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Hi, Littens! I miss you! My store has been open since January and it‘s going great but I want to get back on Litsy much more. I have a question for the #cozymystery lovers: what are the top series that I should carry (some of them, not the entire series) at the bookstore? I read lots of mystery/thrillers but am not as familiar with cozies! Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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Decisions, decisions! I could be happy with nothing but chocolate chip cookies for the rest of my life, but I also like…
1. Peanut butter cookies (love the fork marks)
2. Walnut snowball cookies
3. Snickerdoodles
Plus I want to TRY pistachio cookies, cinnamon palmiers, red velvet whoopie pies…..
My score is 37/75
#TLT

This was a fun read — but what an underbelly in this small town! It‘s a bit dated, but that‘s to be expected. Hannah is frank and funny, and the mystery unwinds in a neat and tidy way that keeps you guessing but still more or less holds together. I didn‘t love all the sly pokes at people‘s looks and character, although the mother-hating cat was pretty funny. I‘d probably read another one in the series, just to see what happens to everyone.

Met my goal of finally reading a mystery. This was fine, but I guess they‘re just not for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

I enjoyed this quick, light read. I look forward to more by this author. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5.

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This story is located in the paperback copy of Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder.

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#ShananigansReads24

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For todays #scarathlon photo challenge: Death

Last year, this was my buddy read and it led me down the rabbit hole of cozy mysteries. These are a fun series with great recipes 🎃 #blackcatcrew 🐈‍⬛

August 22 #BookBinge Includes Recipes @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ChocolateDay 🍫 🍪 #SummerSpecial 🏖️☀️🌻🎆🍉

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Book Club meets on Thursday ... so I guess its about time to actually, you know, read the book 😬🤷‍♀️

I didn‘t read this in October but I have several Christmas reads from this series on my iPad. I figured I should read the first in the series to get introduced to the characters and setting. It held my interest enough to read more.
I don‘t usually read out of order, but I‘m making an exception with this and the Lucy Stone series for #BookedByHoliday reads.

#Adventathon #BookSpinBingo #WinterReadathon

#NovelNovember @Andrew65

🍁5 books read
🍁4 in progress including my three group reads
#LittensLoveRomance @StayCurious
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD @TheBookHippie
#WhimsicalReads @KateReadsYA
🍁1 surprising DNF

This is a pleasant enough little story. Very quick and light, which is perhaps a little disconcerting for a murder mystery (I'm not used to cozies that are quite this...cozy). Not sure I'll continue with the series, but this was a fun diversion. The included recipes make me want to bake, but I'm skeptical about whether they'd actually turn out well or not.

Pretty spot to wait out my teen's field trip and listen to an audiobook. Lots of surfers and shore birds (and flies). Glad I brought my sun hat!

Team read done and I really enjoyed it. I like a cosy mystery and Hannah is very likeable. Plus this had an extra short story that was very sweet. The recipes included was a lovely touch 4* 51pts for #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon
@Clwojick

Week 3 #scarathlon total for #teamslaughter = 9250
🎉🥳🎃
This week, I read 4 books including our buddy read, which was light and fluffy and fun, if not terribly believable. And loook, I found a Hallmark movie for it! Maybe I‘ll have to watch it 🤔 #spookoween

Well week 3 done and it was a good one. Total for the week was 13,050. Most of which come from finding the team words in the books I'm reading.
#TeamSlaughter
@Clwojick

I enjoyed Hanna‘s sarcastic demeanor, and who doesn‘t love a cookie bakery & a moody cat, but it honestly felt like a generic cozy. Strong setting can make a cozy stand out, but descriptions of Lake Eden weren‘t particularly vivid or memorable. Narrator was good. #3stars #teamread #mystery #scarathalon22 #TeamSlaughter #31by31

I didn‘t love the main character in this series, but I liked the mystery and the conclusion. Amateur sleuths in these types of books can be so judgmental when they‘re solving crimes, you know? 🤣

I originally had planned to read the Karin Slaughter book, but it turns out I had already read it, so I thought I'd try this one for the team read and I really liked it! I've already read the second book, and I plan on continuing. #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick
Word Find: 276

My friend sent this too me and it was too perfect not to share! #Scarathalon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

