Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! Join our discussion of A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery Book One) by Dianne Freeman with Angela Maria Hart and Eliza Luce 🔎 ABOUT THE BOOK Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than she did as a wife. After an obligatory year spent mourning her philandering husband, Reggie, she puts aside her drab black gowns, leaving the countryside and her money-grubbing in-laws behind. Wi...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 48
Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club for All Sorts of Sleuthing Fun 🔎 In this episode, Angela and Ben discuss Vinyl Resting Place (Record Shop Mystery Book One) by Olivia Blacke 🎶 ABOUT THE BOOK When Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie put all their beans in one basket to open Sip & Spin Records, a record-slash-coffee shop in Cedar River, Texas, they knew there could be some scratches on the track, but no one was expecting to find a body deader than disco in the supply closet. Family i...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 47
Join Angela, Paula, and Annie as well as the rest of The Cozy Mystery Book Club for their chat about Up to No Gouda. It's gouda be a lot of fun! 📖 About Up to No Gouda by Linda Reilly 📖 Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream—opening Carly’s Grilled Cheese Eatery. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled cheese concoctions....
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 46
Enjoy The Cozy Mystery Book Club's discussion of Steeped to Death (Witches' Brew Mystery One) by Gretchen Rue. Celebrate paranormal cozy mysteries with Colleen (@ilikeoldbooks1213), Angela (@writerahart), and The Cozy Mystery Book Club (@cozymysteryclub). 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 For fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flowers, it’s teatime in Raven Creek—but a murder at the The Earl’s Study sets the stage for an intoxicating brew of small-town chicanery with a hint of the supernatural. Phoebe Wincheste...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 45
Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Discussion of Homicide in Hardcover! Book one in the hit Bibliophile Mystery series by Kate Carlisle. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Book expert Brooklyn Wainwright discovers that murder is always a bestseller in the first novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can’t be sa...
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 44
Join Angela Maria Hart and Christina Romeril for their discussion of Jenn McKinlay's Sprinkle with Murder, Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series Book One 🧁 📖 BOOK BLURB 📖 Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she becomes the prime suspect. To save themsel...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 36
Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club, Kelly Reynolds, and Angela Maria Hart for their discussion of Dead and Gondola (Christie Bookshop Book One) by Ann Claire. When a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, the Christie sisters and their cat Agatha call on all they’ve learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist in this new series debut. Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She’s recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family’s...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 43
The Cozy Mystery Book Club had lots of sleuthing fun discussing Death in Castle Dark (A Dinner and a Murder Mystery Book One) by Veronica Bond! Join Angela Maria Hart and, cozy mystery authors, Paula Charles and Christina Romeril, for all sorts of coziness. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Actor Nora Blake finds her dream job when she is cast in a murder-mystery troupe that performs in an imposing but captivating old castle. When she stumbles upon a real murder, things take a nightmarish turn in this first ...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 41
Get Cozy and Chat About the Murder at the Lakeside Library with The Cozy Mystery Book Club! 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Rain Wilmont has just returned to her family's waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to Rain's corporate job and comes with an informal library that Rain's mother, Willow, used to run. But as Rain prepares for the re-opening of the library, all hopes for a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers th...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 42
Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! Manon, aka the viral mystery reader sensation, joins Angela live for a fun discussion of Agatha Christie's first Hercule Poirot tale. 📖 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot Book One) 📖 A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. S...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 40
Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! Join Angela Maria Hart and Kate Lansing for their discussion of Buried in a Good Book (By the Book Mysteries 1) by Tamara Berry. 📖ABOUT THE BOOK📖 A thriller writer who knows way more than anyone should about death and dismemberment Her young daughter who's more intrigued by dead bodies than she probably should be An isolated cabin in the woods that's probably―definitely―hiding something The tiny mountain town that seems less than troubled by a sudden abun...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 34
Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club and fellow sleuthers Angela & The Knitting Librarian (aka Amanda) for their discussion of Murder, She Knit (A Knit & Nibble Mystery 1) by Peggy Ehrhart. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she’s trying out a new hobby—solving murders! Pamela is hosting the next Knit an...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 33
Join The Cozy Mystery Book Club's discussion of Death by Bubble Tea (LA Night Market Book One) by Jennifer J. Chow 🔎 Angela Maria Hart and special guest, cozy mystery author, Kate Lansing, chat about this cozy mystery and sleuthing fun 📚 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Two cousins who start a food stall at their local night market get a serving of murder in this first novel of a delicious new cozy mystery series by Jennifer J. Chow, author of Mimi Lee Gets a Clue. When Yale Yee discovers her cousin Celin...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 38
Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! Join your hostess Angela Maria Hart and cozy mystery authors Annie McEwen & Paula Charles/Jana Rollins for their cozy conversation discussing A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Olivia Limoges is the subject of constant gossip. Ever since her mysterious return to the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, Olivia has kept to herself, her dog, and her unfinished novel. With a little cajoling from charming writer Camden Ford, she...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 32
The Cozy Mystery Book Club read Six Feet Deep Dish (Deep Dish Mysteries Book One) by Mindy Quigley 🔎 Join the cozy conversation with Angela Maria Hart and Jeanne Epstein. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Fresh mozzarella, tangy tomato sauce, and the perfect recipe for a delicious first entry in Mindy Quigley's Six Feet Deep Dish , a delectable new series... Delilah O’Leary can’t wait to open her new gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin―a charming resort town with a long history as a mobsters...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 39
Join Angela Maria Hart, Angela Cox, and The Cozy Mystery Book Club for their discussion of Double Booked for Death by Ali Brandon. 📖 ABOUT DOUBLE BOOKED FOR DEATH 📖 Darla Pettistone left Texas for New York after unexpectedly inheriting her Great-Aunt Dee’s Brooklyn bookstore. She didn’t know that the store’s mascot—Hamlet, an oversize black cat with a personality to match—was also part of the deal. And he may be more trouble than Darla bargained for… As the new owner of Pettistone’s Fine Books...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 30
Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club's discussion of Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor! Celebrate all things Irish with a cozy read and chat. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi’s Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors, enjoy some brown bread and tea, and get the local gossip. Nowadays twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O’Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 37
Celebrate Cozy Mysteries with YouTube's first Cozy Mystery Book Club. Join the sleuthing fun with Angela, Jeannie, and the rest of The Cozy Mystery Book Club for their discussion of Murder in a Scottish Shire (Scottish Shire Mystery 1) by Traci Hall. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Known as the Brighton of the North, Nairn is both a charming Scottish town and a popular seaside resort—but to Paislee Shaw, it's simply home—unfortunately to a murderer . . . For a twenty-eight-year-old single mum, Paislee has ...
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 29
This episode breaks down how a cozy mystery can become an official monthly TBR title for The Cozy Mystery Book Club. You can listen to the entire process from submission to voting. Hopefully, by the end of the episode, you learn a little more about the behind-the-scenes work going on as well as which cozies you should recommend for future TBR votes. 🔍 Brief Episode Recap 🔎 The cozy mysteries that are voted on are submitted and chosen by book club members. There are certain requirements for a b...
Jun 18, 2024•13 min•Ep. 28
Join Angela Maria Hart, Elle Hartford, and The Cozy Mystery Book Club for their discussion of Cloche and Dagger (Hat Shop Mystery 1) by Jenn McKinlay. 📖BOOK BLURB📖 Not only is Scarlett Parker’s love life in the loo—as her British cousin Vivian Tremont would say—it’s also gone viral with an embarrassing video. So when Viv suggests Scarlett leave Florida to lay low in London, she hops on the next plane across the pond. Viv is the proprietor of Mims’s Whims, a ladies’ hat shop on Portobello Road ...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 35
Join the sleuthing fun with Angela Maria Hart and Colleen for our discussion of Amanda Flower's "Farm to Trouble." 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Coming home to a run-down farm, gossipy neighbors, and a shady investor is a lot to handle... but a murderer on the loose is the final straw! Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation - complete with a farm-to-table café - is no small feat...
