January 23, 2026 • 30 mins
Rosie A. Point's cozy word search murder mystery book is delightful, fun and full of classic cozy tropes. We chat about word searches, mysteries and the coziness of it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Anny and smitha and all the stuff
I've never told you a prediction of iHeart radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And we are starting this year's book club with a
cozy novelty book. Okay I say it like that, which,
by the way, it was a TikTok purchased andy. I
saw it on TikTok, thought it was really cute, loved
the idea, and I was like, I'm gonna get this
as part of Annie's Christmas gift this year. And then
(00:39):
as I went through and thought it through, I was like, oh,
maybe we should do it as a book club because
in my head when I give you gifts, and I
don't know if the listeners know this, I like to
theme it with very specific themes throughout the year. I
know you do the same for me. But like and
like this year, you have talked about how much you
love like solving mist and I was like, this good,
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this is this is a cute thing to do, and
so I thought, why not try this book out which
is considered a cozy mystery. I didn't know that was
a category. Mm hmmm, did you know this?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I didn't, But a listener wrote in after I said,
is there such thing as like cozy murder mystery.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And there is.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She was like, yes, obviously, kind of like huge.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's apparently specifically this author that we're your featuring. So
the first book. So first, the book is titled Murder
among the Stacks, and it's written by Rosie a Point,
which I thought maybe a pseudonym. She does write under
a different person's name. I don't know which one's the pseudonym.
I'm not gonna lie, because Rosie a Point seems very specific.
(01:47):
But she has hundreds, apparently of different types of theme books.
They usually, uh, it's something to do with adventure or food.
She has a lot of food mysteries or bookstores. And
she always involved a cat, I believe because she has
a cute cat, so it was really cute. And this
book is her first word search mystery book, I believe,
(02:09):
because there are four, well three right now. So it
is with the help of puzzle creator Charles Timmerman, so
he does the actual word puzzle, which, by the way,
not to say that he's not doing it an amazing job,
but I did figure out when I was in college,
so twenty years ago. You can put it into a
website and create your own word searches.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, you have done more word searches than I have,
so you can say I am incorrect, But I feel
like mister Timimran here used a lot of deployed a
lot of techniques that threw me off, Like three diagonal
words in a row, yeah, so I kind of might
miss the one in the middle there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So they gave you at the beginning of the book
strategies to use if you need to, and those were
the similar strategies I used growing up, because I'm like,
you have to use this in this combo. He did
throw in a lot of tricks where he had like
partial words in some of them. Yeah, because I used to.
They used to do that, and I used to mess
me up a lot because I would started out. I
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was like, oh, no, that's not the word. Yeah, you
have to you have to be careful. But he did
a good job, I will say so. Like this is
also when I found out one of my friends was dyslexic,
because she's amazing at word searches, and apparently that is
like a superpower word searches if you're dyslexic. And I
started wondering if I was, because I'm like, you, I
can see the words like upside down better than I
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can straightforward, and I'm like, oh oh, that's okay. We
all love them, uh huh yeah. So with this, she
has again two others as a part of the series,
with one more to be released in May of this year,
and the new the third one she just released this month.
So it's coming, it's coming along, and I believe they're
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all based on the based on this character, and Cranberry Creek,
or at least Like is a Cranberry Creek series, which
is the location of where this mystery is happening. So
she is referred to as a cozy mystery writer. She
actually referred first to herself as that as well as
others classicfire her as that who loves bookstores and cats,
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which she includes in a lot of her writings. So
this is from a Writer's Digest dot com. ROSIEA. Point
is a USA Today best selling cozy mystery author of
more than ninety novels and novella's set in fictional small
towns across the United States. She loves writing about food,
amateur sleuths, cats, and secrets. Her favorite books are ones
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you can snuggle up with under a cozy blanket. On
a winter's day like today. Rosie lives in Cape Town,
South Africa, with her son, husband, an adorable kitten, Shiva
the Destroyer. I like that's as long. So in that
same article, this is the elevator pitch for the current
book are featuring, So this is what they write. Abby
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Jones's dream bookstore opening in Craneberry Creek turns deadly when
a famous author is murdered, putting her new life at risk.
In this interactive, cozy mystery, readers can follow Abby's clues
and solve the who done it themselves through themed word
search puzzles. So there you go. That'st the entirety of
the book. It's very short, so you can do it
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pretty quickly. The reading, like the chapter is one page
per chapter, and then you get one puzzle per chapter.
So this half and half. So the longest part is
doing the actual word search, which I love word searches.
So again, I guess this was more for me than you.
It was a combo. Any it was a combo.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, I thought it was great. I do love You're right,
I love solving mysteries. I thought it was very cute. Also,
I come from we've talked about all the time. Come
from a very small town. There is a very cute
store in our town or there used to be called
Cranberry Corners. So I kept thinking about that the whole
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time I was reading this, And they have a like
map in the beginning of the book.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Super cute. The illustrations are really fun.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, very fun, very fun.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay, So this includes a lot of word searches, which
I again I think I've said at the beginning. I've
said it before. I love word searches. Those were my
like go to, like before I started doing the little
coloring books, easy coloring books with the markers, and my
favorite thing to do is get different color highlighters to
find the words so I can make beautiful, colorful strikes
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through my puzzles. So I would alternate different colors each word.
Uh huh, yeah, I love that, and but I can't
do that much because most of the word puzzles I
think this book may have been. I would have been
able to do it, but I didn't because I used
the pen. Well, no, that's not true. I tried to
use the pen that you bought me for Christmas last year,
(07:01):
and as I was taking it downstairs in between me
come from upstairs to downstairs. I lost it. I don't
I don't know where that pen is.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It's in the multiverse, No, I just never see.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I went hunting for it, but I used another fun
like really thin, because I'm a lover of pens and markers,
if you don't know, but a different pen. But I
didn't do it this time round because I probably could have.
