Rarity Cole beat cancer and lost a fiancé. No regrets there, so she’s off to start her new life in Sedona where her BFF Sam lives. As a new bookstore owner and cancer survivor, Rarity starts her first book club for other survivors to give them a support group as well as a reading club. When one of the members doesn’t come back for the second meeting they find out that she has disappeared and is later found murdered. The bookclub members are upset that someone has ended the unpleasant woman’s life after she beat cancer and vow to sleuth and find out what happened and bring a killer to justice.

They say you should write what you know about and Lynn Cahoon certainly knows about surviving cancer. Kudos to her for not only beating cancer, but for taking that battle and turning it into a series that brings a group of others together as well. All of Lynn’s books are fabulous and her other series have plenty of books to binge on if this is your first introduction to her and her work. You won’t be sorry, she is the mistress of cozies!

This ARC was provided to me via Kindle, Kensington Books and by #NetGalley. Opinions expressed are completely my own.

A new cozy mystery series that’s delightful and promising.

Ms. Cahoon has begun a new cozy mystery series set in Sedona, Arizona. As a big fan of Ms. Cahoon's other cozy mystery series, I was excited to give this new series a try. Rarity is a lovely main character. She has grit and determination as she begins a new life after winning her battle with breast cancer. Her best friend, Sam, is a wonderful character and shows Rarity true support throughout the story. The other book club members, who are also cancer survivors, add so much to the story line as they all pool their information resources in a search for the truth. I felt like all of the characters are organically growing and I'm looking forward to knowing them better as the series continues. The Tuesday Night Survivors Club is a quickly paced cozy with likable characters, plenty of twists, a few red herrings and a dramatic conclusion that kept me turning the pages.

The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club by Lynn Cahoon is a great contemporary/cozy mystery that is the first book in what I expect will be an awesome new series: Survivors’ Book Club Mystery. I loved it!

I have been a fan of Ms. Cahoon for a while, so I was super pumped to find she has started this new series.

This is such a unique premise that lends the narrative a slightly more serious thread to the overall cozy genre. The author balanced it all nicely. Sedona, Arizona is the backdrop for the community involved, and Rarity Cole is the main character. A cancer survivor, she has opened a bookshop and has started a book group for cancer survivors. The support network she is working at setting up is wonderful and much needed. Through this time, she makes friends…a potential love interest is introduced…and unfortunately a member ends up dead. The group decides to investigate the suspicious death.

I really enjoyed this story, the pacing, the character cast, and I am looking forward to seeing where this series goes in the upcoming books.

5/5 stars

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The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club was a fun book to read. It is the first in the series. Rarity Cole is the main character who has just opened her new book store The Next Chapter in Sedona, Arizona. She is a cancer survivor and her store specializes with books about cancer. Her best friend, Sam Aarons has a crystal shop down the street. Madame Zelda owns a fortune teller shop next door. Rarity decides to have a book club for cancer survivors. When she has her first meeting only one member, Shirley Prescott comes. The second meeting 5 members come. Drew Anderson, a detective from the Sedona Police Department comes and informs Rarity that Martha Redding is missing. Her dog, Killer, needs someone to take him until Martha is found. Rarity agrees to take him. Over the course of trying to find Martha Drew and Rarity becomes friends.. Rarity meets Archer who owns a touring company. The members of the club decide that they will try to find Martha who later is found murdered. This is where the story takes the reader on an adventure to find out who killed Martha to the surprising end.

I really enjoyed this book and look forward to the next in the series. The friendships that develop between the ladies in the book club as well as the romance that is starting between Rarity and Archer and Drew and Sam. make it more interesting.

Thank you NetGalley, Lyrical Press Books and Kensington Publishing Corp. for this ARC.

I found myself glued to the pages of this fascinating book.
Rarity is a cancer survivor and wants nothing more than to help others, so she uses her books as a way to reach out to people.
Creating a survivors book group is one of the ways Rarity wants to connect, however, when a group member mysteriously disappears, the group tries to solve the crime.
This is not your traditional cozy mystery, it's so much more than that, and I recommend this book to all book lovers. I would love to see this series continue on.
#TheTuesdayNightSurvivorsClub #NetGalley.

I've become a huge fan of Lynn Cahoon. This book only made me more of a fan. Skillfully centered about a cancer survivor book club, Cahoon deftly weaves in introductions to new characters and new mysteries without either making cancer the central theme or ignoring it. As someone who was a bit wary of reading this book given my own family's losses from the disease, I have to admit to almost passing it up. I'm glad I didn't. With nods to the worries and concerns that all survivors have, Cahoon, who has survived her own cancer journey, doesn't try to pretend the disease doesn't exist. Instead, she uses it to pull people together, form and strengthen friendships, and, oh, yes, solve a murder. I had no real clue who the murderer was until the reveal, so it definitely will keep you guessing.

The characters were likeable and it was interesting to see the dynamics of friendship and, hmm, maybe romantic relationships developing. I was actually sorta meh on Archer until the end, maybe because it didn't seem like we got to know him as well as we did Drew the detective, but he won me over when he showed up with flowers after Rarity's regular cancer checkup. This was in sharp contrast to her last boyfriend who pretty much ignored than left her while she was ill. Her best friend Sam, who it took me a moment initially to figure out was probably a Samantha, not male, has always had her back and despite a brief flair of jealousy on Sam's part, still had Rarity's back. We all need friends like that who will tamper down their own emotions to support us. Drew, of course, seemed like a winner from the time he told Rarity about the]murder victim's now owner-less dog, Killer. Dog lover that I am, I had to admire Rarity for agreeing to take in Killer even when she was most likely envisioning a large, scary dog. It didn't take Killer long to worm his way into her heart, however.

I liked the characters and how well the medical issues surrounding potentially fatal illness was worked smoothly into the story. This also included doctors who may or may not be real doctors promoting miracle cures, treatments, while pushing their products on the most vulnerable. Grr, but enough said on that topic, The key theme here isn't medical. It's friendship. It's good to have friends and Rarity is slowly but surely finding friends and making her own place in Sedona, New Mexico. I'm looking forward to following this series.

Thank you #NetGalley and #KensingtonBooks - #LyricalPress for introducing me to Rarity and the rest of her growing circle of friends, not to mention Killer. Treats for Killer!