Wow, okay, this novel was certainly a departure from the rest of the series so far. In the first third of the book, Hannah and her sisters are accompanying their mother in Vegas where Doc Knight plans to surprise Delores with a wedding—in large part to remove the burden her… Read more
I’m kind of sorry I started the Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery series with this third installment because it’s so awesome that I wish I’d jumped in from the start! Charity Penn—or Penn, as she’s better known—is the owner of The Chocolate Box, a specialty chocolate store located in the quiet… Read more
Lucy Berberian is finally easing into her role of restaurant manager after a somewhat contentious handover in the previous book in the Kebab Kitchen Mystery series. Her biggest challenges so far are persuading her stubborn father, Raffi, to let her overhaul their inventory management system and learning how to cook… Read more
This is the eighth Key West Food Critic mystery novel but my first encounter with the series, and wow, I can see why people are raving! Lucy Burdette brings the Florida island of Key West to such vivid, colorful life that I want to hop on a plane and fly… Read more
Wow! This book is a huge departure from the previous novels in the series, and that’s not a bad thing at all! Hannah Swensen is driving back to work with her business partner, Lisa Herman Beesman, during a Minnesota summer storm with extremely poor visibility when they crash into someone…. Read more
Yay, it’s time to head back to Lake Eden to catch up with Hannah Swensen and her friends and family! I’m not the only one with that idea, though, as the duplicitous Doctor Bev is also back to torment Hannah and, worse still, sweet, dear Norman, who twice made the… Read more
The second French Bistro Mystery finds our heroine, Mimi Rousseau, bracing herself for Crush Week in California’s Napa Valley as tourists pour in from all over to tour the many vineyards in one of wine making’s most exciting seasons. Tourism means extra dollars for both Maison and Bistro Rousseau, the… Read more
Laurel Inwood is settling fully into her new life as the head chef of the small-town restaurant, Terminal at the Tracks, owned by her adoptive Aunt Sophie. Now that she owns Pacifique, the small farm where she’s growing fresh produce, she’s feeling pretty fulfilled professionally as she’s able to source… Read more
Love is in the air in the artsy Oregon town of Ashland as the inhabitants conspire to throw a dream Elizabethan wedding for two of their favorite citizens: Helen Capshaw, part-owner of the beloved Torte bakery, and the Professor, as Ashland’s lead police detective is fondly known. Jules Capshaw, Helen’s… Read more
So you know how sometimes you meet a person and your immediate instinct is, “Oh, wow, this person is too much,” but after 20 minutes or so, you realize that you actually want to be best friends forever? That was essentially me and Whitney Bloom, the aggressively reckless but sincerely… Read more
