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I am delighted to share my thoughts today about The Whisking Hour: A Bakeshop Mystery by Ellie Alexander! #ABakeshopMystery #AmazonAssociate #cozymystery #EllieAlexander #MinotaurBooks #NetGalley #Oregon #StMartinsPaperbacks
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Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce Publishes 4/28/26

Looking for a dark, creepy, keep you guessing thriller? This is it! booksbooksbookscat111xx.blogspot.com/2026/01/dark... #booksky #minotaurbooks #netgalley #bookreview #2026books #horror #thriller

All My Bones I just reviewed All My Bones by P. J. Nelson

All My Bones by P. J. Nelson is a fun and twisty cozy mystery that delivers on everything I could ask for in the genre. #AllMyBones #NetGalley #MinotaurBooks www.netgalley.com/book/611956/...

Double Shadow by Andrew Ludington Publishes 4/21/26

2nd Book in an action packed time travel series! booksbooksbookscat111xx.blogspot.com/2025/12/doub... #booksky #bookreview #2026books #minotaurbooks #timetravel #netgalley

📚A Murderous Business by Cathy Pegau #BookReview #MinotaurBooks #ARCReview #HistoricalFiction #LGBTQIA #Mystery Cathy Pegau's sharp, captivating historical mystery about two women in turn-of-the-century New York solving murder and fighting the heteropatriarchy. There can be a blurry line between what is ethical and what is legal. Most books mentioned in my reviews can be found at the affiliate links below. (Bookshop.org) (Biblio.com) (Better World Books-US) (Better World Books-UK…

Cathy Pegau's sharp, captivating historical mystery about two women in turn-of-the-century New York solving murder and fighting the heteropatriarchy. Review-> #BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #AMurderousBusiness #MinotaurBooks #ARCReview #NetGalley #LGBTQIA #Mystery #HistoricalFiction

A+ #BookReview: Dance with Death by Will Thomas My Review: The opening of this 12th entry in the marvelous Barker & Llewelyn series at first seems a bit, well, ‘out there’ even for the strange and dangerous places that Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn generally find themselves. Not that Barker doesn’t command every room he enters, but his ‘junior’ partner Thomas Llewelyn seems to still be taking each day a bit as it comes - even after a few years as Barker’s apprentice and a year as his actual partner in their private enquiry agency.

A+ #BookReview: Dance with Death by Will Thomas #WillThomasAuthor #MinotaurBooks ‪@minotaurbooks.bsky.social‬ @stmartinspress.bsky.social
#HistoricalMystery #HistoricalFiction #BarkerAndLlewelyn

Killing Me Softly by Sandie Jones Publishes- 3/31/26

This was a thrilling thriller! booksbooksbookscat111xx.blogspot.com/2025/12/kill... #booksky #thriller #2026books #BookReview #NetGalley #MinotaurBooks

Thanks to #MinotaurBooks, by way of #NetGalley, I received a digital ARC of this to read. My #Review is now set up for Mid January. Best to read the first book, HEAD CASES, before reading this one, folks.

A+ #BookReview: The Witch’s Orchard by Archer Sullivan My Review: Annie Gore has been a lot of things in her life, a private investigator, an Air Force special operations investigator, a muscle car mechanic, a poverty draftee into the military - and a child of the Appalachian hollers who is still running from a past she can’t forget. Max Andrews needs all of those things, but it’s the last who pushes Annie to return to a place much too much like the one she fled, investigating people who could all too easily have been her own neighbors, just like the ones who looked on and kept to themselves as her dad regularly beat on her mother.

A+ #BookReview: The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan #archersullivanauthor #minotaurbooks #mystery #suspense #thriller

Revenge, Served Royal I just reviewed Revenge, Served Royal by Celeste Connally

Revenge, Served Royal by Celeste Connally is a fun, twisty mystery that's a pleasure to read. This makes it for sure that the Lady Petra Inquires series is one that never disappoints. #RevengeServedRoyal #NetGalley #MinotaurBooks www.netgalley.com/book/634395/...

I think it would have helped to also have more of the back story of Claire and her mother's estrangement and how that unfolded.

#NetGalley #StMartinsPress #MinotaurBooks #ForgetMeNot
4/4

A++ #BookReview: The Black Wolf by Louise Penny My Review: This book begins in the exact same place where the previous book, The Grey Wolf, ends. With the same characters, even with the same sentence, at the moment in time where the situation changes irrevocably. The moment, as artist Clara Morrow's current series of paintings is currently stuck on, the moment just before something happened. It begins in the village of Three Pines, in the Gamache living room, where the Sûreté du Québec’s Homicide Chief, Armand Gamache, is recovering from his barely averted execution at what should have been the successful conclusion of his latest investigation.

