Mysteries and My Musings: Mystery and Crime Fiction book reviews

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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Mystery & Crime Fiction Blog Carnival - October 2015

It is the first Monday of the month and time for another highly anticipated Blog Carnival. If you know of a blog that reviews mystery/suspense/thrillers (even occasionally) then I would like to feature those reviews. Multiple entries from a blog are welcome, so spread the word.

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

Booking Mama reviewed All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke

Girl Lost in a Book reviewed No Comfort for the Lost By Nancy Herriman

Amateur Sleuth / Cozy book Review

Carstairs Considers reviewed Cinderella Six Feet Under by Maia Chance

Lisa K's Book Reviews reviewed Gone But Knot Forgotten by Mary Marks

Dru's Book Musing reviewed Second To Nun by Alice Loweecey

Carstairs Considers reviewed Trick or Deceit by Shelley Freydont

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady by Susan Wittig Albert

Girl Lost in a Book reviewed Lethal Letters by Ellery Adams

Lisa K's Book Reviews reviewed Basket Case by Nancy Haddock

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed The Man Who Fell From the Sky by Margaret Coel.

Shelly's Bookcase reviewed Bless Her Dead Little Heart by Miranda James

Dru's Book Musings reviewed Say Yes To The Death by Susan McBride

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed Black Cat Crossing by Kay Finch

Thriller/Suspense /Intrigue Fiction Book Review

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed The Heist by Daniel Silva

Curling Up by the Fire reviewed The Fixer by Joseph Finder

Booking Mama reviewed Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Escape with Dollycas reviewed The Brooklyn Drop by Susan Russo Anderson

Author Interview

Shelley's Book Case features a guest post by author nancy Silverman

Escape With Dollycas Into a Good Book featured a guest post from Kathy Aarons

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Monday, February 2, 2015

Mystery & Crime Fiction Blog Carnival - January 2015

It is the first Monday of the month and time for another highly anticipated 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 The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and shares "This is the beginning of the Veronica Mars franchise living on in books."

Carstairs Considers reviewed The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

Booking Mama reviewed To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie

Kings River Life Magazine reviewed Die Again by Tess Gerritsen

Booking Mama reviewed Asylum City by Liad Shoham and shares "It is classified as a murder mystery and is fast paced with several engaging characters; but it is much more."

Amateur Sleuth / Cozy book Review

Carstairs Considers reviewed Ghost in the Guacamole by Sue Ann Jaffarian

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed You Cannoli Die Once by Shelley Costa sharing "wit and humor take center stage"

Carstairs Considers reviewed Feta Attraction by Susannah Hardy

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed Basil Instinct by Shelley Costa

Carstairs Considers reviewed For Whom the Bluebell Tolls by Beverly Allen

Kings River Life Magazine reviewed The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian

Debbie's Book Bag reviewed Death with All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette

Carstairs Considers reviewed Scene of the Climb by Kate Dyer-Seeley

Thriller/Suspense /Intrigue Book Review

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed XO by Jeffery Deaver and shares "Deaver's take on a celebrity stalker produces a devious villain pitted against a dogged CBI agent."

Booking Mama reviewed I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Mystery Author Carmen Amato reviewed Smokescreen by Khales Talib

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Slow Horses by Mick Herron and shares it "delivers spies who are neither slick nor sauve."

Booking Mama reviewed The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and shares "I know this book will be one of my favorite reads for 2015!"

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed The Prime Minister's Secret Agent by Susan Elia MacNeal and shares "the reader is drawn into the drama of the approaching Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."

Author Interview

Cozy Chicks has a guest post by Duffy Brown, cozy author "Who's Got Your Back?"

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A huge "THANK YOU" to all the wonderful bloggers who contributed to the carnival. Keep them coming and let's keep this carnival going.

Let's make next month's Carnival even better. For more information on the specifics of the Carnival and how to submit your posts go here.

Spread the word far and wide!!!

