Cozy Mysteries discussion

Better late than never? Since we've already lost a week, I tried to make these easy to do, and you can count books already read this month. Your books do not have to be all mysteries, but can be from any genre. You can only use a book once for this challenge, but can use them for other challenges, such as the "autumn/fall" challenge. Have fun!


October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.

October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort.

October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.

October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover.

October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.Murder Between the Coversby Elaine Viets completed


October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort.Keepsake Crimesby Laura Childs Completed 10/09


October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.

October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover. Last Wool and Testamentby Molly MacRae Completed 10/10


October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover.Cop Townby Karin Slaughter completed 10/15

Thank you Heather, let's go to calibre to find something interesting ;)

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My list at this moment:

1.- Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Shear Trouble

2.- World Card Making Day: Snake in the Glass

3. Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day / Plush Animal Day: Aunt Dimity Detective

4.- Visit a Cemetery Day / Create a Great Funeral Day: Murder in a Minor Key

5.- Halloween / Carve a Pumpkin Day: The Highland Fling Murders

I'm in! 5/5 DONE


Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Murder Runs in the Family by Anne George

World Card Making Day — At Wicks End by Tim Myers

Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day/Plush Animal Day — The Mournful Teddy by John J. Lamb

Visit a Cemetery Day/Create a Great Funeral Day — Loose Ends by Terri Reid

Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Antiques Roadkill by Barbara Allan

Heather L wrote: "Better late than never? Since we've already lost a week, I tried to make these easy to do.


October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.

October 4th is World Ca..."

I'm gonna try to complete this one, as well. :) But, I have a question... Since this is my first monthly mini-challenge, do all the books have to be cozy mysteries? I've picked out books for each, but two of them would be classified more as thriller mysteries, rather than cozies. Thanks for any info! :)

I think that it's not necessary them to be cozy mystery (neither mystery at all), but I'm not sure.

Sorry ladies. Got caught up getting my son ready for his Boy Scout Eagle board of review. At the very last minute they changed it to next month. I've also had to re-sew his 35 merit badges onto a larger sash as he's outgrown his old one. Figured I better do it before they take his official pictures for the paper and we take some portraits of him in full class A uniform.

NOTE 1: Books do not have to be all cozy mysteries for the mini-challenges. That is entirely optional and some prefer to do that. We're just happy if you join in, in whatever way is easiest or the most fun for each person.

Note 2: Because this was started late, (Thank you Heather for helping out!!), any book that you read this month can count towards this challenge. So if you read it the first week before this was posted, it can still count. :)

No need to be sorry, Briansgirl. I was only worried you could be ill. Curious the info about Boy Scout for this Spanish woman.

Thank you Marisa and Briansgirl.

Still coming up with some of the books to read. I have a couple of options for crafts and can't decide and I need to take a look at the shelves of books and see what is orange.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Undead and Uneasy

World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort.

Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.

Visit a Cemetery Day and Create a Great Funeral Day — Deadly Collection 10/3/14

Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover

Oops, sorry I forgot to mention in the initial post that any book/genre can count towards the challenge. I'll edit to include that.

Briansgirl: Wow, Eagle Scout...I'm impressed! ☺

Marisa wrote: "No need to be sorry, Briansgirl. I was only worried you could be ill. Curious the info about Boy Scout for this Spanish woman."

The Boy Scouts started in England. They are in many countries around the world as they hold a world Jamboree every year. Eagle Scout is their highest honor and only 10% off all scouts reach that rank. You must meet all the requirements before you age out at 18. My eldest son has met all the requirements with just his board of review to go. He turns 18 in March of next year. My second son is Life scout with just Eagle to go. He has one more merit badge to go (21 are needed for eagle, 11 required ones and 10 elective ones), plus he has to do his eagle scout project. They perform a community service project and show leadership leading the entire project. My eldest son's project was to fix the landscaping around the government building, the National Weather Service Office, outside of town. We removed bad trees, removed branches scraping the building, trimmed up the landscaping, removed an old rundown fence, put in two patio areas, and reinforced the base of their sign and added landscaping. It total it was over 200 hours of community service by the volunteers. Reaching Eagle Scout is a major honor. It looks good on resumes, job applications. If you join the military you get your first rank free, based on your leadership training you've already received.

