📚 A mysterious murder. A charming bookshop. And a mystery lover who suddenly finds herself in the middle of a real investigation… Today on The Cozy Mystery Book Club Podcast, we’re discussing Murder by the Book by Lauren Elliott. A cozy mystery packed with literary clues, small-town secrets, suspicious characters, and all the cozy bookish vibes we love.

In this episode, we’re chatting about: ✨ the cozy bookstore setting ✨ our favorite characters and moments ✨ the mystery and clues hidden throughout the story ✨ bookshop cozy mystery tropes we absolutely adore ✨ theories, twists, and final reactions ✨ whether this mystery is worth adding to your TBR pile

If you love cozy bookstores, amateur sleuths, charming towns, and mysteries that make you want to curl up with tea and read all night long… this episode is for you. ☕📖🔎

Grab your favorite cozy drink, fluffy blanket, and come sleuthing with us.

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Tonight we’re diving into Dead in Dublin by Catie Murphy—a charming, twist-filled cozy mystery set against an irresistible Irish backdrop 🍀✨

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🔎 Plot breakdown (no detail missed!)

🧠 Theories & clues you might have overlooked

😱 Twist + ending discussion

💬 Live reactions & cozy chat with fellow mystery lovers

Whether you’ve already finished the book or are just curious if it’s worth the read, you’re in the right place. Grab your tea, light a candle, and settle in for a night of reading, writing, & sleuthing 🕯️📖

ABOUT THE BOOK

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty, murder occurs at the feet of sweet Molly Malone . . .

Ferrying tourists around Dublin for the Leprechaun Limo Service makes quite a change after years in the military. Still, Megan Malone is enjoying her life in Ireland. She likes the scenery, the easy pace, the quirky, quick-witted locals. Everything--except having one of her clients drop dead at the statue of fabled fishmonger, Molly Malone. Most restaurant critics notch up their share of enemies. Elizabeth Darr, however, was a well-loved international star. She and her husband, Simon, had just had dinner when Elizabeth collapsed, and spoiled seafood is the first suspect. The restaurant's owner, worried her business is doomed, begs Megan to look into it. Between her irate boss and a handsome Garda who's both amused and annoyed by her persistence, Megan has her hands full even before she's cajoled into taking care of two adorable Jack Russell puppies (which she is almost definitely not keeping). But if cockles and mussels aren't to blame, can Megan find the real culprit . . .before another fishy death occurs?

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Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club's discussion of Murder at the Mayfair Hotel (Book One of the Cleopatra Fox Mystery series) by C.J. Archer 🔎

ABOUT THE BOOK

December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her. But the poisoning of a guest on Christmas Eve throws her new life, and the hotel, into chaos.Cleo quickly realizes no one can be trusted, not Scotland Yard and especially not the hotel’s charming assistant manager. With the New Year’s Eve ball approaching fast and the hotel’s reputation hanging by a thread, Cleo must find the killer before the ball, and the hotel itself, are ruined. But catching a murderer proves just as difficult as navigating the hotel’s hierarchy and the peculiarities of her family.Can Cleo find the killer before the new century begins? Or will someone get away with murder?

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Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club! This month we discussed all things Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes (A Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery) by Karen Rose Smith. If you are a fan of baking and tea-inspired cozy mysteries, this book is for you!

ABOUT THE BOOK

In an old Victorian in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country, Daisy Swanson and her aunt Iris serve soups, scones, and soothing teas to tourists and locals—but a murder in their garden has them in hot water . . .

Daisy, a widowed mom of two teenagers, is used to feeling protective—so when Iris started dating the wealthy and not-quite-divorced Harvey Fitz, she worried . . . especially after his bitter ex stormed in and caused a scene at the party Daisy’s Tea Garden was catering. Then there was the gossip she overheard about Harvey’s grown children being cut out of his will. Daisy didn’t want her aunt to wind up with a broken heart—but she never expected Iris to wind up a suspect in Harvey’s murder.

Now the apple bread and orange pekoe is on the back burner while the cops treat the shop like a crime scene—and Daisy hopes that Jonas Groft, a former detective from Philadelphia, can help her clear her aunt’s name and bag the real killer before things boil over . . .

