This week, I am over on the Blood Red Pencil discussing my favorite new find of 2021: Andrea Penrose and her cozy historical mysteries: the Wrexford & Sloane series and the Lady Arianna Hadley series. Both are at the top of my cozy favorites list which includes Deanna Raybourn, Anna Lee Huber, and Tasha Alexander.
https://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2021/11/andrea-penrose-and-art-of-cozy-mystery.html
I love the English settings, creative casts, original sleuths, and satisfying plots with just a small dash of Romance, just the way I like it.
The swashbuckling Lady Arianna is a master of disguise with a talent for mathematics and a love of chocolate. She returns to England to get revenge disguised as a cook. Her love of chocolate makes her a suspect in poisoning the Prince Regent which brings her into contact with a chocolate expert, the Earl of Saybrook, which sends them off together to save Prince and country.
https://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Penrose/e/B00E5SKHB0
In which I praise Tasha Alexander, Anna Lee Huber, Deanna Raybourn, and Jacqueline Lapore. If anyone knows what happened with Ms. Lapore I would love to know. Her books are amazing but there are only two in the series. I would love to find more books by her.
http://dianahurwitz.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-too.html
Veronica Speedwell is a world traveler with a love of scientific inquiry and butterflies. She partners with Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian with a passion for taxidermy, to solve mysteries together.
World War I widow and secret service agent, Verity Kent is determined to prove that her husband was not a traitor. Spoiler alert: she learns Sidney is in fact alive and they are thrown into multiple cases involving veterans and state secrets.
In The Anatomist's Wife series, Lady Darby, forced to illustrate the grisly works of her her abusive anatomist husband, flees to Scotland after he dies. But when a murder is committed Kiera is dragged in to the investigation along with inquiry agent Sebastian Gage. Thus begins their mystery solving adventures.
In Descent into Dust and Immortal with a Kiss, a Gothic thriller series, Emma Andrews is a vampire slayer who travels to a girl's school to confront her nemesis Dracula.
Books look very nice wrapped and under a Christmas tree or as a stocking stuffer added to one's reading device via gift card.
Stay tuned for more of my book recommendations for the holiday season.
http://dianahurwitz.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-too.html
Veronica Speedwell is a world traveler with a love of scientific inquiry and butterflies. She partners with Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian with a passion for taxidermy, to solve mysteries together.
Lady Julia Grey is suspected of killing her husband and is investigated by Nicholas Brisbane, private inquiry agent. Together they solve the mystery of her husband's demise and partner up for future investigations of the romantic and murder kind.
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Newly widowed Lady Emily, lover of languages and antiquities, must solve the mystery of her husband's demise with the enigmatic investigator Sebastian Gage. The two of them traverse the globe in this fifteen book series solving murders.
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In Descent into Dust and Immortal with a Kiss, a Gothic thriller series, Emma Andrews is a vampire slayer who travels to a girl's school to confront her nemesis Dracula.
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I give all of these books five stars and recommend pairing them with a hot beverage of your choice be it coffee, tea, or cocoa.
Books look very nice wrapped and under a Christmas tree or as a stocking stuffer added to one's reading device via gift card.
Stay tuned for more of my book recommendations for the holiday season.
