Culinary Cozy, Journalist Thrillers, and More Mystery Books + News!

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For fans of cozy food mysteries and holiday settings!

Lana Lee manages her parent’s Chinese restaurant in a strip mall in Ohio and somehow always finds herself on a murder case, as one does in a cozy mystery. This time around, mall manager Ian Sung is celebrating Chinese New Year with the help of the shop owners, including Lee. Things go great until a lion dance performer is murdered and an omen of death is found on him. Now Lee must once again add detective to her to-do list!

You can start here, but if you want to read the series from the beginning, pick up Death by Dumpling.

For fans of YA thrillers, fictional serial killers, and enemies-to-lovers!

At 18, Addie Blackwood should be thinking about her upcoming college life, but her sister died a year before, and she refuses to accept that it was an accidental fall or suicide. She has a murder suspect, their neighbor Thatcher Montgomery, and Addie’s determined to see him pay. Then Thatcher is found dead from a fall, and Addie has to team up with Seth, her childhood nemesis who she was having a one-time hook-up with the night her sister died. These murder investigations are gonna get messy!

Like Lady in the Lake, we have a lead desperately trying to make a career in journalism.

Cecily Wong feels like she’s in a make-or-break moment in her career. This leads her to summit Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, in order to get an interview with a world-famous mountaineer. Problem? She’s not really a climber. Bigger problem? People are dying around them the higher they climb up the mountain.

Like Lady in the Lake we get a focus on two women’s lives, although in this case, both are alive.

Marina Tourneau has just married into a political family and learned that they expect her to quit her career as a journalist. Ex-NY socialite Annabel is living in Switzerland when her husband dies in a plane crash. It’s a good and dangerous thing for both that Marina is a relentless journalist.