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La Caramella Avvelenata (I Misteri di Magnolia Bay – Libro 1)
Nell'incantevole cornice storica dell'isola di Magnolia Bay, Autumn Ray gestisce il proprio bed-and-breakfast godendosi un ritmo di vita rilassato. Tuttavia, che le piaccia o no, Autumn dovrà vestire i panni della detective per difendere non solo il proprio nome, ma anche la propria casa.
La stagione estiva non porta solo turisti a Magnolia Bay, ma anche un mistero un insidioso mistero contamina le sue bianche spiagge sabbiose. Autumn Ray dovrà scambiare la propria tranquilla routine con il lavoro da detective e risolvere l'omicidio dell'amata pasticciera locale. Le sue abilità investigative si riveleranno abbastanza buone da catturare un assassino? O dovrà affrontare le amare conseguenze di una comunità dilaniata dal sospetto?
I MISTERI DI MAGNOLIA LA CARAMELLA AVVELENATA è il primo libro di una nuova ed entusiasmante serie mystery firmata da Fiona Grace, autrice del bestseller in vetta alle classifiche Omicidio nella Magione, che vanta oltre 10.000 recensioni a cinque stelle!
La serie I Misteri di Magnolia Bay regala un'esperienza coinvolgente e piacevole, trasportandoci in uno scenario idilliaco caratterizzato da ingegno, romanticismo e sviluppi inaspettati nella trama. Preparatevi a innamorarvi di una nuova e accattivante eroina che diventerà sicuramente la vostra preferita.
Sono disponibili anche i futuri libri della serie!
"Molto coinvolgente. Raccomando vivamente questo libro a qualsiasi lettore che apprezzi un mistero molto ben scritto, ricco di colpi di scena e con una trama intelligente. Non rimarrete delusi. Un modo eccellente per trascorrere un freddo fine settimana!"
--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (su Omicidio nella Magione)
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“La storia non riguarda solo il “chi è stato”, ma racconta anche della sua vita, della sua storia d'amore e della vita di paese. Molto divertente.”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Omicidio nella Magione)
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“Ci sono personaggi accattivanti e a volte stravaganti, una trama che tiene incollati alle pagine e la giusta dose di romanticismo. Non vedo l'ora di iniziare il prossimo romanzo!”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Omicidio nella Magione)
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“Che fantastica omicidi, romanticismo, nuovi inizi, amore, amicizia e uno stupendo mistero.”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Omicidio nella Magione)
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“Si tratta di una storia d'amore contemporanea che non riuscirete a dimenticare!”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Ora E Per Sempre)
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“Un pizzico di romanticismo e una donna molto determinata! Ho letto molti dei romanzi di Fiona Grace e li ho amati questo non fa eccezione. Non vedo l'ora di leggere il seguito di questa nuova serie!”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Per Sempre Con Te)
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La stagione estiva non porta solo turisti a Magnolia Bay, ma anche un mistero un insidioso mistero contamina le sue bianche spiagge sabbiose. Autumn Ray dovrà scambiare la propria tranquilla routine con il lavoro da detective e risolvere l'omicidio dell'amata pasticciera locale. Le sue abilità investigative si riveleranno abbastanza buone da catturare un assassino? O dovrà affrontare le amare conseguenze di una comunità dilaniata dal sospetto?
I MISTERI DI MAGNOLIA LA CARAMELLA AVVELENATA è il primo libro di una nuova ed entusiasmante serie mystery firmata da Fiona Grace, autrice del bestseller in vetta alle classifiche Omicidio nella Magione, che vanta oltre 10.000 recensioni a cinque stelle!
La serie I Misteri di Magnolia Bay regala un'esperienza coinvolgente e piacevole, trasportandoci in uno scenario idilliaco caratterizzato da ingegno, romanticismo e sviluppi inaspettati nella trama. Preparatevi a innamorarvi di una nuova e accattivante eroina che diventerà sicuramente la vostra preferita.
Sono disponibili anche i futuri libri della serie!
"Molto coinvolgente. Raccomando vivamente questo libro a qualsiasi lettore che apprezzi un mistero molto ben scritto, ricco di colpi di scena e con una trama intelligente. Non rimarrete delusi. Un modo eccellente per trascorrere un freddo fine settimana!"