Heather L wrote: "Briansgirl: Wow, Eagle Scout...I'm impressed! ☺"

Thanks Heather. My deceased brother was an Eagle Scout and incredibly proud of it. He was very active in scouting his whole life. At the time of his death (he saved his son from drowning, then drown himself), he was active in the Boy Scouts and cub master of their local pack. The Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts lined both sides of the path into the cemetery with flags, then marched down the hill to salute him at the burial. I'd never seen that done except for military.

At the time I was a single mother, so I'd put my boys into Boy Scouts so they'd have positive male role models and be taught things like camping that I didn't really do anymore. Eldest, 17 is making Eagle Scout now with his board of review coming up, middle son, 14, is Life Scout with only one merit badge and his eagle project left to do, and youngest is a second year cub scout webelo working towards his Arrow of Light award (highest Cub Scout award and the only cub scout award you are allowed to wear on a boy scout uniform). He'll be a boy scout next year. And with them so involved in scouting, I'm remarried (3 years this past week) and the youngest growing up and able to participate, I've been volunteering with the Boy Scouts more myself. I sit on some of the boards of review for the younger scouts, the occasional committee meeting and took over as the troop popcorn kernel. (That means I'm in charge of the troop's annual fund raiser where we sell popcorn every fall.)

This looks a very fun challenge this month!
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.

October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort.

October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.

October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover - Killing Kate by Julie Kramer

October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day— Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover - Halloween Hijinks by Kathi Daley

Kate: That is quite an honor paid to your brother. I'd never heard of that for scouting, either. Sounds like you have reason to be proud of all of your boys. My sisters and I all did Brownies, but only did Girl Scouts a few years.

Sounds like fun. I'm in.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.

French Pastry Murder...10/9/14

October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort.

Knot What It Seams: A Southern Quilting Mystery ...10/10/14

October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.

The False-Hearted Teddy...10/21/14

October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover.

Well Read, Then Dead....10/1/14

October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover.

Antiques Maul...10/25/14

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My list at this moment:

1.- Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Shear Trouble

2.- World Card Making Day: Snake in the Glass

3. Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day / Plush Animal Day: Aunt Dimity Detective

4.- Visit a Cemetery Day / Create a Great Funeral Day: Murder in a Minor Key

5.- Halloween / Carve a Pumpkin Day: The Highland Fling Murders by Donald Bain (★★★)

ஐ Briansgirl (Book Sale Queen)ஐ wrote: "Marisa wrote: "No need to be sorry, Briansgirl. I was only worried you could be ill. Curious the info about Boy Scout for this Spanish woman."

The Boy Scouts started in England. They are in many c..."

Fun fact: The Eagle scout equivalent in Commonwealth Nations is a Queen's Scout - which makes sense when you think about it. (My husband is/was a Queen's Scout.)

1. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.

2. October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort.

3. October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.

4. October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover. by Kimberly McCreight FINISHED

5. October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover.

If anyone is having trouble coming up with a book with stuffed animals in it, The Cluttered Corpse has lots.

Thank you very much, Linda. I think I have it in my collection.

Linda wrote: "If anyone is having trouble coming up with a book with stuffed animals in it, The Cluttered Corpse has lots."

Don't forget the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton, or Bear Collector's series by John Lamb. ;-)

I'm in....




October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.

October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort. Back on Blossom Street 10/4/14

October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.

