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k2reader May 29, 2025

No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding by Catherine Mack #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 13, 2025 Summary: The second in a witty, USA Today bestselling series following author Eleanor Dash as she goes from wedding guest to murder mystery investigator at her best friend’s wedding on Catalina…

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k2reader May 6, 2025

The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Harper Audio for the ALC of The Retirement Plan in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: May 6, 2025 Summary: Three middle-aged best friends turn to murder in order to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies…but are unaware that their husbands have a devious plan of their own, in this darkly funny debut—perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club and Everyone in My…

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k2reader April 29, 2025

Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Libro/Penguin Random House Audio for the ALC and Berkley Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books / PRH Audio Published: April 1, 2025 Summary: Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.… Ever since a man was found…

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k2reader March 31, 2025

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice to Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto #bookreview #audiobook #series

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: March 14, 2023 Summary: A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s…

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k2reader December 15, 2024

Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC of Guilt and Ginataan in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: November 12, 2024 Summary: Autumn is in full swing for the town of Shady Palms—the perfect time for warm drinks, cozy cardigans, and…dead bodies? The annual Shady Palms Corn Festival is one of the town’s biggest moneymakers, drawing crowds from all over the Midwest looking to partake in…

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k2reader November 4, 2024

Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs #bookfeature #bookreview

Thank you MB Communications & Amazon Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of Drop Dead Sisters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mindy’s Book Studio Published: November 1, 2024 Summary: “Compulsively readable, Drop Dead Sisters is perfect for readers who love shows like Bad Sisters and Dead to Me. A mystery about three estranged sisters who accidentally kill someone? Yes, please.” —Mindy Kaling Three sisters reunite on a family vacation and…

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k2reader May 1, 2024

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Libro.fom / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 30, 2024 Summary: Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is…

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k2reader November 21, 2023

Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal by Raquel V. Reyes #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you @GetRedPrBooks/Crooked Lane Books #partner, for the finished copy of Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books / Dreamscape Media Published: November 7, 2023 Summary: In the third installment of the Caribbean Kitchen mysteries, for fans of Mia P. Manansala , Miriam Quiñones, cooking show sensation and amateur sleuth, has sand between her toes…

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k2reader October 25, 2023

Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and @GetRedPrBooks/Berkley Books #partner, for the finished copy of Murder and Mamon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: September 19, 2023 Summary: When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer… Lila Macapagal’s godmothers April, Mae,…

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k2reader September 30, 2023

A Trace of Poison by Colleen Cambridge #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries #backlistreview

Thank you TCL BookTours, Kensington Books, #partner, for the finished copy of A Trace of Poison in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Kensington Books / Highbridge Published: October 25, 2022 Summary: In England’s stately manor houses, murder is not generally a topic for polite conversation. Mallowan Hall, home to Agatha Christie and her husband, Max, is the exception. And housekeeper Phyllida…

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k2reader March 5, 2023

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Golden Spoon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: A killer is on the loose when someone turns up dead on the set of a hit TV baking competition in this darkly beguiling debut mystery that is perfect…

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k2reader December 26, 2022

Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire #bookreview #series

Thank you Random House Publishing Group/Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of Dead and Gondola in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam Books Published: November 1, 2022 Summary: When a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, the Christie sisters and their cat Agatha call on all they’ve learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist in this new series debut. Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new…

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k2reader October 24, 2022

Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge #bookreview #series #backlistreview

Thank you Kensington Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Murder at Mallowan Hall in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Kensington Books Published: October 26, 2021 Summary: The first in an exciting new historical mystery series set in the home of Agatha Christie! Colleen Cambridge’s charming and inventive new historical series introduces an unforgettable heroine in Phyllida Bright, fictional housekeeper for none other than famed mystery novelist Agatha…

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k2reader October 5, 2022

Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you @GetRedPrBooks & Berkley Books, #partner, for the finished copy of Blackmail and Bibingka in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: October 4, 2022 Summary: When her long-lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can’t be far behind in this new mystery by…

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k2reader March 12, 2022

Review: Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala (audio)

Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: February 8, 2022 Source: Print – Paperback via GetRedPR / Audio via Library Summary: Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie’s Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy-mystery series by Mia P. Manansala. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two…

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k2reader February 18, 2022

Review: Arsenic And Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (audio)

Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: May 4, 2021 Source: Library Summary: The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes – one that might just be killer…. When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, and she has to…

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