Finished our #teamslaughter #buddyread book. It‘s humorous & delicious ( I mean with all those recipes!) I enjoyed listening to it. Good read, like the MC but I felt she is bit over enthusiastic with everything. I like mysteries #setinsmalltown 3.5 ⭐️ #readathon 9.5hrs #littenlisten @aperfectmjk #spookoween @TheSpineView #31in31 @Catsandbooks #promptmaze #bookspinbingo #witchathon @mdm139 #scarathlon #teamSlaughter

#OminousOctober @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#Cozy

#Scarathlon2022 @StayCurious
#TeamMonsterMash

3,216pts

#teamslaughter #scarathlon2022

Okay, so I went a liiiiiiiittle bit overboard with the #wordsearch #game for #Scarathlon2022 this week 😁
I spent hours and hours poring over countless dictionaries, whenever I read a book words that fit jumped at me; it took me ages to find sleep because I mulled over the word lists...

I was able to find 224 words for #Scarathon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

Done!! #teamread #scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter @Clwojick #autumnbingo #recipe @Ann_Reads #bodycountbingo #cozymystery @PuddleJumper #stabbybingo #orangecover #autumnatoz C @Texreader

Hannah is following the #clues to find the killer, so Bill can get his promotion…. #teamread #teamslaughter #scarathlon2022 #scarathlondailyprompts @Clwojick

4 ⭐️

I enjoyed this read very much! I liked that even though it‘s a cozy mystery set in a small town, it didn‘t feel sterile or bland- there were some real weirdos in there! 🤣
• Team Buddy Read for #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter
• Solved it Before the Characters for #PromptMaze
• C for #AutumnAtoZ

Using a #TeamSlaughter #BuddyRead for the #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #PhotoChallenge for Day 7: #Victim. I have yet to read this one, but the synopsis states one of our MC‘s customers is found murdered behind her bakery amidst her chocolate chip cookies and she decides to investigate!

#Scarathlon2022

This was fun! This is my first “cozy” mystery that I‘ve ever read, and the recipes sound amazing! I wrote them all down and want to try them soon, yummy! Finished #scarathlon2022 buddy read for #teamslaughter 🔪

Starting one of our #TeamSlaughter reads for #Scarathlon I‘d say murder definitely qualifies as #Crime for the #DailyPrompt

An enjoyable but slow cozy mystery this one. Dairy delivery guy without an enemy in the world is shot behind the MC‘s cookie shop. Doofus of a detective gets the cookie shop owner to pretty much do all the work to solve the murder. Cookie shop owner apparently has a perfect IQ because she knows everything and her 4–year-old niece talks like she‘s 30. So I suspended reality a lot, but I enjoyed the mystery. #teamslaughter #buddyread #scarathlon

I enjoyed our #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter #TeamBook. It was a cute cozy mystery with yummy cookie recipes. I listened on audio, but think that I might actually have preferred to read it, as the voices the narrator used didn‘t mesh well with my mental image of the characters.
#102025 (2000) #RoadTripUSA (Minnesota) #AutumnAtoZ (C) #BodyCountBingo (Multiple Victims) #BookishBingo (Owns a Cat) #LittenListenBingo #AutumnBingo2022 (Recipe)

Read for Team Buddy Read #2 I‘ve been avoiding this one because I think it‘s going to trigger my sugar-switch-let‘s-double-chin-it-cookie-munching-brain-circuits. I sacrifice a lot for #TeamSlaughter 🍪🍪

#Scarathlon #TeamRead #ChocolateChipCookieMurder #MurderingmyDietwithCookies #Readathons #Pointsathon #Spookoween #Fallreadathon #Readlikeahellathon

Finished listening to the team read. This is the second book in the series I‘ve read and I found them both to be on the slow side. Also, the MC is supposed to be in her twenties but seems more like a middle aged woman. (Maybe because they were first published before cell phones and such?) #teamslaughter #scarathlon @Clwojick

When you take your kid to a playdate and come home with the creeping crud, you're entitled to spend the day under a fuzzy blanket with coffee and a comfort read, right?

#teamslaughter #buddyread #reread

Starting this one now for #scarathlon2022 #buddyread #teamslaughter 🍪

I‘m going to past my first two pages (front and back) of matches for #Scarathlons week one game now. Hopefully I‘ll still have time to do some more, but for now I have 267 books which have something in common with our team reads. So 2670 points for #TeamSlaughter! Woohoo

Just finished reading #TeamSlaughter #TeamBook & it was amazing!!! It kept me on the edge of my seat, did not see the ending coming!!! Can't wait to read the rest of the books in this series. #Scarathlon @Clwojick