July 26, 2020

Reading your Good books

I started 'reading Your Jack and Penny books.! I am a supernatural fan. Then I finally tried the Coffee house books. Now I am ready to Try Murder by Mocha! These books actually got me to read something that is not supernatural or sci-fi!

July 9, 2020

Book series

I just read all your books in the last month. I so enjoyed them and learned a great deal more about coffee which I absolutely love. I wish there were 18 more already. I am starting on your bookshop series. Thank you so much for many hours of wonderful enjoyment, Penny

July 2, 2020

My First Audio book in Awhile

For the first time in decades I tried an audio book, Brewed Awakening. I have read and enjoyed all of your Claire Cosi novels at least once. I tried Kindle Unlimited during this Pandemic and the results were mixed. Some were good and some not so good, but I enjoy cozy mysteries. After listening to Brewed Awakening I really noticed the difference in the quality of writing! La tua scrittura è superba! I have just one small suggestion. Please teach your reader how to pronounce "Nonna." The first syllable sounds like NO, or maybe that's my Napolitano pronounciation.

June 29, 2020

Clare's Brooklyn Blackout Cake

I am reading Murder By Mocha. This is my first book of yours and I'm enjoying it. I like the recipes in the back, but I would like the recipe for the above cake which is mentioned at the end of the book. Also, how do I get recipes off your website?

 

Murder by Mocha
A Coffeehouse Mystery
by Cleo Coyle >>

 

Cleo's reply: Hello and welcome. I'm glad to know you're enjoying your first Coffeehouse Mystery. MURDER BY MOCHA is a wonderful story, and the tenth mystery in our series.

My husband and I have written a total of eighteen thus far with the nineteenth coming next year. To receive our bonus recipes, click the cup below and sign up for our free newsletter. When you sign up, you'll receive an autoreply to the newsletters and recipes. If you'd like that specific cake recipe, let me know when you send the email to sign up. 

May you read and eat with joy.

~ Cleo

 

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Bonus Recipes.

 

 

June 21, 2020

New Haunted Bookshop

Is the new book going to be published in December 2020 or sometime in 2021? 

 

Cleo's reply: 

We're looking forward to Jack and Pen coming back in April 2021, when we hope readers will be able to enter all bookstores and libraries freely and safely around the country.

This is one book fans won't want to miss! More info to come soon. In the meantime, new readers can enjoy the six books already published in this beloved series.

 

 

 

To learn more about our Haunted Bookshop Mystery series, click on the cover slideshow or click this link www.HauntedBookshopMystery.com and...

 

 

Read with spirited joy! 
With much love,

Cleo

 

 

June 4, 2020

Clare’s Cake

I just started reading Shot in the Dark and I always skip ahead and check out the recipes at the end. Where on the website can I find the recipe for Clare’s Double-Chocolate Fudge Bundt Cake? Thanks!

 

SHOT IN THE DARK
A Coffeehouse Mystery
To learn more or buy,
click here.

 

 

Cleo's reply: Greetings, and thanks sincerely for reading our work. The cake recipe you mentioned is a bonus for our newsletter subscribers. Sign up by sending an email to CoffeehouseMystery@gmail.com -- Be sure to mention that you'd like this recipe. Thanks, and I also invite you to download the Free Recipe Guide to Shot in the Dark, which illustrates the recipe section of the Coffeehouse Mystery that you're now reading. 

 

Click for Free Recipe Guide.

May you eat (and read) with joy!

With much love,

~ Cleo

 

June 3, 2020

New books? - Yes, Cleo replied

Hello Cleo, I remember the first book of the coffeehouse mysteries. I was sitting in a coffeeshop in Campbell CA reading it. I have enjoyed every one since. Will you be adding to the series?