--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (su Omicidio nella Magione)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“La storia non riguarda solo il “chi è stato”, ma racconta anche della sua vita, della sua storia d'amore e della vita di paese. Molto divertente.”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Omicidio nella Magione)
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“Ci sono personaggi accattivanti e a volte stravaganti, una trama che tiene incollati alle pagine e la giusta dose di romanticismo. Non vedo l'ora di iniziare il prossimo romanzo!”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Omicidio nella Magione)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Che fantastica omicidi, romanticismo, nuovi inizi, amore, amicizia e uno stupendo mistero.”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Omicidio nella Magione)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Si tratta di una storia d'amore contemporanea che non riuscirete a dimenticare!”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Ora E Per Sempre)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Un pizzico di romanticismo e una donna molto determinata! Ho letto molti dei romanzi di Fiona Grace e li ho amati questo non fa eccezione. Non vedo l'ora di leggere il seguito di questa nuova serie!”
-- Recensione su Amazon (su Per Sempre Con Te)
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199 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 23, 2024
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Fiona Grace
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December 15, 2024
It’s probably best if I don’t give this book a star rating but here I go giving it a 1 star anyway. Summary: it wasn’t great.
I usually love cozy mysteries but this one needs a ton of work. The characters are literal adults who all act mostly like middle or high schoolers. A grown woman over 30 years old (possibly over 40 or even 50!) used “she started it” as a way to defend herself about having an argument and later in the story started a cat fight. A whole ass police officer took two inexperienced 20-something civilians into an interview of a suspected murderer and let one of them conduct half of it. What is this?? At least pretend to be writing this book for adults instead of children.
Besides all that, the characters are 1-dimensional, the writing is pretty bad, especially when it comes to conversations, and there are errors everywhere like a tech being referred to as both he and she within a few sentences and a character having two different names in the same paragraph. I’m glad this book was free in the kindle store but I’ll never get back the hours of my life spent reading it.
I usually love cozy mysteries but this one needs a ton of work. The characters are literal adults who all act mostly like middle or high schoolers. A grown woman over 30 years old (possibly over 40 or even 50!) used “she started it” as a way to defend herself about having an argument and later in the story started a cat fight. A whole ass police officer took two inexperienced 20-something civilians into an interview of a suspected murderer and let one of them conduct half of it. What is this?? At least pretend to be writing this book for adults instead of children.
Besides all that, the characters are 1-dimensional, the writing is pretty bad, especially when it comes to conversations, and there are errors everywhere like a tech being referred to as both he and she within a few sentences and a character having two different names in the same paragraph. I’m glad this book was free in the kindle store but I’ll never get back the hours of my life spent reading it.
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June 27, 2024A fun, quick little cozy mystery! I enjoyed this overall. The part with the parrot 🦜 made me LOL 😂 Definitely was a solid mystery but needed much more development for me personally! More quirky side characters 🙏🏻
It did feel somewhat predictable though & there were some subjects discussed that I didn’t love (focus on dieting, getting to a goal weight etc, not exactly cozy 😣). I CANNOT recommend the audiobook. Please 😂 don’t get the audio, the narrator is a “synthesized voice”. It was so bad 😂😭
It did feel somewhat predictable though & there were some subjects discussed that I didn’t love (focus on dieting, getting to a goal weight etc, not exactly cozy 😣). I CANNOT recommend the audiobook. Please 😂 don’t get the audio, the narrator is a “synthesized voice”. It was so bad 😂😭
August 13, 2024
2.7 stars. Quick read but it was ehhh
November 14, 2024
3 and a half stars. I found this story to be slow, and annoying in that despite the main character being warned off by the police 3 times, she just went ahead and continued her questioning of people. Also, the police were not interested in anything she had found out, so that was doubly annoying. I just didn't find it realistic.
November 6, 2025
Audiobook was really bad but the story itself was okay.
November 12, 2024
Shortish cozy mystery.
Writing was ok
Character were just ok.
Writing was ok
Character were just ok.
November 10, 2025
Good cozy mystery read.
March 24, 2026
I needed this cozy mystery after the two heavy books I just read, it’s fun, uncomplicated and easy to read. Autumn and her sister race to solve the death of one of the shop owners.
They go about interviewing suspects and connecting with Ex’s and annoying the police and others as you do.
At the end, the reason as always was greed and it took a while to get to the killer, but as I said it was a fun read.
They go about interviewing suspects and connecting with Ex’s and annoying the police and others as you do.
