Author: Cleo Coyle
Published: April 17th 2018 by Berkley Books
Format: eBook, Hardcover, 352 pages
Genre: Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Coffeehouse Mystery #17
For me, the coffeehouse books tend to go on a bit too long in the middle or the writing team of Cleo Coyle makes things unnecessarily convoluted, but I tend to take a mental vacation in the middle third and then have to bring myself back to the storyline before I miss something that is needed to tie the whole thing together.
With the swipe right dating app scene, the Village Blend is currently the hotspot for digital dating and hookups. All of that goes horribly wrong when a shop-and- drop woman decides to start shooting to scare the man that has thrown her to the curb. Now with the Blend being on the wrong side of publicity and Clare finding a dead body in the bay, too many things are pointing to the Cinder dating app and the history between the current owner and two men that had started the original “Hookster” app years before.
With “theories getting ahead of the facts”, Clare plunges headlong into the middle of not only a murder investigation but also helping to find the source of a new drug called Styx that has suddenly appeared in Greenwich Village and its influences are affecting those that she is very close to.
Clare and her ragtag group of baristas and NYPDs finest, take on not only techno-Darwinism but also set out to clean up their streets before another murder like the Groovy Murders of 1967 can change their landscape and change the Village Blend forever. Whether “Shot in the Dark” is referring to a coffee espresso drink, finding someone in this day and age to date, or a fatal bullet, this seventeenth book in the coffeehouse mysteries has pulled them all together in one historical location.
With the swipe right dating app scene, the Village Blend is currently the hotspot for digital dating and hookups. All of that goes horribly wrong when a shop-and- drop woman decides to start shooting to scare the man that has thrown her to the curb. Now with the Blend being on the wrong side of publicity and Clare finding a dead body in the bay, too many things are pointing to the Cinder dating app and the history between the current owner and two men that had started the original “Hookster” app years before.
With “theories getting ahead of the facts”, Clare plunges headlong into the middle of not only a murder investigation but also helping to find the source of a new drug called Styx that has suddenly appeared in Greenwich Village and its influences are affecting those that she is very close to.
Clare and her ragtag group of baristas and NYPDs finest, take on not only techno-Darwinism but also set out to clean up their streets before another murder like the Groovy Murders of 1967 can change their landscape and change the Village Blend forever. Whether “Shot in the Dark” is referring to a coffee espresso drink, finding someone in this day and age to date, or a fatal bullet, this seventeenth book in the coffeehouse mysteries has pulled them all together in one historical location.
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