 

Cleo's reply: Yes, absolutely. There will be more to come in 2021. Our 19th Coffeehouse Mystery already has a beautiful cover. We will share it with our readers soon. In the meantime, we thank you sincerely for your longtime support of Clare and Company, and are so happy to know that you're looking forward to a brand new Coffeehouse Mystery adventure. For anyone wishing to keep in touch with us for "new release" news as well as bonus recipes and fun giveaway contests, be sure to join our "Coffee Club" by subscribing to our free newsletter. Click below to learn more and sign up...

 

 

 

May 17, 2020

Sign me up please!

Not addicted to caffeine, but I am addicted to Coffeehouse mysteries. Love the edifying facts And history about NYC and New England. Can’t wait for the sequel to Brewed Awakening!

April 27, 2020

Love Your Books!

Am glad you are doing okay in NY. I pray for those in your city for strength and for protection from this virus. Wanted to let you know that I love reading your books on audible! Your narrator is wonderful! Looking forward to your next book! Lisa

April 25, 2020

Enjoying Your Books!

I just discovered your Coffeehouse series, and I am loving it! I am up to book number 7 now, Espresso Shot, and will be reading the rest. I have signed up for your newsletter too, and the recipes are wonderful fun. Thank you so much for writing such entertaining stories and the kind of characters I love and want to be friends with. Keep up the good work! Barb

April 22, 2020

Diabetic recipes? please

I love your books and the recipes but can't use them as I'm a diabetic. Please some of those so I can enjoy the goodies?

 

Cleo's reply: Hi, there. I'm so happy to know that you're enjoying my books. Thank you! I have shared many diabetic-friendly recipes in the past (delicious vegetable side dishes and savory meat dishes), but when it comes to desserts, I do not use artificial sweeteners. You can try converting my higher-GI recipes (that call for ingredients like sugar and chocolate) using low GI sweetners and substitutions (that is, if you use those products in your own diet). I also have a book to suggest to you. The book is by Dr. Jason Fung (a kidney doctor who grew frustrated with watching his type 2 diabetic patients decline in health after they came to him in very bad shape, usually with kidney failure, and that's why he began looking for solutions). Click here to learn about how this doctor has found great success in reversing type 2 diabetes. 

    In the meantime, I wish you joy and good health.

With much love,
Cleo
 

April 13, 2020

Reader update

I'm glad that you are alright in this difficult time. I've been dealing with the pandemic from Italy. My dad ended up in the hospital just days before we were to return from visiting family and vacation August 2019 and have been stuck since. This pandemic has impeded our return to the States (Ohio). The light in the darkness has been my reading... [I am] currently enjoying On What Grounds and plan to continue Coffeehouse Mystery series to get me through self-isolation.

Rosa

On What Grounds
Coffeehouse Mystery #1
by Cleo Coyle

To learn more or
buy, click here.

 

Cleo's reply:

Rosa, I'm very glad that our books are bringing you some entertainment during a difficult time. I'm so sorry to hear about your father. Here in Queens, New York, we are doing our best to stay safe from day to day and focus on our writing. (Earning a living is more important than ever for every author out there, especially with the shut-down economy.)

     My husband and I are now finishing up our new Haunted Bookshop Mystery, The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait, which is coming out at the end of the year. We'll have more news soon on our upcoming Haunted Bookshop (aka Jack and Pen) book as well as our next Coffeehouse Mystery, which is scheduled for release next year (2021). Thank you sincerely for checking in with us and for your thoughts and prayers. We send our very best to you in Italy and hope and pray that you can make it back safely to Ohio.

With much love,
Cleo 

 

 

 

April 11, 2020

Latte Trouble Kindle in the UK?

Latte Trouble Kindle not available in the UK?

Can this be solved? I would rather not read your excellent series out of order. Rupert

 

 

Latte Trouble
Coffeehouse Mystery #3
by Cleo Coyle

To learn more,
click here

 

 

Cleo's reply: 

Hello, Rupert, thank you for your question. Latte Trouble *should* be available in the UK in every format, including Kindle!