At the end, the reason as always was greed and it took a while to get to the killer, but as I said it was a fun read.
December 4, 2024
Magnolia Bay is home to Autumn Ray's B&B. The paradisal island welcomes summer tourists who bring in much-needed revenue for the year-round residents. When the candy store owner is murdered, panic sets in, and visitors begin to leave Magnolia Bay in droves. Autumn, determined to protect her home at all costs, takes on the mantle of detective and investigates the crime.
This book introduces the Magnolia Bay Mystery series. A slow pace unveils the mystery and the main characters make themselves known. I wasn't crazy about the main character, who didn't click with me. However, the read was decent, and I liked the resolution to the mystery. I'll probably pick up the next in the series in time.
This book introduces the Magnolia Bay Mystery series. A slow pace unveils the mystery and the main characters make themselves known. I wasn't crazy about the main character, who didn't click with me. However, the read was decent, and I liked the resolution to the mystery. I'll probably pick up the next in the series in time.
June 5, 2025
What did I like about this reading?
I did not like this reading at first because it was very slow. Once the death of the sweet shop owner was discovered, there seemed to be nothing else but for Autumn to try and discover who the culprit (s) are and to have them arrested.
I liked Autumn, as she was good at making people feel at ease around her because she was a person whom other people loved chatting to.
The isle was one where others walked or pedaled or caught a horse-drawn buggy to get around. There’s not a sound to be heard, as far as traffic is concerned, all that’s to be heard is the clip-clop of hooves. There were only a few cars allowed on Magnolia Bay: the ambulance, the police car, and the island’s refuse collection and maintenance vehicles. Apart from those, nothing was allowed; even the mail and parcels were delivered by horse and buggy, they had two “post ponies” at their disposal—part Hackney carriage horse and part something calmer and steadier.
Okay, what I enjoyed about this book came nearly at the end; some chapters before…imagine needing to plant a camera at the home of the decease and you phone the new veterinarian in town hoping he might want to go for a late night walk around the isle but when you phone him, he has other plans with some historical society women. So you phone the next best thing, your ex-boyfriend, who, after explaining what you wish to do, thinks he is speaking to someone who sounds like her but is not her…because I don’t know what is going on Earth is going on here. You’re planting cameras in people’s houses? Well, Autumn would like help from her ex-boyfriend to plant this camera at one of the entrances to the house to capture the culprit as they’re entering to go and steal the recipe (s) from the late sweet shop owner.
Her ex-boyfriend does show up, and she convinces him to do just that, yet as they were trying to secure the camera up high in a tree or such, Autumn notices that there was someone already inside the house, trying to figure out what to do. They both decided to get the guy, they climbed through a window to enter the house, and by the time they entered, it seemed that the guy was heading for the front door to leave and so they began to chase after him out back until they caught up to him and made him stop running. Turns out that the guy wanted a recipe for his wife, but he was not the killer; he was an accountant with an alibi for the time of the murder. Laugh-out-loud-funny; hilarious uproar with her ex-boyfriend, who just drops what he is doing to help her.
All in all, this was good reading, very slow, and at times, Autumn was a bit boring and self-involved, while her sister Willow was a great help and self-absorbed. Yet they both lived on this island, with only walking or biking as a means to get to and from. This was an island where everything was possible and within reach or at one’s fingertips; or ask, and all is granted to thee.
I did not like this reading at first because it was very slow. Once the death of the sweet shop owner was discovered, there seemed to be nothing else but for Autumn to try and discover who the culprit (s) are and to have them arrested.
I liked Autumn, as she was good at making people feel at ease around her because she was a person whom other people loved chatting to.
The isle was one where others walked or pedaled or caught a horse-drawn buggy to get around. There’s not a sound to be heard, as far as traffic is concerned, all that’s to be heard is the clip-clop of hooves. There were only a few cars allowed on Magnolia Bay: the ambulance, the police car, and the island’s refuse collection and maintenance vehicles. Apart from those, nothing was allowed; even the mail and parcels were delivered by horse and buggy, they had two “post ponies” at their disposal—part Hackney carriage horse and part something calmer and steadier.
