Author: Krista Davis
Published: May 31st 2022 by Kensington
Format: Kindle, Hardcover, 304 pages
Genre: Amateur Sleuth
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Domestic Diva #15
First Sentence: I stood under spotlights outside of a closed car dealership waiting for my ex-husband Mars to arrive and feeling like I had been through the wringer.
Blurb: Old Town’s midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue’s homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees.
Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake! But her specialty isn’t the only thing missing from the evening—Tate, Bobbie Sue’s husband, is too much to her annoyance. Next morning, however, Tate’s dead body is discovered. Bobbie Sue insists she didn’t kick her spouse to the curb, and begs for Sophie’s help finding the real killer. Digging in, Sophie discovers an assortment of Old Town locals who all had reason to want a piece of Tate. Can she gather together the crumbs the killer left behind in time to prevent a second helping of murder? (GoodReads)
My Opinion: While following along, Krista Davis wants you to believe all the arrows point to one specific person, but there will be a little nudge saying nothing is that easy. They might be guilty of something, but it is not murder. There must be more.
Then she throws lots of diversion at you. You can see where she was going, clues were there all along, but the person played the good guy. The one kept in the periphery. Don't worry--you were on the right trail since they were your first guess all along.
On the negative side, the dependence on a dog sniffing out clues and a business owner who never seems to be working her business is vexing. On the plus side, I do enjoy the characters in the Diva Series, the atmosphere of Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, and in this instance, the talk of cheesecake.
Blurb: Old Town’s midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue’s homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees.
Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake! But her specialty isn’t the only thing missing from the evening—Tate, Bobbie Sue’s husband, is too much to her annoyance. Next morning, however, Tate’s dead body is discovered. Bobbie Sue insists she didn’t kick her spouse to the curb, and begs for Sophie’s help finding the real killer. Digging in, Sophie discovers an assortment of Old Town locals who all had reason to want a piece of Tate. Can she gather together the crumbs the killer left behind in time to prevent a second helping of murder? (GoodReads)
My Opinion: While following along, Krista Davis wants you to believe all the arrows point to one specific person, but there will be a little nudge saying nothing is that easy. They might be guilty of something, but it is not murder. There must be more.
Then she throws lots of diversion at you. You can see where she was going, clues were there all along, but the person played the good guy. The one kept in the periphery. Don't worry--you were on the right trail since they were your first guess all along.
On the negative side, the dependence on a dog sniffing out clues and a business owner who never seems to be working her business is vexing. On the plus side, I do enjoy the characters in the Diva Series, the atmosphere of Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, and in this instance, the talk of cheesecake.
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