Killer Kool

by Marty Ambrose

It's October on Coral Island, and Mallie Monroe is learning how to multitask: she's juggling two men, Nick and Cole; helping her office pal, Sandy, plan a fall wedding; and trying to find a way to adjust to her new assignment as the Observer's food critic.The summer doldrums are officially over as the island prepares for cooler weather and its first Taste of the Island.Unfortunately, Madame Geri, the island's freelance psychic, appears at the newspaper declaring that the upcoming nuptials of her son, Jimmy, and Sandy are in jeopardy because of a possible killer on the loose.Mallie knows where to start: Carlos Santini has recently died from an apparent heart attack, and everyone believes that his brother, Chef Marco, was somehow involved. So Mallie teams up with Madame Geri to add another task to her list: solve the crime and make certain that the wedding doesn't end up on a canceled list.

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2012

Reviews

[Suspense Magazine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is Ambrose's fourth in her Mango Bay Mystery series. The others have been called quick reads and chic-lit for the beach. This one fills the bill, too.
Mallie Monroe, part-time reporter and full-time RV island dweller, is burdened with too many, as the story opens. Too many boyfriends: surfer Cole and Nick, the local cop. An over-the-top nasty boss who has just made her the food editor for the Observer, the newspaper for Coral Island. And too many murdered bodies a little later on.
She soon takes cares of the problem of too many boyfriends by ticking off both of them and ending up at dinner with the island geezer, an ancient man with ill-fitting teeth. Mallie tries her best to get to the restaurants and write her reviews, but murder interferes. You'll meet some fun characters. One is Madame Geri, a psychic and mind reader and the mother of Jimmy, who is engaged to Sandy. Madame Geri foresees that the wedding will have to be postponed, that murder will intervene. Sure enough, Carlos Santini, the corpulent ice-cream vendor, succumbs to an apparent heart attack. The manager of the RV park where Mallie lives, Wanda Sue, is another colorful character. After one of the main suspects in Carlos' death expires, Mallie finds herself on the killer's trail so the wedding can go on.
The easy, breezy style whips you through the fun story. If you're not reading this on a beach, you can easily pretend you're right there, on Coral Island

Reviewed by Kaye George, Author of “Choke” for Suspense Magazine

[Keith Lytton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Saw this on the shelf at the library and passed but then saw it at a library sale and thought...ok...I love to try new authors...and so gave it a shot...

But...

While it kept my interest ...and I finished it quickly...it didn't ever grab me...never had me turning pages thinking...I have to keep going...

Most great books give you little clues..and if this did I sure missed them...and the poor romance story that went along with it didn't help...

sorry...

I give it a three star because I did complete it and I didn't throw it in disgust...so there you go...a so so story...with a heroine who plays her love interests against each other...

oh well...whatever...

[Jane Patterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just read this to kill time until other books I've requested come in. A light little mystery on the same order as Janet Evanovich's series novels.

[Francis M. Dorish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just finished, Didn't ' care for the ending, other than that is was a decent book. Not what I expected.