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cozy mystery mystery review 

2020: #33 – Hail to the Chef (Julie Hyzy)

December 20, 2020December 18, 2020 0 Comment
Hail to the Chef by Julie Hyzy

I liked returning to the White House kitchen to visit with Ollie and the other chefs, but I didn’t enjoy this story as much as the first one. I didn’t really care about the part of the mystery around the First Lady, because the stakes weren’t really very compelling. The part of the mystery around the death of the electrician was more interesting, but moved

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cozy mystery mystery review 

2020: #32 – State of the Onion (Julie Hyzy)

December 19, 2020December 22, 2020 0 Comment
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy

The star of this cozy mystery is Olivia (Ollie) Paras, a chef in the White House kitchen. She’s on her way back from lunch one day when she gets caught up in some Secret Service activity. A mysterious man is outrunning the service, yelling about needing to warn the President, until he runs into the back-end of the skillet Ollie is holding. At this point

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Hi, I’m Jaime…

That’s I before M, 5 letters, no Ys. Obsessed with books. A lot.

   

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Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
review y/a contemporary 

2021: #59 – Catalyst (Laurie Halse Anderson)

January 30, 2022January 28, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments

Kate is a senior in high school. She’s working hard, both in school and out — keeping her grades up, working at the pharmacy, and keeping things on track at home, filling the role her dead mother would have had. Her father is a minister, and is often called away to help someone in the community, and Kate is left to make sure her brother

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
review y/a fantasy young adult 

2021: #58 – City of Bones (Cassandra Clare)

January 29, 2022January 28, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
psychological thriller review thriller 

2021: #57 – Darling Rose Gold (Stephanie Wrobel)

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
Malice by Keigo Higashino
mystery review 

2021: #56 – Malice (Keigo Higashino)

January 4, 2022December 23, 2021 Jaime 0 Comments

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