Review: A Very Cozy Cat Lady Christmas (Very Cozy Cat Lady Mysteries #1) Amy Bizzarri

 

Between mischievous cats and a Christmas theft, the Bocchetta family winery is anything but quiet.

When Chicago elementary school teacher Chiara Bocchetta heads home to Carlinville, Illinois, for Christmas at her family’s winery, she’s expecting her mother’s chocolate pistachio biscotti, overflowing bowls of pasta, and enough sparkling prosecco to survive her loud Italian relatives. What she’s not expecting is theft.

Just days before Christmas, someone steals the Bocchetta family’s original vine grafts—an irreplaceable piece of the winery’s history—along with a priceless medieval chalice hidden deep inside the estate’s wine cave grotto. If the items aren’t recovered before the winery’s annual Christmas celebration, the scandal could threaten a legacy generations of Bocchettas sacrificed to build.

With kittens underfoot, family tempers bubbling over, and holiday chaos sweeping through the winery, Chiara is determined to uncover the truth before Christmas Eve arrives. But in a small town filled with old secrets, curious neighbors, and nonstop family opinions, finding the thief may be harder than she imagined.

Filled with cozy holiday charm, wine-country atmosphere, mischievous cats, and beloved family traditions, A Very Cozy Cat Lady Christmas is a heartwarming Christmas mystery about legacy, belonging, and finding your way home.

 

My Review: 

Highly recommended to those who love cats and mysteries.  

I am hooked on this book series already.  The cute cat/Christmas cover caught my attention first, but I truly enjoyed every bit of the book.  Chiara is a teacher, but in her time off, she is a cat rescuer living in Chicago.  In this book, Chiara heads home to her family winery for Christmas.  While she is there, someone breaks into their secret storage and steals some valuable family possessions.  The hunt is on to get everything back before it is lost for good.   There is a lot of great family dynamics and fun cat mischief in the story.  I can’t wait to read the books that will follow this one.

 

Review: The Cowboy’s Long Lost Christmas Bride (Family Matters of Cowboy Point, Book 3) by Megan Crane

Some loves are impossible to forget.

Dallas Lisle spent years turning a lighthouse an ancestor built for a skeptical wife into an inn. He’s made peace with lost causes, but not with his wife, Ruthie Mathis. She’s his first and only love, and she left him. Not that he blames her. He knows exactly what kind of man he was when they were together. So when Ruthie walks back through his door, Dallas braces for the reckoning he deserves.

Except Ruthie… doesn’t remember him.

She’s chasing a mystery – her lost memories and photographs found in her late grandmother’s house, leading her to Cowboy Point, the lighthouse inn, and Dallas. She doesn’t know they were married. She doesn’t know why she left.

Dallas knows all too well. And telling her the truth risks losing her all over again. Not telling Ruthie could mean they have a second chance, but for years, Dallas wished he were a different kind of man for her. Now he has the chance to prove he can be. Even if it means letting the love of his life go. Again.

 

My Review: 

An unexpected Christmas reunion. 

Dallas Lisle hasn’t seen his wife in eight years.  One day, she just happens to show up at his newly opened B&B, Lisle Lighthouse Inn.  The problem is, Ruthie doesn’t know who Dallas is or why she received an invitation to the inn’s grand opening.  She has amnesia.  But when Ruthie remembers the past and why Dallas left her, will it send her running or will she stay and fight for the love they both deserve?  This book is a wonderful addition to the series.  I was so happy to see Dallas and Ruthie find their way back to each other.    

 

 

Review: Christmas on Goose Island (The Southern Isles, Book 5) by Laurie Beach

 

What if you woke up knowing the exact date and time you would die?

Dorothea Boone is no sissy. She knows full well that her amateur prognostications aren’t always spot-on, but this one has her reeling—especially since it was clear that she might drop dead early Christmas morning. So, when John Stanley enters her life, she doesn’t know whether to run toward him, or sprint away as fast as she can.

She’s supposed to have half of her life left to figure things out. Which means she absolutely cannot leave Earth while she still has a strong sense that something is missing. But what is it? Is it the fact that she’s been closed-off to men since her surprise unwed pregnancy? Or that her children are all off living their own lives without her? The uncertainty of her life stirs up old memories and mysteries from childhood that have her spinning.

So when Christmas approaches and John is determined to make sure she sticks around, will she allow him in? Or will she simply let fate take its course?

 

My Review: 

An unexpected Christmas miracle.  

Dottie Boone had become an empty nester.  With her daughters off living their lives, Dottie was contemplating her next chapter.  But when Dottie’s food truck was wrecked in an accident, she knew she had to think about her future even more now.  Along with finding a job, she might even find time for a man in her life.  I just couldn’t get enough of this book and loved everything about it.  It is emotional and filled with lots of hopes and dreams and characters that I just can’t get enough of.