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Nov 22, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Olivia Blacke |Julia Dahl
Murder by the Book’s 2024 Holiday Gift BoxAre you looking for the quintessential gift for mystery readers? Make sure you check out Murder By The Book’s 2024 Holiday Gift Box. With a mug, coffee, and a book, this bundle will make a great present to kick off your holiday shopping. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin StevensonBenjamin Stevenson adds a festive mystery to his deviously hilarious Ernest Cunningham series with Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Olivia Blacke |P. J. Tracy
Chapter OneCORDELIAI didn’t know how long I sat cross-legged in the snow, waiting for the dead man crumpled on the ground in front of my building to wake up. Might have been five minutes. Might have been five hours. As I watched, pellets of snow accumulated on his flannel pajama-clad legs and fuzzy-sock-covered feet. The dead man wasn’t dressed for the weather, that much was certain. Boston in the winter was harsh and unforgiving, but he hadn’t died from exposure.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Olivia Blacke
Who doesn’t love a hard-to-shelve book? Article continues after advertisementDon’t get me wrong, genres are great. They keep libraries and bookstores neat and tidy but when it comes to my bookshelf? We’re talking full-on chaos. That’s because my favorite books are what I usually call “not reallys,” as in “It’s not really a X but it’s not quite a Y.”A New Lease on Death (coming from Minotaur on Oct 29) is one of those books that doesn’t fit neatly into a single genre.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Olivia Blacke |Crime HQ |Julia Dahl |Ellie Keel
Not every book is inspired by great works of literature, life-defining moments, or current events. Sometimes, books can be inspired by—or at least influenced by—popular culture. A New Lease on Death is one of those. I don’t think I was consciously aware of it when I was writing it, but after early readers started comparing the mystery to some of my absolute favorite TV shows, I realized that there are parallels to be found. I hope you’re gonna love A New Lease on Death.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Olivia Blacke |Kathy Reichs |Andrew Klavan
Here’s hoping the two leads get a case worthy of their considerable talents next time. The fatal shooting of a Boston warehouse worker is investigated by an improbable pair of amateur sleuths. Like, really, really improbable.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Janet Webb |Olivia Blacke
For fans of M.C. Beaton, Martha Grimes, and Alexander McCall Smith, the first in a charming new mystery series set in the English countryside, as a retired San Diego police detective embarks upon group walking tours in England’s most scenic counties. Read on for Janet Webb's review! The disparate group of American tourists who make up the Wanderers walking tour through Devon have more in common than you might think. Rick “Chase” Chasen is a recently retired detective from San Diego.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Mariana Zapata |Olivia Blacke |Jesse Q Sutanto |Rebecca Serle
Welcome, literature lovers, to the FIRST for Women weekly book club!Here at FIRST for Women, when we’re not hard at work bringing you stories about health, nutrition, beauty and lifestyle, we like to kick back with a good book. We know firsthand that reading provides relief from stress, improves brain health and ushers in more joy. So we rounded up our editors’ seven top picks for March 29th – April 4th, 2024. from romance, suspense, humor, magical realism and more.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Olivia Blacke |Doreen Sheridan |John Valeri
Music and coffee – can you think of a better combination? I can’t! When I first imagined Sip & Spin Records, the vinyl records shop/coffee café at the heart of the Record Shop Mysteries (Vinyl Resting Place, A Fatal Groove, and Rhythm and Clues), I wanted to create a place I would enjoy spending my day (constant string of dead bodies notwithstanding) and everything snapped into place.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Olivia Blacke
A well-paced probe into a messy death highlights the rewards of joining ingenuity with persistence. Three sisters try to keep their record store/coffee shop afloat before and after murder intervenes. Juniper Jessup left a lucrative job in Oregon to help her sisters, Tansy and Maggie, run their late parents’ shop in Cedar River, Texas.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Olivia Blacke
The Record Shop Mysteries aren’t food cozies per se, but main character Juni Jessup freely admits that food is the way to her heart, as she eats her way through the tasty food vendors at the annual Cedar River Bluebonnet Festival in A Fatal Groove, all while solving the mayor’s murder.