    Let Amazon UK's Customer Service know that the author assured you (here in NYC, USA) that there is a problem on their end of things, not ours (how frustrating for you). Latte Trouble by Cleo Coyle should be available for purchase on Kindle in the UK as every other book in our 18-title Coffehouse Mystery series is. Our publisher is Penguin Random House, and they have world rights to all titles. It is on sale in the Kindle format here in the United States, and it should be available to you that way in the UK, as well.

    Again, the problem is on Amazon UK's end of things, and I hope you can work with them to bring their attention to this. As we are in a hot zone here in NYC, this kind of problem won't be resolved via our publisher until our emergency is over.

    Thank you for reading our series. Marc and I appreciate it, and we hope you won't be discouraged. I promise you that we write our books so that they *can* be read out of order. We never allow our readers to feel lost in our back-stories, which means I encourage you to jump forward to Coffeehouse Mystery #4 MURDER MOST FROTHY. You will certainly enjoy it and not feel any gap in understanding what's happening in our characters' lives.

    God bless and keep everyone in the UK safe, including yourself. May reading bring you comfort and joy, Rupert, and keep in touch! 

With much love,

Cleo

 

April 4, 2020

Chicken Soup

CHICKEN SOUP

I have not had very good luck with making soup but I made your Chicken Soup recipe and it was very good. I did add noodles because I'm a big fan of anything with noodles. It was so good I will be making it again. I also love your Coffee House mystery books. I finish reading the last one that came out (Brewed Awakening) and can't wait for the next one. Be safe with this Coronavirus. JoAnn

 

Cleo's reply:

Thank you, JoAnn! We are in a hot zone here in Queens, New York, and we appreciate your good wishes. We send our very best to you, as well, stay safe and be well!

 

For anyone who would like the recipe to our ONE HOUR CHICKEN SOUP "for the body and soul," simply click here or on the image below to jump to our recipe post. 

 

 

To Get my recipe,

click the image above or

the red button below...

 

 

May it bring you

comfort and joy.

Love, Cleo

 

 

April 1, 2020

Hope

With this coronavirus pandemic happening in the US, I hope you guys and your family are safe and healthy. I keep hearing New York has been hit hard, but everyday I keep checking on updates everyday on site to know that you both are still alive and staying healthy. Thoughts and prayers go out to NYC. Rosa

 

Cleo's reply: Thank you, Rosa! 

Marc and I are still here in Queens, New York, and doing our best to stay safe. This is a hot zone with a high number of people testing positive for Covid-19. It is hitting us all very hard as we watch our neighbors suffer with this. We thank you for your prayers for NYC. We need them! We pray for you, as well, and the rest of the country, and the world. 
 

Below, I will re-post our front-page message to our readers, friends, and family. Thank you again (so very much) for your kind thoughts and prayers. 

Love, 

Cleo

 

To see our message to readers,

friends, and family, click here 

or on the image below...

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March 12, 2020

Loving coffee and reading

I hate that I am just now finding out about your books and in turn getting to know about you. This is going to be a slow cup to drink as I intend to read for HOURS!

 

 

 

Coffeehouse
Mystery #1

On What Grounds
by Cleo Coyle

To learn more,
click here.

 

 

 

Cleo's reply: 

    So glad you found us. Thank you for letting us know, and (as I often say and always mean from the bottom of my heart. May you...)

    Read with joy! 

Love,

Cleo

 

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Bonus Recipes.

 

 

 

March 12, 2020

Need Large Print copies for Library

Need Large Print Copies for Library

Whitman County Library in Colfax, Washington has a request from two retirement communities in Whitman County for the coffeehouse mysteries in large print format. I'm having difficulty finding some of the titles. Do they all come in that format? The library is a smaller rural library with 13 small town branches. We have the series in regular print, but are looking to purchase the entire series in large print. Help! Thank you for any assistance in our search.

Cleo's reply: 

Thank you so much for your interest. Marc and I have great respect and appreciation for libarians. You are the keepers of the literary flame, and we admire your work greatly.

