Cheese Shop...No More?

I received a very upsetting email last night from Daryl Wood Gerber (AKA Avery Aames). According to her new newsletter Berkley Prime Crime has discontinued The Cheese Shop Mystery featuring the ever love able Charlotte!!!!! The last book will be For Chedder Or Worse. This is a real shame because this has quickly become one of my favorite series of mysteries and will miss Charlotte and the ever irresistible Jordan! 

Have you read any of the Cheese Shop Mysteries or anything by Daryl Wood Gerber?

Cheese Shop...No More?

I received a very upsetting email last night from Daryl Wood Gerber (AKA Avery Aames). According to her new newsletter Berkley Prime Crime has discontinued The Cheese Shop Mystery featuring the ever love able Charlotte!!!!! The last book will be For Chedder Or Worse. This is a real shame because this has quickly become one of my favorite series of mysteries and will miss Charlotte and the ever irresistible Jordan! 

Have you read any of the Cheese Shop Mysteries or anything by Daryl Wood Gerber?

Drape Expectations

Today I finished my first ARC! I read Drape Expectations by Karen Rose Smith courtesy of Kensington Publishing Company. It was so cool to see the book before I would normally buy it in stores. 

Question: How can you go wrong with a novel called Drape Expectations?

When I first saw a professional staging mystery I was intrigued and could only imagine the possibilities for a murder. In Drape Expectations Caprice Da Luce our Camero driving sleuth is trying to solve the murder of Alanna, a friends Fiancée. Add in that friend being rock legend Ace Richland! I found this book at times a little tedious and also at time wished it was going by a little faster. But in the end enjoyed our amateur sleuth in action either staging the house or solving the murder.  In addition Karen Rose Smith is the first author who has made me truly fall in love with all the animals in her books! I feel like they are real and truly loved by Caprice, even when they are not her own. I definitely think that I will revisit this series again. 

[I received this book free from the publisher through NetGalley. I thank them for their generousity. In exchange, I was simply asked to write an honest review, and post it. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising]

Joanne Fluke...The Beginning

When I first started reading cozy mysteries I began with the Berkley Prime Crime canon. I started with Krista Davis's Domestic Diva mysteries and absolutely loved them. Then I tried Diane Mott Davidson's Goldy mysteries and was not a fan...so I wondered to myself if I could only like Berkley Prime Crime novels. Then came Avery Aames and Daryl Wood Gerber who almost cemented that feeling. 

Then I saw one day that Joanne Fluke's Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder was on sale in e book for $1.99 on my Nook. So I thought ok $1.99 is a good price to try something and then I heard about the TV movie. Suffice it to say that I fell in love. This was also the first time that I actually baked any kind of recipe from any of the books. I began with the chocolate chip crunch cookies that get their crunch from corn flakes, Joanne was going to make Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies but didn't have any Oatmeal, and I thought they were delicious. My two roommates agreed and then my entire office gobbled them up. Further proof that they were a hot came when my boyfriend who does not like chocolate loved them. Then I tried her molasses cookies in her second book Strawberry Shortcake Murder and got another very enthusiastic response from coworkers, roommates and boyfriend alike. 

Have you ever cook/bake from a cozy mystery and if so what did you make and what did you think about it?

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder: Welcome to Lake Eden! There are no crimes to speak of except that it is the murder capital of the WORLD!

This is my first in the series by Joanne Fluke that I have read. I found Hannah to be completely awesome and everyone in the book to have a likability if only for comic relief. There were numerous times where I laughed out loud. Plus all the recipes (which I have yet to try) all looked easy and delicious! I already made my shopping list! It was a gem to read and cannot wait to see what Hannah gets up to in the rest of the series!

Strawberry Shortcake Murder Review:  A Bake Off in Lake Eden! Sign Me Up! Of course Hannah must step over at least one dead body in the process! Blackmail, murder and intrigue are all great parts of this book. Let me just tell you that the recipes in this are fantastic. I took both the chocolate chip crunch and molasses cookies to my office and they were HUGE HITS.