I have been a longtime fan of Dana Mentink's writing so I was excited when I saw she was included in a new novella collection of cozy mysteries by six different authors. Coffee Club Mysteries centers around a group of friends who are members of a book club in a small town in Kansas. Each story centers around a different member of the club who somehow finds herself in the middle of a whodunnit mystery. The ladies work together much to the displeasure of the local sheriff to solve the mystery and help their friend. The stories include humor, suspense, fun-loving animal companions, and even a bit of romance. I enjoyed how the stories were connected to one another so you got updates on the characters you met in previous stories. It was refreshing to see a group of women of various ages and stages of life be so supportive of one another and exemplify true friendship.

I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from Barbour Publishing through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Reading this book I found 6 mystery stories about a group of ladies in a coffee shop in Kansas. each one has a mystery to solve.
Thank you Netgalley for this nice cozy mystery adventure..

I really enjoyed reading this collection of mysteries. Each of the six stories was written by a different author, but it flowed like it was all written by the same person. Each story was unique and one thing I liked was that I wasn’t able to guess who the “culprit” was right off, I was surprised at the end of each story. I loved that there was a wide age range among the women of the Tuesday night book club. There was someone for every age reader to relate to. I would recommend this book.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

The Coffee Club Mysteries: 6 Whodunits Are Brewing in Small-Town Kansas is a collection of six stories. These stories include:
Coffee, Tea, or Murder by Cynthia Hickey
The Honey Hive Mystery by Dana Mentink
Chili Con Carne Murder by Candice Prentice
Nuts for Coffee by Darlene Franklin
In Hot Water by Elizabeth Ludwig
Nutty as a Fruitcake by Janice Thompson
I enjoyed this collection and recommend it. Four and a half stars.

The coffee shop on the corner of First and Main in Oak Grove, Kansas, seems to attract a series of mysterious events. Or perhaps it is the six women who frequent the shop for book club who are magnets for trouble. . . .

Morgan Butler, owner of the Coffee Perk, finds a project worker hanged at her shop.

Penny Parson finds a gun in one of her beehives.

Evelyn Kliff discovers a dead church meal organizer.

Jo Anderson shares hazelnut coffee creamer, sending a woman into anaphylactic shock.

Harper Daggett is being stalked for an antique jade owl she bought.

Baker Jeanine Gransbury’s charity event money goes missing.

These short stories were a delight to read. I would class them as a good cozy read. You can either set at the beach or in front of the fireplace. These were not edge of your seat thrillers but good mysteries done the less. Each main character was at a different stage in life. There wasn't even a romance in a couple of them. I recommend this book to all those who enjoy a light read with likable characters.

I was given this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated in any way.

A 3.5 star rating I've rounded up to 4 stars.

I personally love mystery writing and I love the Christian genre. It's not often you find the two combined. This was a warm and cozy set of six stories that all follow the same group of friends that become amateur sleuths in their town. What's interesting is each book is written by a different author, but they meld together seamlessly. It felt like an updated Angela Lansbury. If you like the cozy whodunnit mystery novels then this book is for you. The group of women in these novels are true friends, and their friendship stands before any mystery they have to solve. It was refreshing to read how they supported each other emotionally and spiritually. I hope these authors decide to write a sequel to this book. I would like to see what these ladies uncover next.

My thanks to the authors, Barbour Publishing, and Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

For the most part, The Coffee Club Mysteries read like a typical cozy mystery. The novel follows a book club of women who meet in a local coffee shop. Despite being a book club, the women rarely discuss books in favor of gossip and murder(s) going on their small town. The mysteries were all faith-based and often led the character)s) to the resolution. I loved the idea that all of the stories were connected and followed a different member of the book club. The murders in each of the stories were incredibly unique and it was interesting on how they were related to the character that story followed.

This is my first time reviewing and short story collection and it's a bit difficult. Each story was unique in its own way, but I was definitely able to tell that certain authors were stronger than others. Therefore, a collective rating is more representative of t However, a lot of the stories felt the same. After read through half of them, I was able to start guessing who the murder was, the romantic relationship that the story would end it, etc. Towards the end it got boring and repetitive.

