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The Haunted Homecoming by Angie Fox is set at homecoming, and Verity’s mother has also decided to come home!

There’s a body discovered at the homecoming festivities, and so Verity investigates!  Frankie is also trying to hide as he says El Gato is out to get him!

This is the school that Verity and her mother both went to, so there are some shared memories, and of course, ghosts that Verity recognises from when she went there.  

It’s a fun read, with people pretending to be other people, ghosts, and a heap of family drama.

The Haunted Homecoming was published on 17th August 2021 and is available on Amazon.

Angie Fox has a Facebook page and a reader group.

I’ve previously read and reviewed the below books in the series:

Southern Spirits, A Ghostly Gift and The Skeleton in the Closet – book 1, 1.5 and 2

Pecan Pies and Dead Guys – book 7 

The Mint Julep Murders – book 8

The Ghost of Christmas Past – book 8.5

Southern Bred and Dead – book 9

I was given this book in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Moose Island Books and Author Collective 20  (the publishers) for this book.

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The Secrets of Meadow Farmhouse by Katie Ginger has Amelia returning from Paris to renovate her late Great Aunt Vera’s house, which she’s inherited. 

Amelia was last in the village of MeadowBank just before she left for university, and ten years later, there’s been a lot of change in some ways, but not in others.

Amelia wants to find out more about her Great Aunt Vera, and why she was so cold to Amelia and along the way she might find out what matters to her.

I really enjoyed this book – there were great characters, a lovely village and mysteries that were unravelled along the way.

The Secrets of Meadow Farmhouse was publishing on 17th March 2021, and is available on Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Katie Ginger on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and on her website.

I was given this book in return for an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley and to HQ.

 

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The Case of the Reincarnated Client is the fifth book in the Vish Puri series, and whilst I’ve not read any of the other books, I didn’t feel I was missing out on too much!

The rest of the books are all crime novels as well, all set in India, and Vish Puri is a private investigator. 

In this book his mother brings him a case that she has decided he needs to take on, and that she’s going to investigate with him. It’s the case of a young girl claims to be a woman who was murdered during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, and Puri’s mother is determined he will help her, especially as his late father had investigated the murder.

Puri is not pleased as he’s dealing with another client who he did the background check on the groom, who is now snoring.  And the government is just making some of the paper money defunct.

I enjoyed this trip to to India, and the customs and insight it gave me.   I also enjoyed Puri’s family life, and his mother.

The Case of the Reincarnated Client by Tarquin Hall was published on 4th February 2020, and is available to buy on Amazon and on WaterstonesI’ve found a link to where you can search for local bookshops, including independent!

You can follow Tarquin Hall on his website

If you’re interested in cosy crime, then I’d suggest the following:

In the Crypt with the candlestick by Daisy Waugh

Pecan Pies and Dead Guys by Angie Fox – this is a series I’ve been enjoying.

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Severn House (the publishers) for this book.

 

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Meows and Mistletoe is a holiday anthology, all set in Cats Paw Cove.  It’s by a collection of authors, they are all in a cosy crime or cosy mystery style, and in this case, they are all Christmas themed.

Cats Paw Cove is a place where fantastical things can happen, so these are fantasy books, and I do enjoy cosy fantasy mysteries!  There are cats who know a lot, and in some cases, talk, there is the island where you can see fairies and so on, and there is a bit of time travel.

Because there are a collection of authors, these are all different characters, none of whom go between stories as far as I remember! 

I enjoyed the trip to Cats Paw Cove.  I hadn’t encountered this place before, and I haven’t heard of authors doing this before, but it’s such an interesting idea that many authors build up their own little town, and set stories in amongst it.  

You can visit Cats Paw Cove on Facebook, and they have their own website.

Meows and Mistletoe came out on 1 November 2019, and you can buy it from Amazon and Waterstones.

I was given this book in return of an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley and to the authors collective.

I’ve reviewed quite a lot of fantasy books on here, so please have a look, and you can see cosy mysteries as well!

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Pecan Pies and Dead Guys by Angie Fox is set in southern United States, with Verity, who has a mobster ghost that lends her energy so she can interact with other ghosts, is often asked to look into ghostly goings on, but not everyone believes she can do what she can do.

This is the 7th book in the series, but Angie Fox has ensured that you won’t feel like you’ve missed out on too much, catching you up on essential details, so I didn’t find it a problem!

The 1st book in the series (Southern Spirits) is free from Amazon, and it turns out I read it in 2017, and rated it 4 stars as well!

Angie Fox also has another series of books called Accidental Demon Slayer, which has 11 books in the series! She also has a 

Facebook page

and a 

reader group

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I really enjoyed Pecan Pies and Dead Guys, which I would classify as a cosy mystery.  It was fun and kept me guessing.

Pecan Pies and Dead Guys

 was published on 18th September 2018, and is available on 

Amazon

  to buy on Kindle and on 

Waterstones

 to pre-order the hardback, which is coming out on 16th May this year.  I’ve found a 

link

 to where you can search for local bookshops, including independent!

 
I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Moose Island Books (the publishers) for this book.
 
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