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Angie Prouty Nantucket Mysteries #1
Crime and Nourishment
A Cozy Mystery Novel
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. Neither does the island of Nantucket.
A NEW RELEASE cozy mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Frost, Cynthia Ellingsen, Cindy Bell and CeeCee James
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. Neither does the island of Nantucket.
A NEW RELEASE cozy mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Frost, Cynthia Ellingsen, Cindy Bell and CeeCee James
When Agnes Mary Clarissa Christie Prouty, a.k.a. Angie, abandons her fiancé and her analyst job at a big Manhattan investment firm, she doesn’t expect to end up back where she started—the island of Nantucket.
It’s not every day you get a chance to open a bookstore, complete with bookmark-eating cats and cantankerous great-aunts. Especially when your childhood friends agree to provide you with the world’s best pastries from their bakery down the street. Everything goes great until one of the locals turns up dead on the fourth of July, the sound of the gunshots covered by the local fireworks display. But did it have to happen right after Angie delivered a book to his home making her a prime suspect? Angie and every gossip on the island, including her great-aunt and her friends, are on the case. But trying to discover the truth is going to take more than a simple murder investigation. Someone’s guilty and the deadly secret might cut closer to home than anyone wants to admit.
Being an amateur detective is harder than it looks, even when you’ve been named after the Queen of Crime.
This cozy mystery/amateur sleuth novel is book one in the Angie Prouty Nantucket Cozy Mystery Series
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 13, 2017
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June 29, 2018
Family and lies muddle the truth.
A good little read but plot very similar to several that I have read. A despot making everyone's life a misery by constantly raising the rent is found dead in his study. Our intrepid sleuth is a bookshop owner who is more used to Wall Street than investigating. Can she get to the truth? Lies and half truths seem to abound and she has a hard job getting to what really happened. Just wish she had been a touch stronger but nevertheless great characters and a plot that will have you chopping and changing who you believe is the killer.
A good little read but plot very similar to several that I have read. A despot making everyone's life a misery by constantly raising the rent is found dead in his study. Our intrepid sleuth is a bookshop owner who is more used to Wall Street than investigating. Can she get to the truth? Lies and half truths seem to abound and she has a hard job getting to what really happened. Just wish she had been a touch stronger but nevertheless great characters and a plot that will have you chopping and changing who you believe is the killer.
October 16, 2017
What a beautiful setting and an interesting cast of characters! Too bad there has to be that one bad apple in the barrel, well maybe two. I have always liked small town settings and can only imagine what it would be like to live in one place my whole life and have friends who have literally know each other forever. I love how these friends stick together and stick up for each other. I also love the Pastries & Page-Turners. I could spend many happy hours there! I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book with these wonderful people.
August 18, 2024
Books and Blame
I really enjoyed this cozy mystery, and all the characters that made it a good story. I'm looking forward to the next book.
I really enjoyed this cozy mystery, and all the characters that made it a good story. I'm looking forward to the next book.
July 1, 2024
Entertaining relationships mystery listening 🎶🔰
This kindle e-book novel is from my Kindle Unlimited account book one of three
I picked this series because we use to live in New England and visited Nantucket.
Angie moved back to Nantucket three years ago. She is running a book store with her aunt. Then a young man 🚹 returns. His father is killed by who? Angie discovers the truth.
I would recommend this series and author to 👍 readers of romantic family and friends relationships adventure mystery novels 👍🔰. 2024
This kindle e-book novel is from my Kindle Unlimited account book one of three
I picked this series because we use to live in New England and visited Nantucket.
Angie moved back to Nantucket three years ago. She is running a book store with her aunt. Then a young man 🚹 returns. His father is killed by who? Angie discovers the truth.
I would recommend this series and author to 👍 readers of romantic family and friends relationships adventure mystery novels 👍🔰. 2024
September 16, 2017
Crime With. Sweet Tooth
Crime and Nourishment by Miranda Sweet is a fun, suspenseful cozy mystery that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Sweet introduces a fun cast of characters set in the island town of Nantucket.
Angie Prouty has come back to her hometown, licking her wounds after leaving a face-paced financial firm and a philandering fiancé in New York to open a bookstore. This homey bookstore offers reading material, comfortable conversation and yummy pastries from the bakery across the street.
One of the town’s leading citizens ends up dead and the lists of suspects takes in most of the town. Angie and her friends become amateur sleuths in order to reveal the murderer and the motives behind the murder.