I think it's thick enough. But most of the word searches,
if you buy them at a grocery store, they're too thin,
and so it bleeds through and it makes me very sad.
So I can't. I can't do that. But I have
to ask what this thought? What are your thoughts on
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word searches?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Annie, Well, it's been a long time since I've done one,
and I actually had to go find a pencil, and
I realized I haven't used a pencil in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, that's a long yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Because I was thinking like you, and well, I don't
want it to bleed through. Hopefully I don't need to
use an eraser, but if I do, fair So I
had to go searching in my D and D E
quick box for a pencil. But I actually am really glad.
I found it because one of my favorite parts of
it was I did find doing the word search like
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a nice break, like a good way to just kind
of turn off my brain for a little second. And
then I really liked the sound of the pencil crossing
through the word when I found it. It was very satisfying.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If you can do a straight line, the perfect circle
like that is the trick. When you can, you're like, oh,
and I figured out I can't do up and down
very well. Up and down. It's really hard for me. Diagonal, Yes, across, yes,
up and down not so much.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Really, yeah, diagonal.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'm queen, I am so do you like we were
talking about the fact that they do tell you kind
of strategies. Do you have any strategies when it comes
to ward searches.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yes, so I usually do pretty much what they said.
But if there's multiple words that start with A, for example,
then I try to get every like A, then you
or A and then T or so I'm looking for
like three words at once. Yeah, and I go horizontal first,
and then if I hate it when if I haven't
found it by the end, then I go vertical, uh
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to check that way, and then if I still have
not found it. Then I do the other thing they said,
which is like does it have an X in it?
Or does it have a It's very rare I have
to resort to that. But sometimes, yes, it didn't happen
to me. Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Sometimes that's the key sept strategy. Double letters or letters
that yeah, are like together, you're like that. You don't
see Often my first ins need is to still look
at the page and find all the obvious words like
things said to jump out of it. Yeah, I gotta
get all that done. That's our satisfactory. And then after that,
if I have a hard word, I'll go to the
next word, knowing that I'll probably find that one word
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trying to find the next word.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's kind of one of those oh yeah yeah type
of moments. So those are my strategies. And I think
I already know this answer because the way you already answered.
But are you a person who circles the words or
do you strike through it or straight line?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I circle? I thought I thought you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, I actually thought you were a strike through.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I feel like I wanted to strike through, but I
thought you're supposed to circle.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I thought that was the right way to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There's no right or wrong. There's no right or wrong.
This is why I also like The High Ladder because
it almost does both, Like you just envolve the entire
word and you're like, yes, But I am a strike
through person because circles, I am actually not good at those,
Like I'm all over the place. I might have probably
taken three words that doesn't make sense into one bubble
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and that just annoys me.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So maybe my diagonal is not so bad.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And maybe when it comes to the circle exactly, because
then that's the difference. But I do it. I'm a
strike through. Always happened? Oh boys will Wow?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
That sounds really intense and final.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It does, and it takes this very serious life as
you should. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Where did you come from?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, we're going to talk about kind of a summary
of the book again. The concept of this book is
super cute, and I actually try to do some research
(11:30):
I don't to see if this was the first of
its con like this, because this is honestly the first
I've seen where it actually has storytelling within the word
search and with the word search included. And again, you
don't really I don't know why you wouldn't. You don't
have to do the word searches except for one specific one,
and the rest is just like kind of adds to it.
(11:50):
It doesn't necessarily give you clues about anything, but just
adds to the story a little bit. But yeah, you
can just read through it if you want to and
go through there. I didn't see any of the books
like that other than her own. But I did find
a book that uses word search as a way to
get clues. But I again, which isn't this book. You're
not going to get the clues from most of these
except for one until the end, like I said, But
(12:12):
I don't think then those books there are narratives. I
could be wrong. I could be wrong. I just saw
one where it's like you unsolve the mystery or get
these clues through these word search and I was like, oh,
that's interesting. Not the same thing to me. So it
is a little different one of us kind that I saw.
I didn't see her talk much about the puzzle mystery
part to it outside of like the cozy parts. She
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talks about how yes, she has to get quick to
the point and make it interesting but short, and you
get a lot without a lot of detail. But a
little personality here and there, and which is probably a
good thing in like having a series type of things.
So you know, I'll say it like that again, easy read,
very fast read. Teenagers kids probably would be fine reading
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this book. I I don't know there's a rating syst
It does mention murder obviously, no cursing, Yeah, no cursing,
nothing gratuitous. No, okay, it's like, eh, you know, he's
like I do. So anyway, going on, We're going to
do a quick summary without spoilers. I'm not doing the ending.
(13:18):
I feel like that would ruin the purpose of this
puzzle book for you to participate in, so we're not
going to do that. I'm just going to give you
kind of a rundown of things that we know and
then moving on. So we have Abby who has decided
to come to this new town with her contankers Kat Reggie,
to open a small bookstore. The town, Cranberry Creek, is
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not so welcoming of this newcomer, but she hopes that
will change after the success of her first book signing
with popular romance novelist Brooke Pines, who is a resident
of that area. With the help of her friend Rose
she is preparing for the day as Brooke and her
assistant Haley, come to make sure everything is ready for
the big day the next day, specifically with the list
(14:01):
of demands for the author that has to be in place.