Okay, what I enjoyed about this book came nearly at the end; some chapters before…imagine needing to plant a camera at the home of the decease and you phone the new veterinarian in town hoping he might want to go for a late night walk around the isle but when you phone him, he has other plans with some historical society women. So you phone the next best thing, your ex-boyfriend, who, after explaining what you wish to do, thinks he is speaking to someone who sounds like her but is not her…because I don’t know what is going on Earth is going on here. You’re planting cameras in people’s houses? Well, Autumn would like help from her ex-boyfriend to plant this camera at one of the entrances to the house to capture the culprit as they’re entering to go and steal the recipe (s) from the late sweet shop owner.
Her ex-boyfriend does show up, and she convinces him to do just that, yet as they were trying to secure the camera up high in a tree or such, Autumn notices that there was someone already inside the house, trying to figure out what to do. They both decided to get the guy, they climbed through a window to enter the house, and by the time they entered, it seemed that the guy was heading for the front door to leave and so they began to chase after him out back until they caught up to him and made him stop running. Turns out that the guy wanted a recipe for his wife, but he was not the killer; he was an accountant with an alibi for the time of the murder. Laugh-out-loud-funny; hilarious uproar with her ex-boyfriend, who just drops what he is doing to help her.
All in all, this was good reading, very slow, and at times, Autumn was a bit boring and self-involved, while her sister Willow was a great help and self-absorbed. Yet they both lived on this island, with only walking or biking as a means to get to and from. This was an island where everything was possible and within reach or at one’s fingertips; or ask, and all is granted to thee.
December 29, 2025
The Tainted Taffy is book one in the A Magnolia Bay Mystery series by Fiona Grace. Autumn Ray runs her bed-and-breakfast on the isle of Magnolia Bay and was happy with the quiet life until murder came to the island. With the death of the local confectioner, Autumn Ray must step up to find the killer to allow Magnolia Bay to get back to normal. Readers will continue to follow Autumn Ray's investigation to discover what happens.
The Tainted Taffy is an excellent cozy mystery that I engaged with from the first page. This is the first book I've read by Fiona Grace, and I will read another in this series. I engaged with this book from the first page and continued to the end.
I enjoy the way Fiona Grace portrays his characters and their interactions throughout this book. The Tainted Taffy is well written and researched by Fiona Grace. I like Fiona Grace's descriptions of the settings in The Tainted Taffy, which let me imagine being part of the book's plot.
I recommend this book.
The Tainted Taffy is an excellent cozy mystery that I engaged with from the first page. This is the first book I've read by Fiona Grace, and I will read another in this series. I engaged with this book from the first page and continued to the end.
I enjoy the way Fiona Grace portrays his characters and their interactions throughout this book. The Tainted Taffy is well written and researched by Fiona Grace. I like Fiona Grace's descriptions of the settings in The Tainted Taffy, which let me imagine being part of the book's plot.
I recommend this book.
June 29, 2026
Un cozy mistery carino e scorrevole, ho apprezzato l’ambientazione e le descrizioni dell’isola che mi hanno un po’ ricordato quelle de “La signora in giallo “ (motivo per cui ho scelto questo libro).
Non ho invece apprezzato la troppa semplicità nell’ideazione del mistero (si capisce presto chi sia l’assassino) e soprattutto la traduzione italiana tragica che onestamente sembra fatta con Google Traduttore. Tra gli esempi più assurdi che mi vengo in mente c’è “call at a bad time” che è stato tradotto in “chiamata mal tempestrata (???)” e l’espressione “rendere l’aria blu”che in italiano non si usa ma è stata tradotta letteralmente quando invece andava adattata.
Comunque, nonostante la trama semplicistica non è il giallo peggiore che abbia mai letto e la componente “cozy” è stata rispettata. Tre stelle.
Non ho invece apprezzato la troppa semplicità nell’ideazione del mistero (si capisce presto chi sia l’assassino) e soprattutto la traduzione italiana tragica che onestamente sembra fatta con Google Traduttore. Tra gli esempi più assurdi che mi vengo in mente c’è “call at a bad time” che è stato tradotto in “chiamata mal tempestrata (???)” e l’espressione “rendere l’aria blu”che in italiano non si usa ma è stata tradotta letteralmente quando invece andava adattata.
Comunque, nonostante la trama semplicistica non è il giallo peggiore che abbia mai letto e la componente “cozy” è stata rispettata. Tre stelle.
