Death (and Apple Strudel) (A European Voyage Cozy Mystery—Book 2)
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Publisher Description
“When you think that life cannot get better, Blake Pierce comes up with another masterpiece of thriller and mystery! This book is full of twists, and the end brings a surprising revelation. Strongly recommended for the permanent library of any reader who enjoys a very well-written thriller.”
--Books and Movie Reviews (re Almost Gone)
DEATH (AND APPLE STRUDEL) is book two in a charming new cozy mystery series by #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose Once Gone has over 1,500 five-star reviews. The series begins with MURDER (AND BAKLAVA)—BOOK #1.
When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her long-time boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, pre-determined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way—accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour-guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.
London is elated: the European river towns are small, historic and charming. She gets to see a new port every night, gets to sample an endless array of new cuisine and meet a stream of interesting people. It is a traveler’s dream, and it is anything but predictable.
In Book 2, DEATH (AND APPLE STRUDEL), the cruise takes them into Vienna and Salzburg, home of Mozart and the birthplace of music, and all seems picture-perfect. Until, that its, their tour guide turns up dead after giving the passengers a tour of Mozart’s theatre. Suspicion falls on them. Who could have killed her? And why?
Laugh-out-loud funny, romantic, endearing, rife with new sights, culture and food, DEATH (AND APPLE STRUDEL) offers a fun and suspenseful trip through the heart of Europe, anchored in an intriguing mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing until the very last page.
Book #3 (CRIME AND LAGER), #4 (MISFORTUNE AND GOUDA), #5 (CALAMITY AND A DANISH), and #6 (MAYHEM AND HERRING) are also now available!
Customer Reviews
Needs proofreading
The story is interesting with some good twists. However, there are numerous errors in the writing that make me cringe. Someone needs to proofread and correct the mistakes.
Mystery, travelogue, and culinary adventure in one
This is such a fun series. I love books where I can learn something as well as try to solve a mystery. In this second book of the series it's all about Austria and there are interesting factoids about the architecture, music, and food of the region. It is well written and the mystery well plotted. The characters are well developed with interesting characteristics.
The riverboat cruise is making its way through the Austrian region but when their tour guide is found murdered suspicion falls on the passengers and London, the social director, herself.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Disappointing
I read the first of this series and thought it was pretty good. However if you hadn't read the first book the reader will be confused since the author refers to what happened in the first book but offers no clear description of the preceding events. I guessed who the murderer was early on. And on page 266 the main character incorrectly names the murdered character with a woman's name instead of the man who was murdered. Big error, bad editing. Just mad I actually paid for this one.
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