Genre: Cozy
Mystery
Description:
“Laura Evans thought trading her high-stress Boston restaurant career
for small-town Vermont charm would bring peace.
Instead, she finds herself knee-deep in cheddar and conspiracy when a
body turns up at the General Store after a pre-festival cheese tasting ahead of
the Summer Cheese Festival. And her boss Maggie is made the prime suspect.
The festival is less than two weeks away and with the store's
reputation threatened, Laura can't stand by and watch her new life crumble like
aged parmesan.
With the help of her observant landlady, Evelyn Chan, she discovers
beneath the town's picture-perfect surface lies a complex web of rivalries,
family secrets, and scandals.
And when there's an entire festival's worth of suspects, she must
separate friend from foe before it's too late...”
Author:
Jodie Morgan writes cozy mysteries. She has two novels available in
this series (this is the first) plus a couple short stories that take place in
the same small Vermont town.
For more, check out Ms Morgan’s website.
Appraisal:
Although I don’t have much experience living in small towns like the
one where this took place, I have enough experience to recognize the accuracy
of the town depicted here with the small-town vibe, both positive and negative
qualities being involved. These qualities add color and in some ways expands
the viable theories in getting to the solution of the mystery. A likeable
protagonist who is learning about the town along with the reader also helps the
reader relate well to the story. If you like cozy mysteries, this should
definitely do the trick.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 60-55,000 words
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