Mystery & Crime Fiction Blog Carnival - January 2015

It is the first....no second Monday of the month and overdue for another highly anticipated Blog Carnival.  I apologize, I was delayed -- sometimes life just throws a curve ball and schedules get tossed out the window.  But here it is, better late than never.  Now that the holiday stress is a memory, I hope everybody is staying safe and warm as winter cold and snow hits many parts of the U.S.


Now on to this month's blog carnival.  Click on the title or author's name to go to that link.

Police Procedural / PI Book Review / Legal

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Blue Labyrinth (Agent Pendergast Thriller #14) by Preston and Child

Booking Mama reviewed The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor Investigation #7) by William Kent Krueger



Amateur Sleuth / Cozy book Review

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Meow If It's Murder (Nick and Nora Mystery #1) by T.C. LoTempio

Booking Mama reviewed Scorched Eggs by Laura Childs

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed Aground on St. Thomas by Rebecca Hale

Carstairs Considers reviewed Tagged for Death by Sherry Harris and shares "After her divorce, Sarah is trying to start over.  But when she finds her ex-husband's clothes covered in the blood of a missing woman, she has to figure out what is happening."

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed Murder Served Simply by Isabella Alan

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Keeper of the Castle by Juliet Blackwell

Carstairs Considers reviewed Death with All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette and shares "Hayley Snow gets tangled up in sabotage at the newest restaurant in Key West just days before Christmas."

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed Geared for the Grave by Duffy Brown

Carstairs Considers reviewed The Nightingale Before Christmas by Donna Andrews and shares "Meg is coordinating a show house made up of multiple decorators.  But if trying to get these creative types to finish up by the Christmas Eve deadline wasn't hard enough, one of them is murdered in the house."

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed Doghouse (A Gin and Tonic Mystery #3) by L.A. Kornetsky and shares "Ginny Mallard, Teddy Tonica, With the help of Ginny’s pet shar-pei puppy and Tonica’s tabby cat provides a great mystery and a series featuring animals"



Thriller/Suspense Fiction Book Review

Tea Time with Marce reviewed Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

Booking Mama reviewed reviewed HER by Harriet Lane and shares "This novel is definitely a literary novel of suspense and there is an element of mystery to the story"



Author Interview

Mysteries and My Musings had guest post by T.C. LoTempio

Sue Coletta at her blog interviewed Joe Clifford and shares "The most honest author interview I've ever read."

Mysteries and My Musings had guest post by Juliet Blackwell

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