Please help the newsletter for the blog carnival to get more subscribers. If a blog reviews mystery/suspense/thrillers (even occasionally) then I would like to feature those reviews. I send the newsletter out once a month announcing the deadline for submitting to this blog carnival. Multiple entries from a blog are welcome.

Monday, January 12, 2015

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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A huge "THANK YOU" to all the wonderful bloggers out there who contributed to the carnival. Keep them coming and keep this carnival going.

Let's make next month's Carnival even better. For more information on the specifics of the Carnival and how to submit your posts go here.

Spread the word far and wide!!!

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Monday, December 1, 2014

Mystery & Crime Fiction Blog Carnival - December 2014

It is the first Monday of the month and time for another highly anticipated Blog Carnival. I am catching up on my schedule. Please spread word of this blog carnival to other blogs that feature reviews of crime fiction, we would love to expand to a few more blogs. We have room to fit about three more select blog's reviews here.

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

Carstairs Considers reviewed The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg and shared: Someone is committing crimes that look like the work of Nick Fox. Will these copycat crimes reveal his partnership with FBI agent Kate O'Hare

Buried Under Books reviewed Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson

Thoughts in Progress reviewed Festive in Death by J.D. Robb

Amateur Sleuth / Cozy book Review

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Death is Like a Box of Chocolates by Kathy Aarons

Carstairs Considers reviewed Suede to Rest by Diane Vallere and shares: When Poly inherits the family fabric shop, she just might learn what really happened to her great aunt 10 years ago.

Buried Under Books reviewed Pickle in the Middle Murder by Jessie Chandler

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Murder Off the Beaten Path by M.L. Rowland

Carstairs Considers reviewed Acadia by Sandy Dengler and shares: National Parks Investigator at large heads to Acadia National Park when a photo shoot turns deadly for one of the models.

Buried Under Books reviewed the Thrill of the Hunt by E.J. Copperman

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Off Kilter by Hannah Reed

Carstairs Considers reviewed Bluffing is Murder by Tace Baker and shares: Lauren suddenly finds herself involved in a second murder when she finds one of the local trustees dead above a beach in town.

Thoughts in Progress reviewed The Chocolate Clown Corpse by JoAnna Carl

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed A High End Finish by Kate Carlisle

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed No Mallets Intended by Victoria Hamilton

Carstairs Considers reviewed Hell on Wheels by Sue Ann Jaffarian and shared: When their friend is accused of murder at a quad rugby tournament, Odelia and Greg begin to dig in to figure out what really happened.

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance

Thriller/Suspense Fiction Book Review

Mysteries and My Musings reviewed Murder in Vein by Sue Ann Jaffarian

Booking Mama reviewed The Heist by Daniel Silva

Buried Under Books reviewed No Time to Die by Kira Peikoff

Booking Mama reviewed Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future by Jamie Metzl

Booking Mama reviewed One Kick by Chelsea Cain

Booking Mama reviewed Suspicion by Joseph Finder

Author Interview

Mysteries and My Musings had a guest post by M.L. Rowland

Mysteries and My Musings had a guest post by Hannah Reed

Mysteries and My Musings had a guest post by Kate Carlisle

Mysteries and My Musings had a guest post by Victoria Hamilton

Mysteries and My Musings had a guest post by Maia Chance

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A huge "THANK YOU" to all the wonderful bloggers out there who contributed to the carnival. Keep them coming and keep this carnival going.

Let's make next month's Carnival even better. For more information on the specifics of the Carnival and how to submit your posts go here.

Spread the word far and wide!!!

Monday, September 1, 2014

Mystery & Crime Fiction Blog Carnival - September 2014

It is the first Monday of the month and time for another highly anticipated Blog Carnival.

Please help the newsletter for the blog carnival to get more subscribers. If a blog reviews mystery/suspense/thrillers (even occasionally) then I would like to feature those reviews. I send the newsletter out once a month announcing the deadline for submitting to this blog carnival. Multiple entries from a blog are welcome.