So she's like, these are the things I require for
me to be happy here, including scheduled coffee service and
the bottled Nivian water, very specific As the big day
is happening. During the chaos of it all and the
constant complaining from the mamager Nessa her mom, the day
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is quite busy and as Abby hans Brooke her coffee
and her mother hands her her special bottle of water,
Brooke begins to choke and falls unconscious, and then she
later dies. We figured out she dies pretty quickly. Brooke
has been murdered and Minnis suspect that's poison, and we
find Abby is the prime suspect. As Sheriff Swift seems
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to indicate he does not care. He does not care
at all. It seems throughout the book it's like it's you.
I don't know why it's you, but it's you. Again.
Not a big fan of Outsiders. Thus begins the investigation
for Abby to clear her own name, with the help
of her only two friends, Rose, who is the baker
who owns the bakery near that area who apparently has
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great muffins, and her landlord Marna with her three Dotson's
Really we love the chaos she she is chaos apparently
with the leashes, she narrows down the suspects. Who is
Brook's mother, Nessa Brooks assistant Hayley, and her best friend Frank.
So those are her like top three we know immediately
who she suspects. Throughout her investigation. She also meets the
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handsome deputy Nathan. We just throw them in there just
for good measure, to have romance obviously, who she's like, Oh, hey,
how are you? He immediately asks her out, and her
response is to run away, which I feel like is fair. Yeah,
it's a good response. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Sure, she's she's had a bad breakup recently.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Exactly, that's why she moved in the first place. And
he's like, immediately after meeting number one during a murder trial,
by the way, what's up? She runs away. So during
this time, we find out that the water the Nivion
had been poison and at the same time, there's an
internet anti fan named Last fall who's been criticizing all
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of Brooks books and that it revealed it to be
a he nessa has been standing in the way of
Hayley's writing career somehow, because you know, Haley says that,
and the sheriff has not investigated at all, but still
thinks Abby is the main suspect. The town has turned
on her, including a brick being thrown in her poor bookstore,
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all the things, And of course nobody's investigating that because
no one apparently cares who mhy not. Oh, and Brooke
had written a tell all book which makes her mother
look pretty pretty bad, real bad. So as we come
to the end of the book, we as the reader
help get to help solve the mystery within the word
search puzzle. And yes, there is a happy ending and
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apparently more books to come. So that's how I'm going
to leave it readers. So if you want to know,
go purchase this book. You can find it everywhere on
the sites. So, Annie, were you able to guess before
the ending?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yes, you were halp with this. Well, I want to
ask a follow up question to you because I, due
to time constraints at work, I only did half of
the word searches and then the final one that you
have to do, and so there's kind of a I'm
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curious if I was able to guess it, because if
I was just reading the I was just reading the
chapter and not doing the puzzle, it was much more
quickly where things becoming clear to me. But also that
was at the back half of the book, so there
was more information. So I don't know if the like
word searches kind of slow you down. And I'm not
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sure did you do every puzzle I did?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I did do every puzzle For me, I am too
used to twisting turns, like big twists and turns and
making up things because I had a whole different scenario
and I really made up this entire or other scenario.
And I remember looking a chapter thirty eight and saying, oh,
I know who in this I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It's fifty chapters by the way, listen, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah. So because I kept going back and forth, I'm
like this, no, that can't be right, all these things,
and then I'm like, okay, this is a simple, sweet book.
I think I overthought this.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I have to say, this is hard to talk about
without spoiling things.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But I was immediately comically, very tellingly suspicious of the
handsome deputy. But I think that was my own issues.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Like what would men be here? Like that was when
he was introduced. I immediately was like, it's either him,
but also Shareff. I was like, also, yeah, these two
are the worst.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, I think we have. We had a lot more
like conspiracy theories going on.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Also men like apparently that's their whole narrative in this thing.
But yeah, so I did the same thing again. Like
I said, I guess wrong again, way too much conspiracy
in mind. I had too much time to think about this.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Very funny to me, I can't wait till you'll have
to tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But I was like, oh, this is okay, all right,
my bad, I'm back now again. Love this cozy way
of doing a word search. I will definitely look into
the other books as well. There are themes. Obviously, it's
trying to find a new life, like she up and left.
We don't know much about her past. I wonder if
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we're going to come back to that because it obviously
was so bad because the dude cheated on her with
three of his office coworkers, and I was like, oh
my god, how do you have time for that.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, just gives me a headache.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Right right, So immediately like that was okay, she needed
to come through, and then being welcomed by Rose and
Marna was very sweet. I love also the cat he
is also chaos. Reggiet is very upset about his dinner.
She takes it for walks. That was my favorite part.
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I'm like, I know that's more and more common now,
but I love that this has become a thing in
here because she took it for a walk while she
went to try to figure out what was going on.
Then she took it to the bakery.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Didn't she attack? Didn't Reggie attack Nessa? Reggie attacked somebody.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Reggie attacked a few people. We're not gonna lie. It
went after a few was not a fan of a
lot of things, and Nessa was not the nicest of
people and caused a lot of chaos in the town
as well. All of Vanessa and her daughter both had
pretty bad reputations in the town as being overly controlling
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and Karen's of the of the neighborhood or the community,
but very rich because there was mentions of mansions involved
in here. Lots of mansions. We do again see a
small romance possibly forming and against again the very handsome
deputy Nathan. Mm hmmm, kind of comes out of left field. Sure,
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why not, let's let's do that again. Mentions of great muffins.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, you know, because it's such a short book, a
lot of these things do move very quickly. Yes, So
one of the things that I was struck by was
also rose like the friendship with Brose kind of came
up really quickly. I was like, oh, but I'm glad
there's great friendship. I'm very happy for it. But a
lot of it does me very quickly. Yeah, And I
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know listeners have heard at least me talk about I
do love a good mystery. I do love solving puzzles.
