#bookreview By Hook Or By Book By Misty Simon @parternsincrimetours

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025Mybeautymark 2 Comments

Roxy Gleason, an innkeeper by trade and a bibliomancer by birth, has lived in the same small town on the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania for her entire life. Tradition is strong here. Roxy understands the rules and is willing to play by them most of the time. She runs the Charmed Inn, which has been in her family for decades.

The inn is all set to host a writers’ professional business weekend that’s been planned down to the very last hand-folded napkin, and Roxy is ready for the influx of creatives. She knows she’ll have a lot of different and sometimes unusual personalities to deal with, but this is a yearly function, so she’s not expecting anything to go awry.

Her expectations are completely tanked when she finds a dead body on her daily walk by the river’s shore. Owen Schultz had checked in for the conference a few hours ago, and she’d last seen him having tea with her aunt in the dining room.

How did he get down here on the ferry, and who killed him?

Review/ My thoughts

By Hook or by Book is a cozy paranormal story about Roxy who runs her family bed and breakfast. Roxys inn is having a Writers event, and she ia running around trying to get things together. In the midst of getting ready for the event one of her guest is found dead near the river.
Roxy takes what she leanred from books to try to solve the mystery of who killed this guest and why? Why now during this writers event?

Roxy is a big reader , and i liked that about her. She does this thing where she can flip a page and find the answer to what she needs to be on the page.

I like the paranormal aspect of the story. If you like cozy mystery with touch of paranormal i think youll like this story.

Rating 4 🌟 🌟🌟🌟

#bookreview Peppermint Cookie Murder By Trixie Silvertale

March 24, 2025Mybeautymark Leave a comment

Synopsis

Cindy Claus is excited to open her own bakery. She’s determined to pursue her passion and have her holiday treats prove she’s more than a Yuletide heir. But before she can whisk up a success, her roommate is murdered and Cindy is the prime suspect.

With finding the real killer the only way to beat the rap, Cindy relies on the kindness of strangers and her father’s trusted arctic fox. But without a recipe for success in the unfamiliar human world, grilling the wrong suspects could put her behind bars…

Can Cindy sift out the clues before she’s done and dusted?

Review/thoughts

This was a nice, cozy mystery about a half elf named Cindy whose dad just so happens to be Santa Claus. Cindy wants to live in the human world away from the North Pole for a while and truly be on her own without her dad hoovering over her. Her biggest goal while living in the human world is to run her her bakery.

Its not long before cindy and her magical white Fox that is passing as a dog get caught up in a murder mystery that she is trying to clear her name from. Cindy while still trying to understand the human world still wants to find out the true killer in Bettys murder.

This was a fast paced Christmasy cozy mystery. I do like the references to the cookies and how much Cindy likes baking. Arikoka the white fox i enjoyed because he actually talks and he passed very easily as a dog and really noone in town noticed. I do plan to read more from the author as well as finish the series.

Rating

4.75 🌟🌟🌟🌟

#bookreview Death By Yoga Pants By Angela Castillo

February 22, 2025February 22, 2025Mybeautymark Leave a comment

Synopsis

Iowa Dawn has come back home to Giddings, Texas, after a messy divorce. Her goal in life is to keep her job at the bowling alley so she won’t have to move back in with her mother. But after a serving job at a swanky resort ends with the murder of a VIP, Iowa finds herself caught up in a vortex of multi-level-marketing espionage, ultra-tacky patterns, and–yoga pants?
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Review/ thoughts

I enjoyed this cozy mystery. This is about a woman named Iowa, she works at a bowling alley / restaurant. She always finds herself in the oddest situations where he boss Wenston has to be there to save her. Her job was hosting a dinner for a popular MLM called YogaYou where they are known for selling werid yoga pants with wild patterns on them. The CEO dies while at the dinner, and Iowa feels it’s her job to find out what really happened to her. This overall was a fast paced cozy I liked that the author incorporated an MLM which more people now adays a made aware that those companies are very Shady. Iowa owns a cat named Mr SnootyPants which I thought was cute. I wanted to see more of the cat though. overall this was just what I need to end my reading slump, if you want to start reading cozy mysteries and don’t know where to start this is a good place to start.

Rating

4🌟🌟🌟🌟

#bookreview Pralines and Creamed By Elizabeth Maria Naranjo #bookblitz @womenonwriting

December 8, 2024Mybeautymark Leave a comment

Synopsis

It’s the spooky season in Pinewood, Arizona, and when Genevieve Winterland isn’t creating killer new recipes for Sweet Dreams Ice Cream Parlour, she’s helping BFF Brandon Summers prepare for the party of the year. Brandon’s parents own Hidden Treasures Bookstore, where famed horror writer Jack Kelley is launching his latest novel on Halloween night.

Brandon’s dad isn’t thrilled that the arrogant Kelley, who was once sweet on Mrs. Summers, has chosen their store for his big event. Still, there’s no denying the author draws a huge crowd. Which makes it hard to narrow down a suspect list when Kelley drops dead onstage—the victim of a shocking murder straight out of his own book.

Fresh off Pinewood’s last cold case, Genevieve is happy to let the police handle this one. But when frosty Detective Christie zeroes in on Brandon’s dad as her prime suspect, Genevieve decides to take matters into her own hands. Can she get the scoop and solve the mystery haunting her hometown?

Review

Just like the first book in the series I enjoyed reading this installment. I like how persistent Genevieve is when is comes to wanting to solve the case. In the second book a local horror author drops dead at his own book signing. Genevieve is determined to understand why and who may have done it. It was surprising to know who the real person was behind the murder. I still like when the book is set in the ice cream shop and whenever the puppy Butterscotch is talked about. It’s a fast paced cozy mystery that I love being back into. I would recommend this book to people who like or who just starting out reading cozy mysteries like myself.

Rating 4 ⭐️

I’ll like to think the author and women on writing for allowing me to read and share my honest review.