Tag: Wonderland books

• Title: A Christmas to Die For
• Author: M.P. Black
• Series: A Wonderland Books Cozy Mystery #4
• Genre: Cozy Mystery
• Takes Place:  Blithedale
• Main Character: Alice
• Other Characters: Ona, Becca, Clyde, Ben, Todd, Andrea, Police Chief Jimbo, Mohammad, Mariella, Abigail, Mr Vickers, Wade, Lenny, Loraine, Bunve, Lewis
• Stars: 4

In case you haven’t had enough of the Christmas Spirit, check out book 4 of the Woodlands books series for even more Christmas magic! Of course, there’s also a murder that threatens to spoil Blithedale’s Christmas cheer.

It is the Christmas season in Blithedale & Alice and the other residents are preparing for the Christmas Fair and a Santa Contest. While famous author, Clyde Digby, is at Wonderland Books doing a book reading from his latest book, the children at the book store are waiting for Santa to arrive for a Christmas reading. When Santa is late, and the kids are getting restless, Alice heads over to the Christmas fair to find him and she does find him…dead! Who could have killed Santa!!! With the police chief being incompetent and is always finding a reason not to work, Alice finds herself putting on her sleuthing hat once again to solve a murder. There are plenty of suspects. Come to find out no one really liked him, not even his wife.

There are plenty of mysteries in this story. What is the ex owner of the Blithedalel bookstore doing back in town? He is supposed to be retired in FL and here he is in a Santa costume. Who is the secret Santa that is gifting books to residents around town? Oh what a tangled web we weave!! Alice might have met her challenge with these mysteries to solve.

Join Alice and her friends on yet another roller coaster ride to solve a murder and the other mysteries. This is a good book and once again, the author twists the tale in such a way that when the reader thinks they have the mystery solved, it takes yet another turn that makes you question it.

Happy Reading!

• Title: A Halloween to Die For
• Author: M.P. Black
• Series: A Wonderland Book Cozy Mystery #3
• Genre: Cozy Mystery
• Takes Place: Blithedale
• Main Character: Alice, Ona, Becca
• Other Characters: Dr Fantasma, Gretchen, Stewart Conway, Susan, Edie, Fleur, Dylan, Duane Rooker, Holly, Mr & Mrs Oriel
• Stars: 5

This is the 3rd book in the Wonderland Books Cozy Mystery series and these books never disappoint.

It is Halloween in Blithesdale and the ghosts and goblins are coming out in full force and of course there is is l going to be a haunted house. Alice is not thrilled about the haunted house but she is told that it is an old school haunted house and won’t the slasher theme that most haunted houses have nowadays. Even though Alice will be glad when Halloween is over, she goes along with it. Every thing seems to be going good until someone ends up dead and her best friend is standing over the body with a knife. To top things off, the only witness says she knows Becca didn’t do it because she saw the killer and it was a ghost. The witness said the ghost actually floated and was transparent. Well you can guess how reliable that witness was so Alice’s best friend is arrested. Even the police chief believes she didn’t do it but there is no evidence saying otherwise. So Alice and Ona are determined to prove her innocence. This is going to be hard to do. When Alice starts seeing ghosts at Ona’s Inn where she is staying, she is beginning to wonder about the ghost theory, The plot thickens when one of their main suspects also ends up dead. Now who could the killer be and what is the motive!

This book takes the reader on a bit of a roller coaster ride through the ghosts and goblins. What I am really enjoying about these books is that even when the reader believes they have it all figured out there is always a twist at the end. This author knows how to weave a good mystery that leaves the Reader guessing until the very end.

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• Title: A Theater to Die For
• Author: M.P. Black
• Series: A Wonderland Books Cozy Mystery #2
• Genre: Cozy Mystery
• Takes Place: Blithedale
• Main Character: Alice Hartford
• Other Characters: Ona, Becca, Mr Gorny, Billie Brine, Loraine, Lenny, Mr & Mrs Oriel, Chief Jimbo,
• Stars: 5

‘You’re a wicked witch, Dorothy. I hope you melt.’”

This is the second book in the Wonderland books series. I am really enjoying this series.

In this episode, Alice has settled in to her new bookstore, Wonderland books, and it is a success. She is so grateful to her friends who helped her make this happen. Now she is excited about her plans for the struggling theater in town. She is a bit nervous to tell her friends about her plans but as they are discussing it, the owner of the theater is late for their meeting. They head over to the theater and her plans take a back seat when they find a dead body center stage with a Wizard of Oz clue. The suspects are numerous but who could have done the killing!

This a great cozy with a surprise ending. This is a story of friendship, community and friends coming together in a crises with a murder thrown in. I did figure out who did it before the ending but there were still some surprises that I didn’t suspect.

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”

Happy Reading!