     I am happy to provide a link HERE for you to our latest Large Print release, BREWED AWAKENING, though you can purchase it at many other sites, this one is on Amazon.

    You will find many large print (aka "library binding") copies available (in new and used format) on Amazon. You can also directly contact our large print publisher for help in purchasing our backlist of titles.

     Our print and digital publisher is Penguin Random House, and they sublicense the Large Print Rights to another publisher: Thorndike Press.

    CLICK HERE for the Thorndike Press website. We ask that you contact them with any questions or requests for purchases of our back list. Thank you for your diligent and caring work and for your kind interest in ours.

Warmest wishes...

~ Cleo

 

 

 

March 12, 2020

Merci beaucoup!

Merci beaucoup!

Hello there! I'm Rohana, i'm from France, and reading your books for the first time now (caus' there will be a second and a third at least, I already know that.) I want to thank you for amazing reads, with style, flair, and a real connection to interesting and complex caracters.

     It's been a while that I enjoyed a good mystery, after a ten year streak of Miss Marple, Adam Dalgliesh or Brother Cadfael. Your books are really up there with those grand authors, that much that I'm even gonna encourage my mom to read them, and she's a picky reader! Of course, the fact you manage to reunite all my loves in one (and those being cats, coffee and good books) is just another plus.

     So just go on please, caus' since I'm sort of stuck home right now because of that nasty virus,I have really too much time on my hands, and need the entertainement!

     Thank you again, merci tout plein.

Rohana.

 

Cleo's reply:

Merci, Rohana!

My husband and I appreciate that you took the time and trouble to find our message board and leave such a lovely note. You made us very happy to know that our characters are keeping you company all the way across the Atlantic in beautiful France.

     We hope you are staying safe and sane at this difficult time, and that our books will continue to entertain you. Please give your mother our best. We hope you will both keep reading and keep in touch!

With much love,

Cleo

 

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Bonus Recipes.

 

March 9, 2020

South African abseil!

South African abseil!

I love looking up information that I read about in your books! So today, when Matt tells Clare about the “rope trick” that Perla performed (in Dead Cold Brew), I found a YouTube video showed me how it’s done. You guys are amazing!

Thanks for the journey,

Jan

 

Cleo's reply: 

Thank YOU, Jan, for taking the time and trouble to let us know how much you're enjoying our work. You truly made our day. We hope you'll keep reading...and keep in touch!

Love,

Cleo

 

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Bonus Recipes.

 

 

February 17, 2020

coffee machines

what are your thoughts on coffee pods and coffee machines such as the Keurig? is it possible to get a good cup of coffee from a pod?

Cleo's reply: The convenience of single-brew pod machines is loved by many and very popular. It's really a matter of convenience, and you do pay for it (the cost of buying pod-coffee is 2 to 9 times more expensive than buying it by the pound). Pre-ground coffee can also go stale very quickly and not be a "great" cup by anyone's definition. Enjoy it if you like it and appreciate the convenience. However, if you're looking for the best cup of coffee (and a more economoical way of making and drinking it), buy freshly roated whole bean coffee from a reliable roaster (someone who sources beans well and roasts them often), grind them yourself at home, and brew them in a manner that you like best (whether that is auto-drip, pour-over, French press, or espresso). If it all seems too much, then visit a coffeehouse like the Village Blend and have an expert make your a delicious cup. That's why Clare is in business, LOL! 

February 9, 2020

Reading order

Do I need to read them in a certain order to understand the books? I’m really interested in them but only have Dead Cold Brew and Dead to the Last Drop.


 

 

 

                   Dead Cold Brew >>
          Coffeehouse Mystery #16

 To learn more or download
  the free recipe guide,
   click here or on the cover >>

 

 

 

Cleo's reply:

Hello! In answer to your query, you don't need to read the Coffeehouse Mysteries in order to understand what's happening. I always make sure our characters are introduced with enough background so that new readers are not lost.