May 14, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 27
Welcome to the Angela Episode! Angela Maria Hart and Angela Cox discuss Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake (Death by Chocolate Mystery #1) by Sarah Graves. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Life just got a little sweeter in the island fishing village of Eastport, Maine. Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie are opening a waterfront bake shop, The Chocolate Moose, where their tasty treats pair perfectly with the salty ocean breeze. But while Jake has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can'...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 26
Welcome to the Angela episode! Angela Maria Hart and Angela Cox discuss Fresh Brewed Murder (A Ground Rules Mystery 1) by Emmeline Duncan with The Cozy Mystery Book Club! ☕️ BOOK BLURB ☕️ Master barista Sage Caplin is opening a new coffee cart in Portland, Oregon, but a killer is brewing up a world of trouble.... Portland is famous for its rain, hipsters, craft beers...and coffee. Sage Caplin has high hopes for her coffee cart, Ground Rules, which she runs with her business partner, Harley - a g...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 25
Join Angela, Ben, and the rest of the sleuthing family for the first Cozy Mystery Book Club livestream of 2024! Kicking off a year of coziness with Pride, Prejudice and Poison by Elizabeth Blake. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Antiquarian bookstore proprietor Erin Coleridge uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society. Erin Coleridge’s used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, fo...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 31
Join Angela and Ben as they discuss the first book in the Deputy Donut Mystery series, Survival of the Fritters by Ginger Bolton. 📖ABOUT THE BOOK📖 Emily Westhill runs the best donut shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, alongside her retired police chief father-in-law and her tabby Deputy Donut. But after murder claims a favorite customer, Emily can’t rely on a sidekick to solve the crime—or stay alive. If Emily has learned anything from her past as a 911 operator, it’s to stay calm during stressfu...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 24
Join Angela, Colleen, and the rest of the sleuthing family for a cozy discussion of A Sprinkling of Murder by Daryl Wood Gerber. 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into your life. But when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she'll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve a murder . . . Since childhood, Courtney has loved fairies. After her mother died when she was ten, she lost touch with that feeling of magic. A year ago, at ag...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 22
Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! In this episode, we will be discussing Bailee Abbott's A Brush with Murder. 📖 BOOK BLURB 📖 A quiet lakeside town in western New York state is the new home of Manhattan artist Chloe Abbington and the backdrop for murder in this series debut by Bailee Abbott. For Chloe Abbington, the transition from fine art painter in New York City to painting-event business owner in charming Whisper Cove is more than a little jarring. But when poison-pen journalist Fiona ...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 23
Join Angela, Kelly, and The Cozy Mystery Book Club as they discuss Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen #1) by Joanne Fluke. Discover the delicious mystery that started it all! No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke's dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes one delicious clue at a time has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages,...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 21
Join Angela and Tammy (aka tamsterdam_reads on Instagram) as they discuss the first book in the Paws and Claws Mystery Series, Murder, She Barked, by Krista Davis. ABOUT THE BOOK The Sugar Maple Inn in Wagtail, Virginia, is the country's premiere vacation hot spot for pet owners who can’t bear to leave their furry friends behind. But this tourist town smells trouble when a killer goes on the prowl.... Holly Miller's life has gone to the dogs. She has no job, her boyfriend's former flame is sniff...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 20
Welcome to our book club discussion of Snow Way Out (Snow Globe Shop Mystery 1) by Christine Husom. Join Angela and Kelly for all sorts of cozy fun! ~ BOOK BLURB ~ Curio shop manager Camryn Brooks thought she’d seen every kind of snow globe—until she saw one depicting a crime scene… Ever since she was a child, Cami has loved the sparkling beauty of snow globes, and now, she sells them. In fact, they’re so popular, Cami and her friend—coffee shop owner Alice “Pinky” Nelson—are hosting a snow glob...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 19