The eclectic cast of characters and warm-hearted setting of the town and bookstore have me looking forward to the next installment in this new series.
So pour yourself a cup of coffee, grab a pastry and settle in a for suspenseful, delightful trip into Angie Prouty’s world.
Crime and Nourishment by Miranda Sweet is a fun, suspenseful cozy mystery that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Sweet introduces a fun cast of characters set in the island town of Nantucket.
Angie Prouty has come back to her hometown, licking her wounds after leaving a face-paced financial firm and a philandering fiancé in New York to open a bookstore. This homey bookstore offers reading material, comfortable conversation and yummy pastries from the bakery across the street.
One of the town’s leading citizens ends up dead and the lists of suspects takes in most of the town. Angie and her friends become amateur sleuths in order to reveal the murderer and the motives behind the murder.
The eclectic cast of characters and warm-hearted setting of the town and bookstore have me looking forward to the next installment in this new series.
So pour yourself a cup of coffee, grab a pastry and settle in a for suspenseful, delightful trip into Angie Prouty’s world.
April 21, 2024
Ever pick up a book thinking you will enjoy it and then … you just don’t? That’s this book for me.
There wasn’t enough pull for me. Usually, I can get through a cozy mystery in a couple of days, this one took a week. Not because the plot was intricate but because I just stopped - several times in fact.
There were too many detailed scenes where Angie was making up the scenario in her head, not just creating possibilities but full on stories, so much so it seemed it was the wrap up of the mystery only to find it wasn’t.
The basis is that someone dies during the holiday festivities and Angie investigates - that is what you get from the summary. For me, I can have read the summary and moved on. I didn’t connect with Angie, found most of the other characters underdeveloped excluding Angie’s great-aunt and her friend’s mom. While the last few chapters were better than the beginning excluding the very last chapter, I didn’t really care about who did it or anything by that point.
This just wasn’t a story for me. Others might enjoy it.
Happy Reading!
There wasn’t enough pull for me. Usually, I can get through a cozy mystery in a couple of days, this one took a week. Not because the plot was intricate but because I just stopped - several times in fact.
There were too many detailed scenes where Angie was making up the scenario in her head, not just creating possibilities but full on stories, so much so it seemed it was the wrap up of the mystery only to find it wasn’t.
The basis is that someone dies during the holiday festivities and Angie investigates - that is what you get from the summary. For me, I can have read the summary and moved on. I didn’t connect with Angie, found most of the other characters underdeveloped excluding Angie’s great-aunt and her friend’s mom. While the last few chapters were better than the beginning excluding the very last chapter, I didn’t really care about who did it or anything by that point.
This just wasn’t a story for me. Others might enjoy it.
Happy Reading!
May 17, 2023
Not what I expected
Talk about convoluted. Angie owns a bookstore in Nantucket that her Aunt helps out at and her best friend supplies the pastries for. When one of her clients who also happens to be her landlord is murdered, after he notified his tenants that he was raising their rent, Angie is curious and really hoping that none of her friends was involved. When the murder victim's son is arrested for killing his father, Angie decides to look into solving the mystery as she is sure that Walter, an old friend and potential love interest, is innocent. As she begins unraveling secrets long buried, she is afraid that someone very close to her may be guilty of the crime.
Not everyone involved was likeable, especially the murdered man, but the fact that even nice people can cover up a murder and possibly let an innocent man go to jail for it shocked me. Even Angie wondered how far to go in uncovering the truth. Interesting take and twists.
Talk about convoluted. Angie owns a bookstore in Nantucket that her Aunt helps out at and her best friend supplies the pastries for. When one of her clients who also happens to be her landlord is murdered, after he notified his tenants that he was raising their rent, Angie is curious and really hoping that none of her friends was involved. When the murder victim's son is arrested for killing his father, Angie decides to look into solving the mystery as she is sure that Walter, an old friend and potential love interest, is innocent. As she begins unraveling secrets long buried, she is afraid that someone very close to her may be guilty of the crime.
Not everyone involved was likeable, especially the murdered man, but the fact that even nice people can cover up a murder and possibly let an innocent man go to jail for it shocked me. Even Angie wondered how far to go in uncovering the truth. Interesting take and twists.
December 25, 2018
I enjoyed this. It wasn't one of the best cozies I've ever read, but it was good.