A++ #BookReview: The Black Wolf by Louise Penny #louisepennyauthor #minotaurbooks #threepines #gamache #mystery #suspense #thriller

No Rest for the Wicked Rachel Louise Adams Minotaur Books Publication date : September 16, 2025 336 pages, Hardcover Return to Little Horton, Wisconsin, where Halloween isn’t just a holiday—it is a backdrop for dark secrets and deadly twists. In No Rest for the Wicked, forensic pathologist Dolores Hawthorne confronts a missing father, escalating deaths and the shadowy past she thought she’d left behind, in a gripping thriller that blends suspense, family drama and small-town gothic tension.

🗣️Perfect for Fans of :
🕵️‍♀️ Dark, small-town mysteries with family secrets
🔪 Twisty adult thrillers with suspense and tension
🎃 Halloween‑tinged gothic settings

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“The Truth Behind The Lie” by Sara Lövestam – Book Review #ScandiLit #SwedishFiction @MinotaurBooks #TheTruthBehindTheLie @sara_lovestam #BacklistReview @StMartinsPress #BookReview #BookX #BookSky This novel was published in other countries under the title “Truth Is A Personal Matter” Over the past decade, I have become a huge fan of Scandinavian literature, so this Scandi Noir, …

"The Truth Behind The Lie" by Sara Lövestam - Book Review #ScandiLit #SwedishFiction #MinotaurBooks #TheTruthBehindTheLie #SaraLovestam #BacklistReview @stmartinspress.bsky.social #BookReview #BookSky fictionophile.com/2025/10/29/t...

A ghostly hand slides a door chain in the locked position.

This paranormal cozy mystery series is probably best read in publication order. Read my full review here: debbybrauer.org#death-at-the...

Publication is expected October 21.

#NetGalley #StMartinsPress #MinotaurBooks #DeathattheDoor 📚💙

Welcome to My Reading Itinerary Monday! 
Where are your books taking you
this week?
I will be traveling to New York, Wisconsin, and Kansas!
Here’s what I read and what I have planned for this week. #CrookedLaneBooks #Kensington #MinotaurBooks #NetGalley
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🎧📚The Girl in the Green Dress by Mariah Fredericks #BookReview #StMartinsPress #ARCReview #HistoricalMystery #ZeldaFitzgerald From the author of The Lindbergh Nanny comes an evocative mystery about the 1920 murder of the gambler Joseph Elwell, featuring New Yorker writer Morris Markey and Zelda Fitzgerald. Most books mentioned in my reviews can be found at the affiliate links below. (Bookshop.org) (Biblio.com) (Better World Books-US) (Better World Books-UK) (Amazon US) (Kindle Unlimited) (Amazon CA) (Amazon UK) (AbeBooks) (Booksamillion) (Audible.com) (Audiobooks.com) Want to help some of my local indie bookstores?

Zelda Fitzgerald wants to get involved with something of substance. How about solving a murder mystery? My review of The Girl in the Green Dress--> #Bookthreads #BookSky #BookBlogger #BookReview #TheGirlintheGreenDress #ZeldaFitzgerald #MinotaurBooks #MariahFredericks #NetGalley #ARCReview

That's probably the whole point, but it was mind-boggling.

So keep reading, because it all starts to make sense as Randall undercovers what's happening at the lodge and what role he will have to play.

#NetGalley #StMartinsPress #MinotaurBooks #TheGuestChildren
4/4

Mirage City by Lev AC Rosen is a character-driven and thought-provoking vintage PI tale with a queer twist that hit all the emotions in the best way. #MirageCity #NetGalley #MinotaurBooks www.netgalley.com/book/586848/...

A- #AudioBookReview: Mirage City by Lev AC Rosen My Review: Los Angeles is possibly the ultimate ‘mirage city’. Not only does it appear in the heat haze of the California desert as a mirage, but what we think we see and know about it is a mirage created by the Hollywood star-making machinery that has painted the city as the place where there’s a movie star on every corner and one’s own dreams of stardom can come true.