I love the tropes of it. And so this was
also an interesting way to very quickly go through a
lot of the tropes because you had your three main suspects, yep,
and they kind of each filled a certain trope, and
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they would each come to her and be like, actually,
this is the person you should be looking into because
of this reason, and so that that was fun to
see them in such quick succession of you caught me.
I did do that, but I didn't do this.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It was her, but I was still her friend, but
I still cared. Yeah, it was interesting because we do
have each one of them telling her they don't believe
she would murder Brook and then the sheriff was like, no, yeah,
but you used to. I have no other reason to
believe it. But no one else believes it. But I do.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I know because I mean it kind of talked them.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh sorry, but then they each one of them said
he refused to listen or he refused to look into
Every single one of them said this, which made me
a little suspicious. I was like, wait, But also he
gets to be the hero in the end too, I'm like, wait.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, what Yeah. I also love that she kind of
runs from the cops at one point. That was great.
I can't blame her, but are we sure?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Because I thought this is gonna be one of those
miscommunication where he's like, you're in danger type of thing,
or tried to help her, but she's running away from
fear of I also love that she ends up banging
on the bakery at five am with her hand, like
the way that the scripture is. I was like, you
know what, that desperation is real? Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
There's a scene where Abby and Rose are at like
a nice dinner and then Nessa like crashed. Yeah, and
it's like drenking champagne or something and ordering escarco.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Not lackling wine. That's what dare you.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And I there was something very funny about that seemed
to me just because you know, Nessa's been horrible to Addy,
to like everybody. But she's there saying I think they're
trying to kill me too, and here's why and I
didn't do it. But just having like these three women
around the table and that kind of overbearing mom trope.
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But also she was so kind of comically unaware about
she was coming across.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Also talking about how delicious Nathan is. Deputy Nathan is
she can I'm like, that's I guess when we're driving
all the point.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He looks good. Real you made your point, Cleary, Yes,
she's That's why she was like, Okay, maybe I will
date him. I don't know now that Nansa's told me
he's a catch.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
He's a catch apparently. Oh yes, this entire book it's
actually really cute. I really love the illustrations there. There's
like pictures of the cat throughout the beginning has a
wonderful map of the town map of Cranberry Creek, and
then yeah, you get to see little tidbits of illustrations throughout.
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The cat is the main draw again, it's also the
low key hero of the book. He kind of solves
the whole thing. I feel like the R two two Yeah,
maybe definitely, definitely, don't you say that? And then it
does have again, like I said, the end has all
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of the answers if you do get stumped or need
some help or just an overlap and check. They circle everything,
so they are circlers. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I saw that when I was like flipping through the
pages and circle. Yeah, the circle that's in the key
in the back, yes, key.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So like it's very cute. So the other books are
murdered by Muffin, which you can get it right now,
and apparently I was wrong the Murder before I Do,
which is the third book I was talking about that's
released this month. It's not released yet. It's not gonna
be released till twenty seventh. So if you're listening when
this is released, which will be January twenty third, twenty
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twenty six, then you're too early. You gotta wait till
the end of this month to get this book, and
then in March of twenty twenty six that will be
Murder on Vacation. Oh yeah, yeah, it's so very cute.
Murder by Muffin maybe my favorite title though.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's fun. It's alliterative. Yeah, it's so so. I mean,
this was a nice This is very cozy. It's a bookstore.
It was like autumnal vibes. It's cats, this bakery. Uh,
there's coffee.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah again. And she has so like the different series
that I see her. Have a very murder mystery, the
Beach Bay Mystery, which is, like the title is a
very flavored obituary. I love a good pun. I do
a fudge flavored grudge.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh that's fun as well.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And then a lime flavored crime we love.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
There's a lot of foods death by food. Anytime somebody,
you know, like mystery says I have a food allergy,
I'm like, that's it.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That's the death. Also just death by She has the
Bees Bakery Mysteries, and it's death and donuts, death by
a cookie, dough, Devil's food cake and death and death
Danish pastry and death like it's succinct nothing else. There's
a book called The butter Cream Murder. Oh no, there's
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also a murder By Milkshake. So we got a lot.
We got a lot of options. We've got burger mysteries. Okay,
all right, she really does like food, you know what.
And then there's a oh so I believe her other
names she publishes under as Allied Cat.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I like it though.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
All right, all right, so I feel like this is
really cute. I love that this is what she does.
I love the best of our genre because it does
feel very cozy to be able to do mysteries. You know,
this kind of like very throwback old school touch grass
type of literature because you can kind of come back
to the old school. The word search because they've been
(28:33):
around for a long while and they are really soothing,
Like I have stories. My aunt and I would race
each other trying to be each other's time and how
quickly we can solve word searches. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
this is what I did for a summer, for a
few summers.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I love how I do this too, But I love
how you took a relaxing activity and turned it into
a race.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I think this is her way of trying to tire
me out, also to put me in my place and
be like, you're not smarter than me, kid, I was
probably like ten. Anyway, I think this is really cute.
This was kind of a break from or coming back
in easily with something fun and relaxing, with everything going
to hell in a handbasket as it fills. I'm sure.
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I mean, we're gonna have some amazing books this year.
We're gonna have some great options. If you have any suggestions,
you know we also love themes, please let us know.
If you have anything like this that's kind of new
wish to us, please let us know because we love
finding novelty things like this.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yes, yes, absolutely, and thank you for the gift, Samantha.