I definitely liked the setting of Nantucket Island. The supporting cast of characters was good, I definitely liked the quirky folks who live on the island and are part of Angie's world.
The murder mystery was also pretty good. It made sense and if you like trying to figure out who the murderer is before the reveal, I feel like there are plenty of clues provided to allow that.
Angie strayed a bit towards the end of the book into being more whiny than I ideally like, but for most of the book she was a good, strong and intelligent heroine.
Like I said, a good enjoyable cozy if you like the genre. Not the best but certainly a fun read.
I definitely liked the setting of Nantucket Island. The supporting cast of characters was good, I definitely liked the quirky folks who live on the island and are part of Angie's world.
The murder mystery was also pretty good. It made sense and if you like trying to figure out who the murderer is before the reveal, I feel like there are plenty of clues provided to allow that.
Angie strayed a bit towards the end of the book into being more whiny than I ideally like, but for most of the book she was a good, strong and intelligent heroine.
Like I said, a good enjoyable cozy if you like the genre. Not the best but certainly a fun read.
December 30, 2017
Murder on Nantucket
I got this book for free on Amazon but really liked it and wanted to leave a review. I absolutely love books that are set locally to me, and Nantucket being one of my favorite places I just couldn't pass this one up. I also did not read this book in order, and actually read the second book first which was perfectly fine. I would recommend this one first though, you get a better idea of some relationships and history. The characters are good and well developed, the situations are believable, and the action is constant through the whole book. This book was very enjoyable and I hope to see many books added to this series.
I got this book for free on Amazon but really liked it and wanted to leave a review. I absolutely love books that are set locally to me, and Nantucket being one of my favorite places I just couldn't pass this one up. I also did not read this book in order, and actually read the second book first which was perfectly fine. I would recommend this one first though, you get a better idea of some relationships and history. The characters are good and well developed, the situations are believable, and the action is constant through the whole book. This book was very enjoyable and I hope to see many books added to this series.
May 8, 2019
Pains From the Past
This is a testament to the nature of cozey mystery reads. Crime and Nourishment takes you into the lives of caracters so diverse in in nature but bonded in friendships one finds in any small town around the world and what what it takes to keep it alive and thriving. All towns have a matriarch wether good or less than. This marvelous mystery tells you what may happen if the matriarch is a less than and how things unfold with a verey passionate flare. Once you've started reading it may be rather difficult to attend anything else before i'ts final page has been turned. 😏 Kat
This is a testament to the nature of cozey mystery reads. Crime and Nourishment takes you into the lives of caracters so diverse in in nature but bonded in friendships one finds in any small town around the world and what what it takes to keep it alive and thriving. All towns have a matriarch wether good or less than. This marvelous mystery tells you what may happen if the matriarch is a less than and how things unfold with a verey passionate flare. Once you've started reading it may be rather difficult to attend anything else before i'ts final page has been turned. 😏 Kat
September 26, 2017
I enjoyed reading about Angie and her aunts.. The characters are really fun to read. Angie's aunts isn't the only cantankerous people in this book.
Then during the July 4th celebration, someone is shot...the owner of the bookstore! Of course he also owned half of Nantucket! Can Angie find the person responsible for the killing? After all, she had just delivered a book to him, trying to bring out his good side. Does she find the killer? This is the first book in a series. Can't wait for the next one.
Then during the July 4th celebration, someone is shot...the owner of the bookstore! Of course he also owned half of Nantucket! Can Angie find the person responsible for the killing? After all, she had just delivered a book to him, trying to bring out his good side. Does she find the killer? This is the first book in a series. Can't wait for the next one.
July 7, 2023
Angie Prouty Nantucket Mysteries, Bk 1, EBK-M, Kindle, @ 2019, Read 7/1/23.
Fiction, Mystery. A bookstore owner gets involved when her landlord and client is murdered after he announces that he is raising the rent on all the properties he owns, which includes many shop owners in town. Angie is hoping that none of her friends did the deed! 2☆'s = Okay - As one reviewer said, even nice people can cover up a crime, and let an innocent person take the fall. I felt the story had too much past history to wade through.
Fiction, Mystery. A bookstore owner gets involved when her landlord and client is murdered after he announces that he is raising the rent on all the properties he owns, which includes many shop owners in town. Angie is hoping that none of her friends did the deed! 2☆'s = Okay - As one reviewer said, even nice people can cover up a crime, and let an innocent person take the fall. I felt the story had too much past history to wade through.
