Thanksgiving TBR

I thought it would be fun to put together a list of potential Thanksgiving based reads to pick up in the couple of weeks leading up to Turkey day. I love reading books based on current holidays and I failed to do so last month so I’m aiming to be more intentional about it this month. I also made one of these lists last year which I will link here.

It’s beginning to look a lot like murder, with a hint of Thanksgiving turkey! Grab this cozy mystery boxed set and snuggle up to FOUR tantalizing tales, each served with a slice of pumpkin pie and a side of holiday who-done-it!

I haven’t been home for Thanksgiving in six years. A couple days before I leave to head home, I am informed that my brother’s best friend, and also my huge, obnoxious adolescent crush, will be there as well.

So among a shaky work situation, a newfound potato chip addiction, and the usual stress of heading home for the holidays, I have a sudden urge to prove that I was no longer the mumbling, bumbling girl in Hogwarts robes and her nose in a book.

Not that anything was going to happen between us. Those hopes had died around the time I headed off to college.

But maybe….

** This is a quick romance full of sweet moments and enough steam to keep you turning the pages.

Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison’s books, “…easy, frothy fun!” Country Cottage Mysteries is a USA TODAY bestselling series! ***Includes RECIPE My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Bizzy Baker runs the Country Cottage Inn, has the ability to pry into the darkest recesses of both the human and animal mind, and has just stumbled upon a body. With the help of her kitten, Fish , a mutt named Sherlock Bones and an ornery yet dangerously good looking homicide detective, Bizzy is determined to find the killer. The Country Cottage Inn is known for its hospitality. Leaving can be murder.

Ever since Murray Carver cursed Riley’s great-grandmother at Oak Bend’s annual Thanksgiving festival seven decades ago, the women in her family have been unlucky in love. Infidelity. Divorce. Death by parade float. After her own series of heartbreaks, Riley lives by firm rules: Only date unsuitable men. Never fall in love. And absolutely never kiss a man in November.

But when her great-aunt needs assistance organizing Oak Bend’s upcoming Thanksgiving festival, Riley flies to New England to help. Oak Bend is unimaginably cute, but unfortunately so is the town mayor: Stone Carver, a single dad… and the great-grandson of the man who cursed her family.

The sparks that fly between Riley and Stone are brighter than the leaves falling from the autumn trees. But Stone can’t seem to convince Riley that the curse is all in her head — especially when she knows the dangers of falling in love during decorative gourd season.

Can Riley and Stone find a way to kiss her curse goodbye by Thanksgiving?

It’s Pepper Dunn’s first Thanksgiving in the magical town of Magnolia Cove, Alabama. The entire town is ready to celebrate—except Pepper, who’s still yearning for her boyfriend, Axel Reign, to return. 

But she has little time to mourn. When a new baker sets up shop across the street from Pepper’s cousin and starts stealing customers, it’s all out war. But when the storeowner ends up murdered and Pepper’s cousin becomes suspect number one, it’s up to Pepper to help. 

Thrust into a mystery, she teams up with a talking rabbit that’s keeping more information than he’s revealing and an old foe turned friend. More secrets than Pepper bargained for unravel in front of her, but the main one—who killed the baker, is anyone’s guess. 

Will Pepper solve the murder or will she become the next victim?

Spending Thanksgiving trapped in a hotel with a man I can’t stand, really isn’t my idea of a good time, but that’s what’s happening anyway.

I’ve hated River Santos since I first started working for the airline. I was warned to stay away from him by more than one flight attendant, my best friend included. River was your typical pilot: cocky, arrogant, and left a trail of broken hearts in his wake.

At least that’s what I’d always been told. And so far, he’d done nothing to dissuade my negative opinions of him.

But one unprecedented snowstorm later and I find myself spending time with a guy I thought I knew, but didn’t really know at all. I don’t want to like him, but he’s making it difficult. And we have more in common than I ever thought possible.

What happens when you stop hating your enemy and start wanting him instead?

Few can compete with Natasha Smith when it comes to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie Winston, certainly tries. Natasha may have stolen the spotlight, and Sophie’s husband, but Sophie is determined to rob her of the prize for the Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown. She just needs the right ingredient.

But Sophie’s search for the perfect turkey takes a basting when she stumbles across a corpse. And when the police find her name and photo inside the victim’s car, Sophie will have to set her trussing aside to solve the murder, or she’ll be serving up prison grub.

Happy mothercluckin’ holidays…

Heartthrob Marc di Gregorio is living the Hollywood dream—a luxury home, fast cars, a string of beautiful women on speed dial. But appearances can be deceptive. All he wants is a cold beer, peace and quiet, and the woman he lost a decade ago because he couldn’t admit he might be wrong.

Phaedra Roebuck—aka Dusk—lives in the shadows. As part of a secretive special ops team, she has top-notch training, toys that would make a movie villain weep, and a team of smart, deadly women at her back. But there’s something missing. The man she ditched a decade ago because she couldn’t admit she might be wrong.

When Marc disappears from the set of his latest movie just before Thanksgiving, Phae can’t simply stand back and wait for the local cops to do their job. Finding a missing man is all in a day’s work for the Choir, but can Phae and Marc kiss and make up along the way?

A Very Happy Thanksgiving is a dark romcom with a movie star hero, an unhinged heroine, a morally grey girl squad, and two strong-willed Thanksgiving turkeys.