Overall, it was an interesting read and a mystery novel to read on a rain day.

The Coffee Club Mysterries is a six short stories collection by different authors.

This is a great choice for those who enjoy shorter reads and love coffee as each story features another friend who are all part of the book club.
Well written and nicely paced they are easy to read. Characters are well developed, setting is fabulous and there is plenty of coffee.

This is the perfect choice for all mystery lovers.

This is a collection of cute, cozy mysteries all tied together with the ladies in the coffee club.

Of course there are some stories I liked better then others, just different writing styles. But if you enjoy a light-hearted mystery this collection would be up your alley.

I did have trouble gauging how old the ladies where until it was there story, that wasn’t made very clear in other book. They are a wide variety of ages as it turns out 🙂

A copy of this book was given to me through Netgalley.com. All opinions are my own.

I am usually not a fan of a book with so many short novellas. However, this book and the stories drew me in from the beginning. We find ourselves at the coffee shop in Oak Grove, Kansas. A group of six woman frequent the shop. Each soon finds themselves in a mystery. From a gun in a beehive to a stalker, these women ban together to solve the mysteries and clear their names.
I love how the stories told were from each of the six womens' viewpoints. We were able to find out more about each character as their story progressed. The only downfall was that the stories did seem slightly off kilter. However, that did nothing to make the story less enjoyable. I would love to revisit the town.

It's not often that I read cozy mysteries, so when I had opportunity to do so with this collection from Barbour I immediately jumped on it! Since these are written by some very fine Christian authors, in my mind it just added an extra special layer to them.

First of all, even though these are six different stories, they didn't feel disjointed or stuttered. As if reading a single book written by a single author. How these six writers made them flow seamlessly together, I have no idea! I loved that I felt like I made friends with each of the characters. From the first introduction of Morgan Butler, the owner of the Coffee Perk where they hold their book club meetings, to Jeanine Gransbury, our baker extraordinaire. Then you have the classic cozy mystery elements; a small town full of quirky characters, a few beloved and personable pets (even bees, if you will), amateur sleuths, and one bumbling Sheriff. Just your regular, run of the mill light-hearted whodunit's! These were some fun, quick reads that kept me entertained and guessing who the culprit was in each story.

If you enjoy cozy mysteries and solving the case along with the characters involved, I think you will love these as much as I did!

*I received a complimentary digital copy via Barbour Publishing through Netgalley and was under no obligation to leave a review. All opinions are my own. *

As others have stated, this is a book with 6 separate stories by 6 different authors revolving around women in a coffee club in Kansas who are amateur sleuths because, through no fault of their own, they become embroiled in crimes committed including them! Those crimes include murder, robbery and such! These ladies are gems! I would love to meet them in real life. They are true friends to each other and have each other's backs, through thick and thin. The town sheriff is not really nice and doesn't seem very inclined to solve these crimes so the ladies take it upon themselves to do so, especially when a couple of them are the prime suspects! I really enjoyed getting to know the characters of this town in Kansas and the background of each of the ladies. Because these are cozy mysteries, there isn't anything "gruesome" about the crimes! I had read some of these authors before but others were new to me. I love discovering new authors! I would definitely recommend the book.

Six mysteries set in Kansas. Intriguing and worth a try. I requested this based on the description, the cover, and the fact that I was stationed in Kansas for three years, previously.

I liked that all the stories were interlinked by characters. Set in Oak Grove, Kansas, each story involves the members of a local coffee club as they must discover who committed the murder in order to clear themselves or a friend. The women are supportive of each other, true friends.

I liked that I was able to try six authors and the characters were consistent throughout the books. I hope other authors try this approach. It can make for a fun read with different interpretations of the characters’ lives.

I . . . don’t remember why I picked this book up? It was a fun read, but it’s not something that I would normally read.

The Coffee House Mysteries features a chain of crimes that occur to ladies in a book club, and since the sheriff isn’t the . . . most helpful, they try to help sort things out. These stories cover what happens over the span about a year, and it was so sweet!

I think my favorite story from the collection was the one featuring Jo, the oldest lady. All of the stories are very sweet and mostly clean, and are very cozy (so long as you don’t read at midnight . . . oops).