I'm definitely thinking about getting one from my mom because
she also loves mysteries and more searches.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
At least well I guess they're not all out, but
at least get two of them.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I think she would really like it. So it
was fun. Recommend thank you and listeners. Yes, if you
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
And we are starting this year's book club with a
cozy novelty book. Okay I say it like that, which,
by the way, it was a TikTok purchased andy. I
saw it on TikTok, thought it was really cute, loved
the idea, and I was like, I'm gonna get this
as part of Annie's Christmas gift this year. And then
(00:39):
as I went through and thought it through, I was like, oh,
maybe we should do it as a book club because
in my head when I give you gifts, and I
don't know if the listeners know this, I like to
theme it with very specific themes throughout the year. I
know you do the same for me. But like and
like this year, you have talked about how much you
love like solving mist and I was like, this good,
(01:01):
this is this is a cute thing to do, and
so I thought, why not try this book out which
is considered a cozy mystery. I didn't know that was
a category. Mm hmmm, did you know this?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I didn't, But a listener wrote in after I said,
is there such thing as like cozy murder mystery.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And there is.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She was like, yes, obviously, kind of like huge.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's apparently specifically this author that we're your featuring. So
the first book. So first, the book is titled Murder
among the Stacks, and it's written by Rosie a Point,
which I thought maybe a pseudonym. She does write under
a different person's name. I don't know which one's the pseudonym.
I'm not gonna lie, because Rosie a Point seems very specific.
(01:47):
But she has hundreds, apparently of different types of theme books.
They usually, uh, it's something to do with adventure or food.
She has a lot of food mysteries or bookstores. And
she always involved a cat, I believe because she has
a cute cat, so it was really cute. And this
book is her first word search mystery book, I believe,
(02:09):
because there are four, well three right now. So it
is with the help of puzzle creator Charles Timmerman, so
he does the actual word puzzle, which, by the way,
not to say that he's not doing it an amazing job,
but I did figure out when I was in college,
so twenty years ago. You can put it into a
website and create your own word searches.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, you have done more word searches than I have,
so you can say I am incorrect, But I feel
like mister Timimran here used a lot of deployed a
lot of techniques that threw me off, Like three diagonal
words in a row, yeah, so I kind of might
miss the one in the middle there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So they gave you at the beginning of the book
strategies to use if you need to, and those were
the similar strategies I used growing up, because I'm like,
you have to use this in this combo. He did
throw in a lot of tricks where he had like
partial words in some of them. Yeah, because I used to.
They used to do that, and I used to mess
me up a lot because I would started out. I
(03:14):
was like, oh, no, that's not the word. Yeah, you
have to you have to be careful. But he did
a good job, I will say so. Like this is
also when I found out one of my friends was dyslexic,
because she's amazing at word searches, and apparently that is
like a superpower word searches if you're dyslexic. And I
started wondering if I was, because I'm like, you, I
can see the words like upside down better than I
(03:35):
can straightforward, and I'm like, oh oh, that's okay. We
all love them, uh huh yeah. So with this, she
has again two others as a part of the series,
with one more to be released in May of this year,
and the new the third one she just released this month.
So it's coming, it's coming along, and I believe they're
(03:57):
all based on the based on this character, and Cranberry Creek,
or at least Like is a Cranberry Creek series, which
is the location of where this mystery is happening. So
she is referred to as a cozy mystery writer. She
actually referred first to herself as that as well as
others classicfire her as that who loves bookstores and cats,
(04:21):
which she includes in a lot of her writings. So
this is from a Writer's Digest dot com. ROSIEA. Point
is a USA Today best selling cozy mystery author of
more than ninety novels and novella's set in fictional small
towns across the United States. She loves writing about food,
amateur sleuths, cats, and secrets. Her favorite books are ones
(04:41):
you can snuggle up with under a cozy blanket. On
a winter's day like today. Rosie lives in Cape Town,
South Africa, with her son, husband, an adorable kitten, Shiva
the Destroyer. I like that's as long. So in that
same article, this is the elevator pitch for the current
book are featuring, So this is what they write. Abby
(05:02):
Jones's dream bookstore opening in Craneberry Creek turns deadly when
a famous author is murdered, putting her new life at risk.
In this interactive, cozy mystery, readers can follow Abby's clues
and solve the who done it themselves through themed word
search puzzles. So there you go. That'st the entirety of
the book. It's very short, so you can do it
(05:23):
pretty quickly. The reading, like the chapter is one page
per chapter, and then you get one puzzle per chapter.
So this half and half. So the longest part is
doing the actual word search, which I love word searches.
So again, I guess this was more for me than you.
It was a combo. Any it was a combo.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, I thought it was great. I do love You're right,
I love solving mysteries. I thought it was very cute. Also,
I come from we've talked about all the time. Come
from a very small town. There is a very cute
store in our town or there used to be called
Cranberry Corners. So I kept thinking about that the whole
(06:07):
time I was reading this, And they have a like
map in the beginning of the book.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Super cute. The illustrations are really fun.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, very fun, very fun.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay, So this includes a lot of word searches, which
I again I think I've said at the beginning. I've
said it before. I love word searches. Those were my
like go to, like before I started doing the little
coloring books, easy coloring books with the markers, and my
favorite thing to do is get different color highlighters to
find the words so I can make beautiful, colorful strikes
(06:39):
through my puzzles. So I would alternate different colors each word.
Uh huh, yeah, I love that, and but I can't
do that much because most of the word puzzles I
think this book may have been. I would have been
able to do it, but I didn't because I used
the pen. Well, no, that's not true. I tried to
use the pen that you bought me for Christmas last year,
(07:01):
and as I was taking it downstairs in between me
come from upstairs to downstairs. I lost it. I don't
I don't know where that pen is.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It's in the multiverse, No, I just never see.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I went hunting for it, but I used another fun
like really thin, because I'm a lover of pens and markers,
if you don't know, but a different pen. But I
didn't do it this time round because I probably could have.
I think it's thick enough. But most of the word searches,
if you buy them at a grocery store, they're too thin,
and so it bleeds through and it makes me very sad.
