Thursday, December 13, 2018

Cold-Brewed Murder

Book source ~ ARC
My review is voluntary and honest.
13 November 2018
Cozy | Mystery
254 Pages


My Rating ~4 bites and a nibble

Blake Harper, owner of The Mystery Cup and baker extraordinaire, is back with another murder mystery to be solved in her infamous murder mystery town, Wilton, Missouri. While up on her coffee shop’s rooftop patio setting up for a Halloween bash to end all Halloween bashes, she witnesses a clown stabbing the Phantom of the Opera in an apartment across the way. An apartment that’s supposed to be empty. However, when she calls the cops, AKA her sister, they find evidence of…nothing. Now everyone thinks Blake is losing it due to her snooping and near murder in the Spring. But Blake knows what she saw! If the police aren’t going to take her seriously then that only leaves her one option - do some investigating of her own. And we all know how that turned out for her last time, right?

Blake Harper’s nosiness and complete disregard for her own safety gets on my nerves just a bit otherwise this would be a perfect read for me. The writing is wonderful and there’s a variety of colorful characters. Blake has two hot guys from book 1 interested in her and by the end of this book she chooses one over the other. Thank goodness. I had sincerely hoped this would not turn into a Stephanie Plum-type situation. No one wants that. The mystery is twisty enough to keep me guessing all the way to the end. All-in-all this cozy mystery is a keeper!

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