Sunday, August 03, 2025

Seven wedding-themed cozies

Valerie (V. M.) Burns is a mystery writer whose novels and short stories have been finalists for the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, and Next Generation Indie Book Awards. She is the author of the Mystery Bookshop, Dog Club, RJ Franklin, and Baker Street Mystery series, as well as the Bailey the Bloodhound Mysteries under the name Kallie E. Benjamin. Burns is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, and the Crime Writers' Association. She is also an adjunct professor in the Writing Popular Fiction Program at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. Born and raised in northwestern Indiana, Burns now lives in the southeastern United States with her two poodles.

Burns's new cozy mystery Icing on the Murder.

At CrimeReads the author tagged seven favorite wedding-themed cozies, including:
Krista Davis, The Diva Takes the Cake (A Domestic Diva Mystery)

In the second book in the Domestic Diva Mystery series, Sophie Winston’s sister, Hannah, is getting married—again! Sophie doesn’t love her soon-to-be-brother-in-law, but does that mean he’s a killer. Does it? When his ex-wife is murdered, that’s the question that Sophie needs to find out.

With a list of suspects that is as long as the guest list, Sophie must solve the murder in time to stop her sister from making the biggest—and possibly the last—mistake of her life.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue