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Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Holiday, Romance, Women's Fiction

The Thanksgiving Trip by Kathi Daley

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  • Title: The Thansgiving Trip
  • Author:Kathi Daley
  • Series: Tess & Tilly #5
  • Genre: Cozy Mystery
  • Takes Place: White Eagle, Montana
  • Main Character: Tess
  • Other Characters: Tony, Bree, Mike, Brady, Hap, Hattie, Tess’ mom
  • Pets: a golden retriever named Tilly and a cat named Tangletoe (Tang for short) and a cat named Tinder and Tony’s german sheppard Titan plust lots of other shelter dogs that come and go.
  • Stars: 5

This is the 5th book of the Tess & Tilly series and Tess’ mom wants to take a trip to the moutains where Tess’ dad used to go every yea tofish. So Tess’, her mom, Tony, Mike & Bree head to the lake for Thanksgiving week.

What should they find when they arrive but a dead body in the leak by their cabin. The local police is called but you know that Tess & Tony also have their own investigation to do.

The author takes on a roller coaster ride through some twist and turns to find out who the killer is. There are a lot of suspects but who really did it.

Then to top this off, Tess finds out some more info into the myster of her dad. What do you think that mystery couldl be? Has he been alive all these years or does someone just want Tess to think he has been? Read to find out.

I am really enjoying this series and when I finish one book, I can’t wait to read the next one. Even though there is a stand alone mystery in each book, the mystery of Tess’ dad is carried out throughout the series, at least so far.

Can’t wait to start the nest book.

Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Holiday, Romance

The Mother’s Day Mishap by Kathi Daley

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  • Title: The Mother’s Day Mishap
  • Author:Kathi Daley
  • Series: Tess & Tilly #3
  • Genre: Cozy Mystery
  • Takes Place: White Eagle, Montana
  • Main Character: Tess
  • Other Characters: Tony, Bree, Mike, Brady, Hap, Hattie,
  • Pets: a Dog named Tilly and a cat named Tangletoe (Tang for short) and a cat named Tinder and Tony’s dog Titan plust lots of other shelter dogs that come and go.
  • Stars: 5

Review:

This is the 3rd book in the Tess & Tilly Series.

This is another great Cozy Mystery by Kathi Daley. Mother’s day is approaching and Bree receives a card at her bookstore. She opens it believing it is for her but it is actually for someone else. It was meant for the woman who used to own the shop next door but has unfortunately passed away about 6 months ago. This card is from the son noone knew she had. She and her son were estranged for a quarter of a century. This card is him trying to reconnect with her after 25 years. He ends the card by saying he would meet her at their special place at noon on Mother’s day.

The problem is, he evidently doesn’t know she has passed away. Also, there isn’t a name or a return address so noone knows how to reach him or who to return the card to.

Teess, her friends Tony & Bree and her brother are out to solve the mystery of where Edith’s son is because they want to notify him of her passing. They don’t even have a name and have no idea where the ‘special place’ is.

So they are racing against time to find the son before mother’s day. Will they find him?

This isn’t the only mystery they are trying to solve. Is Tess’s mom’s new Italian boyfried a murderer? Is the father that Tess believed was dead for years, really alive? And if he is, where has he been and why did he leave?

The author is great at twisting these mysterys to keep you guessing. This is a great cozy read in a beautiful small Montana town and of course there is a little romance thrown in.

Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Holiday

The Valentine Mystery by Kathi Daley

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  • Title: The Valentine Mystery
  • Author:Kathi Daley
  • Series:Tess & Tilly #2
  • Genre: Cozy Mystery
  • Takes Place: White Eagle, Montana
  • Main Character: Tess
  • Other Characters: Tony, Bree, Mike, Brady, Hap, Hattie, Coby
  • Pets: a Dog named Tilly and a cat named Tangletoe (Tang for short) and a cat named Tinder
  • Stars: 5

Review:

This is the 2nd book in the Tess & Tilly series and I liked it even batter than the first one.

If you read the first book, The Christmas Story, then you are already familiar with Tess and know that she is mail carrier and seems to always be in the middle of some sort of mystery. This book isn’t any different. Once again, Tess finds herself in the middle of a mystery. There are a couple of side mysteries in this one

Tilly witnesses an accident and stops to help. She sees the first car and a man is stuck inside so she helps him get out. They see anther car down the embakement so they both go down there to get the man out. The first man, who we now know his name is Coby, gives the man CPR while Tess calls 911. The EMTs get there and take the man to the hospital but he is dead. He supposedly had a heart attack that caused the accident. But is everything as it seems!!

Once Tess talks to Cody, she finds out that he is in town to look for his biological mom, According to him his bio mom left him at a church right after he was born and all he has from her is a picture from when she was pregnant. Naturally Tess wants to help him find his bio mom so with the help of her friend Tony they do some research to track her down.

