Author: Nancy Coco
Published: September 28th 2021 by Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: Kindle, Paperback, 352 pages
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Candy-Coated Mysteries #9
First Sentence: “It’s bad luck to walk under a ladder.”
From the Publisher: It’s late spring on picturesque Mackinac Island, Michigan. Allie is prepping her Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop for the start of the tourist season and her best friend Jenn’s wedding. But when Jenn’s fiancé Shane, a crime scene investigator on the island, misses a dinner date, the two friends go looking for him. Led by Allie’s bichonpoo Mal into an alley, they come upon Shane standing over a body with a bloody knife in his hand. Shane won’t say what’s happened, just tells them to call 911. As the CSI is taken into custody by his colleagues, including Allie’s beau Rex Manning, the fudge maker vows to prove her friend’s fiancé is not a killer—before the ceremony turns into a jailhouse wedding.
My Opinion: I’m not sure why Nancy Coco turned Allie McMurphy into a foolish person, but that is all I could think when reading this book. What woman, in their right mind and a killer on the loose, would decide to repeatedly leave their hotel and fudge shop out the back door into an alley? Nothing good ever happens in allies.
There are other issues with the book, such as repetition, talking down to the reader, and a person put in a medically induced coma for a stabbing. Oh, and Nancy, we know the deck is on the rooftop -- no need to tell us a dozen times.
From the Publisher: It’s late spring on picturesque Mackinac Island, Michigan. Allie is prepping her Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop for the start of the tourist season and her best friend Jenn’s wedding. But when Jenn’s fiancé Shane, a crime scene investigator on the island, misses a dinner date, the two friends go looking for him. Led by Allie’s bichonpoo Mal into an alley, they come upon Shane standing over a body with a bloody knife in his hand. Shane won’t say what’s happened, just tells them to call 911. As the CSI is taken into custody by his colleagues, including Allie’s beau Rex Manning, the fudge maker vows to prove her friend’s fiancé is not a killer—before the ceremony turns into a jailhouse wedding.
My Opinion: I’m not sure why Nancy Coco turned Allie McMurphy into a foolish person, but that is all I could think when reading this book. What woman, in their right mind and a killer on the loose, would decide to repeatedly leave their hotel and fudge shop out the back door into an alley? Nothing good ever happens in allies.
There are other issues with the book, such as repetition, talking down to the reader, and a person put in a medically induced coma for a stabbing. Oh, and Nancy, we know the deck is on the rooftop -- no need to tell us a dozen times.
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