Drizzled with Death
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!
Meet Dani Greene—a fourth-generation maple syrup maker dealing with a first-class troublemaker…
The annual pre-Thanksgiving pancake-eating contest is a big event in Sugar Grove, New Hampshire. It’s sponsored by the Sap Bucket Brigade, aka the firefighters auxiliary, and the Greene family farm provides the syrup. But when obnoxious outsider Alanza Speedwell flops face first into a stack of flapjacks during the contest, Greener Pastures’ syrup falls under suspicion.
Dani knows the police—including her ex-boyfriend—are barking up the wrong tree, and she’s determined to pull her loved ones out of a very sticky situation. The odds may be stacked against her, but she’s got to tap the real killer before some poor sap in her own family ends up trading the sugar house for the Big House…
Customer Reviews
Great cozy mystery
Great little town. Loved the Author's writing style. Cozy mystery with a touch of romance.
A Fun Read
This review was originally published on Kurt's Frontier.
Synopsis:
Dani Green is a fourth-generation maple syrup maker with a complicated life. She spots a mountain lion on her property, but no one believes her. Then one Alanza Speedwell, a newcomer in Sugar Grove, NH, ends up dropping dead into a stack of pancakes. Greener Pastures syrup, Dani’s brand, is discovered as the carrier of the poison.
With a potential boyfriend and ex-boyfriend underfoot, a family who thinks she needs to get married, and exotic animals running all over town, Dani must push through the distractions and sort out a the clues before someone close to her is hurt, or worse, framed for murder.
Review:
Jessie Crockett has written a cozy mystery set in the fictions town of Sugar Grove, New Hampshire. It wasn’t until I looked up the definition of this term that I understood some of the writing style. Cozy mysteries downplay or treat humorously sex or violence and are set in small, intimate communities. I’ve read several series like this: Rita Mae Brown’s Mrs. Murphy Mysteries and Lillian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who mysteries.
Overall, I did enjoy this book, though I found it difficult to read in one sitting. I did like the character of Dani Green, a single woman in a small town with a large family who thinks she will be happier married. I think the over doing of the maple syrup was a little overdone. Moreover, the life or death final scene wasn't as convincing as it could have been. That said, it was a fun book to read, and I will enjoy seeing how the series develops.