Five Amigos Fall-O-ween Fun- Week 3

Week three already and we are moving along!

We have our winner of A FRYING SHAME! The random draw was done and our winner is Patricia P.   Congrats to her and thank you to all who entered. Special thank you to Linda Reilly for sponsoring this give away.

Karen and I have another Double Double for you this fine Monday morning. First up this week is Karen K and her selection A Scone To Die For!

This is a new favourite series of mine! I could not put it down. Colourful and vibrant characters. Real personalities! I now want to visit Oxford. The whodunit had me riveted and left me second guessing myself until the conclusion.

When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in her quaint Oxfordshire tearoom, Gemma must solve the mystery with the help of the nosy Old Biddies and a mischievous little feline named Muesli. But between her bossy, matchmaking mother and the return of her old college love as a handsome CID detective, Gemma soon has her hands full and her head spinning!Murder is bad for business, especially when customers think your scones are more deadly than delicious. With the body count rising and her tearoom going bust, can Gemma find the killer before things turn to custard?


You can find A Scone To Die For on Amazon by clicking here.

My turn! I choose Ellery Adams Murder in the Mystery Suite! Seriously who would not like to pack up and go to Storyton with me? All books and cozy rooms, rolling hills and quaint town and they have afternoon tea every day! This is one of my most favorite series and so many great characters in this one, an adventure cozy in the perfect setting, doesn't get much better than this!

Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural western Virginia is the storybook resort of Storyton Hall, catering to book lovers who want to get away from it all. To increase her number of bookings, resort manager Jane Steward has decided to host a Murder and Mayhem week so that fans of the mystery genre can gather together for some role-playing and fantasy crime solving.But when the winner of the scavenger hunt, Felix Hampden, is found dead in the Mystery Suite, and the valuable book he won as his prize is missing, Jane realizes one of her guests is an actual murderer. Amid a resort full of fake detectives, Jane is bound and determined to find a real-life killer. There’s no room for error as Jane tries to unlock this mystery before another vacancy opens up…

You can find Ellery Adams Murder in the Mystery Suite on Amazon by clicking here.

Find out what Mary has in store for you today by clicking here.

Walk on over to see what Lisa has ready for you today! 

Check out what Sheryl has for you at Booth Talks Books!

Karen K and I thank you for joining us here today, we all would love to hear from you so please leave us a comment below or email us at karenmowen@gmail.com 

Don't forget to join us next Monday for more Fall-O-ween Fun! 

On My Table and In My Cup February 4th-11th

Another great week of reading has come to an end and I am delighted to share a recap of the books that have crossed my table this week. Above are the books my friend Karen sent me for our January books swap. I am so excited to read these as Karen introduced me to this series and I love Sid!

Sunday I shared my review of Fran Stewart's Scotshop Mystery A Wee Homicide in the Hotel. As I sat inside looking out over the snow covered yard it was wonderful to have this summer set cozy to escape too!

Monday on my table I reviewed Clover Tate's new release Blown Away, set on the West Coast and in the Spring it was another great escape cozy!

I was so thrilled to find my quote on the inside War and Peach!

I love this series and it was a great honor to find that quote inside! Family loyalty and great mystery await you in War and Peach by Susan Furlong.

Paige Shelton's Bookman Dead Style was a book I just did not want to end! I am new to this series and thrilled with this book. It is well written and felt like a guilty pleasure to read. A must read for sure!

A Chocolate Paranormal Witch Cozy that was exactly what I needed mid week! Having a good escape cozy with a chocolate theme made it all the more sweeter! This is a first in series and a good read! At the time of publishing this post it is on sale at amazon.com for less then the cost of a chocolate bar! A sweet deal for sure. Click here to learn more. 

Also on my table (and very excited to share my review with you tomorrow) was Murder is Uncooperative by Merrilee Robson. This cozy is based here in Vancouver and was an honor to read.

Monday I will share my review of Poison in the Heart by ST Englert. This Bite Sized Read is one I know you are going to love!

Have you been following the clues? Kathi Daley Books is hosting a very fun Valentines Day Scavenger Hunt.  Do check my Facebook on February 13th for the clue of the day! 

This week I have had a selection of Murchie's Teas in my cup, their Vanilla black tea is my favorite and with all the stree of the snow storms this week I have also truly enjoyed their Lavender Black tea as well.
Thank you so much for joining me for a cup of tea and a week in review. I look forward to having you here each and every day. I would love to hear from you so please leave me a comment here or email me at karenmowen@gmail.com

Dark, Witch and Creamy by H.Y. Hanna

I was thrilled to be asked to read Dark, Witch and Creamy by H.Y. Hanna. Paranormal Witch Cozy Mysteries are a favorite indulgence of mine as is chocolate so this book appealed to me right away. I have not had a witch cozy on my table in a while and I absolutely loved this one. Set in England, cozy as can be in a mysterious little town with a touch of magic and a dilapidated but delicious chocolate store, surrounded in mystery and magic this was a lovely story. Great characters, pets and a touch of all that we love England for, I highly recommend reading Dark, Witch and Creamy. 