September 23, 2017
Annoyingly, I loved this book. I would have liked to have got to the end and seen that the book was written by a consortium, and to have felt, oh, well that explains the variable voice, etc, but actually I was very surprised, as the book worked so well.
I think I may be hooked, I may have to get others in the series. How miserable that is to have been reeled in by the sales pitch, but with a book as good as this one, I can get over it.
I think I may be hooked, I may have to get others in the series. How miserable that is to have been reeled in by the sales pitch, but with a book as good as this one, I can get over it.
January 10, 2018
The perfect cozy. Quaint New England town filled with nosy neighbors? Check. Single woman starting over after bad love affair? Check. Bookstore/café run by said woman complete with cat? Check. Dashing, eligible bachelor who needs saving? Check. Clearly awful individual who needs killing? Check. No wonder the novel was written by committee. But it is still a fun, easy read and very enjoyable.
July 7, 2018
Weathering Nantucket
This cozy certainly brought back memories and put me in a "Cape Cod" frame of mind. I could almost smell the salt air and feel the breezes as the tale and Angie moved about "The Island." Relatable characters, proliferation of evidence to consider and Agatha Christie type summation made for a well crafted tale. I will most likely continue reading this series.
This cozy certainly brought back memories and put me in a "Cape Cod" frame of mind. I could almost smell the salt air and feel the breezes as the tale and Angie moved about "The Island." Relatable characters, proliferation of evidence to consider and Agatha Christie type summation made for a well crafted tale. I will most likely continue reading this series.
May 5, 2019
Pastries and page turners set in.Nantucket and you have a winning story.
Of private’s and the sea, in this story it is a greedy landlord. Telling her of the increase, and that she could well afford it, and nearly choked when she told him he owed for the coffee and pastries which he assumed would continue to be free. Many angry renters was once the killer when he is found dead in his study. A nice cozy mystery to solve.
Of private’s and the sea, in this story it is a greedy landlord. Telling her of the increase, and that she could well afford it, and nearly choked when she told him he owed for the coffee and pastries which he assumed would continue to be free. Many angry renters was once the killer when he is found dead in his study. A nice cozy mystery to solve.
August 7, 2019
Island secrets are killer
I received this book free from one of the book sites. I do not remember which one! This is my honest and voluntary review.
Life on an island is like living in a fishbowl. Everything you do is seen from every direction. There are no such things as secrets. Or are there? What Angie knows, what she thinks, and what happened will surprise everyone.
Good first offering in a new cozy mystery series.
I received this book free from one of the book sites. I do not remember which one! This is my honest and voluntary review.
Life on an island is like living in a fishbowl. Everything you do is seen from every direction. There are no such things as secrets. Or are there? What Angie knows, what she thinks, and what happened will surprise everyone.
Good first offering in a new cozy mystery series.
June 1, 2020
This was a really enjoyable story. I love the heroine and the setting. There are so many quotable lines. There is a mystery around a five-some of an older set, friends and co-conspirators of heroines great-aunt. Who-dun-it goes round and round between the five while the son of the murdered sits in jail protecting someone. There was a lot of set up before the mystery begins but it was written so well it was enjoyable.
March 2, 2021
A great adventure
Miranda Sweet is a new author for me and I am so happy that I found her. This book was a fast moving adventure that kept me guessing throughout the entire story. I love the characters, especially Angie. She is smart and funny, with a real sense of loyalty for her family and friends. So trying to solve the murder was very difficult considering the suspect pool. Great start to the series. Can't wait to start the next book in the series.
Miranda Sweet is a new author for me and I am so happy that I found her. This book was a fast moving adventure that kept me guessing throughout the entire story. I love the characters, especially Angie. She is smart and funny, with a real sense of loyalty for her family and friends. So trying to solve the murder was very difficult considering the suspect pool. Great start to the series. Can't wait to start the next book in the series.
July 24, 2021
Angie runs a bookstore in Nantucket, and she just heard that the town miser was raising the rent for all the small businesses in town. Was this all about some old family grudge? Unless…the people were willing to do “favors” for him. What an insufferable, old coot!
I could relate to Angie’s love for books, but this book was just too slow and long. Way too adorned with embellishments on the town and the history. Snooze…Snore…
I could relate to Angie’s love for books, but this book was just too slow and long. Way too adorned with embellishments on the town and the history. Snooze…Snore…
September 28, 2017
Fantastic!!!