The 6 who-dun-it stories in this collection are all written by different authors, but centered around the same town and same reading club: the various ladies from the club take turns being the protagonist, which I found really cool. The different writing styles gave a sort of different speaking voice to each of the ladies, and I found that really cool.

One thing I would say is that it’s marketed as Christian fiction, but there really isn’t much “Christian content” in almost all of these stories, sO if that’s something you’re looking for . . . not here.

Overall, it was a very sweet collection of stories! I always appreciate short stories, because it gives me a chance to set the book down in between reading it (and no, chapters don’t count). I really enjoyed reading them, and the coffeeshop treats and book club talk was SO SWEET I WANT THAT IN MY LIFE.

My Ranking-
3/5

I really enjoyed all the stories in this book. First who doesn't love Coffee? The stories were lighthearted and perfect for a weekend read. The stories complemented each other very well and I liked the pace they had and the length for short stories was perfect.Three of the six authors are new to me and I look forward to reading books by them in the future, I would recommend this book for anytime you are short on time and need a quick delightful read.

The Coffee Club Mysteries is a collection of six short stories written by Darlene Franklin, Cynthia Hickey, Elizabeth Ludwig, Dana Mentink, Candice Prentice, and Janice Thompson.
Summary: In the small town of Oak Grove, Kansas, the local book club ladies are about to be thrown into a series of sinister mysteries that will change their lives forever. From murder, to thousands of missing dollars, these ladies will need to use every trick in the book to find out whodunit.
My Thoughts: I liked the idea of a group of book club ladies solving mysteries together, and really enjoyed the close friendship these ladies had with each other.
BUT, my biggest problem with this book is that the stories started to sound the same after a while.
Although the details changed somewhat, the formula stayed pretty much the same for the first three stories, and I found myself just ready to get on to the next one.
The fourth changed things up a bit, but I found the last two to be the best-simply because they weren't about a murder and had a more diverse plot line. It also seemed a pretty big coincidence that four murders could happen within a few months in the same small sleepy town-involving the same ladies' book club.
So, in summary, I didn't mind each individual story, and actually really enjoyed the last two, but the book would have been better served to have had more variety in the plot lines instead of the same basic storyline over and over.
I would like to thank Barbour Publishing, Inc. for providing me with a free copy of this book for my honest review.

I enjoyed these set of stories. Some of the authors like Cynthia Hickey and Dana Mentink I have read other stories by them and enjoyed them emensely. I always enjoy reading whatever they write. The rest of the authors in this bundle is my first time reading something from them and I was not disappointed. These stories allowed me to sit back and relax while enjoying reading something simple. Thank you ladies for a relaxing weekend and allowing me to enjoy a few stories.

So, I love coffee and love mysteries, so naturally, when I saw the cute cover, I had to see what this was about and sounding interesting, opted to read it. I'm more of a suspense girl than cozy mysteries, but I enjoyed these 6 stories, and especially liked that each story, written by a different author, was about the same 6 book club friends who turned into sleuths to solve mysteries they were involved in.

From all the stories, I liked the "voice" of the Morgan, Jo and Jeanine the most. Though I smiled/laughed the most with the second story of Penny. From all the mysteries, the murder Penny had to solve was the most suspenseful and probably that and Morgan's mystery felt the most realistic. I had a problem with Jo's story since in real life, I do not think police would have been slack by not taking the evidence with them.

The only other "problem" I had was that one character's name was Dean Matthews, and every time I read it I read/thought Dayne Matthews from Karen Kingsbury's Baxter series.

If you enjoy/love cozy mysteries, you will definitely enjoy this one and should pick it up.

Fun book filled with short mysteries. I really enjoyed them all. I recommend this compilation of short stories. They were so much better than I expected. I typically do not like short stories, due to the inability to go deep with characters.
4 stars
I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

This is a collection of six novella mysteries, a quick read with quirky characters woven together, as each story focuses on a different characters. I would’ve enjoyed a few of the stories being longer. Coffee, reading, and solving mysteries links the characters. There was some inconsistency in the quality of the stories, showing that they were written by different authors. I enjoy the Barbour collections, and this one was no exception.

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley, but I wasn’t required to leave a positive review.