So I can't. I can't do that. But I have
to ask what this thought? What are your thoughts on
(07:34):
word searches?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Annie, Well, it's been a long time since I've done one,
and I actually had to go find a pencil, and
I realized I haven't used a pencil in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, that's a long yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Because I was thinking like you, and well, I don't
want it to bleed through. Hopefully I don't need to
use an eraser, but if I do, fair So I
had to go searching in my D and D E
quick box for a pencil. But I actually am really glad.
I found it because one of my favorite parts of
it was I did find doing the word search like
(08:10):
a nice break, like a good way to just kind
of turn off my brain for a little second. And
then I really liked the sound of the pencil crossing
through the word when I found it. It was very satisfying.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If you can do a straight line, the perfect circle
like that is the trick. When you can, you're like, oh,
and I figured out I can't do up and down
very well. Up and down. It's really hard for me. Diagonal, Yes, across, yes,
up and down not so much.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Really, yeah, diagonal.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'm queen, I am so do you like we were
talking about the fact that they do tell you kind
of strategies. Do you have any strategies when it comes
to ward searches.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yes, so I usually do pretty much what they said.
But if there's multiple words that start with A, for example,
then I try to get every like A, then you
or A and then T or so I'm looking for
like three words at once. Yeah, and I go horizontal first,
and then if I hate it when if I haven't
found it by the end, then I go vertical, uh
(09:20):
to check that way, and then if I still have
not found it. Then I do the other thing they said,
which is like does it have an X in it?
Or does it have a It's very rare I have
to resort to that. But sometimes, yes, it didn't happen
to me. Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Sometimes that's the key sept strategy. Double letters or letters
that yeah, are like together, you're like that. You don't
see Often my first ins need is to still look
at the page and find all the obvious words like
things said to jump out of it. Yeah, I gotta
get all that done. That's our satisfactory. And then after that,
if I have a hard word, I'll go to the
next word, knowing that I'll probably find that one word
(09:54):
trying to find the next word.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's kind of one of those oh yeah yeah type
of moments. So those are my strategies. And I think
I already know this answer because the way you already answered.
But are you a person who circles the words or
do you strike through it or straight line?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I circle? I thought I thought you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, I actually thought you were a strike through.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I feel like I wanted to strike through, but I
thought you're supposed to circle.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I thought that was the right way to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There's no right or wrong. There's no right or wrong.
This is why I also like The High Ladder because
it almost does both, Like you just envolve the entire
word and you're like, yes, But I am a strike
through person because circles, I am actually not good at those,
Like I'm all over the place. I might have probably
taken three words that doesn't make sense into one bubble
(10:45):
and that just annoys me.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So maybe my diagonal is not so bad.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And maybe when it comes to the circle exactly, because
then that's the difference. But I do it. I'm a
strike through. Always happened? Oh boys will Wow?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
That sounds really intense and final.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It does, and it takes this very serious life as
you should. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Where did you come from?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, we're going to talk about kind of a summary
of the book again. The concept of this book is
super cute, and I actually try to do some research
(11:30):
I don't to see if this was the first of
its con like this, because this is honestly the first
I've seen where it actually has storytelling within the word
search and with the word search included. And again, you
don't really I don't know why you wouldn't. You don't
have to do the word searches except for one specific one,
and the rest is just like kind of adds to it.
(11:50):
It doesn't necessarily give you clues about anything, but just
adds to the story a little bit. But yeah, you
can just read through it if you want to and
go through there. I didn't see any of the books
like that other than her own. But I did find
a book that uses word search as a way to
get clues. But I again, which isn't this book. You're
not going to get the clues from most of these
except for one until the end, like I said, But
(12:12):
I don't think then those books there are narratives. I
could be wrong. I could be wrong. I just saw
one where it's like you unsolve the mystery or get
these clues through these word search and I was like, oh,
that's interesting. Not the same thing to me. So it
is a little different one of us kind that I saw.
I didn't see her talk much about the puzzle mystery
part to it outside of like the cozy parts. She
(12:35):
talks about how yes, she has to get quick to
the point and make it interesting but short, and you
get a lot without a lot of detail. But a
little personality here and there, and which is probably a
good thing in like having a series type of things.
So you know, I'll say it like that again, easy read,
very fast read. Teenagers kids probably would be fine reading
(12:58):
this book. I I don't know there's a rating syst
It does mention murder obviously, no cursing, Yeah, no cursing,
nothing gratuitous. No, okay, it's like, eh, you know, he's
like I do. So anyway, going on, We're going to
do a quick summary without spoilers. I'm not doing the ending.
(13:18):
I feel like that would ruin the purpose of this
puzzle book for you to participate in, so we're not
going to do that. I'm just going to give you
kind of a rundown of things that we know and
then moving on. So we have Abby who has decided
to come to this new town with her contankers Kat Reggie,
to open a small bookstore. The town, Cranberry Creek, is
(13:39):
not so welcoming of this newcomer, but she hopes that
will change after the success of her first book signing
with popular romance novelist Brooke Pines, who is a resident
of that area. With the help of her friend Rose
she is preparing for the day as Brooke and her
assistant Haley, come to make sure everything is ready for
the big day the next day, specifically with the list
(14:01):
of demands for the author that has to be in place.
So she's like, these are the things I require for
me to be happy here, including scheduled coffee service and
the bottled Nivian water, very specific As the big day
is happening. During the chaos of it all and the
constant complaining from the mamager Nessa her mom, the day
(14:21):
is quite busy and as Abby hans Brooke her coffee
and her mother hands her her special bottle of water,
Brooke begins to choke and falls unconscious, and then she
later dies. We figured out she dies pretty quickly. Brooke
has been murdered and Minnis suspect that's poison, and we
find Abby is the prime suspect. As Sheriff Swift seems
(14:41):
to indicate he does not care. He does not care
at all. It seems throughout the book it's like it's you.