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Join Angela, Marta, and Jae for a cozy discussion of Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns (Book One of the Baker Street Mystery Series) 🐾

ABOUT THE BOOK

In a brand-new culinary cozy series with a fresh edge and a delightful small-town setting, the acclaimed author introduces Maddy Montgomery, a social media expert who’s #StartingOver in small town Michigan after inheriting her great-aunt’s bakery…and a 200-pound English Mastiff named Baby. When Maddy Montgomery’s groom is a no-show to their livestream wedding, it’s a disaster that no amount of filtering can fix. But a surprise inheritance offers a chance to regroup and rebrand—as long as Maddy is willing to live in her late, great-aunt Octavia’s house in New Bison, Michigan, for a year, running her bakery and caring for a 250-pound English mastiff named Baby. Maddy doesn’t bake, and her Louboutins aren’t made for walking giant dogs around Lake Michigan, but the locals are friendly and the scenery is beautiful. With help from her aunt’s loyal friends, aka the Baker Street Irregulars, Maddy feels ready to tackle any challenge, including Octavia’s award-winning cake recipes. That is, until New Bison’s mayor is fatally stabbed, and Maddy’s fingerprints are found on the knife . . . Something strange is going on in New Bison. It seems Aunt Octavia had her suspicions, too. But Maddy’s going to need a whole lot more than a trending hashtag to save her reputation—and her life.

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Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club's YouTube livestream discussion of Secondhand Spirits (Witchcraft Mystery Book One) by Juliet Blackwell 💫🔎 Celebrate some paranormal coziness with the sleuthing family 🔮

ABOUT THE BOOK

Lily Ivory is not your average witch. Her spell-casting powers tend to draw mischievous spirits while keeping normal humans at a distance. But now her vintage clothing store could give her a chance to make friends in San Francisco....

Lily hopes for a normal life when she opens Aunt Cora's Closet. With her magical knack for vintage fashion -she can sense vibrations of the past from clothing and jewelry—her store becomes a big hit.

But when a client is murdered and children start disappearing from the Bay Area, Lily may be the only one who can unravel the crime. She tries to keep her identity a secret while investigating, but it's not easy—especially under the spells of sexy "mythbuster" Max Carmichael and powerful witch Aidan Rhodes. Will Lily's witchy ways be forced out of the closet?

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Join myself (Angela Maria here!) and special guest, Dana (aka @readingfortheseasons on Instagram) for our discussion of Killer Jam by Karen MacInerney

📖 Killer Jam | Book One of the Dewberry Farm Mystery Series 🔎

When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother’s farm in Buttercup, Texas, she’s looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to the farm and announces plans to replace her broccoli patch with an oil derrick. Two days later, Nettie Kocurek, the woman who ordered the drilling, turns up dead at the Founders’ Day Festival with a bratwurst skewer through her heart and one of Lucy’s jam jars beside her…and the sheriff fingers Lucy as the prime suspect.

Horrified, Lucy begins to talk to Nettie’s neighbors, but the more she gets to know the townspeople, the more she realizes she’s not the only one who had a beef with Nettie. Can she clear her name, or will her dream life turn into a nightmare?

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Welcome to The Cozy Mystery Book Club's Discussion of A Wicked Yarn by Emmie Caldwell 🔎

ABOUT THE BOOK

A killer may craft the perfect crime, but as every knitter worth her yarn knows--murder wool out.

Mother's Day should be a cinch for the good folks of the Crandalsburg Craft Fair, and knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger has a good feeling about this year's yield. But things quickly get knotty when Lia's daughter announces she's quit her job and Lia finds herself tangled up in the murder of her best friend's ex-husband. While Belinda's alibi quickly gets her off the hook, nasty rumors spread throughout Crandalsburg that shroud the entire fair in suspicion.

Could the vendors be responsible for the murder of a man hell-bent on unraveling the fair just days before his death? Lia and her crafty group of Ninth Street Knitters must put down their needles to gather clues and save the crafting community they've grown to love.

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