Whilel she is help Coby find his bio mom she is also involved in another mystery involving her dad who has been dead about 13 years at this point. But is he really dead or he is he living a secret life somewhere. We will have to keep reading to find this out.

Also Tess’ mom has a new young boyfriend that Tess is suspicious of. Tess has her friend, tony, run a background check on him and he seems to check out fine, but does he really? Hmmmm another mystery!

This story takes some twist and turns while they search for this mystery woman. Do they find her? What really happened? You will have to read it to find out.

I think you will love this story while you fall in love with Tess and the other characters in the book I especially love her kids (as she likes to call her dog and cats)

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Frozen in Motion by Lori Roberts Herbst

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  • Title: Frozen in Motion
  • Author: Lori Roberts Herbst
  • Series: Callie Cassidy Mysteries #3
  • Genre: Cozy Mystery
  • Takes Place: Rock Creek Village, CO
  • Main Character: Callie Cassidy
  • Other characters: boyfriend Sam, Bestfriend Tonya, Parents Butch & Maggie Cassidy, Detective Raul Sanchez, Ms Finney
  • Pets: Golden Retriever named Woody and a tabby cat named Carl
  • Stars: 5

Review:

Another great read by Lori Roberts Herbst and the 3rd book in the Callie Cassidy Mystery.

I really enjoyed this book. I tend to get lost in it and lose track of time.

Callie is a successful journalist/photographer turned photo gallery owner of Sundance Studio. Her dad calls her Sundance so that name is fitting.

Callie once again finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery. She kinda just fell into this or should I say it fell on top of her, literally. She went to the local ice rink to do a photo shoot with the ice hockey team when a body just fell on top of her, injuring Callie. The body that fell on her happened to be dead. So was he pushed? Did he fall or jump? or was he already dead and thrown over the railing? You will have to read the book to find out.

What makes this complicated is the dead man, Jeffrey just happens to be the ex husband of Renata. Renata is Callie’s friend and the sister of the police detective Raul Sanchez. Renata and Jeffery and a huge confrontation earlier outside Sundance studio which the police dective ended up having to get involved.

Of course Renata becomes the prime suspect. Jeffery is arrogant and self absorbed so he is very unliked, The cast of suspects could be just about anyone. Callie is determined to prove her friend didn’t commit this crime. But if not Renata then who?

This book takes you on some twists and turns along the way to find a killer.

Of course we also see Callie’s golden retriever Wood and her tabby cat Carl along with her boyfriend, Sam, her best friend Tanya and the other quirky characters who live in Rock Creek Village, including Ms Finney.

This is a great read and I highly recommend all the books in the Callie Cassidy Mystery series. Can’t wait for the next one.

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Photo Finished by Lori Roberts Herbst

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  • Title Photo Finished
  • Author Lori Roberts Herbst
  • Series: Callie Cassidy Mystery #4
  • Genre: Cozy Mystery
  • Takes Place: Moonglow Dude Ranch in Maverick, Colorado
  • Main Character: Callie Cassidy
  • Other characters: boyfriend Sam, Bestfriend Tonya, Parents Butch & Maggie Cassidy, Detective Raul Sanchez, Ms Finney
  • Pets: Golden Retriever named Woody and a tabby cat named Carl
  • Stars: 4

Review:

This is book for of the Callie Cassidy Mysteries.

I have read all of Lori Roberts Herbst books and she has become one of my very favorite authors. I find her books engaging and interesting. A “can’t put down” read!!

The only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because their were snakes in it and I am deathly afraid of them. I can’t even look at pictures in a book or talk about them. Writing the word even freaked me out. I can’t read about them at all.
I did read this book and would skip over a paragraph when I read that word. That is my fear, not because The book wasn’t good. Luckily it wasn’t all through the book but it was mentioned several times and when I would see the word, I would skip that paragraph.

That being said I did finish the book and liked it except for those parts.

If you have liked the other books in the Callie Cassidy Mystery Series, you will enjoy this on.

This book takes us to Moonglow Dude Ranch in Maverick, Colorado for Callie’s best friend, Tanya’s, bachelorette party.
Their friend, Summer’s, Aunt and Uncle own Moonglow Dude Ranch. They are having trouble getting it opened because of nearby neighbors objecting to it. They even have the mayor involved to keep it from opening.

The bachelorette party seems to be going good until Tanya’s mother, Lydia shows up. Tanya and Lydia evidently don’t have a good relationship. I guess we could say that Lydia is a bit ‘over the top”..
Then to top everything off, there is a murder in the stable.

Maverick has an inept police department so, of course, Callie and her cop friend Lynn from Rock Creek need to investigate.