October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover. Hour Game 10/21/14

October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover. B is for Burglar 10/9/14

1.- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Confessions of a Shopaholic

2.- October 4th is World Card Making Day :

3. October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day /

4.- October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day /

5.- October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day / The Ginseng Conspiracy

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My list at this moment:

1.- Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A biscuit, a casket by Liz Mugavero (10/17/2014 - ★★★)

2.- World Card Making Day: Snake in the Glass

3. Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day / Plush Animal Day: Aunt Dimity Detective

4.- Visit a Cemetery Day / Create a Great Funeral Day: Murder in a Minor Key

5.- Halloween / Carve a Pumpkin Day: The Highland Fling Murders by Donald Bain (10/11/2014 - ★★★)

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My list at this moment:

1.- Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A biscuit, a casket by Liz Mugavero (10/17/2014 - ★★★)

2.- World Card Making Day: Snake in the Glass

3. Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day / Plush Animal Day: Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton (10/18/2014 - ★★★★)

4.- Visit a Cemetery Day / Create a Great Funeral Day: Murder in a Minor Key

5.- Halloween / Carve a Pumpkin Day: The Highland Fling Murders by Donald Bain (10/11/2014 - ★★★)

Debbie wrote: "I'm in....




October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.

October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort. [book:Back on Bl..."
Caught Dead Handed has three pumpkins on the cover.

Finally finished this month's mini challenge. :) I liked 3 of the 5 books I chose. Amberville was awful and I don't recommend it. Two Graves was just OK. It had too many characters and too many stories going on at once. Funny thing, they were the only two that were thrillers rather than cozy mysteries. ;) I really liked the other three and in fact am reading the second one in the scrapbooking mystery books by Laura Childs. :)

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover. by Stephanie Bond 10/13/14

October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort. by Laura Childs 10/13/14

October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal. by Tim Davys 10/21/14

October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover. by D.A. Graystone 10/27/14

October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover. by Sheila Connolly 10/16/14

Kimberly and Carol: Congrats on finishing!

Congrats, Carol! Congrats, Kimberly!

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The final list:

1.- Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A biscuit, a casket by Liz Mugavero (10/17/2014 - ★★★)

2.- World Card Making Day: Dyeing Wishes by Molly MacRae (10/21/2014 - ★★★★)

3. Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day / Plush Animal Day: Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton (10/18/2014 - ★★★★)

4.- Visit a Cemetery Day / Create a Great Funeral Day: The Cold Light of the Mourning by Elizabeth Duncan (10/29/2014 - ★★★★)

5.- Halloween / Carve a Pumpkin Day: The Highland Fling Murders by Donald Bain (10/11/2014 - ★★★)

Congrats to everyone who has finished!! So happy that I get to join you!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Undead and Uneasy 10/11/14

World Card Making Day — Paper, Scissors, Death 10/29/14

Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and Plush Animal Day — The Cluttered Corpse 10/14/14

Visit a Cemetery Day and Create a Great Funeral Day — Deadly Collection 10/3/14

Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — A Truth For a Truth 10/23/14

Congrats, Marisa and Linda! I just realized that I get to add mine, too, having finished my last book early this morning (woke up with a cold I did not go to bed with and had trouble getting back to sleep). And wow -- four of these are actually cozies. How did THAT happen? ☺


October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover.
The Aristocrat by Catherine Coulter


October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort.
A Fatal Stain by Elise Hyatt


October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal.
The Mournful Teddy by John J. Lamb


October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover.
Dead Man Talking by Casey Daniels


October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover.
A Killer Crop by Sheila Connolly

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Read a book with pink on the cover. -
Bloody Lessons - Finished 10/31

October 4th is World Card Making Day — Read a book that involves crafts of some sort. - Angora Alibi - Finished 10/25

October 11th is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day and the 28th is Plush Animal Day — Read a book that features a stuffed animal. - The Mournful Teddy - Finished 10/21

October 26th is Visit a Cemetery Day, and the 30th is Create a Great Funeral Day — Read a book in which someone attends a funeral, visits a cemetery, or has a cemetery/grave on the cover. - Last Wool and Testament - Finished 10/18

October 31st is Halloween and Carve a Pumpkin Day — Read a book that has a pumpkin on the cover, or has an orange cover. - The Diva Haunts the House - Finished 10/15

Good job, Dotty!

Congratulations to all who completed the October mini challenge!

Congrats, Linda! Congrats, Dotty! Congrats, Heather! (And what a surprise, cozies ;) )