And if you like DEAD COLD BREW and DEAD TO THE LAST DROP, you can go back to the beginning of the series to see how it all began and read more about the backgrounds of our characters. Both of the books you have are exciting and timely reads (because of the subject matter), and I hope you enjoy them enough to continue reading more of our popular series. 
 

 

Wishing you java joy...  
~ Cleo

 

 

 

 

CLEO COYLE'S

BOOKS IN ORDER

 

CLICK HERE or on the image below
for our free list of Coffeehouse Mystery &
Haunted Bookshop Mystery titles in order.

We wrote this list ourselves.
The list includes mini summaries of
our plots and links to our recipe guides
plus bonus web content. Enjoy!

 

 

 

January 30, 2020

Brewed Awakening

Just finished Brewed Awakening and absolutely loved it! Thank you for offering a book that holds your attention, makes you fall in love with the characters all over again each time a new book is published, and the large boost to the coffee industry! Please keep them coming!

Linda Manning

 

 

Cleo's reply:

Dear Linda,

Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to stop by our message board and leave such a lovely note. Readers like you are an inspiration to us. You give us the kind of positive energy we treasure as we continue to write the characters we love. We can't thank you enough for that. Cheers, keep in touch, and...

May you always read with joy!

~ Cleo


 

 

 

 

 

Cleo Coyle’s Brewed Awakening
is a culinary mystery with a tempting
menu of delicious recipes!
 

Click here or on the image above
for Cleo Coyle's Free Recipe Guide
to Brewed Awakening

 

 

 

 

 

January 24, 2020

Snickerdoodle Muffins?

What happened to the recipe for snickerdoodle muffins?

 

Cleo's reply: Here you go. Click on the image below and you'll have the free PDF of my Snickerdoodle Muffins recipe...

Now start that pot of coffee and...

 

Eat with cinnamon-sugar joy!

Love, Cleo

 

 

January 24, 2020

Recipe Book Please!!

Look forward to each book with as much anticipation as waiting for a recipe of yours to finish baking. I am so thankful for you both...you have provided so many hours of pure enjoyment and are so generous with recipes. But I still have trouble keeping track of them all. I just know I am not the only one whining about this. Thank-you!

 

Cleo's reply:

Thank YOU for the nice words! Marc and I sincerely hope you'll keep reading...and keep in touch.

xoxo
~ Cleo 

 

 

 

For those of you new to our work, we invite you to join our "Coffee Club" and keep in touch with us (so you won't miss our new books or recipes) by subscribing to our free E-Newletter. Click here or on the coffee cup above to sign up.

 

 

January 17, 2020

Brewed Awakening

I just borrowed the book from Stapleton SI NY library and went right to the recipe section (being a fan of the series). Hope it's only my copy but this book is missing two pages, goes from page 332 to page 335 (jumps from the beginning of 'Candied Pecans' to instructions for a chicken dish.

Cleo's reply:

I'm sorry to tell you that someone removed the pages from your library's copy of Brewed Awakening. Our book is not missing any pages. Someone who borrowed the book before you removed those pages, most likley to keep a particular recipe. And I know exactly which recipe was on those pages. It's a very good (and rare) one!

     Over the years, I've heard from readers about this happening every so often. Recipe pages are removed from our Coffeehouse Mystery library copies and kept by patrons who've borrowed the book. I don't know whether or not they realize that they are defacing the book and ruining the experience for readers who borrow it after them. It's a shame.

     This also sometimes happens when readers buy a "used" book. (Buyers beware. You may be saving a few dollars when you buy used Coffeehouse Mysteries, but you may not always be getting a complete recipe section.)

     Again, I know this because we hear from readers who complain about this issue, but there is nothing we can do. 

     If I were you, I would report the missing pages to the library staff. Perhaps they can replace the book and/or try to find out who (before you) on the lending list defaced the book. I hope that helps!

~ Cleo 

 

Click the image above for our Free
Illustrated Guide to the recipe section
of Brewed Awakening.