SPOTLIGHT ON BERKLEY MARCH APRIL COZIES!

 MEOW!

Today we spotlight the latest cozies for March and April from Berkley! We've already reviewed HIgh Tea and Misdemeanors by Laura Childs, here are three more entries in favorite series1

SNOWY WITH A CHANCE OF MURDER

JESSICA FLETCHER AND BARBARA EARLY

BERKLEY PRIME CRIME

MARCH 18 2O25

FOUR AND A HALF STARS

In a nod to Rear Window, this newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series finds Jessica Fletcher coping with an injury that leaves her homebound—and a murder just outside her window!

Jessica Fletcher has taken a nasty spill on the ice, leaving her in a wheelchair for several weeks. She tries to work on her latest manuscript but finds herself distracted by a new neighbor moving in across the street. There’s good reason for her to be distracted, because soon after unpacking his sparse belongings, Mr. Rymer is out in the front yard, building somewhat risqué (read: naked) snow sculptures.

While Cabot Cove debates whether the sculptures are a protected form of art or a public display of lewdness, someone starts destroying them at night. Rymer doesn’t seem upset. He just makes new ones. No need to get the police involved over a little snow, he says. Especially when there’s plenty more of it and a blizzard in the forecast.

The morning after the storm, Jessica looks out the window to see a new sculpture across the street—and the body of Mr. Rymer half-buried in the snow. Can Jessica catch a cold-blooded killer from her chair by the window?

Another good entry in this long running series.  So many  years after the cancellation of the tv show, we never tire of reading about Jessica's adventures!

CAT GOT YOUR KILLER

SOFIE RYAN

BERKLEY PRIME CRIME

MARCH 25

FIVE STARS

Sarah Grayson, secondhand store owner, and her clever rescue cat Elvis are right on the tail of a criminal in the charming new Second Chance Cat Mystery.

Summer is around the corner and Sarah is making sure the store is stocked and ready for tourist season.

 But while the weather’s heating up, Sarah gets involved in a case that is decidedly cold, when a man

 who was linked to a drowning death years ago is found dead himself, on the same stretch of beach. 

Some of Sarah’s friends from the store knew the victim—and the young woman who drowned—very well and are concerned they could be dragged into the case.

 
It’s beginning to look like an innocent man may be in prison and that drowning death might in fact 

be the work of a killer who has struck again. Between Charlotte’s Angels, the group of senior citizen private detectives who operate out of the store, and Elvis’s abilities to sniff out trouble, Sarah won’t let a 

second chance at catching this purr-petrator pass her by.

We absolutely love this series!  Sarah and Elvis leave no stone unturned in solving the murder and getting to the bottom of things - and she couldn't do it without Elvis and Charlotte's Angels! All characters we love

NO ROAST FOR THE WEARY

COFFEESHOP MYSTERY

CLEO COYLE

APRIL 1

BERKLEY PRIME CRIME HC

FIVE STARS

When the Village Blend opens a Writer's Block Lounge, a cold case crime turns up the heat on Clare and her crew in this gripping new entry in the beloved Coffeehouse Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.

As much as master roaster Clare Cosi adores coffee, the landmark shop she manages won't survive if she doesn't sell enough of it. So when the Village Blend's customer traffic grinds to a halt, she turns to her staff for creative ideas, and the Writer's Block Lounge is born.

Madame, the eccentric octogenarian owner of the shop, is upset by this news. Years ago, a group of accomplished writers used the shop's second-floor lounge to inspire each other, but the group disbanded when something dark occurred. Though that history is shrouded in mystery, Clare presses forward...

Soon the Village Blend tables are filled with aspiring novelists, playwrights, and poets, all happy to be coaxed, cajoled, and caffeinated by her coffeehouse crew. Clare admires the stamina of these scribes, many of them toiling at night jobs—driving taxis, tending bar, ushering for Broadway—while penning projects during the day.

Then one of their fictions turns fatal when a shocking secret leads to a deadly end. Unless Clare can untangle this mystery, uncover the truth, and stop a desperate killer, she fears more of these weary writers may be marked for eternal rest. ~ Includes a knockout menu of recipes.

Firstoff we loved the idea of this book - we wish there was a Writer's Block Lounge around here (minus

the murders, of course).  Clare is in rare form with this one, and this favorite series seems to never run out of steam or fresh ideas - could it be the caffeine?  A winner!  and so are the recipes!!