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My pick for February‘s #ThematicCozies

Gethsemane Brown is a world class musician who finds herself stranded in the Irish countryside. Now she has to juggle her new job as music teacher/school orchestra conductor with investigating the death of her new ghost roommate. And then the murders start piling up 🤣

Maybe too many murders - the book could have a little less going on. 1/2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

My #CBBC package came in today. Thank you @Pageturner1 I love the stormtrooper and all the treats. And I will get to reading ☕️
#CoffeeBeanBookClub
@Mommamanzi @Kshakal

#TheCambridgeBookshopSeries #serieslove2025 #cozy
What‘s not to enjoy when reading a cozy mystery set in a bookstore in Cambridge England? Molly & her mother have helped her Aunt Violet turn this previously failing bookshop into a thriving,profitable one.Molly in charge of social media & bookstore events,invites local author Iona York to read from her bestseller,The Strawberry Girls,which is inspired by her daughter. That daughter goes missing—⬇️

#Libby #catsinthestacks #ThematicCozies2025 #Animal
University librarian & archivist Charlie Harris is tasked by the Mayor Lucinda Long of Athena,MS, with preserving & substantiating Civil War diaries of a Long ancestor,in hopes their publication‘s content will boost her son‘s bid for state senate. Suddenly several professors & citizens demand to peruse the diaries asap.A murder puts the breaks on any such inquiries.So Charlie & his loyal 🔽

Tagging another book by the same author, as this one isn‘t in the database!

Here‘s my #ThematicCozies pick for February, Romance! @julieclair

Darwin‘s pet boutique gets some extra help from her ability to psychically connect w/ the pets. And she really has to stretch herself when her new friend is murdered, & the only witness was his dog.

I liked the twist of the psychic powers, but ultimately the rest of this kind of fell apart. Flat characters, instalove, & a final reveal that just left me frustrated & confused. Definitely not going to pursue this series. 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑

Post WWII Paris,its streets,bustling markets,vibrant shops,ancient catacombs,& century old churches,is a character in & of itself in this novel.Tabitha Knight & Julia Child are neighbors & friends in pursuit of adventure.Julia attends a Cordon Bleu cooking school. Often she recreates the school‘s menu‘s for Tabitha & her her Grand-pere & Uncle Rofe. Julia invites Tabitha to demonstrations at her Cordon Bleu school, where in sudden succession,⬇️

Thank you, @TheAromaofBooks , for sending me the beginning of yet another series…ahhh, you know me so well!! 😂😂😂

I‘ll look forward to meeting Daisy and going along for the ride in her adventures. 😊🧐

So excited to have won a prize in your #BookSpin yearly drawing. 🎉

Thanks again!!

PS. That cover…💚💚💚