Lynn Cahoon

Lynn Cahoon: Confessions of an Amateur Sleuth

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Bainbridge Island #2

In Lynn Cahoon’s second Bainbridge Island mystery, Meg Gates has taken to island life, being embraced as one of the locals rather than a tourist. She’s working at her mother’s bookstore, Island Books, and is dating a childhood friend, Dalton, who works on the ferry. Things are looking up from the absolute dumpster fire that her life had become when her ex-fiancé broke off their engagement and went on their honeymoon with one of her bridesmaids. Quite a way for her life to fall apart, but she got to go home again and found a place to live renting from her aunt and working at the bookstore for her mother. She’s also begun to write, thanks to encouragement from her job working for the famous, yet reclusive, author Lilly Aster. read more

Best of 2025

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Best of the year lists are so difficult!  I’ve given myself leeway to divide books into categories – cozy, historical, best all around – giving me a chance to spotlight more great reads.  All of the reviews appear either on this website or over at Deadly Pleasures (or both).  Deadly Pleasures also features my pared down top 10 list.  Here are 30 great reads culled from the 100 or so books I read each year.  My standard is simple – a book that stays with me long after I finish it, great writing, great characters.  There are veterans and newbies here.  Dive in! read more

Lynn Cahoon: An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder

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Series debut

An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder sounds like an instructional booklet, but is actually the most recent of Lynn Cahoon’s novels. Meg Gates is our protagonist, and readers join her at the lowest point of her life. Her fiancé has just left her, right before their wedding, to take their honeymoon trip with one of her bridesmaids. Understandably, Meg is determined to get out of what was their shared Seattle apartment, and onto rebuilding her life before the happy couple returns. Luckily, she has plenty of friends and family living nearby on the island of Bainbridge ready to help her do just that. Her aunt even has an apartment to rent her at the friends and family rate to help her get back on her feet. Meg is grateful to not having to face restarting her life alone, even if she does also feel like she ‘failed’ spectacularly at life up to this point. But when you reach the bottom, there is nowhere to go but up. Or so she hopes. read more