So who among the cast of suspects could have committed this murder!!

Along the way we meet a sexy ranch hand, Tanya’s mother, the tour guide, kitchen staff, the aunt and uncle (owners of the ranch), the billionaire neighbors who are protesting the dude ranch, staff, the guests at the bachelorette party and we even meet a psychic.

Read the book to see who the murderer is and all the drama leading up the final reveal.

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Double Exposure by Lori Roberts Herbst

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  • Title: Double Exposure
  • Author: Lori Roberts Herbsst
  • Series: Callie Cassidy Mystery #2
  • Genre: Cozy Mystery
  • Location: Rock Creek Village, CO
  • Main Character: Callie Cassidy
  • Other characters: boyfriend Sam, Bestfriend Tonya, Parents Butch & Maggie Cassidy, Detective Raul Sanchez, Ms Finney
  • Stars: 5

Review:

This is Book 2 in the Callie Cassidy Mystery series by Lori Roberts Herbst,

I enjoyed this book just much as I did the first one.


We have Callie again in the book, who now owns her own photography studio called Sundance Studio. This is fitting since her dad calls her Sundance. Callie has also rekindled a romance with her high school sweetheart. who has a daughter, Elyse.

Callie’s coworkers from her old job are coming to town for a retreat and will be staying at her parents ski lodge. Everything was going great until she finds her old rival, Bree, dead In her darkroom.


The detective is investigating the murder but Callie just can’t help investigating it herself.
Lori takes us through some twists and turns to keep us guessing until the killer is revealed.

This is a must read book.

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The Christmas Letter by Kathi Daley

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  • Title: The Christmas Letter
  • Author: Kathi Daley
  • Series: Tess & Tilly #1
  • Location: White Eagle, Montana
  • Main Character: Tess
  • Other Characters: Tony, Bree, Mike, Donny, Hap, Hattie and Pike
  • Pets: a Dog named Tilly and a cat named Tangletoe (Tang for short)
  • Stars: 5

This is the first book in the Tess & Tilly Cozy mystery series by Kathy Daley.

This is a great little read.  Tilly is a mail carrier and along with her dog Tilly, oshe meets interesting people along   her mail route. But when she was delivering a letter to Pike, who happens to be the oldest living resident of White Eagle, she finds him dead on the floor of his bedroom.

To top that off, her ex and now her best friend’s boyfriend, Donny, is arrested for the crime.

Her best friend Bree, is convinced that Donny didn’t do it. Tilly’s brother, Mike,  works for the police department and the evidence he has is pointing right to Donnie, so Tilly is starting to believe he did it.

Bree convinces Tilly to help her prove that Donny  is innocent. Tilly begrudgingly agrees even though she is afraid it will turn out that Donnie did it.

With the help of her friend Tony, who is the smartest person she knows and whiz at technology helps her find who killed Pike.

And then there is also a sexy new Vet in town. You will just need to read the book to find out more.

This is fun read and I really enjoyed it.

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Suitable for Framing by Lori Roberts Herbst

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  • Title: Suitable for Framing
  • Series: Callie Cassidy Mystery #1
  • Author: Lori Roberts Herbst
  • Genre: Cozy Mystery
  • Setting: Rock Creek Village, CO
  • Main Character: Callie Cassidy
  • Other characters: Sam, Bestfriend Tonya, Parents Butch & Maggie Cassidy, Detective Raul Sanchez, Kimberly, Ms Finney
  • Pets: Golden Retriever named Woody & cat named Carl
  • Star Rating: 5

Review:

This was actually the first Cozy Mystery I read. I didn’t even know about this Genre. I had read plenty of mysteries but had never heard any of them called Cozy. I fell in love with this genre after reading Lori Roberts Herbst books

Lori is a fairly new author and I am so glad I found her.

This is the first book in her series Callie Cassidy Mystery. The main Character, Callie is a photo journalist who faced a professional crises. Her mom convinces her to come back home to Rock Creek Village, CO to take pictures at the Snowflake Swirl Winter Ball. She runs into her ex boyfriend, Sam, and finds out that her old high school nemesis, Victoria, will be her boss while she is there. She goes to the office to speak with Victoria only to find she has been killed.

Now Callie finds her self in the middle of a murder investigation with a lot of suspects, including Sam. You will meet a lot of quirky characters along the way including her best friend, Tanya and Mysterious Ms Finney who is a guest at Callie’s parents Rocky Mountain Ski Resort. Of course their are pets so you will meet Callie’s golden retriever Woody and her adopted cat Carl.

You are going to love Callie and the other quirky characters in this book. Lori has done a great job at developing each character and keeping it interesting. It is definitly a ‘can’t put down’ read.