This book was GREAT!! The characters are very well written. There is a town full of secrets. One secret that can get a man killed. Can Angie find out the truth before it's too late, and the wrong person is sent to prison for murder?
I am VERY excited to know there will be more in this series.
This book was GREAT!! The characters are very well written. There is a town full of secrets. One secret that can get a man killed. Can Angie find out the truth before it's too late, and the wrong person is sent to prison for murder?
I am VERY excited to know there will be more in this series.
November 13, 2017
Impressive
The book kept me guessing. I solved it when Jo told her about the one night stand. The not knowing drove me crazy. This was a page turner. I like the romantic twist. I have suggested reading this book to my friends and in my reading group. Can't wait for the next one. Thanks
The book kept me guessing. I solved it when Jo told her about the one night stand. The not knowing drove me crazy. This was a page turner. I like the romantic twist. I have suggested reading this book to my friends and in my reading group. Can't wait for the next one. Thanks
May 16, 2018
Great story
I enjoyed this story. It seems that Miranda Sweet has done a lot of research on Nantucket. She makes her story sound so real. She describes places and the history of the area completely and interesting. This is one "who done it" that kept me guessing to the very end. I was so astounded to find out the murderer was somebody so off the wall and so unsuspecting.
I enjoyed this story. It seems that Miranda Sweet has done a lot of research on Nantucket. She makes her story sound so real. She describes places and the history of the area completely and interesting. This is one "who done it" that kept me guessing to the very end. I was so astounded to find out the murderer was somebody so off the wall and so unsuspecting.
June 16, 2018
This cozy mystery set on Nantucket has a very good sense of place and character, which is mainly why I read these sorts of books. The mystery, though, is weak and plagued by way too many recitations of
"so, this is how it happened".
I'm going to read the second book in the series and hope it is better realized.
"so, this is how it happened".
I'm going to read the second book in the series and hope it is better realized.
June 18, 2018
Satisfying and Credible
Where to start? The plot had plenty of twists and turns perfectly placed. The setting was a character in its own right. All characters were well fleshed out and believable. I really enjoyed the book and look forward to reading more in the series, which i hope will have MANY titles!
Where to start? The plot had plenty of twists and turns perfectly placed. The setting was a character in its own right. All characters were well fleshed out and believable. I really enjoyed the book and look forward to reading more in the series, which i hope will have MANY titles!
September 3, 2018
Five friends
This book was really well written and edited. I am generally a bit harsh about editing errors or omissions, so that was a real plus for me. The plot was interesting and trying to figure out "Who dun it" was a challenge, and by the way, I did not. I think that anyone who enjoys a good mystery without much gore or sex should enjoy this one.
This book was really well written and edited. I am generally a bit harsh about editing errors or omissions, so that was a real plus for me. The plot was interesting and trying to figure out "Who dun it" was a challenge, and by the way, I did not. I think that anyone who enjoys a good mystery without much gore or sex should enjoy this one.
September 7, 2018
Good characters and I liked the island setting and lifestyle description. Mystery was good and kept me guessing. The island skinflint and millionaire raises rents on all the business properties so there are plenty of suspects to keep you guessing when he is found dead in his home. Looking forward to next book.
May 14, 2019
It was ok. Got kind of slow in getting to the point. Liked it a lot less when I read on the back page that it's not written by a person, but by a "collaboration of authors, writers, editors, creatives, and cozy-mystery lovers". Call me crazy, but I prefer to spend my time reading books written by one human - unless other specified on the FRONT of the book.
May 29, 2019
Just a little better than ok
It's not bad but it's not as good as it could be. The author does do a good job of drawing out the storyline until you're not sure who shot the miser. And, the main female character doesn't hop into bed within the first few times of meeting the male counterpart which is refreshing I would give this book 4 1/2 stars.
It's not bad but it's not as good as it could be. The author does do a good job of drawing out the storyline until you're not sure who shot the miser. And, the main female character doesn't hop into bed within the first few times of meeting the male counterpart which is refreshing I would give this book 4 1/2 stars.
October 26, 2017
I would enjoy reading a 2nd book with these characters
A great book about a death the history of five friends, the lives of their children a d friends and what brings them all together.
A great book about a death the history of five friends, the lives of their children a d friends and what brings them all together.
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