I don't know why it's you, but it's you. Again.
Not a big fan of Outsiders. Thus begins the investigation
for Abby to clear her own name, with the help
of her only two friends, Rose, who is the baker
who owns the bakery near that area who apparently has
(15:03):
great muffins, and her landlord Marna with her three Dotson's
Really we love the chaos she she is chaos apparently
with the leashes, she narrows down the suspects. Who is
Brook's mother, Nessa Brooks assistant Hayley, and her best friend Frank.
So those are her like top three we know immediately
who she suspects. Throughout her investigation. She also meets the
(15:25):
handsome deputy Nathan. We just throw them in there just
for good measure, to have romance obviously, who she's like, Oh, hey,
how are you? He immediately asks her out, and her
response is to run away, which I feel like is fair. Yeah,
it's a good response. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Sure, she's she's had a bad breakup recently.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Exactly, that's why she moved in the first place. And
he's like, immediately after meeting number one during a murder trial,
by the way, what's up? She runs away. So during
this time, we find out that the water the Nivion
had been poison and at the same time, there's an
internet anti fan named Last fall who's been criticizing all
(16:06):
of Brooks books and that it revealed it to be
a he nessa has been standing in the way of
Hayley's writing career somehow, because you know, Haley says that,
and the sheriff has not investigated at all, but still
thinks Abby is the main suspect. The town has turned
on her, including a brick being thrown in her poor bookstore,
(16:28):
all the things, And of course nobody's investigating that because
no one apparently cares who mhy not. Oh, and Brooke
had written a tell all book which makes her mother
look pretty pretty bad, real bad. So as we come
to the end of the book, we as the reader
help get to help solve the mystery within the word
search puzzle. And yes, there is a happy ending and
(16:50):
apparently more books to come. So that's how I'm going
to leave it readers. So if you want to know,
go purchase this book. You can find it everywhere on
the sites. So, Annie, were you able to guess before
the ending?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yes, you were halp with this. Well, I want to
ask a follow up question to you because I, due
to time constraints at work, I only did half of
the word searches and then the final one that you
have to do, and so there's kind of a I'm
(17:26):
curious if I was able to guess it, because if
I was just reading the I was just reading the
chapter and not doing the puzzle, it was much more
quickly where things becoming clear to me. But also that
was at the back half of the book, so there
was more information. So I don't know if the like
word searches kind of slow you down. And I'm not
(17:47):
sure did you do every puzzle I did?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I did do every puzzle For me, I am too
used to twisting turns, like big twists and turns and
making up things because I had a whole different scenario
and I really made up this entire or other scenario.
And I remember looking a chapter thirty eight and saying, oh,
I know who in this I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It's fifty chapters by the way, listen, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah. So because I kept going back and forth, I'm
like this, no, that can't be right, all these things,
and then I'm like, okay, this is a simple, sweet book.
I think I overthought this.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I have to say, this is hard to talk about
without spoiling things.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But I was immediately comically, very tellingly suspicious of the
handsome deputy. But I think that was my own issues.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Like what would men be here? Like that was when
he was introduced. I immediately was like, it's either him,
but also Shareff. I was like, also, yeah, these two
are the worst.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, I think we have. We had a lot more
like conspiracy theories going on.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Also men like apparently that's their whole narrative in this thing.
But yeah, so I did the same thing again. Like
I said, I guess wrong again, way too much conspiracy
in mind. I had too much time to think about this.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Very funny to me, I can't wait till you'll have
to tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But I was like, oh, this is okay, all right,
my bad, I'm back now again. Love this cozy way
of doing a word search. I will definitely look into
the other books as well. There are themes. Obviously, it's
trying to find a new life, like she up and left.
We don't know much about her past. I wonder if
(19:33):
we're going to come back to that because it obviously
was so bad because the dude cheated on her with
three of his office coworkers, and I was like, oh
my god, how do you have time for that.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, just gives me a headache.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Right right, So immediately like that was okay, she needed
to come through, and then being welcomed by Rose and
Marna was very sweet. I love also the cat he
is also chaos. Reggiet is very upset about his dinner.
She takes it for walks. That was my favorite part.
(20:13):
I'm like, I know that's more and more common now,
but I love that this has become a thing in
here because she took it for a walk while she
went to try to figure out what was going on.
Then she took it to the bakery.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Didn't she attack? Didn't Reggie attack Nessa? Reggie attacked somebody.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Reggie attacked a few people. We're not gonna lie. It
went after a few was not a fan of a
lot of things, and Nessa was not the nicest of
people and caused a lot of chaos in the town
as well. All of Vanessa and her daughter both had
pretty bad reputations in the town as being overly controlling
(20:55):
and Karen's of the of the neighborhood or the community,
but very rich because there was mentions of mansions involved
in here. Lots of mansions. We do again see a
small romance possibly forming and against again the very handsome
deputy Nathan. Mm hmmm, kind of comes out of left field. Sure,
(21:19):
why not, let's let's do that again. Mentions of great muffins.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, you know, because it's such a short book, a
lot of these things do move very quickly. Yes, So
one of the things that I was struck by was
also rose like the friendship with Brose kind of came
up really quickly. I was like, oh, but I'm glad
there's great friendship. I'm very happy for it. But a
lot of it does me very quickly. Yeah, And I
(21:56):
know listeners have heard at least me talk about I
do love a good mystery. I do love solving puzzles.