November 18, 2024
another cozy story
sanitized. always. it must be contractual. hot chocolate and blueberry muffins. iced tea and lemonade. take it to the bank there will be something blueberry and someone who.likes to cook. when the dead body is discovered, it was dead already when it was found and no real violence described. blood and guts fan i am not, well, not much of one. but I do like the taste of realism and believable characters. the most believable character in this tale was Max, the dog. oh yeah, that's the other very predictable cozy mystery fixture: there will be some kind of four footed pet in almost every scene. why do I read them? they're free and plentiful. but right now, I'm heading to James Patterson or Jeffery weaver. five stars for sure.
sanitized. always. it must be contractual. hot chocolate and blueberry muffins. iced tea and lemonade. take it to the bank there will be something blueberry and someone who.likes to cook. when the dead body is discovered, it was dead already when it was found and no real violence described. blood and guts fan i am not, well, not much of one. but I do like the taste of realism and believable characters. the most believable character in this tale was Max, the dog. oh yeah, that's the other very predictable cozy mystery fixture: there will be some kind of four footed pet in almost every scene. why do I read them? they're free and plentiful. but right now, I'm heading to James Patterson or Jeffery weaver. five stars for sure.
June 13, 2026
It didn't take me long to suspect the narrator was AI generated. It lacked the heart and soul that makes an audiobook great.
After a few mispronounced words I verified it was, in fact, AI (called "synthesized") and DNFed it at about 16%. It wasn't just the narrator that lacked heart and soul - the book was feeling flat enough that I wasn't going to seek it out in printed form.
But beyond that, I'd rather not support AI works as there are so many fantastic narrators out there whose livelihood comes from narrating books.
The more we normalize AI narration, the more it will happen, and I'd much rather keep the money in the hands of the working class!
After a few mispronounced words I verified it was, in fact, AI (called "synthesized") and DNFed it at about 16%. It wasn't just the narrator that lacked heart and soul - the book was feeling flat enough that I wasn't going to seek it out in printed form.
But beyond that, I'd rather not support AI works as there are so many fantastic narrators out there whose livelihood comes from narrating books.
The more we normalize AI narration, the more it will happen, and I'd much rather keep the money in the hands of the working class!
June 21, 2026
The synthesized narrator was so bad, but at least disclosed so I knew up front it wouldn’t be stellar. I suspect that it was also written by AI, or ‘helped’ by AI. At first I thought maybe it was originally written in another language and poorly translated, as a word would be used that didn’t quite make sense in context. But then did some googling and there are some interesting articles on this topic, with various author pseudonyms with similar names, same agent, and too many books for a human to have written alone. If people want to read AI books, great, but it should at least be disclosed so we have the choice. AI or not, this book was really boring and hard to get through.
November 8, 2024
Terrible. I couldn't finish it. First I got the audiobook and the reader was awful, so I returned that and downloaded the ebook hoping that it would be better. Nope.
The main character, Autumn, finds the dead body of the sweet shop owner in town and jumps to the conclusion that her sister Willow killed him, just because he said something harsh to her that morning.
Willow jumps to the conclusion that Autumn killed him because she took offense to what he said to Willow. What kind of family is this?
I honestly couldn't get any further than that.
The main character, Autumn, finds the dead body of the sweet shop owner in town and jumps to the conclusion that her sister Willow killed him, just because he said something harsh to her that morning.
Willow jumps to the conclusion that Autumn killed him because she took offense to what he said to Willow. What kind of family is this?
I honestly couldn't get any further than that.
December 8, 2024
What I found interesting and somewhat comical was that this story took place on an island where you had to bike, hike, or buggy your way around, except for the single policeman who had a motorized vehicle (and maybe someone else, the coroner perhaps? Not sure anymore.) The plot had me thinking who had done the crime and I had actually come up with a different angle than what it actually was. The title of The Tainted Taffy is a bit confusing as it didn’t seem to fit this story.
I am still a huge Fiona Grace fan.
I am still a huge Fiona Grace fan.
January 7, 2025
The Tainted Taffy mystery takes place in Magnolia Bay on Lake Michigan. Twenty-seven year old Autumn Ray runs the Harbor View bed and breakfast, which she inherited after her parents died in a car crash. Her sister runs a store close by called Odds and Ends. When Autumn discovers Mr. Harold Sweetly, owner of Sweetly's Treats, has been poisoned to death, she feels forced to figure out who killed him. Tourists are leaving because they don't feel safe! This is a simple cozy mystery that is a quick read.
