#LGBTGIA contemporary mystery romance

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Review:  Power of the Mind (Shadowy Solutions Book 2) by Nicky James

Rating: 4.75🌈 I’m not sure if Shadowy Solutions won’t surpass Valor and Doyle as the series I come to adore the most. Just based on the three novels that James has given us, the characters of Shadowy Solutions have me in their thrall totally and anxiously waiting for more. It’s been 3 months since the last case, time frame, 10 months since they met during the events that occurred previously. …

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Review: Stoned to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 8) by Meg Perry

Rating: 3🌈 Stoned to Death is book 8 and I’ve already bought two more, but based on this, and the reviews I just read yesterday for book 22 , released oddly enough in 2022, I think I can say I’m done with this series and probably Meg Perry. And that’s a shame because I’ve really enjoyed the mystery aspects of the series, the dynamics between the Brodie family, and getting to see the interesting…

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Review: Hoarded to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 2) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4.5🌈 In Hoarded to Death, author Meg Perry’s characters get to be seen fully realized in every aspect of their lives, from their messy personal relationships to those careers in which each is a highly successful and respected professional. Then all will have both segments, personal and professional, fiercely intertwined by a ex spouse, a reality cable show, and finally, a police murder…

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Review: Mr Mustachio is Falsely Accused (Mr. Mustachio Murders Book 1) by Dawn McKinnon

Rating: 4.75🌈 I’m utterly charmed by the new murder mystery I just finished. A story along the lines of a cozy mystery with a touch of the mysterious or perhaps mystical, I also found a new wonderful author in Mr Mustachio is Falsely Accused (Mr. Mustachio Murders Book 1) by Dawn McKinnon. Honestly, it was that cover! Then the description. But first that remarkable cover with the auburn Persian…

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Review: Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

Review: Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

Rating: 4.5🌈 I have been waiting for Chief Mendoza’s story since Walker started her teasers and hints throughout all the rest of the Savannah series about Mendoza’s attraction to his longtime friend, Sheriff Abraham Beecham. Chief Mendoza’s been a rock solid presence at the Savannah PD , a favored , strong personality that’s as much a part of the family and lives of all the main characters we…

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Review: No Good Deed (Maverick Insurance Mysteries Book 1) by M. J. May

Rating: 4.5🌈 I found the Maverick Insurance Mysteries because of the author’s amazing Perfect Pixies fantasy series. Now I’m working through her catalog and so happy. No Good Deed is the first in a contemporary mystery thriller romance series. May has so many interesting characters and a great concept to this series, one that’s guaranteed to keep the reader engaged and intrigued by the weird…

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Review: Cited to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 1) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4.25🌈 I love a mystery. So give me a new-to-me author, a mystery novel that represents not one but two connected mystery series and I’m in. Cited to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 1) by Meg Perry is all the above. This is a first book by Perry for me and I was very entertained by the mystery and invested in the characters Perry has created for her…

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Review: Unstable Connections (Valor and Doyle (Book 3) by Nicky James

Review: Unstable Connections (Valor and Doyle (Book 3) by Nicky James

Rating: 5🌈 Nicky James has written an extraordinary story with Unstable Connections, the third novel in the amazing Valor and Doyle series. Usually there’s one element that’s lacking when you have a couple and series with such serious storylines and a myriad of emotional issues. Most of which, like past domestic abuse , alcoholism, and deep loss, thread through the couple’s new shaky…

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Review: A Carriage of Misjustice (Lindenshaw Mysteries Book 5) by Charlie Cochrane

Rating: 3.5🌈 It’s been a while since I’d read this series, the last book I read being Old Sins. And I think coming back into a series after a long break and diving in at book 5 just highlights the importance of perhaps going back to the beginning and rereading the series again. Particularly with A Carriage of Misjustice because of some of the things I found within the novel ‘s narrative , and…

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Review: Stacked to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 7) by Meg Perry

Rating: 3.25🌈 I’m slowly working my way through Meg Perry’s Jamie Brodie’s Mysteries which tops in at a whopping 23 novels. So it’s not uncommon that every single one is a great read. Stacked to Death, the 7th story, is one I found dragged on in a number of places. The author, a librarian herself, gives an overly detailed account of Jamie’s his department’s meeting notes at the beginning of…

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Review: Psyched to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 6) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4.5🌈 Psyched to Death, sixth in Meg Perry’s Jamie Brodie Mysteries series, brings complications to Jamie and his stumbling relationship with psychology professor, Pete. Trouble comes from multiple directions when a past acquaintance turns up dead as it’s not just a random person but someone who was deeply involved with a previous investigation and has ties to Pete’s work. Perry is…

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Review: Encountered to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 5) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4🌈 Encountered to Death is a good, in a way emotionally lighter story than the one that preceded it. Jamie and Pete are going to celebrate Pete’s older brother’s 40th birthday in Alamogordo, New Mexico and is taking Jamie’s highly intelligent, science minded nephew with them. Steve, the brother, is a plasma physicist, and they intend to tour all the sites around the area, from caves to…

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Review: Burdened to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 3) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4.5🌈 Burdened to Death, the third in the Jamie Brodie Mysteries by Meg Perry, is a complex and compelling story. And it’s one not everyone is going to agree with on how this story ends. For a novel that’s 128 pages in length, Perry’s woven a tale of incredible complexity, one that includes highly dangerous and damaging subjects such as suicide, the SA scandals within the Catholic…

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Review: Matrimonial Merriment (Valor and Doyle Book 7) by Nicky James

Rating: 3.75🌈 I had real trouble arriving at this rating. Matrimonial Merriment is the last Valor and Doyle book by Nicky James. It’s a 7 book series that I found incredibly strong and emotionally compelling at the start, only, imo, to chart a very strange path for the characters and their various storylines. This story has its strengths and its weaknesses, much like its characters. Quaid…

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Review: Disrupted Engagement (Valor and Doyle Mysteries, #6) by Nicki James

Rating: 3🌈 I have been invested in Nicki James’ characters and their evolving relationship since I read Temporary Partner, the first book in the series. That was our introduction to the highly complicated men , their emotional histories, and the meeting that launched their relationship. Each novel has charted the tumultuous path they’ve had to navigate in order to move forward in their…

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Review: Poison at Penshaw Hall (The Milverton Mysteries Book 2) by G B Ralph

Rating: 4.75🌈 “With nothing else for it, Addison took a deep breath and dove in, hoping to traverse the carnage and reach the cafe without being trampled under the masses of Milvertonians. He may not have known what was going on, but he did know he’d kill for a coffee.” — Poison at Penshaw Hall (The Milverton Mysteries Book 2) by G B Ralph Ahhhhh, the masses of Milvertonians! So lovely to be…