A witch, a kitty and dark chocolate magic...Caitlyn is used to being the ugly duckling in her glamorous showbiz family... until the day she learns that she was adopted as an abandoned baby. Now, her search for answers takes her to the tiny English village of Tillyhenge where a man has been murdered by witchcraft - and where a mysterious shop selling enchanted chocolates is home to the "local witch"...Soon Caitlyn finds herself fending off a toothless old vampire, rescuing an adorable kitten and meeting handsome aristocrat Lord James Fitzroy... not to mention discovering that she herself might have magical blood in her veins!When she's dragged into the murder investigation and realises that dark magic is involved, Caitlyn is forced to choose. Can she embrace her witchy powers in time to solve the mystery and save those she loves?

You can order your own copy of Dark, Witch and Creamy from Amazon by clicking here.
Learn more about H.Y. Hanna by clicking here.
Thank you for joining me for a cup of tea and a cozy mystery review. I would love to hear from you so please leave me a comment here or email me at karenmowen@gmail.com

On My Table and In My Cup August 6-13th

Another very delightful week has come to an end here on my blog and I have been very busy this week. I have some truly delightful projects on the go, fantastic books that have just arrived to read  and some extremely supportive friends who made this week a complete joy.

Thank you to my team, Karen, Lisa and Sheryl for all the ways you make me love what I do. In addition to great family, and friends I am so thankful to have been able to make the time to read some great cozies this week.

I finished  A Catered Tea Party which is by Isis Crawford and comes out August 30th. Tea themed cozies are a true delight for me! I can not wait to share my review with you of this one! In my cup this week I have had Murchies Lavender Black tea, Davids Cotton Candy Tea and even After 8 tea just to name a few!

I shared the review of All- Butter Short Dead by J.Y. Hanna yesterday and it was still free as of yesterday so run over to amazon.com and download it for yourself! I enjoyed this one and it got my blood pressure up in parts!

I can honestly say I did not loose any weight this week, not that I am trying and even if I was I could not have resisted eating Karen MacInerney's Peach Sunrise Coffee Cake I made from her recipe provided in The Gray Whale Inn Kitchen, this was only one off some very delicious looking recipes included with in! Now Lisa has me wanting to catch up with her and Sheryl with all the cook books that go with cozy series!

A Grave Prediction by Victoria Laurie was so much more fun then I had anticipated. This cozy was heavy on the side of amazing friendships and complicated mysteries. A cozy combination I admire and enjoyed. I felt very involved in this particular mystery and strongly recommend it for a great weekend read.

Bailey Cates, Spells and Scones appeared briefly on my table this week as well, I say briefly as I could not put it down and read it in record time. This is a "chip" type book series where you can just inhale each cozy mystery as if they were a bag of chips! Thank you to Laura from swimming for the great analogy!

The Witch Who Couldn't Spell was a Sunday review and another free or almost free cozy I enjoyed from Amazon.com. I loved the concept of this one, it was on the lighter side of paranormal but still a good British themed cozy.

With that I must leave you this Saturday morning as I have a very exciting event today, my second annual Witches Tea Party and I hope to have some fun photos and tips from my own party to share with you soon.
Thank you for joining me here for another week in review. I would love to hear from you so please leave me a comment here or email me at karenmowen@gmail.com

H.Y. Hanna's All-Butter Short Dead Prequel

I am absolutely delighted to have the prequel, All- Butter Short Dead to H.Y. Hanna's Oxford Tearoom Mystery Series on my table and to share the review with you today. This is a British based cozy series and I immediately fell into step with main character Gemma and the story behind how the Oxford Tearoom here after called "The Little Stables Tearoom" came to be. This story had me very excited and quickly very annoyed at the bumbling police inspector. I was actually felt my irritation grow as the story progressed. had this been a paper back I am certain I would have thrown the book across the room. I do love it when you become so emotionally involved with a story like this one.  This is a sixteen chapter story of which I was thrilled because by chapter 12 I had a good idea of who I thought the actual murder was, I was thrilled to know I had it pegged correctly even if I did not fully understand why! This was a great British cozy and made me want to continue reading the series.

Gemma ditches her high-flying job and returns to Oxford to follow her dream: opening a traditional English tearoom serving warm buttery scones with jam and clotted cream... Only problem is--murder is the first thing on the menu and Gemma is the key suspect! And the only people Gemma can turn to for help are four nosy old ladies from her local Cotswolds village - not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat named Muesli. Who was the mysterious woman Gemma met on the flight back from Australia and why was she murdered? Now Gemma must find the killer, solve the mystery and clear her name if she's to have her cake--and serve it too.

I found this to be a very exciting start to a series I have yet to read and I really enjoyed the characters, felt like they were very real and believable. I am very excited when I find a truly good cozy series that has to do with tea and I can honestly say that I highly recommend H.Y.Hanna's All-Butter Short Dead. **Also at time of this review this book is currently FREE so download, read and review it today! You can do so by clicking this link.

Learn more about the series and H.Y. Hanna by clicking here.
Thank you for joining me for a cup of tea and a cozy mystery review. I would love to hear from you so please leave me a comment here or email me at karenmowen@gmail.com