{"id":42482,"date":"2025-05-31T09:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=42482"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T04:34:25","slug":"j-c-eaton-sophie-kimball-mystery-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/j-c-eaton-sophie-kimball-mystery-series\/","title":{"rendered":"J.C. Eaton: Sophie Kimball Mystery Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Booked<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, it’s the end of the month, and that means it’s time for me to discuss another recommended mystery series. This month, I’ll be discussing the first of the Sophie Kimball Mystery Series<\/strong> by J.C. Eaton<\/a><\/strong>, Booked 4 Murder<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sophie starts the novel with a stable job and no interests in uprooting and changing careers – she is an accountant, working for the police in Mankato, Minnesota. Sophie’s only real problem at the moment appears to be her mother’s overactive imagination – she’s convinced that the members of her book club have been ‘cursed’, as a number of them have died recently. Of course, this isn’t necessarily the biggest coincidence, as her mother is a retiree and the book club is at her retirement home – most of the recently deceased are in their 70s or 80s and in generally poor health. However, there were a few unusual coincidences – most notably, each had received a cryptic email with a disturbing message recently. However, as the death counter climbs, Sophie decides to relent and visit her mother, if for no other reason than to set her mind at ease.<\/p>\n

Despite being a relatively new-style Cozy, and only published less than a decade ago, this isn’t a really strongly themed book – the protagonist doesn’t run a bakery or a knitting shop and doesn’t spend most of her time working her day job while investigating on the side. While literature elements are present because of the book club, they’re far more mystery-relevant than specialized themes often are in modern Cozies. Regular readers will know how much I appreciate when a book gets right to the mystery, and Booked 4 Murder<\/em><\/strong> definitely doesn’t disappoint on that front – the first deaths are discussed on the very first page, having occurred offscreen before the book even begins.<\/p>\n

Because of both of these factors, this is definitely one of the more ‘mystery-forward’ Cozies I’ve seen published in the last decade or so. If you’re looking for a modern Cozy with relatively light ‘theme-ing’, I can definitely recommend Booked 4 Murder<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As always, if you want to read more of these brief discussions of some of the more popular Cozy Mystery Series that I\u2019ve written in the past, you can find them at the\u00a0Most Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s the end of the month, and that means it’s time for me to discuss another recommended mystery series. This month, I’ll be discussing the first of the Sophie Kimball Mystery Series by J.C. Eaton, Booked 4 Murder. Sophie starts the novel with a stable job and no interests in uprooting and changing careers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-cozy-mystery-new-releases","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-b3c","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42484,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions\/42484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}