Author: Nancy Coco
Published: December 31st 2019 by Kensington Publishing Corp.
Format: Kindle, Paperback, 320 pages
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: An Oregon Honeycomb Mystery #1
Plot holes abound in this book to the point that even the author can’t account for them and responds with a generic -- I don’t know, it was just there, comment from her character. I can’t say that I am sold on this new series by Nancy Coco, but I will give the next book, A Matter of Hive or Death, a try. That is if the author tightens up the flow. Death Bee Comes Her, at times, reads like bullet points, and then the flow smooths out only to go back to a staccato sentence format.
Wren Johnson, the owner of Let It Bee on the Oregon coast, is preparing for the local Halloweentown festival. Her honey-based balms, lotions, and candles are ready, and business is looking up. That is until she and her Havana Brown cat Everett stumble upon the body of Agnes Snow -- a woman that goes toe-to-toe with Wren’s aunt at every craft show in the area. Along with the body is a label from one of Wren’s lip balms, making the local authorities think that Wren was responsible for the poisoning. To save her reputation and business, Wren and Everett jump straight in to investigate. What neither was expecting were the lengths that the killer would go to protect themselves.
Of course, a cozy mystery would not be complete without love interests and Nancy Coco goes out of her way to throw in a couple so the reader is playing a constant ping pong game while trying to fill in missing parts of the story and to wonder, along with everyone else, who and why Agnes was murdered and why Wren was framed.
With a bit of cleaning up, this could have been an interesting story. Hopefully, the next book will take its time and fill in holes so the reader doesn’t stumble trying to do it on their own.
Wren Johnson, the owner of Let It Bee on the Oregon coast, is preparing for the local Halloweentown festival. Her honey-based balms, lotions, and candles are ready, and business is looking up. That is until she and her Havana Brown cat Everett stumble upon the body of Agnes Snow -- a woman that goes toe-to-toe with Wren’s aunt at every craft show in the area. Along with the body is a label from one of Wren’s lip balms, making the local authorities think that Wren was responsible for the poisoning. To save her reputation and business, Wren and Everett jump straight in to investigate. What neither was expecting were the lengths that the killer would go to protect themselves.
Of course, a cozy mystery would not be complete without love interests and Nancy Coco goes out of her way to throw in a couple so the reader is playing a constant ping pong game while trying to fill in missing parts of the story and to wonder, along with everyone else, who and why Agnes was murdered and why Wren was framed.
With a bit of cleaning up, this could have been an interesting story. Hopefully, the next book will take its time and fill in holes so the reader doesn’t stumble trying to do it on their own.
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