I love the tropes of it. And so this was
also an interesting way to very quickly go through a
lot of the tropes because you had your three main suspects, yep,
and they kind of each filled a certain trope, and
(22:18):
they would each come to her and be like, actually,
this is the person you should be looking into because
of this reason, and so that that was fun to
see them in such quick succession of you caught me.
I did do that, but I didn't do this.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It was her, but I was still her friend, but
I still cared. Yeah, it was interesting because we do
have each one of them telling her they don't believe
she would murder Brook and then the sheriff was like, no, yeah,
but you used to. I have no other reason to
believe it. But no one else believes it. But I do.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I know because I mean it kind of talked them.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh sorry, but then they each one of them said
he refused to listen or he refused to look into
Every single one of them said this, which made me
a little suspicious. I was like, wait, But also he
gets to be the hero in the end too, I'm like, wait.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, what Yeah. I also love that she kind of
runs from the cops at one point. That was great.
I can't blame her, but are we sure?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Because I thought this is gonna be one of those
miscommunication where he's like, you're in danger type of thing,
or tried to help her, but she's running away from
fear of I also love that she ends up banging
on the bakery at five am with her hand, like
the way that the scripture is. I was like, you
know what, that desperation is real? Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
There's a scene where Abby and Rose are at like
a nice dinner and then Nessa like crashed. Yeah, and
it's like drenking champagne or something and ordering escarco.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Not lackling wine. That's what dare you.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And I there was something very funny about that seemed
to me just because you know, Nessa's been horrible to Addy,
to like everybody. But she's there saying I think they're
trying to kill me too, and here's why and I
didn't do it. But just having like these three women
around the table and that kind of overbearing mom trope.
(24:25):
But also she was so kind of comically unaware about
she was coming across.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Also talking about how delicious Nathan is. Deputy Nathan is
she can I'm like, that's I guess when we're driving
all the point.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He looks good. Real you made your point, Cleary, Yes,
she's That's why she was like, Okay, maybe I will
date him. I don't know now that Nansa's told me
he's a catch.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
He's a catch apparently. Oh yes, this entire book it's
actually really cute. I really love the illustrations there. There's
like pictures of the cat throughout the beginning has a
wonderful map of the town map of Cranberry Creek, and
then yeah, you get to see little tidbits of illustrations throughout.
(25:17):
The cat is the main draw again, it's also the
low key hero of the book. He kind of solves
the whole thing. I feel like the R two two Yeah,
maybe definitely, definitely, don't you say that? And then it
does have again, like I said, the end has all
(25:39):
of the answers if you do get stumped or need
some help or just an overlap and check. They circle everything,
so they are circlers. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I saw that when I was like flipping through the
pages and circle. Yeah, the circle that's in the key
in the back, yes, key.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So like it's very cute. So the other books are
murdered by Muffin, which you can get it right now,
and apparently I was wrong the Murder before I Do,
which is the third book I was talking about that's
released this month. It's not released yet. It's not gonna
be released till twenty seventh. So if you're listening when
this is released, which will be January twenty third, twenty
(26:15):
twenty six, then you're too early. You gotta wait till
the end of this month to get this book, and
then in March of twenty twenty six that will be
Murder on Vacation. Oh yeah, yeah, it's so very cute.
Murder by Muffin maybe my favorite title though.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's fun. It's alliterative. Yeah, it's so so. I mean,
this was a nice This is very cozy. It's a bookstore.
It was like autumnal vibes. It's cats, this bakery. Uh,
there's coffee.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah again. And she has so like the different series
that I see her. Have a very murder mystery, the
Beach Bay Mystery, which is, like the title is a
very flavored obituary. I love a good pun. I do
a fudge flavored grudge.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh that's fun as well.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And then a lime flavored crime we love.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
There's a lot of foods death by food. Anytime somebody,
you know, like mystery says I have a food allergy,
I'm like, that's it.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That's the death. Also just death by She has the
Bees Bakery Mysteries, and it's death and donuts, death by
a cookie, dough, Devil's food cake and death and death
Danish pastry and death like it's succinct nothing else. There's
a book called The butter Cream Murder. Oh no, there's
(27:47):
also a murder By Milkshake. So we got a lot.
We got a lot of options. We've got burger mysteries. Okay,
all right, she really does like food, you know what.
And then there's a oh so I believe her other
names she publishes under as Allied Cat.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I like it though.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
All right, all right, so I feel like this is
really cute. I love that this is what she does.
I love the best of our genre because it does
feel very cozy to be able to do mysteries. You know,
this kind of like very throwback old school touch grass
type of literature because you can kind of come back
to the old school. The word search because they've been
(28:33):
around for a long while and they are really soothing,
Like I have stories. My aunt and I would race
each other trying to be each other's time and how
quickly we can solve word searches. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
this is what I did for a summer, for a
few summers.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I love how I do this too, But I love
how you took a relaxing activity and turned it into
a race.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I think this is her way of trying to tire
me out, also to put me in my place and
be like, you're not smarter than me, kid, I was
probably like ten. Anyway, I think this is really cute.
This was kind of a break from or coming back
in easily with something fun and relaxing, with everything going
to hell in a handbasket as it fills. I'm sure.
(29:19):
I mean, we're gonna have some amazing books this year.
We're gonna have some great options. If you have any suggestions,
you know we also love themes, please let us know.
If you have anything like this that's kind of new
wish to us, please let us know because we love
finding novelty things like this.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yes, yes, absolutely, and thank you for the gift, Samantha.
I'm definitely thinking about getting one from my mom because
she also loves mysteries and more searches.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
At least well I guess they're not all out, but
at least get two of them.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I think she would really like it. So it
was fun. Recommend thank you and listeners. Yes, if you
have any suggestions we would love to hear from. You
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(30:11):
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