A- #AudioBookReview: Mirage City by Lev AC Rosen @levacrosen.bsky.social #MinotaurBooks #MacmillanAudio #VikasAdam #EvanderMills #mystery #historicalmystery #historicalfiction #bookreview #noir

A Dark and Deadly Journey (Evelyne Redfern, #3) by Julia Kelly

A Dark and Deadly Journey (Evelyne Redfern, #3) by Julia Kelly
pub date - 9/23/25

#ADarkandDeadlyJourney #EvelyneRedfern #JuliaKelly #MinotaurBooks #NetGalley #historicalfiction #historicalmystery #mystery #alwaysreading #arcreader #bookblogger #September2025books

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book jacket - The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

It's release day for Ann Cleeves' new Detective Jimmy Perez novel, The Killing Stones. It's wonderful to have the tenderhearted police officer from Shetland back. #BookSky #PoliceProcedural #TheOrkneys #MinotaurBooks. tinyurl.com/bbbypu5f

No Rest for the Wicked I just reviewed No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams

No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams is a twisty way to tell a twisted story, complete with characters that keep you guessing as to their personalities and motivations.
#NoRestForTheWicked #NetGalley #MinotaurBooks
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A- #BookReview: Lethal Pursuit by Will Thomas My Review: The previous book in this series, Blood is Blood, while it takes place in Barker & Llewelyn’s present, is very much concerned with the past. Particularly Barker’s past. This book, while the events of the immediate past - particularly Barker’s injury at the opening of Blood and Llewelyn’s marriage at the end of it - certainly do have their effects on the progress of this story, …

A- #BookReview: Lethal Pursuit by Will Thomas #WillThomasAuthor #MinotaurBooks ‪@minotaurbooks.bsky.social‬ @stmartinspress.bsky.social
#HistoricalMystery #HistoricalFiction #BarkerAndLlewelyn

📚🎧The Story That Wouldn’t Die (Jolene Garcia Mystery No.2) #BookReview #DreamscapeMedia #MinotaurBooks #ARCReview #Mystery Emmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes uses her twenty-year career for inspiration for her mysteries. In The Story That Wouldn’t Die, Jolene Garcia refuses to stop investigating, but someone is determined to kill the story—and maybe her. Most books mentioned in my reviews can be found at the affiliate links below. (Bookshop.org) (Biblio.com) (Better World Books-US) (Better World Books-UK) (Amazon US) (Kindle Unlimited) (Amazon CA) (Amazon UK) (AbeBooks) (Booksamillion) (

Award-winning reporter Christina Estes uses her career for inspiration for her mysteries. Jolene Garcia refuses to stop investigating, but someone is determined to kill the story. #Bookthreads #BookSky #BookBlogger #BookReview #TheStoryThatWouldntDie #DreamscapeMedia #MinotaurBooks #NetGalley

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5.0/5.0 stars - Highly recommend
#ADarkAndDeadlyJourney @juliakellywrites
#JuliaKelly @minotaur_books #MinotaurBooks

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Death at a Highland Wedding I just reviewed Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong

Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong is a wonderful mix of romance, mystery, and time travel packed into an engaging plot. It's an excellent read and I'm looking forward to reading the series. #DeathAtAHighlandWedding #netGalley #MinotaurBooks www.netgalley.com/book/476386/...

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3.5/5.0 stars - Recommend
#TheGirlInTheGreenDress #MariahFredericks #MinotaurBooks @NetGalley #NetGalley #Storygraph #Goodreads

#Bookworm #BookBlogger #BookReader #Bookstagram #2025Reads #JulyReads #Book100Of2025 #BookThreads

He's to Die For I just reviewed He's to Die For by Erin Dunn

He's to Die For by Erin Dunn is a solid murder mystery covered in deliciously romantic fluff. A 5-star read that I enjoyed from beginning to end. #HesToDieFor #NetGalley #MinotaurBooks www.netgalley.com/book/484552/...

Review of The Blue Horse by Bruce Borgos Sheriff Porter Beck is back and he ain't horsin' around! 🐎 Or, well, he kinda is. #TheBlueHorse #BruceBorgos #MinotaurBooks #Mystery @Minotaur_Books @AuthorBruceBorgos #WildMustangs #BookReview #BookBlogger #Thriller #PorterBeck #NightBlindness #LithiumMining #Bookstagram #Books The Blue Horse by Bruce Borgos Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 8, 2025 Language ‏ : ‎ English Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250373905 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250373908 Blurb: A helicopter driving a controversial round-up of wild horses suddenly crashes and the pilot is found to have been shot.

Review of The Blue Horse by Bruce Borgos

Sheriff Porter Beck is back and he ain't horsin' around! 🐎 Or, well, he kinda is. #TheBlueHorse #BruceBorgos #MinotaurBooks #Mystery @Minotaur_Books @AuthorBruceBorgos #WildMustangs #BookReview #BookBlogger #Thriller #PorterBeck #NightBlindness…