This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
September has arrived! I am looking forward to some cooler weather, but I am not looking forward to our rainy season returning. But we have a few weeks hopefully before that happens.
For this week’s pick, I chose a book that is coming out later this month that I am excited to be able to finally read. This is a cozy mystery, which can be a genre that is hit or miss for me, but this one just sounded to cute to not give a chance.
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
by C.M. Waggoner
Publication Date: September 24, 2024
Summary from goodreads:
A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery.
Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies—and solving murders. But she’s concerned by just how many killers she’s had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count…but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths is unnatural. But when someone close to Sherry ends up dead, and her cat, Lord Thomas Crowell, becomes possessed by what seems to be an ancient demon, Sherry begins to think she’s going to need to become an exorcist as well as an amateur sleuth. With the help of her town’s new priest, and an assortment of friends who dub themselves the “Demon-Hunting Society,” Sherry will have to solve the murder and get rid of a demon. This riotous mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Murder, She Wrote is a lesson for demons and murderers.
I am kind of a sucker for any book that is about libraries and librarians, plus of course a cat on the cover! But this one does sound kind of fun and quirky. The few reviews it has so far are pretty positive, so I am hopeful this will be one of those cosy mysteries that ends up a winner for me.
Do you have this one on your TBR yet? How do you feel about cozy mysteries? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
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