August 22, 2025
Autumn Ray enjoys running her tiny little bed and breakfast on her little island. Then murder happens and threatens to empty her rented rooms and send visitors fleeing to the mainland. Despite warnings to stop asking questions and distracting personal events, she can’t help but feel she needs solve this before island commerce suffers beyond the point of repair.
An interesting little cozy mystery complete with dog. A few scenes tugged too hard at the edges of believability, but I was still amused.
An interesting little cozy mystery complete with dog. A few scenes tugged too hard at the edges of believability, but I was still amused.
January 9, 2025
I have read other Fiona Grace books and enjoyed them. This series not so much. Autumn Ray comes across as a rebellious teen who will not listen to authority but is a grown woman. I think the bones of this series are good. Autumn and her sister have a good relationship and I can see that leading to more investigations. I also loved Magnolia Bay and think it is a fun setting for a cozy mystery series.
July 9, 2026
Amateur Sleuth at it Again
Another small town mystery! A murder to solve. Autumn the owner of the bed and breakfast, needs to find out who murdered the owner of the Sweet Shop. Guests are leaving the island for fear of being poisoned or killed. Mr. Sweetly was murdered by eating a poisoned ham sandwich. Who did it and why. Autumn sets out to find out what the police can’t. Enjoy!
Another small town mystery! A murder to solve. Autumn the owner of the bed and breakfast, needs to find out who murdered the owner of the Sweet Shop. Guests are leaving the island for fear of being poisoned or killed. Mr. Sweetly was murdered by eating a poisoned ham sandwich. Who did it and why. Autumn sets out to find out what the police can’t. Enjoy!
December 22, 2024
Who killed the maker of fine sweets in town?
This story was perfect for an amateur sleuth. All Autumn wanted to do was help find a killer before there quaint town was empty of tourists that were scared to stay. Autumn had had her guests at the B and B she owned slowly check out early. Was she going to lose all her summer business? Not if she could help it.
This story was perfect for an amateur sleuth. All Autumn wanted to do was help find a killer before there quaint town was empty of tourists that were scared to stay. Autumn had had her guests at the B and B she owned slowly check out early. Was she going to lose all her summer business? Not if she could help it.
December 25, 2024
I have read at least two other series by this author and pleased with both of them, so I tried this one. The characters are interesting, the backdrop of an island in one of the Great Lakes (Lake Michigan I think) is quite appealing, and the plot is easily followed. The premise is finding out who killed the surprisingly mean candy seller and why. The answers were sad. I do recommend this story.
January 16, 2025
Fast Read
This book was an easy read because you could envision the characters and why they had to solve the murder quickly! I've been in many towns that could have been affected by a murder such as described in the sweet shop! Fiona Grace has an ability to describe both her characters and their environments as related to why they acted the way they did!
This book was an easy read because you could envision the characters and why they had to solve the murder quickly! I've been in many towns that could have been affected by a murder such as described in the sweet shop! Fiona Grace has an ability to describe both her characters and their environments as related to why they acted the way they did!
January 29, 2025
Probably should have DNF'd. This is fine as a cozy mystery, of a bit slight. Mostly, I didn't really get on with the writing style, which felt a bit off. For example, none of the dialogue felt like how people talk. Just didn't read quite right. May be just me, but this was another kobo book that didn't quite work.
February 24, 2025
I listened to the audio book version and to be honest it could have been better. They used a “synthesized voice” as the reader and it was off putting. The cadence was wrong and there were weird mispronunciations and random extra sounds. All of that made it really hard to get immersed into the story.
March 31, 2025
I listened to this book. It's a strong no for me. The story didn't flow well, and the dialogue was weak. I appreciate how they didn't delve too much into the potential romance. The ending was a bit of a let down. Also, the audio book was oddly done. Almost every chapter had at least ten glitches, and the narrator would randomly change her voice for certain characters. It made no sense.
May 27, 2025
Audiobook on Hoopla - Small vacation town in Michigan starts off quickly with the murder. There’s something I didn’t like about the writing that I have a hard time putting my finger on. I think it’s the forced dialogue, it doesn’t flow sometimes and that isn’t how people talk to each other. It was distracting.
I would read the others in the series because I like the location and the plot.
I would read the others in the series because I like the location and the plot.
November 18, 2024
Harold’s brothers wife wanted the sweet shape for herself, and she thought she was going to get it, but with the help of Autum and her sister Willow, they were able to figure out what really happened to Harold!
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