her former mother-in-law, Margo, throws a housewarming party at her lakeside rental and one of her guests ends up dead in the water. Maxwell Preston was a devoted husband–and a not-so-great dad. He was a beloved pharmacist who didn’t take care of his ramshackle property, which is destined to be a hot commodity on Victoria Square when his heir puts it up for sale. But most of all, Preston was a stranger to the others who attended the party. Meanwh...

For some reason I have long resisted reading Kerry Greenwood's non-Phryne Fisher mysteries. I finally changed that, and can't for the life of me figure out what my problem was. I suppose I was afraid that nothing could measure up to that series. The whole thing does at least offer insights into book marketing--I don't think my new series is doing as well as the old, though I think it is better (okay, until later this year it's also only one book, so hardly a series. I'm working on that!).     Title: Earthly Delights: A Corinna Chapman Mystery Author: K erry Greenwood Publication Info: Poison Pen Press, 2012 (US Kindle edition. Originally published 2004 by Allen and Unwin). 250 pages.  Source: Library Publisher's Blurb: One day, Corinna Chapman, high profile accountant and banker, walked out on the money market and her dismissive and unpleasant husband James, threw aside her briefcase, and doffed her kitten heels forever. Now she is a baker with her own busi...

I'm grateful to Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours for the opportunity to read this fun holiday mystery!       Christmas Lights and Cat Fights: A Jules Keene Glamping Mystery Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Setting – Virginia Level Best Books (October 17, 2023) Print length ‏ : ‎ 285 pages Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CJQKWK3F Christmas has come to Fern Valley, and the town’s decked out with enough glitter and sparkle for a month’s worth of celebrations, each more over-the-top than the previous one. The idyllic setting, filled with laughter, carols, and sweet treats, is shattered, along with some of the decorations, when the current wife and the ex-wife of a big-cat showman have a knock-down, drag-out fight in the center of town. Jules Keene, owner of the Fern Valley Glamping Resort, tries to keep peace among her guests and with the town council, but it turns into a catastrophe when Tabbi Morris, winds up dead in one of her ex-husband’s tiger cages. And if the murder...

Little Shop of Murders is a collection of short mysteries by 15 authors, and we are fortunate to have  Geraldine Moorkens Byrne here to share some background on her musical Dublin mystery, "Requiem for a Violin." Also--be sure to check out the giveaway at the end of the post--four print cozy mysteries! The Little Shop of Murders (Collected Cozy Mysteries) By Millie Ravensworth, ACF Bookens, Geraldine Byrne, Rachel McLean, Diane Kelly, Nikki Knight, London Lovett, Lise McClendon, Flora McGowan, Kathryn Mykel,  J. New,  Eryn Scott, Debbie Young, Victoria Tait, Carlene O’Connor  THE LITTLE SHOP of MURDERS (COLLECTED COZY MYSTERIES) By Millie Ravensworth, ACF Bookens, Geraldine Byrne, Rachel McLean, Diane Kelly, Nikki Knight, London Lovett, Lise McClendon, Flora McGowan, Kathryn Mykel,  J. New,  Eryn Scott, Debbie Young, Victoria Tait, ...